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Bloomberg: Sources: Silver Lake is in exclusive talks to acquire a majority stake in Intel's Altera unit  —  The private equity firm is thrashing out details of an investment in Altera, whose multi-use chips are primarily deployed in telecommunications networks, according to the people.

Kritika Lamba / Reuters: Bumble reports Q4 revenue down 4.4% YoY to $261.6M, Bumble app paying users up 5% to 2.8M, and forecasts Q1 revenue below estimates; BMBL drops 13%+ after hours  —  Bumble (BMBL.O) forecast its first-quarter revenue below analysts' estimate on Tuesday, signaling that the dating app operator's efforts …

Financial Times: A look at changes in the UK's CMA after its chair was forced to resign and the agency tries to reconcile its enhanced powers with government's pro-growth focus  —  CMA chair Marcus Bokkerink was told by phone he was to resign after months of rising frustration within government

Reuters: South Korea's data protection authority says DeepSeek app downloads have been suspended in the country after DeepSeek failed to follow its personal data rules  —  South Korea's data protection authority on Monday said it had temporarily suspended the domestic service of Chinese AI app DeepSeek since Saturday.

Max Tani / Semafor: Docs: the NYT greenlights the use of select internal and external AI tools for editorial and product staff, including from OpenAI, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft  —  The Scoop  —  The New York Times is greenlighting the use of AI for its product and editorial staff, saying that internal tools …

Madeline Coleman / New York Times: A look at sim racing, Formula One world champion Max Verstappen's passion for the competitive esport, and his efforts to get sim drivers into physical racing  —  Race teams always look up and down the motorsports ladder to identify rising stars.  But Formula One world champion Max Verstappen …

Financial Times: Match's head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, says Match is using AI in its apps, like Tinder, to detect men's “off-color” messages and drive “behavioral change”  —  Online dating group is using the technology to detect ‘off-colour’ messages, says safety chief Yoel Roth

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A look at Apple's and Meta's robotics efforts; sources say Apple is working on a 27" Studio Display successor to launch by 2026 and considering monetizing Maps  —  Apple and Meta are set to go toe-to-toe in another emerging area: AI-powered humanoid robots.

Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: Meta's Joel Kaplan says Meta “won't shy away” from taking up its case with President Trump if the EU uses its rules to unfairly target Meta's digital products  —  - Kaplan says company will make case if EU singles it out  — Tension over tech rules underscores transatlantic rift

Reuters: Tencent is testing using DeepSeek for search in its messaging app Weixin, while Baidu plans to fully connect its search engine to DeepSeek and its LLM, Ernie  —  Tencent said on Sunday its (0700.HK) Weixin messaging app, China's largest, is allowing some users to search via DeepSeek's …

Kyle Baird / DL News: Indian authorities have seized nearly $190M in cryptocurrency linked to the BitConnect Ponzi scheme, one of the country's largest crypto enforcement actions  —  Indian authorities have seized nearly $190 million in cryptocurrency linked to the BitConnect Ponzi scheme — one of the country's largest crypto enforcement actions.

William Wroblewski / Rest of World: Some Bolivians, frustrated with spotty internet from a China-built satellite, are smuggling in Starlink kits despite Bolivia banning the service in August 2024  —  Bolivia, which relies on a Chinese-built satellite for some of its connectivity, banned Starlink — but that hasn't stopped people …

Pooja Dash / IndiaSpend: India's BharatNet program to provide broadband access to 650K villages by 2025 is set to fall short of its target, with only 199K having broadband as of January  —  As of January 2025, only 1.99 lakh villages out of 6.5 lakh villages or 30.4% had broadband internet access

Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: Intel's foundry business lost $13B+ on $17.5B in revenue in 2024, while TSMC generated $41.1B in operating profit on $90B in revenue over the same period  —  While President Trump's domestic AI focus is a good sign for Intel, easy fixes have proved elusive  —  The Trump administration …

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: A new autopsy report finds former OpenAI employee Suchir Balaji's death was a suicide, countering his family's suspicions, which had fueled speculation online  —  Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI employee, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26; on Friday …

Dan Whateley / Business Insider: Maryland-based Uscreen, which helps creators launch apps, engage fans, monetize memberships, and more, raised $150M from PSG Equity, giving PSG a majority stake  —  - Uscreen, a startup that helps creators make apps, scored a $150 million investment from PSG Equity.

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Broadcom has informally explored a bid for Intel's chip design and marketing unit, but only if it could secure a partner for Intel's foundry business  —  Broadcom has interest in Intel's chip-design business, while TSMC is looking at the company's factories

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: The website of President Trump's World Liberty Financial shows the crypto project sold 24B+ of its 25B WLFI tokens after a slow start, implying sales of $1.25B  —  - The project has sold more than 24 billion tokens so far  — Chinese crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun is a project investor

Hugh Son / CNBC: Zelle's payment volume crossed $1T in 2024, the most ever for a P2P platform, user base jumped 12% YoY to 151M accounts, and the total dollars sent grew 27% YoY  —  Zelle, the payments network run by banks-owned Early Warning Services, crossed $1 trillion in total volumes last year …

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Tether acquires a minority stake in the iconic Italian football club Juventus, as part of a broader push to integrate digital assets into sports franchises  —  Tether Holdings SA de CV said it's acquired a minority stake in Juventus Football Club SpA, as one of crypto's most valuable companies continues …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Identity security startup SGNL, which lets enterprises enforce policies in real-time for privileged access to systems, raised a $30M Series A led by Brightmind  —  Security experts often describe identity as the “new perimeter” in the world of security: in the world of cloud services …

Lauren Faith Lau / Bloomberg: DeepSeek's rise has turned the spotlight on its hometown, Hangzhou, the capital of the Zhejiang province, which has earmarked ~$13.7B to fund tech companies  —  Plus: The struggle over improving 7-Eleven, and how Silicon Valley swung to Trump. … There's Shenzhen, whose designation …

Lucy Adams / Tech.eu: Fal.ai, a Turkish startup specializing in AI-generated media for enterprise use, raised a $49M Series B led by Notable Capital, taking its total funding to $72M  —  The funding will support infrastructure expansion, a model marketplace, and team growth.  —  Turkish mediatech startup …

The Information: Sources: Anthropic expects to burn $3B in 2025, down from $5.6B in 2024, and make up to $3.7B in revenue in 2025, as it seeks to catch up with OpenAI  —  After burning $5.6 billion in cash last year, Anthropic said it would reduce that amount by nearly half in 2025 and projected up to $3.7 billion …