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Galaxy Digital plans to launch a hedge fund in Q1 2026 investing up to 30% in crypto tokens and the rest in financial stocks; sources say it has raised $100M (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
2026-01-21 07:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
As Taiwanese chipmakers push localization to secure supply chains, suppliers to the steel, plastics, and display industries are moving into Taiwan's chip sector (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
2026-01-21 09:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A programmer estimates his typical day of coding with Claude Code is equivalent to running the dishwasher an extra time, much more energy than a "median query" (Simon P. Couch)
2026-01-21 07:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Bengaluru-based Amagi, an ad tools provider for broadcast and streaming TV, fell below its listing price in its India market debut after raising $196M in an IPO (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
2026-01-21 07:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Signal's Meredith Whittaker says deeper integration of AI agents into devices is "perilous" for encryption, since agents need access to lots of data across apps (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg)
2026-01-21 05:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Apple wins dismissal of parts of a class action alleging it violated CA privacy law by collecting user data from its apps despite users believing they opted out (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)
2026-01-21 05:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The Gates Foundation and OpenAI plan to invest $50M to use AI to ease the impact of chronic staff shortages in 1,000 primary health clinics in Africa by 2028 (Financial Times)
2026-01-21 06:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Payments using facial recognition are growing in South Korea as the tech improves; South Korean fintech app Toss has scaled its "Facepay" service to 1M+ users (Nami Matsuura/Nikkei Asia)
2026-01-21 06:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Thoma Bravo co-founder Orlando Bravo says the slump in software company valuations over threat of AI-driven disruption is creating a "huge buying opportunity" (Financial Times)
2026-01-21 06:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI says it will cover the costs of developing energy-related infrastructure at its Stargate data centers to ensure they don't raise consumers' utility bills (Bloomberg)
2026-01-21 04:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Multiple Apple services, including Apple TV, the App Store, and iCloud have been experiencing outages since 6:48 PM ET, according to Apple's system status page (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
2026-01-21 03:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
G42 CEO Peng Xiao says AI chip shipments from Nvidia, AMD, and Cerebras are set to arrive in the UAE within the next few months, as the UAE builds a 200MW hub (Bloomberg)
2026-01-21 01:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
China's Cyberspace Administration requires firms to file their AI tools in a public algorithm registry, creating a detailed map of the country's AI ecosystem (Yi-Ling Liu/Wired)
2026-01-21 05:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Analysis: the Trump family has generated about $1.4B from crypto projects since Trump's inauguration a year ago, making up about one-fifth of their fortune (Bloomberg)
2026-01-21 02:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Barret Zoph says Thinking Machines Lab fired him only after learning he was leaving, and at no time did the company cite his performance or unethical conduct (Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-21 04:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Applied Compute, which lets companies customize models with their own data, is in talks to raise funding at a $1.3B valuation, up from $500M in October (The Information)
2026-01-21 00:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
X says it has open sourced its "core recommendation system" on GitHub and that the system "ranks everything using a Grok-based transformer model" (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
2026-01-21 00:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The EC introduces draft revisions to the EU's Cybersecurity Act to phase out equipment from high-risk suppliers in critical sectors, a move criticized by Huawei (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
2026-01-21 00:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Drone delivery startup Zipline raised $600M+, boosting its valuation to $7.6B, and says it has now completed 2M+ commercial deliveries of 20M different items (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
2026-01-21 00:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Demis Hassabis says there aren't "any plans" to put ads in Gemini and, in response to OpenAI testing ads, says "maybe they feel they need to make more revenue" (Alex Heath/Sources)
2026-01-20 23:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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