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French accounting software startup Pennylane raised $204M led by TCV, a source says at a ~$4.25B valuation, with participation from Blackstone, DST, and others (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
2026-01-20 11:33 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: ByteDance boosted its cloud offering via more sales hires and lower prices; IDC: it had 13% of China's AI cloud market in H1 2025, behind Alibaba's 23% (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
2026-01-20 07:33 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Pune-based supply chain robotics startup Unbox Robotics raised a $28M Series B in a mix of primary and secondary capital, after raising $15M in earlier rounds (Anjali Jain/Inc42 Media)
2026-01-20 07:33 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The UK Treasury committee says the government and Bank of England's "wait-and-see approach" to AI risks in the financial sector poses "serious harm" to the UK (Kalyeena Makortoff/The Guardian)
2026-01-20 01:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan on the use of AI in game development, the gaming community's pushback against AI, partnering with Grok, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
2026-01-19 22:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The UK launches a consultation on whether to ban under-16s from using social media, alongside restrictions on addictive app features like infinite scrolling (Kiran Stacey/The Guardian)
2026-01-19 23:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Cursor's recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to build a web browser, writing 1M+ lines of code across 1,000 files (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
2026-01-20 00:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Anthropic's Claude Cowork launch has revived fears about disruption that weighed on SaaS stocks in 2025; Morgan Stanley SaaS index is down 15% so far in 2026 (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
2026-01-19 21:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI executive Chris Lehane says the company is "on track" to unveil its first device in the "latter part" of 2026; reports suggest it will be a wearable (Axios)
2026-01-19 15:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The UK Gambling Commission says Meta is letting illegal gambling sites advertise on Facebook and Instagram, calling its ad library a "window into criminality" (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)
2026-01-19 17:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Taiwanese media: Asus Chair Jonney Shih says the company won't release any new smartphones in 2026, signaling the brand's exit from the Android market (James Peckham/PCMag)
2026-01-19 15:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Seoul-based AI chip designer FuriosaAI seeks to raise a $300M-$500M Series D to fund mass production of its 2nd-gen RNGD chip and is eyeing a 2027 IPO (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
2026-01-19 17:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The UK government will take a £25M stake in Octopus Energy's tech spin-off Kraken, last valued at $8.65B, in an effort to encourage Kraken to list in London (Financial Times)
2026-01-19 19:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: internal Google data shows Gemini API calls surged from 35B in March 2025 to 85B in August 2025; Google says Gemini Enterprise hit 8M subscribers (Erin Woo/The Information)
2026-01-19 14:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
a16z's Matt Bornstein and others talk adding $1.7B to its $1.25B AI infrastructure fund, focusing on early rounds; Ben Horowitz calls it "one of the best funds" (Bloomberg)
2026-01-19 13:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
NYSE plans to use its tech that matches buyers and sellers, alongside blockchain networks, to facilitate real-time trading of tokenized securities in 2026 (Katherine Doherty/Bloomberg)
2026-01-19 14:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Microsoft is preparing to launch a session-based ad-supported Xbox Cloud Gaming tier in 2026; users note Xbox Cloud Gaming now references "ad support" (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
2026-01-19 13:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Elon Musk donates $10M to boost pro-Trump Senate candidate Nate Morris, seeking to replace Mitch McConnell, in Musk's largest-ever Senate donation (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)
2026-01-19 12:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The IMF says the "surprisingly resilient" global economy is at risk of a sharp AI boom reversal, but the "levels of market frothiness" are below the dotcom bust (Financial Times)
2026-01-19 12:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Bitcoin fell 3.6% to under $92K, ether fell ~5%, and solana fell 8.6%, wiping ~$100B from crypto's total value, after Trump proposed new 10% European tariffs (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)
2026-01-19 12:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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