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Layoffs hit Vimeo for the second time since September 2025, when it laid off 10% of its workforce; Bending Spoons acquired Vimeo for around $1.38B in November (Business Insider)
2026-01-21 23:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Marketing tech startup Applecart raised $100M in a minority funding round led by Blackstone's growth equity business, a source says at a ~$700M valuation (Myles Miller/Bloomberg)
2026-01-22 01:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
X unveils Bluesky-like "Starterpacks" to help users find accounts that match their interests, curated by X and rolling out in the coming weeks (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2026-01-22 00:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Unsealed docs: Spotify and labels sued Anna's Archive over plans to release scraped Spotify data; a US court grants a temporary order taking down some domains (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
2026-01-21 22:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Memo: Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI last week, will lead OpenAI's enterprise push, as part of a broader reorganization (The Information)
2026-01-21 22:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Sam Altman has been meeting with top investors in the Middle East, looking to raise at least $50B for OpenAI at a valuation of about $750B to $830B (Bloomberg)
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Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is seeking to raise $300M to $500M after talks to sell the company to Intel for about $1.6B, including debt, stalled (Bloomberg)
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Blue Origin unveils TeraWave, a satellite communications network for enterprise, data center, and government customers, and plans to begin deployment in Q4 2027 (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
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Neynar, a startup focused on decentralized social media infrastructure, is acquiring Ethereum-based social media project Farcaster from R&D firm Merkle (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
2026-01-21 21:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Apple is developing an AirTag-sized AI wearable pin with cameras, a speaker, microphones, and wireless charging that could be released as early as 2027 (The Information)
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A Canadian federal court overturned a 2024 order that would have shuttered TikTok Canada's business operations over national security concerns (Mickey Djuric/Politico)
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Sources: Apple plans to revamp Siri this fall in iOS 27 and macOS 27 by turning it into the company's first AI chatbot, replacing the current Siri interface (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate hit $9B+ at the end of 2025, up from $4B in July 2025; Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Menlo are set to join its new funding round (Bloomberg)
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ElevenLabs launches an album of original tracks made by artists like Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel in "collaboration" with its Eleven Music AI model (Todd Spangler/Variety)
2026-01-21 19:40 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Ubisoft cancels six games and delays others amid a restructuring into five genre-specific "creative houses"; it expects net bookings of ~€1.5B for FY 2025-2026 (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
2026-01-21 18:40 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Anthropic overhauled Claude's "Constitution" to enable the AI to generalize and apply broad principles rather than mechanically follow specific rules (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
2026-01-21 17:40 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta plans to expand ads on Threads to all users globally starting next week; Threads began testing ads in the US and Japan a year ago (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Sony launches the $230 LinkBuds Clip, open-style earbuds that sit outside the ear canal, with IPX4 water resistance and a 9 hour battery life, available now (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
2026-01-21 16:40 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AheadComputing, which develops a breakthrough RISC-V CPU architecture for AI, raised a $30M Seed2 led by Eclipse, Toyota, and Cambium, for $53M in total funding (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
2026-01-21 15:40 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Upscale AI, which is building AI networking infrastructure, raised $200M led by Tiger, Premji Invest, and Xora Innovation at a $1B valuation to take on Cisco (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
2026-01-21 14:40 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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