January, 2026

January, 2026

Verizon customers will have to wait to unlock their phone going forward — here’s why
The FCC approved a waiver to the 60-day phone unlock rule after a Verizon petition. Here's what that means for you....

AirPods killer? OpenAI’s massive hardware leak targets Apple’s earbuds
Based on the info seen in a recent X leak, it looks like OpenAI is cooking up an impressive set of earbuds boosted by the power of AI....

Here’s how the US government now offers a path to a new all-time high for Bitcoin and crypto CLARITY
On Jan. 13, the US Senate Banking Committee released the full text of the highly anticipated Digital Asset Market Clarit...

Penske Media Sues Google, Alleging Illegal Manipulation of Ad Market
Penske Media, the publisher of Rolling Stone and other entertainment brands, sued Google on Tuesday, alleging that Penske and its subsidiary SheMedia have lost money as a result of what a federal judg...

Chipmaker Cerebras in Talks to Raise $1 Billion at a $22 Billion Valuation
AI chip startup Cerebras Systems is in talks to raise about $1 billion, valuing the company at $22 billion before the new investment, as the chipmaker prepares to go public this year, according to peo...

Slack Gives Its Digital Assistant an AI Upgrade
Salesforce’s Slack unit has officially launched an overhauled version of Slackbot, a digital assistant that has long handled basic tasks like sending alerts to users, in the latest sign of the softw...

Google Flips OpenAI’s Shopping Strategy on Its Head
Google’s latest AI pitch to retailers is simple: Google isn’t planning to take a cut of purchases made through its Gemini AI chatbot and search results. Instead, it plans to make money from its A...

This new, dead simple prompt technique boosts accuracy on LLMs by up to 76% on non-reasoning tasks
In the chaotic world of Large Language Model (LLM) optimization, engineers have spent the last few years developing increasingly esoteric rituals to get better answers. We’ve seen "Chain of Thought"...

DeepSeek’s conditional memory fixes silent LLM waste: GPU cycles lost to static lookups
When an enterprise LLM retrieves a product name, technical specification, or standard contract clause, it's using expensive GPU computation designed for complex reasoning — just to access static inf...

Bitdeer overtakes MARA as largest bitcoin miner by ‘managed hashrate’ metric
Singapore-based Bitdeer reported a “total hash rate under management," including a self-mining hashrate of 55.2 EH/s and hosted rigs. ...

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