1. What you should know about the owners of US TikTok
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/what-you-should-know-about-the-owners-of-us-tiktok/
Summary: ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, recently established a separate American entity to run the app’s U.S. operations. This restructuring aims to separate U.S. TikTok from its Chinese parent, addressing concerns about data privacy and foreign control. The move came after years of pressure from lawmakers, who feared the Chinese government’s potential access to Americans’ data. […]
2. The crypto bill is falling apart in Congress
Source: https://www.theverge.com/column/868941/clarity-act-congress-shutdown
Summary: Hello and welcome to Regulator, the Verge newsletter about the technology politics happening in our nation's capital. I hope our snowstorm-affected readers are safe, warm, and haven't reenacted The Shining at home yet. Do you know what prevents that? Subscribing to The Verge. Last week, when I was tracking Coinbase's opposition to the Clarity Act, […]
3. The best Android phones
Source: https://www.theverge.com/23674658/best-android-phone
Summary: The Android ecosystem is all about choice. While iPhone owners have a smaller pool of new devices to pick from when it’s time to upgrade, there’s a wider range of choices on Android. Some Android phones even fold in half! Imagine. On the flip side, all that choice can make for some hard decisions. Here’s […]
4. Everything you need to know about viral personal AI assistant Clawdbot (now Moltbot)
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/everything-you-need-to-know-about-viral-personal-ai-assistant-clawdbot-now-moltbot/
Summary: Personal AI assistant Moltbot —formerly Clawdbot — has gone viral in a matter of weeks. But there’s more you should know before jumping on the bandwagon.
5. Fashion rental app By Rotation and Uber partner to help deliver ski clothing
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/fashion-rental-app-by-rotation-and-uber-partner-to-help-deliver-ski-rentals/
Summary: By Rotation, one of the U.K.’s most popular peer-to-peer fashion rental platforms, is partnering with Uber to deliver ski clothes.
6. Meta is spending millions to convince people that data centers are cool and you like them
Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/869008/meta-data-centers-ad-campaign
Summary: Over the last few months of 2025, Meta spent $6.4 million on an ad campaign running in cities across the country, from Sacramento to Washington, with a clear mission: win over viewers on the construction of new data centers. As the New York Times reports, the ad campaign is anchored by short, folksy video spotlights […]
7. Moltbot, the AI agent that ‘actually does things,’ is tech’s new obsession
Source: https://www.theverge.com/report/869004/moltbot-clawdbot-local-ai-agent
Summary: An open-source AI agent that "actually does things" is taking off, with people across the web sharing how they're using the agent to do a whole bunch of things, like manage reminders, log health and fitness data, and even communicate with clients. The tool, called Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot), runs locally on a variety of devices, […]
8. The best budget robot vacuums
Source: https://www.theverge.com/23846479/best-budget-robot-vacuum-robot-mop
Summary: Today’s robot vacuums are becoming a bit like cars: with all the features, upgrades, and fancy trimmings available these days, it’s easy to forget that they can just be simple machines that get us from point A to point B. Yes, some bots blow hot air on their bums (mop pads), deftly navigate dog poop, […]
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