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Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $200M from Autodesk, part of a larger round; the companies are exploring integrating World Labs' AI models into Autodesk products (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

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Robinhood launches an IPO for Robinhood Ventures Fund I, a $1B closed-end fund to provide retail investors access to private markets, offering 40M shares at $25 (Bloomberg)

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DG Matrix, which builds solid-state transformers to handle up to 2.4 MW and boost data center power efficiency, raised a $60M Series A led by Engine Ventures (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)

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Sources: Amazon shut down Blue Jay, a multi-armed robotic system launched in October 2025 for same-day delivery warehouses, to focus on small modular warehouses (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)

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Saudi-backed AI startup Humain invested $3B in xAI, becoming a "significant minority shareholder" in a deal that completed just before SpaceX's xAI acquisition (Bloomberg)

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Sources: while Meta offered OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger more money than OpenAI, he ultimately aligned more closely with OpenAI's overall vibe and vision (Alex Heath/Sources)

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Uber plans to spend $100M+ to build fast-charging, autonomous vehicle charging stations in the US, starting in the San Francisco Bay Area, LA, and Dallas (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

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How US citizens, clergy, and elected officials in conservative communities like Missouri are leading a grassroots rebellion against the Trump-backed AI boom (Joe Miller/Financial Times)

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At India's AI Summit, Alphabet announces the America-India Connect Initiative, which will build new fiber optic lines between India, the US, and other countries (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

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A Las Vegas federal appeals court rejects Kalshi's emergency bid for an administrative stay on Nevada's push to block the platform, a major setback for Kalshi (Krystal Hur/Wall Street Journal)

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Filings: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway cut its Amazon stake by 75%+ to ~2.3M shares in Q4 2025; Berkshire bought 5.1M NYT shares, worth ~$352M in December (Alexandre Rajbhandari/Bloomberg)

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Q&A with Synthesia co-founder and CEO Victor Riparbelli on growing the London-based enterprise AI video platform, hitting a $4B valuation, regulation, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

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SEC filing: Peter Thiel and Founders Fund have fully exited ETHZilla, down from a 7.5% stake in August 2025; ether is down 60% from its August 2025 peak (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)

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WBD joins Disney and Paramount in claiming infringement on ByteDance's AI video tool Seedance and demands ByteDance cease training AI on Warner Bros. characters (Gene Maddaus/Variety)

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A US federal judge orders OpenAI to stop using the word "Cameo" for its Sora products and features, in a trademark lawsuit filed by celebrity video app Cameo (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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A look at China's push to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, as Shanghai-based startup NeuroXess moves to human trials with Beijing's backing (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

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Bengaluru-based AI startup Sarvam AI announces two models at the AI Impact Summit that it says are tailored to Indian languages and cultures (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

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Microsoft says it is on pace to invest $50B by 2030 to help expand AI across the "Global South", after unveiling $17.5B in AI investments in India in 2025 (Abu Sultan/Reuters)

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Battery Ventures raised $3.25B for its XV fund, roughly matching its 2022 raise, to back software and industrial tech firms amid AI disruption concerns (Bloomberg)

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As the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi draws attention, a look at India's AI opportunities and the political economy gridlock that threatens its ambitions (Shruti Rajagopalan/Get Down and Shruti)

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