6:40 PMCommercial Carrier Journal75%Southeastern Freight Lines expands cross-border service with new partnership
5:55 PMTechmeme75%California AG Rob Bonta launches an investigation into xAI over the proliferation of nonconsensual, sexualized images generated by Grok (Politico)
5:30 PMTechmeme75%Elon Musk claims he was "not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok" and that Grok was programmed to comply with the laws of any given country (Reuters)
5:24 PMDC Velocity75%Port of Oakland finishes 2025 with container dip amid “ongoing economic and policy uncertainty”
5:10 PMTechmeme75%Depthfirst, which provides AI-native tools for codebase scanning, credential exposure protection, and more, raised a $40M Series A led by Accel Partners (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
4:15 PMTechmeme75%Google launches Personal Intelligence, a Gemini feature that links to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and YouTube history to tailor answers, for paid subscribers (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
4:00 PMTechmeme75%Sources: the Trump administration is weighing a substantial shift in its cyberstrategy, including by enlisting private companies to assist with cyberattacks (Adam Sella/New York Times)
3:31 PMGoogle Alert - de minimis75%EV chargers proposed for Lorain's Campana Park — and NOACA wants your input
3:24 PMFreightWaves75%Louisiana staged truck accident indictment widens as trials and sentencings loom
3:10 PMTechmeme75%Dutch court hearing: Nexperia claims Chinese owner Wingtech pushed for tech transfers out of Europe and threatened execs; Wingtech attacks Nexperia's management (Bloomberg)
3:08 PMTransportation & Logistics Magazine75%Singapore Airlines elevates Dubai travel with Airbus A380 service
3:05 PMTransportation & Logistics Magazine75%Detroit Auto Show highlights EVs with indoor test track runs
3:05 PMTransportation & Logistics Magazine75%Royal Mail tests parcel lockers to strengthen last mile logistics
3:04 PMTransportation & Logistics Magazine75%Garmin targets fleet safety with DualView truck camera system
3:00 PMFreightWaves75%Vooma, SONAR partner to bring high-frequency freight intelligence to your inbox
2:43 PMGoogle Alert - de minimis75%Reform or Overhaul of Judicial Review? Insights on aspects of the General Scheme of the ...
2:20 PMTechmeme75%Belgium-based Aikido Security, which offers automated security guardrails for developers, raised a $60M Series B led by DST Global at a $1B valuation (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)
2:14 PMGoogle Alert - de minimis75%Avalara Tax Changes 2026 Reveals Major Shifts Impacting Businesses Worldwide
2:10 PMTechmeme75%Source: Microsoft has become one of Anthropic's top clients and was recently on pace to spend nearly $500M/year for Anthropic's AI to power Microsoft products (The Information)
2:06 PMGoogle Alert - de minimis75%Avalara Tax Changes 2026 Reveals Major Shifts Impacting Businesses Worldwide
1:40 PMTechmeme75%Tel Aviv- and Boston-based IO River, which helps companies manage multiple CDN and edge networks, raised a $20M Series A led by Venture Guides and New Era (Chris Metinko/Axios)
1:26 PMTechmeme75%UK police say they banned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a soccer match in 2025 after Copilot hallucinated a fake West Ham-Maccabi match in an intelligence report (Tom Warren/The Verge)
1:25 PMGoogle Alert - de minimis75%PRC Limits USPS Market Dominant Rate Increases to Once Per Year, Tightens Workshare Discounts
1:10 PMTechmeme75%Pittsburgh-based Skild AI, which makes robotics foundation models, raised a $1.4B Series C at a $14B+ valuation, up from ~$4.5B in June 2025 (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
1:06 PMTechmeme75%Airbnb hires Meta executive Ahmad Al-Dahle, who led the generative AI and Llama team after working at Apple, as its CTO, as it aims to add more AI to its app (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
1:00 PMTechmeme75%Polymarket is hosting a growing number of contracts related to military conflicts, including China invading Taiwan; possible US strikes in Iran has $18M+ volume (Denitsa Tsekova/Bloomberg)
12:30 PMTechmeme75%Sources: McKinsey pilots an overhaul in how it recruits its next generation, asking candidates to use its AI tool Lilli to analyze a case study during a test (Financial Times)
12:06 PMGoogle Alert - de minimis75%China Ends 2025 with Record $1.020 Trillion Trade Surplus Despite Tariff Challenges
12:05 PMTechmeme75%Alpaca, which builds software to let companies offer stocks, ETFs, and other financial instruments, raised a $150M Series D led by Drive at a $1.15B valuation (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
11:55 AMTechmeme75%Sources: Chinese chip designer Montage, a Shanghai-listed company valued at $22B, plans a Hong Kong IPO that could raise $900M+, backed by Alibaba and JPMorgan (Dave Sebastian/Bloomberg)
