Microsoft has closed its IoT & AI Insider Lab in Shanghai, reflecting a broader pullback from China amid geopolitical tensions; the lab was opened in May 2019 (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)

Wency Chen / South China Morning Post:
Microsoft has closed its IoT & AI Insider Lab in Shanghai, reflecting a broader pullback from China amid geopolitical tensions; the lab was opened in May 2019  —  The IoT & AI Insider Lab in the Zhangjiang hi-tech zone likely closed in January or February, nearby workers say

Sources: TSMC’s recent $100B US investment pledge was merely an estimated price tag for existing long-term plans and reflects an intention rather than a promise (Kathrin Hille/Financial Times)

Kathrin Hille / Financial Times:
Sources: TSMC’s recent $100B US investment pledge was merely an estimated price tag for existing long-term plans and reflects an intention rather than a promise  —  Taiwanese chipmaker has said little about its plans and extent of reprieve from Washington’s pressure is unclear

Sources: CaaStle, a clothing inventory monetization platform that had raised $530M+, is almost broke and is accusing its founder of financial misconduct (Dan Primack/Axios)

Dan Primack / Axios:
Sources: CaaStle, a clothing inventory monetization platform that had raised $530M+, is almost broke and is accusing its founder of financial misconduct  —  Fashion technology company CaaStle is almost broke and is accusing its founder and former CEO Christine Hunsicker of financial misconduct, Axios has learned from multiple sources.

LightSource, whose software helps companies manage their procurement process, costs, and vendor relationships, raised $33M led by Bain Capital and Lightspeed (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
LightSource, whose software helps companies manage their procurement process, costs, and vendor relationships, raised $33M led by Bain Capital and Lightspeed  —  With President Donald Trump set to impose sweeping tariffs on a wide swath of U.S. trading partners this week, corporate America is awash in uncertainty.

Microsoft expands Copilot+ PC features like Live Captions and Cocreator, previously exclusive to models with Snapdragon chips, to models with AMD or Intel chips (Sean Endicott/Windows Central)

Sean Endicott / Windows Central:
Microsoft expands Copilot+ PC features like Live Captions and Cocreator, previously exclusive to models with Snapdragon chips, to models with AMD or Intel chips  —  Staggered feature releases make me ask “what even is a Copilot+ PC?”  —  Microsoft has a big update for Copilot+ PCs powered by Intel or AMD processors.

Source: SoftBank will invest an initial $7.5B in OpenAI’s $40B round, plus $22.5B by 2025’s end; other backers include Microsoft, Coatue, Altimeter, and Thrive (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
Source: SoftBank will invest an initial $7.5B in OpenAI’s $40B round, plus $22.5B by 2025’s end; other backers include Microsoft, Coatue, Altimeter, and Thrive  —  OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT, said it has finalized a funding round that will bring in $40 billion …