Journals

Ryan Lawler / Axios: WithCoverage, which replaces traditional insurance brokers with its AI-based flat-fee risk management model, raised a $42M Series B led by Sequoia and Khosla  —  WithCoverage, which replaces traditional insurance brokers with a flat-fee risk management model,… Read More »WithCoverage, which replaces traditional insurance brokers with its AI-based flat-fee risk management model, raised a $42M Series B led by Sequoia and Khosla (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Reuters: Sources: Chinese officials told customs agents that Nvidia H200 chips are barred from China and instructed local tech companies not to buy them unless necessary  —  Chinese customs authorities told customs agents this week that Nvidia’s (NVDA.O) H200 artificial… Read More »Sources: Chinese officials told customs agents that Nvidia H200 chips are barred from China and instructed local tech companies not to buy them unless necessary (Reuters)

New York Times: An inside look at a Myanmar online scam center that opened in 2024 with 3,500 workers from ~30 countries and closed in November 2025 after rebels captured it  —  Times journalists got a rare look inside one… Read More »An inside look at a Myanmar online scam center that opened in 2024 with 3,500 workers from ~30 countries and closed in November 2025 after rebels captured it (New York Times)

Jonathan Greig / The Record: The US urged UN members to take a tougher stance against North Korea IT worker scams and crypto thefts; an October 2025 report said 40+ countries were affected  —  The U.S. on Monday urged United… Read More »The US urged UN members to take a tougher stance against North Korea IT worker scams and crypto thefts; an October 2025 report said 40+ countries were affected (Jonathan Greig/The Record)

Bloomberg: Saudi Arabia’s PIF is transferring ~$12B worth of gaming company shares, including Nintendo, to Savvy Games; PIF transferred 11M Take-Two shares in December  —  Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is transferring roughly $12 billion worth of gaming company shares,… Read More »Saudi Arabia’s PIF is transferring ~$12B worth of gaming company shares, including Nintendo, to Savvy Games; PIF transferred 11M Take-Two shares in December (Bloomberg)

Financial Times: How smuggled Starlink receivers and customized software let some Iranians evade a near-total internet blackout as the regime brutally cracked down on protesters  —  Tehran went from ‘halal internet’ to near-total blackout but activists have smuggled in Starlink… Read More »How smuggled Starlink receivers and customized software let some Iranians evade a near-total internet blackout as the regime brutally cracked down on protesters (Financial Times)

Matthew Griffin / Bloomberg: Caterpillar hits a $300B market cap for the first time, driven by demand for its data center power generation equipment; CAT is up 12% in 2026 to a record ~$640  —  Caterpillar Inc. shares extended a… Read More »Caterpillar hits a $300B market cap for the first time, driven by demand for its data center power generation equipment; CAT is up 12% in 2026 to a record ~$640 (Matthew Griffin/Bloomberg)

Maya Perez / WebProNews: Bandcamp bans music and audio that is “generated wholly or in substantial part by AI”, hoping to build trust with fans that the music they find was human-made  —  Bandcamp has banned music substantially generated by… Read More »Bandcamp bans music and audio that is “generated wholly or in substantial part by AI”, hoping to build trust with fans that the music they find was human-made (Maya Perez/WebProNews)

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Z.ai releases GLM-Image, an open-source multimodal AI model trained on Huawei chips that it says is China’s first to be fully trained using domestic chips  —  Chinese AI startup Knowledge Atlas Technology JSC Ltd. released a… Read More »Z.ai releases GLM-Image, an open-source multimodal AI model trained on Huawei chips that it says is China’s first to be fully trained using domestic chips (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

Iain Martin / Forbes: Checkr, which offers employee background checks, says its revenue grew to $800M, up 14% from 2024, amid a surge in AI-generated CVs and fake financial documents  —  San Francisco-based Checkr, which got its start running criminal… Read More »Checkr, which offers employee background checks, says its revenue grew to $800M, up 14% from 2024, amid a surge in AI-generated CVs and fake financial documents (Iain Martin/Forbes)