11:54 AMGoogle News - Supply Chain Risk75%Top 10: Supply Chain Analytics Software - Supply Chain Digital Magazine
11:45 AMTechmeme75%Sources: Chinese authorities told domestic companies to stop using cybersecurity software made by ~12 US and Israeli companies due to national security concerns (Reuters)
11:30 AMTechmeme75%How Ireland, an early data center winner, missed out on much of the current AI boom, hampered by creaking infrastructure and a strained electricity grid (Bloomberg)
11:20 AMContainer News75%Update – Diana Shipping responds to Genco’s rejection of acquisition proposal
11:15 AMTechmeme75%Ahead of WEF 2026, the IMF urges governments to step up support for young workers displaced by AI, arguing candidates could use AI "rather than compete with it" (Delphine Strauss/Financial Times)
11:01 AMTechmeme75%China's market regulator says it is investigating Trip.com, the country's largest online travel agency, over alleged antitrust conduct, without offering details (Bloomberg)
10:45 AMTechmeme75%US Big Tech companies have been on an energy-related hiring spree; Workforce.AI says Microsoft has hired 570+ people with energy-related expertise since 2022 (Tasmin Lockwood/CNBC)
10:33 AMSplash247 (Sam Chambers)75%Asyad Shipping steps up VLCC expansion with fresh Hanwha Ocean order
10:30 AMTechmeme75%UK satellite company Open Cosmos wins a highly contested Ka-band spectrum license, used for high-speed internet, beating companies backed by Peter Thiel (Josh Gabert-Doyon/Financial Times)
10:12 AMGoogle News - Trade Deficit75%Romania Current Account Deficit Widens - TradingView — Track All Markets
9:55 AMTechmeme75%In South Korea's competition to develop an indigenous AI model, three of the five finalists used foreign open-source code, which they argue is practical (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
9:35 AMTechmeme75%Highlights from IEDM 2025: 3D NAND is suddenly relevant again, interconnect metals beyond copper are emerging, 2D materials that could replace silicon, and more (SemiAnalysis)
9:05 AMTechmeme75%The UK government drops plans for mandatory digital IDs to work in the country, marking a reversal from when the UK first announced the policy in September 2025 (BBC)
8:54 AMGoogle Alert - de minimis75%What's hot and what's not in e-commerce and home deliveries for 2026 | Londonlovesbusiness.com
8:50 AMSplash247 (Sam Chambers)75%US targets ‘dozens’ of Venezuela‑linked tankers in shadow fleet squeeze
8:50 AMTechmeme75%An interview with IMG President Adam Kelly on streaming platforms' increasing share of sports media rights, live sports as an antidote to AI content, and more (Josh Noble/Financial Times)
8:43 AMContainer News75%Suez Canal traffic continues normally despite vessel grounding outside channel
8:30 AMTechmeme75%Q&A with Reid Hoffman on wanting Silicon Valley to speak out against the Trump administration, AI regulation, the role of AI in art and creativity, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
8:24 AMGoogle Alert - de minimis75%Crypto Tax Reform: Bitcoin Groups Urge Congress to Broaden Payment Exemptions
8:15 AMTechmeme75%Analysis: DeepSeek's hedge fund parent High-Flyer posted 56.6% average returns across its quant funds in 2025, boosting potential cash available for DeepSeek (Bloomberg)
8:01 AMTechmeme75%India lacks specific policies or zoning regulations for overseeing quick commerce dark stores, which are projected to hit 5,000 to 5,500 by FY2026 end, per HSBC (The Economic Times)
8:00 AMSplash247 (Sam Chambers)75%Container-capable newcastlemax newbuilds emerge as COSCO breaks the mould
7:50 AMTechmeme75%Elon Musk says Tesla will stop selling FSD after February 14 and will offer it only as a monthly subscription; FSD is already available for $99 per month (Danny Lee/Bloomberg)
7:40 AMTechmeme75%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)
7:30 AMTechmeme75%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)
7:25 AMTechmeme75%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)
7:20 AMTechmeme75%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)
6:55 AMTechmeme75%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)
6:35 AMTechmeme75%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)
6:25 AMTechmeme75%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)
6:10 AMTechmeme75%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)
5:52 AMGoogle Alert - de minimis75%Bitcoin Supporters Urge US Legislators to Address Stablecoin Tax Regulations - Bitget
5:45 AMTechmeme75%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)
5:40 AMTechmeme75%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)
5:32 AMGoogle Alert - de minimis75%Bitcoin Advocates Press US Lawmakers on Stablecoin Tax Rules - Yahoo Finance
5:22 AMGoogle Alert - de minimis75%Bitcoin Advocates Press US Lawmakers on Stablecoin Tax Rules - Decrypt
5:05 AMPost & Parcel75%DHL eCommerce research: 79% of surveyed customers abandon purchases due to poor return options