The Amazon Layoffs

January 28 · 20 min

0:00-20:56

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The Amazon layoffs showed up on schedule. Is Tether behind the rise in the price of gold? A new type of privacy screen tech from Samsung. Elon wants to IPO on his birthday. Anthropic raises more ahead of its IPO. And AI is finding weird stuff in Space.

Amazon says it is laying off 16,000 employees (TechCrunch)
Tether Is Shaking Up the Gold Market With Massive Metal Hoard (Bloomberg)
Samsung confirms Galaxy S26's insane 'pixel level' privacy feature (SamMobile)
SpaceX weighs June IPO timed to planetary alignment and Elon Musk’s birthday (FT)
Anthropic doubles VC fundraising to $20bn on surging investor demand (FT)
Anthropic Hikes 2026 Revenue Forecast 20% but Delays When It Will Go Cash Flow Positive (The Information)
Astronomers used AI to find 1,400 ‘anomalous objects’ from Hubble archives (The Verge)

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