Good evening!

Always a good idea to double check your stock tickers before investing in something.

Here are the 7 things you missed today:

1. 💰 Google is Investing Another $1Bn+ in Anthropic

Google has agreed to a new investment of over $1 billion in generative AI startup Anthropic. The new round of funding adds onto Google’s past investments of $2 billion in Anthropic and 10% ownership stake in the Claude chatbot startup, as well as a large cloud contract between the two companies. (CNBC)

2. 💩 My Disgustingly Simple 2025 Marketing Hack!

The newest episode of The @MarketingMax Show dives deep into the marketing strategy I'm going all in on for my businesses and my clients' this year. We'll walk through:

1. My secret ads set up to grow your company's email list

2. How to convert new email subscribers into customers

3. The specific reason why any company that doesn't use this lead-generation strategy is gonna lose to competitors in 2025

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3. 👀 TikTok’s Parent Company is in Active Deal Discussions

Well, that would be something. According to General Atlantic CEO Bill Ford, a ByteDance (TikTok’s parent company) board member, at Davos, a deal to save the app from disappearing in the US will be done “as soon as maybe the end of the week” and is “in everyone’s interest” to keep the app active. Stay tuned. (CNN)

5. ☁️ Microsoft is No Longer OpenAI’s Exclusive Cloud Provider

The days of Microsoft being the exclusive provider of data center infrastructure for OpenAI to train and run its AI models are over. Microsoft has signed a new agreement with OpenAI that give it “right of first refusal” on new OpenAI cloud computing capacity. (TechCrunch)

6. 🤦 People are Buying the Wrong Stargate Stock

Today, the Stargate Project was announced – a US government-led half-a-trillion-dollar AI infrastructure plan alongside OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and Abu Dhabi-based AI investor MGX. Here’s the problem: the stock ticker ‘MGX’ is for biotech company Metagenomi. The mixup likely led to Metagenomi’s 33% stock jump this morning. (Quartz)

7. 🔋 Wearables May Soon Get Powered Through Human Skin

This is such a cool use of emerging tech. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon just debuted ‘Power-Over-Skin,’ a new technology that allows for electrical currents to travel through human skin to power things like blood sugar monitors, pacemakers, and even consumer wearables like fitness trackers. (TechCrunch)

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