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OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
2026-01-18 07:27 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Atlantic Council: China-led cross-border digital currency platform mBridge, still a prototype, has processed 4,000+ cross-border transactions totaling $55.5B (Marc Jones/Reuters)
2026-01-18 07:27 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Listen Labs, whose AI tools help Microsoft and others run customer research and interviews, raised a $69M Series B led by Ribbit Capital at a $500M+ valuation (Iain Martin/Forbes)
2026-01-18 06:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Mannheim, Germany-based osapiens, a provider of ESG compliance software, raised a $100M Series C solely from Decarbonization Partners at a $1.1B valuation (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
2026-01-18 06:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
David Sacks and top MAGA influencers are publicly opposing House Foreign Affairs Chair Brian Mast's proposed AI OVERWATCH Act to regulate AI chip sales to China (Axios)
2026-01-18 06:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren't enough skilled workers in the US, such as electricians, to keep up (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
2026-01-18 01:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Michael Saylor's Strategy, known for buying bitcoin via creative financing strategies, as its stock trades way below its peak amid the crypto downturn (Rob Copeland/New York Times)
2026-01-17 22:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY and a single-year record; AI artist Xania Monet had 125M on-demand audio streams (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)
2026-01-17 20:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
ZachXBT: a crypto user lost $282M+ in BTC and LTC in a hardware wallet social engineering scam; XMR jumped as the attacker began converting the funds to Monero (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
2026-01-17 18:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Micron signs a letter of intent to buy a fabrication site in Taiwan from Powerchip for $1.8B to expand DRAM memory chip production, expected to close in Q2 2026 (Valentine Baldassari/Bloomberg)
2026-01-17 16:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Beaconcha.in: a record ~36M ethereum tokens, or 30% of ethereum's total supply, worth ~$119B, are now staked, as institutional investors grow their share (Sage D. Young/Sherwood News)
2026-01-17 15:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: following investor backlash, Monzo to give outgoing CEO TS Anil an expanded role after he steps down in February; he is likely to retain a board seat (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)
2026-01-17 12:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
TrendForce: data centers will use 70%+ of the high-end memory chips all manufacturers will produce in 2026, with little new manufacturing capacity until 2027 (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-17 08:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filing: Elon Musk seeks $79B-$134B damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging OpenAI defrauded him by abandoning nonprofit roots and partnering with Microsoft (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)
2026-01-17 07:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Adobe's stock has slumped more than 45% since the end of 2023, reflecting analyst concerns over the threat of AI-driven disruption to SaaS companies (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
2026-01-17 07:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Appfigures: Sora 2 had ~6M iOS downloads as of December 2025; the Android version, available since early November 2025, had ~3.1M, as growth begins to slow (Sherwood News)
2026-01-17 07:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: the EU's cybersecurity proposal, to be presented on Jan. 20, is expected to phase out vendors such as Huawei from the bloc's critical infrastructure (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
2026-01-17 07:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Luxembourg-based Hydrosat, which builds AI-based thermal infrared satellite tech to provide data for water resource management and more, raised a $60M Series B (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)
2026-01-17 06:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Anthropic appoints Irina Ghose, a former Microsoft India managing director, to lead its business in India, which has the second-largest user base for Claude (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
2026-01-17 06:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Micron breaks ground in New York for its memory manufacturing complex, announced in 2022, that it says will be the largest semiconductor facility in the US (Glenn Coin/Syracuse Post-Standard)
2026-01-17 03:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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