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Meta signs deals with three nuclear companies for 6-plus GW of power: Two smaller companies, Oklo and TerraPower, along with Vistra, a large energy company, just signed agreements with Meta. Read More

The venture firm that ate Silicon Valley just raised another $15 billion: In a blog post published Friday morning, Ben Horowitz writes that "as the American leader in Venture Capital, the fate of new technology in the United States rests partly on our shoulders." It's the kind of statement certain to cause agita at rival firms. Read More

Internet collapses in Iran amid protests over economic crisis: Internet monitoring firms and experts say Iran's internet has almost completely shut down, as protests spread through major cities. Read More

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Afternoon Must-Reads

X restricts Grok's image generation to paying subscribers only after drawing the world's ire: Elon Musk's AI company has restricted Grok's controversial AI image-generation feature to only paying subscribers on X, after the tool invited heated criticism from across the world for letting users generate sexualized images of women and children. Read More

Governments grapple with the flood of non-consensual nudity on X: For the past two weeks, X has been flooded with AI-manipulated nude images, created by the Grok AI chatbot — and governments around the world are promising to take action. Read More

Anthropic adds Allianz to growing list of enterprise wins: Anthropic announces its first enterprise deal of 2026, which includes building agents for, and giving Claude code to, Allianz. Read More

How the Sleepbuds maker, Ozlo, is building a platform for sleep data: Ozlo Sleepbuds are going to have a big year, with new products, AI features, and more. Read More

Data security startup Cyera hits $9B valuation six months after being valued at $6B: Cyera raised another $400 million just six months after its last huge round. Read More

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Last but Not Least

CES 2026: Everything revealed, from Nvidia's debuts to AMD's new chips to Razer's AI oddities : CES 2026 is in full swing in Las Vegas, with the show floor open to the public after a packed couple of days occupied by press conferences from the likes of Nvidia, Sony, and AMD and previews from Sunday's Unveiled event. Read More