Business 15 August 2025 - 23 January 2026

LegalZoom Drops Ahead of Shareholder Meeting as AI Fight Hangs Over Stock
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LegalZoom Drops Ahead of Shareholder Meeting as AI Fight Hangs Over Stock

LegalZoom.com traded lower in premarket Wednesday, with the stock near $6.53 as investors prepared for the company’s annual meeting. Shares have had trouble translating stronger sales into better numbers on the bottom line. The latest price was off 14.5 cents from Tuesday’s close, giving LegalZoom a market cap near $1.16 billion. The timing sets the scene. U.S. markets are open as usual, and Nasdaq’s 2026 holiday list shows the next full day off is Juneteenth, June 19. LegalZoom’s shareholder meeting is scheduled for later in the day, not on a weekend or holiday.
June 3, 2026
Amazon braces for another round of layoffs as thousands more corporate jobs face cuts next week
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Amazon braces for another round of layoffs as thousands more corporate jobs face cuts next week

Amazon is planning a second round of corporate job cuts next week as part of a push to trim about 30,000 white-collar roles, according to two people familiar with the matter. The layoffs could start as early as Tuesday, Jan. 27.https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-plans-thousands-more-corporate-job-cuts-next-week-sources-say-2026-01-22/?utm_source=chatgpt.com The timing is tight. Workers hit in October were kept on the payroll for 90 days while they applied for other roles inside the company, and that period expires on Monday.
January 23, 2026
TikTok avoids U.S. ban with Oracle-led joint venture deal — here’s who owns what now
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TikTok avoids U.S. ban with Oracle-led joint venture deal — here’s who owns what now

ByteDance announced it has sealed a deal to form a new joint venture, majority-owned by Americans, aimed at safeguarding TikTok’s U.S. user data and ensuring the app continues running in the States. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/tiktok-reaches-deal-new-us-joint-venture-avoid-american-ban-2026-01-23/ This shift is crucial because TikTok faced a stark choice under U.S. law: either sell a substantial portion of its U.S. operations to sever Chinese ownership or risk a total ban across the country. The app claims it connects with over 200 million Americans and serves millions of U.S. businesses for marketing and sales.
January 23, 2026
Autodesk’s 1,000-job cut: Why the AutoCAD maker is shrinking sales to fund AI and cloud
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Autodesk’s 1,000-job cut: Why the AutoCAD maker is shrinking sales to fund AI and cloud

Autodesk said it will lay off about 7% of its global workforce, or roughly 1,000 jobs, as it redirects spending toward its cloud platform and artificial intelligence work. The cuts land as software companies keep reworking sales teams and budgets to free up money for AI and cloud products, even when the core business is holding up. Autodesk’s shares rose more than 3% after the announcement, despite the stock being down about 13% so far this year.
January 22, 2026
OpenAI’s Altman shops for $50 billion in Middle East funding as $830 billion valuation talk surfaces
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OpenAI’s Altman shops for $50 billion in Middle East funding as $830 billion valuation talk surfaces

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been in talks with major Middle Eastern investors about a potential funding round that could reach $50 billion, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday, citing sources close to the discussions. According to the report, OpenAI is targeting a valuation in the range of $750 billion to $830 billion. Source If it goes through, this round would be one of the biggest private fundraisings out there, reinforcing a trend we've seen for months: Gulf investors moving beyond minority stakes and diving into the core of AI—think power, chips, and data centers that run these models. For OpenAI, it’s also a proving ground to see if investors will keep opening their wallets as the cost of “compute” keeps rising.
January 22, 2026
Wikipedia’s New Paid AI Training Deals: Why Microsoft and Meta Are Cutting Checks Now
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Wikipedia’s New Paid AI Training Deals: Why Microsoft and Meta Are Cutting Checks Now

Wikipedia’s parent organization has inked paid content-access deals with Microsoft, Meta, and other tech giants, seeking to convert the online encyclopedia’s use in AI training into a more reliable source of income. This shift is significant because the AI surge, which heavily relies on Wikipedia’s content, has driven up the nonprofit’s infrastructure costs. Automated bots scrape massive amounts of data to train large language models—systems that identify patterns in text and produce new text on demand.
January 16, 2026
India puts Apple’s iPhone App Store on the clock as $38 billion antitrust fine risk looms
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India puts Apple’s iPhone App Store on the clock as $38 billion antitrust fine risk looms

India has delivered a final warning to Apple in its antitrust probe concerning the iPhone App Store, signaling it will press forward next week after dragging on for over a year. Apple has countered, warning that fines could reach up to $38 billion if calculated on global revenue. The warning emerges as New Delhi considers a sweeping smartphone security overhaul, requiring manufacturers to provide source code—the core programming instructions—for government review and to retain device logs for a year. Akash Karmakar, a partner at Panag & Babu, described this level of access as “a massive step backwards” for India’s efforts to improve ease of doing business.
January 15, 2026
OpenAI’s $10B Cerebras bet is about one thing: making ChatGPT faster
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OpenAI’s $10B Cerebras bet is about one thing: making ChatGPT faster

