Enterprise tech folks seemed to take a break this week, with relatively light news, even though 2025 at large unfortunately started with literal bangs.

You can get the main news this week with the headlines below, so I won’t go into detail this time. Besides, what happened this week will pale in comparison to what is certain to be an eventful year ahead, for better or worse.

Here’s all of this week’s enterprise and emerging tech news from SiliconANGLE and beyond:

AI and data: The leather-jacket effect

If you thought your Facebook feed was full of junk already… Meta plans to flood social media with AI-generated users and content Well, after all the uproar, they didn’t last long: Meta deletes its AI-powered Facebook and Instagram profiles following criticism

The ‘leather-jacket effect’: How the pace of AI innovation enabled Nvidia to reach the valuation pinnacle

They said it in 2024: From one reporter’s notebook, memorable quotes from SiliconANGLE’s coverage

Alibaba Cloud announces aggressive LLM price cuts in bid to dominate China’s AI market

Nvidia completes $700M Run:ai acquisition following antitrust scrutiny

AI-powered mineral exploration company KoBold Metals raises $527M

Rembrand raises $23M for AI-powered product placement in videos

Apheris raises $8.25M for its healthcare-focused federated AI platform

LG debuts new Gram laptop series with onboard small language model

There’s even more AI and big data news on SiliconANGLE

Around the enterprise: UK eyes IBM’s HashiCorp bid

Seems somewhat small potatoes for antitrust action: UK’s antitrust regulator launches review of IBM’s proposed HashiCorp acquisition

Apple will pay $95M to settle privacy lawsuit over unintentional Siri activations

WWT to acquire Softchoice in $1.25B technology services deal

TikTok parent ByteDance plans to spend $7B on cloud-based GPUs this year to fuel its AI ambitions

Thomson Reuters snaps up AI-powered tax automation startup SafeSend for $600M

IBM, GlobalFoundries settle legal dispute over chip technology

Employer.com acquires troubled bookkeeping startup Bench, ending chaos for customers

Axonator launches no-code platform to help businesses create custom apps

We have more news on cloud, infrastructure and apps

Cyber beat: Treasury gets hacked

Third-party provider hack exposes US Treasury Department unclassified documents

US sanctions Chinese cybersecurity company over ties to Flax Typhoon hacking group

US proposes tougher cybersecurity rules for healthcare organizations

Location data from 800,000 Volkswagen vehicles exposed by cloud misconfiguration

More cybersecurity news here

Elsewhere in tech: Net neutrality down for the count

Appeals court ruling kills off efforts to restore FCC net neutrality rules

Trump, lawmakers and advocacy groups urge Supreme Court to pause TikTok divestment

Closing the barn door dept.: US sanctions Iranian, Russian entities over election interference efforts

Morgan Stanley’s E*TRADE reportedly considering cryptocurrency trading amid regulatory shift

Judge upholds most of California’s ban on ‘addictive feeds’ for children

Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside Trump Hotel leaves one dead, FBI investigates possible terrorism

Apple reportedly ceases Vision Pro production amid sluggish sales

Johns Hopkins and Stanford robots learn surgery by watching videos

Samsung invests $180M+ in Rainbow Robotics to become largest shareholder

Swave raises €27M to develop displays for AR glasses

Qolab raises $16M to advance practical superconducting quantum computing

VC-funded Kalshi faces backlash and CFTC scrutiny over Luigi Mangione murder case futures

And check out more news on emerging tech, blockchain and crypto and policy

Comings and goings

Nick Clegg steps down as Meta’s global policy chief, replaced with Trump-friendly Joel Kaplan

Rehan Shiekh, Microsoft’s former vice president of silicon manufacturing and engineering, has left to join Google Cloud to become one of the company’s leading silicon chip leaders (per CRN).

What’s next

Jan. 7-10, 2025: CES, Las Vegas

Jan. 14: Cyber Resiliency Summit on theCUBE

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