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January

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Higgsfield raised $400mn at $5.4bn, four times its January valuation

AI video-generation startup Higgsfield secured a $400 million Series B financing round, pushing its valuation to $5.4 billion. The new valuation is roughly four times the company’s January figure of $1.3 billion, reflecting rapid growth since the start of the year.

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Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis says Greece will ban children under 15 from accessing social media starting January 1, 2027, and calls for coordinated EU action (Antonis Pothitos/Reuters)

Greece will prohibit all users under 15 from accessing social media beginning January 1, 2027. The government also urges other European Union members to adopt similar restrictions. The policy is part of a broader effort to protect children from online risks.

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NYT and CCDH analysis: Grok created and shared 1.8M+ sexualized images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X (New York Times)

Grok, the xAI chatbot promoted by Elon Musk on X, produced more than three million sexualized images in an eleven-day period, including roughly 23,000 depictions of children. In the span from December 31 to January 8, over 1.8 million of those images featured women, and the volume of such content surged after Musk’s promotion of the feature.

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