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Source: Lambda, which rents access to AI chips and is backed by Nvidia, is in talks to raise $350M+ led by Mubadala Capital, ahead of an IPO planned for H2 2026 (The Information)
2026-01-09 03:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
ICE Is What Happens When America Refuses to Learn from Black History
2026-01-09 14:51 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Warner Bros. sticks with Netflix merger, calls Paramount’s $108B bid “illusory”
2026-01-07 20:45 - https://arstechnica.com/feed/
 
AI starts autonomously writing prescription refills in Utah
2026-01-07 22:45 - https://arstechnica.com/feed/
 
Seattle-based Spangle AI, which makes AI tools for online retailers to build custom storefronts, raised a $15M Series A led by NewRoad at a $100M valuation (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
2026-01-09 02:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Why this VC thinks 2026 will be ‘the year of the consumer’
2026-01-08 14:47 - https://techcrunch.com/feed/
 
Iran vows regime will "not back down" as web blackout continues
2026-01-09 13:51 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It's 1973
2026-01-08 19:48 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Docs: xAI had a net loss of $1.46B in Q3, up from $1B in Q1; sources: xAI told investors it plans to build AI that will eventually power Optimus humanoid robots (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
2026-01-09 01:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Hands on with a prototype of Clicks’ Communicator, a new BlackBerry-like smartphone
2026-01-08 14:47 - https://techcrunch.com/feed/
 
MCP Is a Fad
2026-01-09 10:50 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time
2026-01-08 20:49 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Nvidia has hired Google Cloud VP of Marketing Alison Wagonfeld to be Nvidia's first CMO; source: Wagonfeld will report to CEO Jensen Huang (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-09 01:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filings: Meta has hired Bill McGinley, a veteran Republican operative and the former top lawyer for DOGE, as a lobbyist (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
2026-01-08 23:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Strava, the fitness app founded in 2009, filed confidentially for an IPO; its revenue grew more than 50% YoY in 2025 but was still less than $500M (The Information)
2026-01-08 21:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Mississippi Gov. Reeves says xAI is set to spend $20B+ to build its MACROHARDRR data center in Southaven, xAI's third data center in the greater Memphis area (Sophie Bates/Associated Press)
2026-01-09 00:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; the deal was previously reported to be valued at around $1B (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
2026-01-08 22:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks to raise about $2B, after raising more than $1.5B across a pair of rounds in September and October (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
2026-01-08 21:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Logistics Is Dying; Or – Dude, Where's My Mail?
2026-01-09 03:50 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Grok turns off image generator for most after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
2026-01-09 09:50 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
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