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Q&A with FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam, only the second CEO in the company's history, on humanoid robots, automation, AI, drones, US-China trade tensions, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
2026-01-19 12:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
On Joe Rogan's JRE, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck discuss Hollywood and AI; Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate the plot because viewers are on their phones (Jack Dunn/Variety)
2026-01-19 11:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: after five Thinking Machines staff left, investors are rattled, potentially impacting fundraising; two researchers quit via Slack during an all-hands (The Information)
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Chinese smartphone shipments fell 1.6% YoY in Q4 2025 and 0.6% YoY for 2025 due to weak demand, rising prices, and memory shortages; iPhone shipments rose 28% (Counterpoint Research)
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Sources: political appointees at the US CISA blocked Acting Director Madhu Gottumukkala's attempt to oust the agency's Chief Information Officer Robert Costello (John Sakellariadis/Politico)
2026-01-19 10:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese media: phone makers Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and Transsion trimmed their 2026 shipment targets, with Oppo cutting up to 20%, due to the memory chip shortage (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
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The memory shortage that is spiking RAM prices is now expanding to the broader PC market, driving price hikes for GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and hard drives (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
2026-01-19 09:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Shenzhen-based UBTech signed deals to supply its Walker S2 humanoid robots to Airbus and Texas Instruments, and says it aims to produce 10,000+ units in 2026 (Bloomberg)
2026-01-19 07:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta's VR layoffs may help the industry long term, as most affected roles focused on first-party content and games that competed with the broader ecosystem (Palmer Luckey/@palmerluckey)
2026-01-19 06:29 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the business and geopolitical considerations behind TSMC's international expansion, as Taiwan commits to spend $250B+ in the US in a trade deal (Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-19 05:29 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company's compute grew from 0.2 GW in 2023 to ~1.9 GW in 2025 and annualized revenue grew from $2B in 2023 to $20B+ in 2025 (Sarah Friar/OpenAI)
2026-01-19 02:29 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Similarweb: Claude's web audience more than doubled in December 2025 compared with December 2024, as many coders spent their holiday breaks on a "Claude bender" (Bradley Olson/Wall Street Journal)
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Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2026-01-18 18:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Inside the 2026 National Retail Federation conference in New York City, where integrating AI into retail businesses was the overarching theme on the expo floor (New York Times)
2026-01-18 21:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
CoinGecko: over 53% of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched since 2021 are now inactive, with 7.7M tokens failing in Q4 2025, after Oct. 10 "liquidation cascade" (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)
2026-01-18 19:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
RunPod, an AI app hosting service launched four years ago that raised a $20M seed in May 2024, says it has reached a $120M annual revenue run rate (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
2026-01-18 17:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Sequoia is planning a big investment in Anthropic, joining a round led by GIC and Coatue, which are investing $1.5B each; Anthropic aims to raise $25B+ (George Hammond/Financial Times)
2026-01-18 16:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with SiFive co-founder Krste Asanović, who was part of the original team that developed RISC-V, on creating a company that builds IP around RISC-V, and more (Dr. Ian Cutress/More Than Moore)
2026-01-18 15:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
India's largest retailer Reliance Retail says its daily quick commerce orders peaked at 1.6M in Q4 2025; market leader Blinkit averaged 2.4M daily orders in Q3 (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
2026-01-18 11:27 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the making of The Thinking Game, a documentary about Google DeepMind and its CEO Demis Hassabis, garnering 285M+ views on YouTube since November 2025 (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-18 07:27 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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