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Plaud launches the $179 Plaud NotePin S AI recorder, similar to the $159 NotePin but with a button, alongside a new desktop app for recording meeting audio (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

January 04, 2026

Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Plaud launches the $179 Plaud NotePin S AI recorder, similar to the $159 NotePin but with a button, alongside a new desktop app for recording meeting audio  —  Plus a new desktop app, free to Plaud hardware owners, for recording meeting audio. … Plaud has updated its compact NotePin AI recorder.



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US immigration lawyers, talent managers, and creators say influencers and OnlyFans models now dominate O-1B visas, which are reserved for "exceptional" artists (Ian Hodgson/Financial Times)

January 04, 2026

Ian Hodgson / Financial Times:
US immigration lawyers, talent managers, and creators say influencers and OnlyFans models now dominate O-1B visas, which are reserved for “exceptional” artists  —  Work permits increasingly being awarded on basis of online reach, favouring content creators



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How a crew of crypto-focused hackers moved from SIM swap attacks to coordinated, violent home invasions and kidnappings, targeting small-time crypto investors (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)

January 04, 2026

Austin Carr / Bloomberg:
How a crew of crypto-focused hackers moved from SIM swap attacks to coordinated, violent home invasions and kidnappings, targeting small-time crypto investors  —  The pecking at the sliding glass door awoke Julia Goodwin shortly before midnight.  She and her husband, Glenn, retirees in their 60s …



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Filing: West Co, founded by Biz Stone and Evan Sharp, raised $29M; it launched the invite-only social app Tangle, "designed for intentional living", in November (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

January 03, 2026

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Filing: West Co, founded by Biz Stone and Evan Sharp, raised $29M; it launched the invite-only social app Tangle, “designed for intentional living”, in November  —  Biz Stone and Evan Sharp raise new funds for ‘Tangle’ as they assess the ‘devastation’ caused by online excess



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Fueled partly by US tech companies, governments worldwide are racing to deploy GenAI in schools and universities, even as agencies such as UNICEF urge caution (Natasha Singer/New York Times)

January 03, 2026

Natasha Singer / New York Times:
Fueled partly by US tech companies, governments worldwide are racing to deploy GenAI in schools and universities, even as agencies such as UNICEF urge caution  —  In early November, Microsoft said it would supply artificial intelligence tools and training to more than 200,000 students and educators in the United Arab Emirates.



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A new Polymarket account bet $30K on Maduro's capture just hours before Trump's announcement, renewing questions on insider information in prediction markets (Herb Scribner/Axios)

January 03, 2026

Herb Scribner / Axios:
A new Polymarket account bet $30K on Maduro's capture just hours before Trump's announcement, renewing questions on insider information in prediction markets  —  - These bets — many of which were on Maduro's capture, and are now on what happens next to the ousted leader …



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A look at AVA, an AI chatbot developed by Alaska's court system to provide aid in the probate process, which has been plagued by delays and hallucinations (Jared Perlo/NBC News)

January 03, 2026

Jared Perlo / NBC News:
A look at AVA, an AI chatbot developed by Alaska's court system to provide aid in the probate process, which has been plagued by delays and hallucinations  —  A yearlong effort to build an AI probate assistant reveals the limits of government chatbot development.



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