Wall Street's idea that a software pure play will "vanish" into an LLM is "nonsense": we need more software, and AI-enabled software moves up the product stack (Steven Sinofsky/@stevesi)

Wall Street's idea that a software pure play will "vanish" into an LLM is "nonsense": we need more softw…

RapidFort, which develops tools for securing software supply chains, raised a $42M Series A led by Blue Cloud and ForgePoint, taking its total funding to ~$51M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

RapidFort, which develops tools for securing software supply chains, raised a $42M Series A led by Blue Cloud and ForgePoint, ta…

Galaxy Digital reports a Q4 net loss of $482M, above $282M est., driven primarily by the crypto market crash, and says its trading volumes declined ~40% QoQ (David Pan/Bloomberg)

Galaxy Digital reports a Q4 net loss of $482M, above $282M est., driven primarily by the crypto market crash, and says its tradi…

Government offers UK adults free AI training for work

Government offers UK adults free AI training for work https://bit.ly/4ad3Z5w The online lessons give advice on things such as ho…

Q&A with Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen on Docusign's workforce growing to 7,000 staffers, its Intelligent Agreement Management system, AI hallucinations, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen on Docusign's workforce growing to 7,000 staffers, its Intelligent Agreement Manage…

A look at DestinE, an EU-funded project to create Earth's digital twin using AI that has produced climate models with far higher resolution than current models (Clive Cookson/Financial Times)

A look at DestinE, an EU-funded project to create Earth's digital twin using AI that has produced climate models with far hi…

Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotics foundation models and has raised $1B+ (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotics found…

A look at iOS 26's call-screening feature, which some say is like having an assistant to filter out unwanted calls, as some complain it makes them miss calls (Andrew Zucker/Wall Street Journal)

A look at iOS 26's call-screening feature, which some say is like having an assistant to filter out unwanted calls, as some …

Chinese government funding is backing traditional Chinese medicine providers to adopt AI for drug discovery, clinical diagnostics, acupuncture robots, and more (Nicole Fan/Rest of World)

Chinese government funding is backing traditional Chinese medicine providers to adopt AI for drug discovery, clinical diagnostic…

A look at China's "genius class" system that selects ~100K gifted teens annually for elite science-focused schooling; its alumni include many top tech founders (Financial Times)

A look at China's "genius class" system that selects ~100K gifted teens annually for elite science-focused schooli…

Iran's internet is returning - but not for everyone

Iran's internet is returning - but not for everyone https://ift.tt/9CwWEJF The country cut off internet access on 8 January …