📈 Data to start your week

Chinese chips rise, TikTok goes dark, VC returns & peak whiskey

Hello from Davos,

Here’s your essential Monday round-up of data driving conversation this week — all in 250 words or less.

I’ll be sending regular updates throughout the week straight from the heart of Davos, so stay tuned!

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1. Bitcoin’s hit a $109,241 high ahead of Trump’s inauguration. 

2. On January 19 at 03:30 UTC, TikTok’s US traffic dropped to nearly zero as CDNs stopped deliveries, while usage outside the United States continued largely unchanged.

3. Goldman CEO says that AI has automated 95% of the work of drafting an IPO prospectus document which would’ve taken a six-person team two weeks to complete. 

4. Moderna and Pfizer have erased their pandemic gains, trading around $35 and $27, respectively. Moderna is betting on cancer prevention vaccines next.