OpenAI agreed to buy up to 750 megawatts of computing power from AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems over three years in a deal worth more than $10 billion, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The ChatGPT maker is stacking up capacity as demand rises for “reasoning” systems that take longer to answer. The squeeze now is not just training new models. It is serving them at scale, fast, and without blowing out cost or power use.
January 15, 2026
Trump Mobile’s $499 Gold T1 Phone Still Hasn’t Shipped: Latest Updates and Refund Questions (Jan. 13, 2026)
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Trump Mobile’s $499 Gold T1 Phone Still Hasn’t Shipped: Latest Updates and Refund Questions (Jan. 13, 2026)

Trump Mobile’s Trump-branded “T1” gold smartphone was pitched as a $499, “Made in USA” alternative to iPhones — but as of Jan. 13, 2026, it’s still missing. Here’s what’s known about the delays, deposit refunds, shifting “American-made” claims, and what to watch next. Jan. 13, 2026 — The gold smartphone that was supposed to headline Trump Mobile’s big entrance into consumer tech remains the product nobody can actually buy — despite months of pre-orders and a $100 upfront deposit requirement.
January 13, 2026
AWS Outage Sends Shockwaves Through Payments, Apps and Even Smart Mattresses
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AWS Outage Sends Shockwaves Through Payments, Apps and Even Smart Mattresses

The October outage played out like a cautionary tale of digital dependence. Within an hour of the AWS glitch, apps used by millions began failing. In the UAE alone, Downdetector reported hundreds of users unable to access Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite and even Amazon.com khaleejtimes.com. Online banking and payments stalled too: Gulf News reported that UAE residents saw “widespread transaction failures” and some were charged twice for a single purchase gulfnews.com. The culprit was hidden deep in AWS’s code. In a postmortem, Amazon revealed a latent race-condition bug in the DynamoDB service’s DNS management theguardian.com. In simple terms, two automated processes tried to update the same DNS record at once – think of two editors overwriting each other’s changes in a
October 26, 2025
Apple Stock Rockets to Record High as iPhone 17 Demand Explodes
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Apple Stock Rockets to Record High as iPhone 17 Demand Explodes

Early data confirm that iPhone 17 demand is unusually strong. In China, the iPhone 17 base model is “very compelling to consumers, offering great value for money,” Counterpoint Research’s Mengmeng Zhang tells analysts macrumors.com. She notes that Chinese buyers nearly doubled unit sales of the new $799 iPhone 17 during the equivalent 10-day launch window macrumors.com. In the U.S., AppleInsider reports that carriers have increased subsidies by about $100, effectively making the premium iPhone 17 Pro Max a more affordable upgrade. That helped drive the Pro Max to “lead early demand” stateside appleinsider.com. Altogether, Counterpoint finds the iPhone 17 lineup “far outpaces” last year’s models. Its report shows combined sales in the U.S. and China were about 14% higher than
October 21, 2025
Global GSM Shake-Up: 2G & 3G Fade as 4G Expands – Key Developments (Sept 12–13, 2025)
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Global GSM Shake-Up: 2G & 3G Fade as 4G Expands – Key Developments (Sept 12–13, 2025)

Around the globe, 2G and 3G networks – the original GSM-based systems – are being switched off at an unprecedented pace. Telecom regulators and operators are prioritizing 4G and 5G, citing the need to reuse spectrum and reduce maintenance costs on legacy infrastructure samenacouncil.org. The GSMA’s latest “State of Mobile Internet Connectivity” report highlighted that by end-2024, 169 operators in 75 countries had completed a 2G or 3G shutdown, and many more are in progress samenacouncil.org. As older networks carry dwindling traffic and impose a financial burden, “many operators have either shut down or are in the process of sunsetting 2G and 3G networks,” the GSMA noted samenacouncil.org. However, this trend is uneven across regions – the GSMA observes that
September 13, 2025
6G network
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6G Revolution: Blazing Speeds, Global Tech Rivalries, and the Next Wireless Frontier

What is 6G? 6G is the sixth-generation mobile network technology poised to succeed 5G around the end of this decade. It promises unprecedented wireless performance – think data speeds up to 1 terabit per second and air-link latencies under a millisecond anz.peoplemattersglobal.com. In other words, downloading full-length movies or immersive VR content could happen in seconds, and network response might be near-instantaneous, enabling futuristic applications like real-time holographic calls and truly tactile remote control. While 5G marked a huge leap in connectivity, 6G is expected to build on 5G’s foundation with even faster speeds, lower latency, higher reliability, and massive device connectivity anz.peoplemattersglobal.com. Experts emphasize that 6G will evolve from 5G rather than completely replace it – “we should think
August 18, 2025
Asteroid Classifications and Their Mining Potential
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Asteroid Minerals: Mining C-Type, S-Type & M-Type Space Rocks Worth Trillions

