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xAI has raised another monster round. Polymarket has yet another controversy around whether a bet should pay out or not. Could the AI datacenter buildout actually disrupt politics in local America? And a sort of roundup of what’s been at CES so far.
Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $20 Billion (NYTimes)
Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would ‘invade’ Venezuela (FT)
Americans Hate AI. Which Party Will Benefit? (Politico)
The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape (Washington Post)
Three Reasons We Can’t Get Enough of LinkedIn (WSJ)
What surprised us the most at CES 2026 (The Verge)
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