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Many AI founders now find it necessary to raise at valuations requiring absolute domination of the field; Brex, once valued at $12B, shows the downsides of this (Jason Lemkin/SaaStr)
2026-01-25 22:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Apple, What Have You Done?
2026-01-26 09:57 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint
2026-01-25 15:54 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
A profile of Mercor, which pays about $2M daily to ~30K experts training AI models at $95/hour on average, with roles like radiologists earning up to $375/hour (Bethan Staton/Financial Times)
2026-01-25 21:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with David Liu, CEO of PlusAI, which is slated to go public next month, on the ongoing commercial trial of its autonomous truck driving software, and more (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)
2026-01-25 12:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta's decision to deprioritize VR in favor of AI and internet-connected glasses has chilled the VR industry, leading to concerns about its future (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
2026-01-25 17:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Domain Name Stat: the number of .ai domains has surpassed 1M; data suggests Anguilla, the UK territory managing the domain, made ~$70M in fees in the past year (Sherwood News)
2026-01-25 07:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A deep dive into Apple's AI strategy reset, as it prepares to announce a Gemini-powered personalized Siri next month and a reimagined chatbot-like Siri at WWDC (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
2026-01-25 15:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Power prices surge in Virginia, home to the world's largest data center hub; record demand is expected during the winter storm, partly due to data center needs (Tim McLaughlin/Reuters)
2026-01-25 18:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
You can just port things to Cloudflare Workers
2026-01-26 06:56 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
HSBC: JioHotstar had 300M paying subscribers in India in 2025, compared with 65M for Amazon Prime Video and 20M for Netflix; ~24% of OTT users pay for content (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
2026-01-25 06:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Analysis: scientists who appeared to use LLMs posted 33% more papers on arXiv than those who didn't, as concerns grow over AI slop in scientific publishing (Ross Andersen/The Atlantic)
2026-01-25 05:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Clawdbot, an open-source personal AI agent that runs locally on the user's computer and integrates with multiple LLMs and messaging services (Federico Viticci/MacStories)
2026-01-25 04:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
What to know about Netflix’s landmark acquisition of Warner Bros
2026-01-23 20:48 - https://techcrunch.com/feed/
 
Delta single handle ball faucets (1963)
2026-01-26 03:56 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds
2026-01-25 20:55 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
EquipmentShare, which runs a jobsite tech and equipment rental platform for the construction industry, raised $747.3M in its IPO, valuing the company at $7.16B (Reuters)
2026-01-25 02:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse
2026-01-25 21:55 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Show HN: NukeCast – If it happened today, where would the fallout go
2026-01-26 06:56 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Turbopack: Building faster by building less
2026-01-26 01:56 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
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