Asteroid mining is often touted as the next gold rush in space, with experts predicting it could birth the first trillionaire phys.org. Thousands of asteroids orbit near Earth, many laden with water, metals, and minerals that could revolutionize industries. This comprehensive report explores the types of asteroids most relevant to mining – C-type, S-type, M-type – their composition and economic potential, how scientists identify these space rocks, the major players driving the asteroid mining race, and the latest developments in this emerging frontier. We’ll also examine expert projections on when asteroid mining might become reality and what it means for our future. Not all asteroids are created equal. Astronomers classify asteroids by their composition and spectral properties into several types,
August 17, 2025
Inside the Race to Scout and Mine Space’s Richest Rocks
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Asteroid Gold Rush: Inside the Race to Scout and Mine Space’s Richest Rocks

When NASA opened a capsule of asteroid dust in late 2023, they found something astonishing: black grains from asteroid Bennu laden with carbon and water reuters.com. It was a cosmic treasure hinting at resources that could one day fuel rockets or be sold for enormous profit. Little wonder that visionaries are eyeing asteroids as the next gold rush. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson even predicted “the first trillionaire there will ever be is the person who exploits the natural resources on asteroids” vanderbilt.edu. What sounds like science fiction is fast becoming reality, with space agencies and startups racing to reconnoiter asteroids – scouting their composition, testing mining technology, and paving the way for extraterrestrial resource extraction. This report dives into the
August 16, 2025
Deep-Water Wind - Floating Turbines
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Deep-Water Wind Revolution: Floating Turbines Set to Transform Offshore Energy

Floating wind turbines are offshore wind generators mounted on buoyant platforms that are tethered to the seabed with mooring lines, instead of being rigidly fixed into the ocean floor. In traditional offshore wind farms, turbines sit on fixed-bottom foundations driven into relatively shallow seabeds windexchange.energy.gov. By contrast, floating turbines have a buoyant base that allows deployment in much deeper waters where fixed foundations aren’t feasible windexchange.energy.gov. The turbine components above water are largely the same as those on fixed units rabobank.com, but the key difference lies in the substructure: a floating platform plus an anchoring system that keeps it stable and in place rabobank.com. Multiple heavy-duty mooring cables hold the floating foundation so the turbine stays upright and can safely
August 16, 2025
Digital DNA - A New Era of Secure and Transparent Supply Chains
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Digital DNA: A New Era of Secure and Transparent Supply Chains

Global supply chains have become incredibly complex – and increasingly vulnerable. Recent high-profile breaches and counterfeit scandals have shown that a weak link in one supplier can compromise an entire network. In fact, supply chain attacks are rising by hundreds of percent each year siliconangle.com, and a Dell survey found only 40% of organizations demand security details from their suppliers, leaving dangerous gaps siliconangle.com. To bolster trust and resilience, companies worldwide are turning to “Digital DNA” – a new approach to supply chain security and transparency. Much like genetic DNA uniquely identifies a person, Digital DNA refers to the unique digital fingerprint or record of a product throughout its lifecycle. By capturing everything about an item – from its origin
August 16, 2025
Aluminum and Sulfur Batteries
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Move Over Lithium: Aluminum and Sulfur Batteries Are Sparking an Energy Revolution

Imagine batteries made from common aluminum foil and sulfur powder, powering everything from homes to electric cars at a fraction of today’s costs. Aluminum- and sulfur-based batteries are emerging as promising alternatives to traditional lithium-ion cells, offering the tantalizing potential of cheaper, safer, and more sustainable energy storage. In this report, we delve into what these aluminum and sulfur batteries are, how they work, the different types under development, their advantages and challenges, the key players driving breakthroughs, and how recent innovations in 2024–2025 could transform clean energy and electric vehicles. Aluminum batteries and sulfur batteries represent two broad families of next-generation rechargeable battery technologies that aim to address the limitations of today’s lithium-ion batteries. Simply put, they use aluminum
August 16, 2025
Perovskite - flexible solar cells
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Perovskite Solar ‘Stickers’ Are Almost Here: How Flexible Laminates Could Turn Walls, Cars & Roofs into Power Plants

Ultra‑thin perovskite photovoltaics laminated onto flexible films are moving from lab to market. Japan is investing big and early products and pilots are appearing. The promise: lightweight power on curved or weight‑limited surfaces with fast, low‑temperature, roll‑to‑roll manufacturing. The hurdles: durability, safe lead management, and bankable certification. Financial Times, ScienceDirect, Nature Perovskites are a class of crystal materials that convert light to electricity very efficiently and can be processed from inks at low temperatures. Flexible laminates package those cells between polymer barrier films and adhesives, creating thin, light solar sheets that can bend and conform to surfaces like façades, membranes, vehicles, tents, and IoT devices. ScienceDirect, American Chemical Society Publications
August 15, 2025
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