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An interview with Nvidia's senior VP of hardware engineering, Andrew Bell, on continuing to provide Shield Android TV software updates a decade after its launch (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)

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31 January 2026

An interview with Nvidia's senior VP of hardware engineering, Andrew Bell, on continuing to provide Shield Android TV software updates a decade after its launch (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)

Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica:
An interview with Nvidia's senior VP of hardware engineering, Andrew Bell, on continuing to provide Shield Android TV software updates a decade after its launch  —  “Selfishly a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves.”  —  It took Android devicemakers a very long time to commit to long-term update support.

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Sources: Waymo nears a $16B round, valuing it at $110B; Alphabet will contribute $12B+, with a16z, Dragoneer, Mubadala, Sequoia, and DST Global participating (Financial Times)

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Sources: Waymo nears a $16B round, valuing it at $110B; Alphabet will contribute $12B+, with a16z, Dragoneer, Mubadala, Sequoia, and DST Global participating  —  Google's robotaxi start-up brings in new investors amid global roll out and competition from Elon Musk's Tesla

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Bitcoin has fallen to ~$78K, down ~7% in 24 hours, over 12% in the past week, and down ~37% since its ATH in Oct. 2025; Ethereum dropped ~18% in the past week (Bloomberg)

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Bitcoin has fallen to ~$78K, down ~7% in 24 hours, over 12% in the past week, and down ~37% since its ATH in Oct. 2025; Ethereum dropped ~18% in the past week  —  Bitcoin fell sharply in early Saturday afternoon trading in New York, tumbling below $80,000 mark to hit levels last seen in April 2025.

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How the music industry is split over AI; some labels signed licensing deals for AI that mirror revenue splits they use with YouTube for user-generated content (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)

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How the music industry is split over AI; some labels signed licensing deals for AI that mirror revenue splits they use with YouTube for user-generated content  —  A folk-pop song called “I Know, You're Not Mine” recently topped Spotify's charts in Sweden.  The soft vocals …

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Filing: SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers (Reuters)

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Filing: SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers  —  Elon Musk's SpaceX wants to launch a constellation of 1 million satellites that will orbit Earth and harness the sun to power AI data centers …

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Miami-based Indigo, which uses AI-powered underwriting tech to provide medical liability insurance to physicians, raised a $50M Series B led by Rubicon Founders (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)

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Miami-based Indigo, which uses AI-powered underwriting tech to provide medical liability insurance to physicians, raised a $50M Series B led by Rubicon Founders  —  Indigo, which provides liability insurance to physicians, raised $50 million in a Series B funding round, CEO Jared Kaplan tells Axios Pro exclusively.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company will "absolutely" be involved in OpenAI's current funding round, though the investment will be "nothing like" $100B (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company will “absolutely” be involved in OpenAI's current funding round, though the investment will be “nothing like” $100B  —  Nvidia Corp. will “absolutely” be involved in OpenAI's current funding round, though the investment will be …

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Q&A with AMD CTO Mark Papermaster, who says AMD is the first customer for TSMC's 2nm process, on AMD's rise since he joined in 2011, AI in chip design, and more (Dr. Ian Cutress/More Than Moore)

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Q&A with AMD CTO Mark Papermaster, who says AMD is the first customer for TSMC's 2nm process, on AMD's rise since he joined in 2011, AI in chip design, and more  —  The Future is Faster Than Anyone Expected  —  If you rewind the clock ten years, AMD 0.00%↑ was not the company it is today.

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Global Energy Monitor: over 97 GW of gas-fired power in the US pipeline were explicitly earmarked for data centers in 2025, compared with just 4 GW in 2024 (Molly Taft/Wired)

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Global Energy Monitor: over 97 GW of gas-fired power in the US pipeline were explicitly earmarked for data centers in 2025, compared with just 4 GW in 2024  —  Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.

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Q&A with Gokul Rajaram, investor and a former product leader at Google, Meta, and others, on AI changing product development, building ad businesses, and more (Patrick O'Shaughnessy/Invest Like The Best on YouTube)

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Q&A with Gokul Rajaram, investor and a former product leader at Google, Meta, and others, on AI changing product development, building ad businesses, and more  —  Gokul Rajaram joins Patrick to discuss the seismic shift in product building driven by AI.  As a legendary operator (Google, Facebook, Square, DoorDash) and p...

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