• Paramount won’t quit, files suit against Warner Bros. Discovery over rejected bid

    January 12, 2026

    Paramount Skydance just want to take no for an answer. After having to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) rejected, including a recent hostile bid that the WBD board , Paramount is turning to the courts and mounting a proxy fight. In a on Monday, Paramount CEO David Ellison said the company has filed suit in Delaware Chancery Court seeking more disclosure about WBD’s and the process that led to its acceptance. Paramount argues WBD hasn’t provided “basic information” shareholders need to evaluate competing offers, including how WBD valued the planned cable-networks spinout Discovery Global (or Global Networks, depending on the…

  • Developers have made $550 billion on Apple’s App Store since 2008

    January 12, 2026

    Apple services had a “record-breaking year,” according to a blog post by senior vice president Eddy Cue. In 2025, Apple had 850 million average weekly App Store users (up from 813 million in 2024), over $100 billion in Apple Pay merchant sales, and a 36% increase in monthly Apple TV engagement. Apple Music also had its best year ever for listenership and new subscriber growth, which is impressive amid Spotify’s longstanding dominance of the market. Apple has less frequently disclosed figures about App Store payouts over the last several years, but the company shared that it has now paid $550…

  • How This Agentic Memory Research Unifies Long Term and Short Term Memory for LLM Agents

    January 12, 2026

    How do you design an LLM agent that decides for itself what to store in long term memory, what to keep in short term context and what to discard, without hand tuned heuristics or extra controllers? Can a single policy learn to manage both memory types through the same action space as text generation? Researchers from Alibaba Group and Wuhan University introduce Agentic Memory, or AgeMem, a framework that lets large language model agents learn how to manage both long term and short term memory as part of a single policy. Instead of relying on hand written rules or external…

  • Apple’s Siri AI will be powered by Gemini

    January 12, 2026

    Apple and Google have confirmed reports that it will use Google Gemini’s models to help it power the new version of Siri and other generative AI features. CNBC first reported the news; Apple and Google subsequently released a joint statement which reads: “Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google’s Gemini models and cloud technology. These models will help power future Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri coming this year. After careful evaluation, Apple determined that Google’s Al technology provides the most capable…

  • A New Jersey lawsuit shows how hard it is to fight deepfake porn

    January 12, 2026

    For more than two years, an app called ClothOff has been terrorizing young women online — and it’s been maddeningly difficult to stop. The app has been taken down from the two major app stores and it’s banned from most social platforms, but it’s still available on the web and through a Telegram bot. In October, a clinic at Yale Law School filed a lawsuit that would take down the app entirely, forcing the owners to delete all images and cease operation entirely. But simply finding the defendants has been a challenge.  “It’s incorporated in the British Virgin Islands,” explains…

  • India is proposing another far-reaching security rule for smartphones

    January 12, 2026

    India is considering new smartphone security rules that would require device makers to allow government access to source code for “vulnerability analysis.” It would also require companies to notify the government of major software updates and security patches before rollout, according to . This is the latest in a raft of unprecedented proposals by the Indian government under the guise of security, as it weighs making a package of 83 security standards drafted in 2023 legally binding in the world’s second-largest smartphone market with nearly 750 million smartphones. Under the proposals, any source code review would be analyzed and potentially…

  • Luminar lines up $22 million bidder for its lidar business

    January 12, 2026

    Luminar has reached a deal to sell its lidar business to a company called Quantum Computing Inc. for just $22 million, unless it receives better offers by a deadline of 5:00 p.m. CT on Monday. The lidar-maker, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in December, already announced plans to sell its semiconductor subsidiary to Quantum Computing Inc. for $110 million. The deals have to be approved by the bankruptcy judge in the Southern District of Texas before they are finalized. Luminar founder and former CEO Austin Russell has signaled interest in submitting a bid for the lidar assets and…

  • Get three months of access for only $3

    January 12, 2026

    One way to read more in the new year is to incorporate audiobooks as part of your reading habit. Audible is having a sale right now that makes that easier and cheaper to do: you can get three months of access for only $1 per month, or a total of $3. The promotion runs through January 21. An Audible subscription grants one audiobook per month to keep. This can be selected from a massive catalog of new releases and bestsellers. The collection here has just about everything. Amazon However, it’s easy to plow through a single book in a month.…

  • Harmattan AI raises $200M Series B led by Dassault Aviation, becomes defense unicorn

    January 12, 2026

    French defense tech company Harmattan AI is rising almost as fast as the supersonic planes of its new backer. Founded in 2024, the company is now valued at $1.4 billion after raising a $200 million Series B round led by Dassault Aviation, which is best known for making the Rafale fighter jet. Harmattan AI, which builds autonomy and mission-system software for defense aircraft, had already received strong validation signals from the French and British ministries of defense in its less than two years of existence. But this funding and the accompanying partnership will give new wings to a company that…

  • This ElevationLabs 10-year extended battery case for AirTags is on sale for only $16

    January 12, 2026

    ElevationLab makes a battery case for your AirTag that can power it for 10 years and the accessory is on sale now for 30 percent off. Normally retailing for $23, you can pick one up for $16. The TimeCapsule case uses two AA batteries to offer up to 14 times the lifespan of the CR2032 battery that powers an AirTag. The company based those estimates on Energizer Ultimate Lithium batteries, so your mileage may vary. Once an AirTag is seated inside the case, which is a compact 4.45 x 1.57 inches, it is sealed shut with four screws at the…