Nova Launcher Adds Ads Day One: Instabridge 2026
Swedish company Instabridge acquired Nova Launcher on January 20, 2026, and within 24 hours users discovered Facebook Ads and Google AdMob trackers embedded ...
Threads vs X: Mobile User Win Masks Web Traffic Reality
Meta’s Threads platform surpassed X (formerly Twitter) in mobile daily active users for the first ...
OpenAI’s $10B Cerebras Deal: AI Infrastructure Crisis
OpenAI signed a $10+ billion deal with Cerebras Systems on January 14, 2026, committing to ...
IBM Quantum 2026: When Quantum Beats Classical Computing
IBM stakes reputation on 2026 quantum advantage claim. Nighthawk processor delivers 50x speedup while Qiskit ...
AI Verification Bottleneck: 96% of Devs Distrust Code
Sonar’s 2026 State of Code Developer Survey, polling 1,149 professional software developers globally in January ...
Meta’s $2B Manus Deal Faces China Regulatory Wall
Meta’s $2-3 billion acquisition of Manus—a Singapore-based AI startup with Chinese roots—hit a regulatory wall on January 8, 2026, when China’s Ministry of ...
DeepSeek V4 Targets 80.9% SWE-Bench Record in February 2026
DeepSeek is launching V4 in mid-February 2026, and insider sources claim it will beat both ...
Taiwan’s $250B Chip Bet: Reshoring or Just Relocating Risk?
The $500 Billion Semiconductor Gamble On January 15, Taiwan and the US announced the largest ...
Sequoia Backs OpenAI, xAI & Anthropic: $1T Bet Backfires
Sequoia Capital announced yesterday it’s joining Anthropic’s $25 billion funding round at a $350 billion ...
Focus Time Crisis: Devs Lose $50K Yearly to Interruptions
Your engineering team is bleeding $50,000 per developer every year—23 minutes at a time. Every ...
