Jan. 7, 2026
CES Day 3
xAI has raised another monster round. Polymarket has yet another controversy around whether a bet should pay out or not. Could the AI datacenter buildout actually disrupt politics in local America? And a sort of roundup of what’s been at CES so far.
- Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $20 Billion (NYTimes)
- Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would ‘invade’ Venezuela (FT)
- Americans Hate AI. Which Party Will Benefit? (Politico)
- The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape (Washington Post)
- Three Reasons We Can’t Get Enough of LinkedIn (WSJ)
- What surprised us the most at CES 2026 (The Verge)
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