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How AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions on rising economic inequality, and why highly progressive taxes on capital can help slow the spiral (Philosopher Count) - 2026-01-01T15:00:14-05:00

A look at US tech laws rolling out in 2026, including California's SB 53 AI transparency law and Virginia's new social media limits for minors, effective today (Adi Robertson/The Verge) - 2026-01-01T13:55:01-05:00

Ukraine has become a live-fire test range for AI drones like the Bumblebee, provided by a secretive Eric Schmidt-led venture, raising alarms in Kremlin circles (C.J. Chivers/New York Times) - 2026-01-01T12:35:01-05:00

DeepSeek researchers detail a new mHC architecture they used to train 3B, 9B, and 27B models, finding it scaled without adding significant computational burden (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post) - 2026-01-01T11:15:01-05:00

Sources: OpenAI ramped up efforts to improve its audio AI models, in preparation for its AI-powered personal device, which is expected to be largely audio-based (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) - 2026-01-01T10:10:02-05:00

Tech startups have started to offer nicotine pouches as a free perk to employees, as some claim the products help them focus despite health hazards (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal) - 2026-01-01T09:05:01-05:00

A look at the rise of AI companion apps; a researcher counts 206 such apps on the App Store and 253 on Google Play, with 220M+ total downloads as of July 2025 (Financial Times) - 2026-01-01T06:55:01-05:00

Hundreds of megawatts of new data center capacity are being planned in Vernon, a city near LA, which is a key US-Asia cable-linking hub and is becoming crowded (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times) - 2026-01-01T04:37:01-05:00

Sources: SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic could IPO in 2026; those three deals alone would exceed the total proceeds from roughly 200 US IPOs in 2025 (George Hammond/Financial Times) - 2026-01-01T02:30:00-05:00

Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index rose 28% in 2025, its best percentage performance since 2017, driven by tech, AI, and semiconductor stocks (Wall Street Journal) - 2026-01-01T02:25:01-05:00

Analysts and manufacturers expect smartphone, PC, and consumer electronics prices to rise by as much as 20% in 2026, as AI demand drives up memory chip costs (Song Jung-a/Financial Times) - 2026-01-01T02:20:00-05:00

Report: China-based Moonshot AI, maker of Kimi models, raised a $500M Series C at a $4.3B valuation led by IDG Capital, with Alibaba and Tencent participating (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post) - 2026-01-01T01:20:00-05:00

Some 2025 takeaways in LLMs: reasoning as a signature feature, coding agents were useful, subscriptions hit $200/month, and Chinese open-weight models impressed (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog) - 2026-01-01T01:15:01-05:00

IDC thinks Apple shipped just 45,000 units of the Vision Pro in Q4 2025; Sensor Tower says Apple cut digital ad spend for the headset by 95% in 2025 (Michael Acton/Financial Times) - 2026-01-01T01:05:02-05:00

How AI labs are deploying on-site gas generators for power as the US electric grid struggles to keep pace with the growing demands of AI infrastructure (SemiAnalysis) - 2025-12-31T22:00:33-05:00