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Mews, which makes AI-powered hospitality management software, raised a $300M Series D led by EQT Growth at a $2.5B valuation (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
2026-01-23 16:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Cubby, which makes software for self-storage operators, raised a $63M Series A led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
2026-01-23 16:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Ledger is working with banks on a US IPO that could value the French cryptocurrency company at more than $4B; it was valued at $1.5B in 2023 (Financial Times)
2026-01-23 15:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Booz Allen Hamilton commits $400M to a16z's newest set of funds, for which a16z raised $15B+ in January; this is Booz Allen's first LP stake in any VC fund (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
2026-01-23 14:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
R&D firm Merkle, which sold Farcaster, says it plans to repay VCs the $180M they invested in the social media project, and says Farcaster is not shutting down (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)
2026-01-23 14:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: China has told Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance that they can prepare orders for Nvidia's H200 chips, suggesting Beijing is close to approving imports (Bloomberg)
2026-01-23 13:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How Chinese tech companies navigate geopolitical tensions: TikTok and Manus adopted a "China shedding" strategy, while Shein and Meituan seek non-US growth (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)
2026-01-23 12:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google invests an undisclosed sum in Sakana AI, valued at $2.6B in November 2025, to boost Gemini's presence in Japan; Sakana AI gains access to Google's LLMs (Min-Jeong Lee/Bloomberg)
2026-01-23 11:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: UBS plans to make cryptocurrency investing available for some private banking clients in Switzerland, starting with bitcoin and ether (Bloomberg)
2026-01-23 12:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Malaysia lifted its temporary ban on Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot after xAI added safety measures; Grok remains subject to continuous monitoring by authorities (Anisah Shukry/Bloomberg)
2026-01-23 11:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Anthropic details how it had to redesign its take-home test for hiring performance engineers as Claude kept defeating it, and releases the original test (Anthropic)
2026-01-23 09:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are testing AI models by having them play Pokémon Blue on Twitch to track a model's ability to reason and make decisions (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-23 07:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Revolut scrapped plans to buy a US lender and will instead apply for a US banking license, betting Trump's lighter touch on approvals will be faster (Financial Times)
2026-01-23 07:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Bengaluru-based digital payments startup Juspay raised $50M, in a mix of primary and secondary investments, from WestBridge Capital at a $1.2B valuation (The Economic Times)
2026-01-23 07:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sam Altman says OpenAI added more than $1B in annual recurring revenue in the past month "just from our API business" (Lee Chong Ming/Business Insider)
2026-01-23 06:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US' TikTok deal is a win for ByteDance: it will keep and license the algorithm instead of selling it, and continue to run TikTok's commercial activities (Jim Secreto/Financial Times)
2026-01-23 06:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: China's review of Meta's Manus deal was spurred by what officials called "selling young crops", a concern over cross-border transfer of emerging tech (Financial Times)
2026-01-23 06:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Intel says it struggled to satisfy demand for its server chips used in AI data centers, and forecasts Q1 2026 revenue and profit below market estimates (Reuters)
2026-01-23 06:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Fei-Fei Li's World Labs is in discussions with investors to raise hundreds of millions at a valuation of $5B; World Labs was last valued at $1B in 2024 (Bloomberg)
2026-01-23 04:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters expects Netflix to win WBD, says Paramount's bid "doesn't pass the sniff test" and a "very small" number of WBD holders backed it (Financial Times)
2026-01-23 05:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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