Jan. 28, 2026
The Amazon Layoffs
The Amazon layoffs showed up on schedule. Is Tether behind the rise in the price of gold? A new type of privacy screen tech from Samsung. Elon wants to IPO on his birthday. Anthropic raises more ahead of its IPO. And AI is finding weird stuff in Space.
- Amazon says it is laying off 16,000 employees (TechCrunch)
- Tether Is Shaking Up the Gold Market With Massive Metal Hoard (Bloomberg)
- Samsung confirms Galaxy S26's insane 'pixel level' privacy feature (SamMobile)
- SpaceX weighs June IPO timed to planetary alignment and Elon Musk’s birthday (FT)
- Anthropic doubles VC fundraising to $20bn on surging investor demand (FT)
- Anthropic Hikes 2026 Revenue Forecast 20% but Delays When It Will Go Cash Flow Positive (The Information)
- Astronomers used AI to find 1,400 ‘anomalous objects’ from Hubble archives (The Verge)
RideHomeFund News: CrowdStrike buys identity security startup SGNL for $740 million in latest deal push
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