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Under new licensing requirements, the US Commerce Department says exports of Nvidia's H200 chips and AMD's MI325X chips will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis (Bloomberg)
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Google announces MedGemma 1.5 with improved medical imaging support, and MedASR for medical dictation, both available on Hugging Face and Vertex AI (Google Research)
2026-01-13 23:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Liftoff, which helps companies place ads in mobile apps, files for a US IPO, reporting a $25.6M net loss on $491.6M in revenue in the nine months up to Sept. 30 (Natalia Kniazhevich/Bloomberg)
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Holistic Resilience, a US group that helps Iranians secure internet access, says SpaceX has waived Starlink subscription fees amid a days-long internet blackout (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg)
2026-01-14 02:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Defense Unicorns, which provides open-source air-gapped software to the US DOD, raised a $136M Series B led by Bain Capital, bringing its valuation to $1B+ (Aishwarya Jain/Reuters)
2026-01-14 01:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras is in talks to raise ~$1B, valuing the startup at $22B before the new investment, up from an $8.1B valuation in September 2025 (The Information)
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Filing: the US greenlights Nvidia H200 exports to China; the chips will be tested by a 3rd-party lab to confirm their AI capabilities before they can be shipped (Reuters)
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President Trump renominates Sean Plankey to be the next director of CISA, which has been running without a full-time chief since Trump's return to office (John Sakellariadis/Politico)
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As part of its Reality Labs cuts, Meta is closing three VR gaming studios and will stop developing new content and features for its VR fitness app Supernatural (Jay Peters/The Verge)
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AI will compromise your cybersecurity posture
2026-01-14 05:08 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Show HN: Axis – A systems programming language with Python syntax
2026-01-14 04:08 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Polygon buys crypto startups Coinme and Sequence for a total of $250M+, as it seeks to bolster its stablecoin and fintech infrastructure and compete with Stripe (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
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Sources: Amazon is seeking supplier discounts, from low single digits to 30%, as it moves to reverse concessions made to limit the shock of Trump's tariffs (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
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A deep dive on agent sandboxes
2026-01-13 05:03 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Show HN: AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor
2026-01-14 00:07 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Sources: AI chip startup Etched raised $500M led by Stripes at a $5B valuation, bringing its total funding to almost $1B (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
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US DOJ releases partially redacted documents on Operation Absolute Resolve
2026-01-14 03:08 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Minor says ICE took his iPhone, later found in used-electronics vending machine
2026-01-14 03:08 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Is it a joke?
2026-01-14 00:07 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well
2026-01-13 23:07 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
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