🪐 Samsung Galaxy snippets: Samsung kicked off its Unpacked event today, where it revealed a new line of Galaxy phones: the S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra. Check out everything that you may have missed. Read more
🧟 Zombie reactor: The AI data center boom has South Carolina-owned utility company Santee Cooper looking to resume construction on a power plant that has sat unfinished for eight years. The project had originally been paused for going over budget and contributed to the bankruptcy of Westinghouse. Read more
🎙️ VC's year ahead: TechCrunch's Julie Bort spoke with Crunchbase News' data editor Gené Teare for today's episode of Equity, digging into AI mania, how hard it is to raise a Series A round right now, and what's ahead for the startup market in 2025. Listen here
⏰ Time for a new TikTok: While the fate of TikTok remains undecided, and Meta's Reels is scrambling to capitalize on the confusion, TikTok competitor startups are rising. Favorited is one of them, and it just secured $1.3 million from VCs, as well as from a16z's Speedrun accelerator program. Read more
🫤 Speaking of TikTok: President Donald Trump said today that he would be open to either Elon Musk or Oracle chairman Larry Ellison buying TikTok in a joint venture with the U.S. government. I can't think of anyone better to own an app beloved by Gen Z! Read more
💰 People are paying for AI: New data found that U.S. consumers spent more than $1 billion on AI via apps in 2024, an increase of 200% over 2023. The category could crack the top 10 this year. Read more
