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Unsealed docs from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit, set for a jury trial on April 27: Sutskever's concerns about treating open-source AI as a "side show", and more (Alex Heath/Sources)
2026-01-16 18:21 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
DoorDash Chief Revenue Officer Lee Brown is departing the delivery app company after less than six months; long-term VP Shanna Prevé will become CRO (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
2026-01-16 15:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Unsealed docs from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit, set for a jury trial on April 27, show Sutskever's concerns about treating open-source AI as a "side show", more (Alex Heath/The Verge)
2026-01-16 16:21 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
ClickHouse, a Snowflake challenger that offers an OLAP database management system, raised $400M led by Dragoneer at a $15B valuation, up from $6.35B in May 2025 (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
2026-01-16 14:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Italian police searched the offices of the country's data protection agency, one of EU's most proactive regulators, as part of a corruption probe (Reuters)
2026-01-16 13:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos about the WBD bid, Trump's involvement in the deal, maintaining a 45-day theatrical window for WBD releases, and more (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
2026-01-16 12:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Cloudflare acquires AI data marketplace Human Native for an undisclosed sum, aiming to create a new system where AI developers pay creators for training content (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)
2026-01-16 12:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Italy's competition regulator opens two investigations into Microsoft's Activision Blizzard over sales practices it claims were "misleading and aggressive" (Reuters)
2026-01-16 11:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
TikTok plans to roll out a new age detection system, which analyzes profile information to predict whether a user is under 13, across Europe in the coming weeks (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)
2026-01-16 11:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of Wikipedia as it faces challenges, including attacks from Elon Musk and the far right, reduced traffic due to AI, and legal challenges in India (Darren Loucaides/Financial Times)
2026-01-16 07:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Australia's eSafety Commissioner reports social media platforms "removed access" to ~4.7M accounts under its ban for under-16s, which took effect in December (New York Times)
2026-01-16 05:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
SiFive will integrate Nvidia's NVLink Fusion infrastructure with its RISC-V processor IP platforms, allowing SiFive silicon to communicate with Nvidia GPUs (Marco Chiappetta/Forbes)
2026-01-16 05:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
California regulators unanimously voted in favor of Verizon's $10B Frontier acquisition; deliberations included Verizon committing to CA's DEI requirements (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
2026-01-16 05:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Chinese AI companies seek to rent compute in Southeast Asia and the Middle East for Nvidia Rubin access, as Zhipu and Alibaba warn of a widening US gap (Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-16 06:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers, on February 16; Quest headsets and Horizon services will not be sold to businesses as of February 20 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
2026-01-16 04:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Trump and several state governors agree to direct grid operator PJM to hold an auction for tech companies to fund new power plants due to AI demand (Bloomberg)
2026-01-16 04:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
YouTube revises policy to allow full monetization of nongraphic videos on sensitive issues including abortion, self-harm, suicide, and domestic and sexual abuse (Sam Gutelle/Tubefilter)
2026-01-16 03:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Thinking Machines lacks a clear product or business strategy and has been struggling over the last couple of months to raise a new round of financing (Alex Heath/Sources)
2026-01-16 02:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Total global VC funding to fintech startups totaled $51.8B in 2025, up 27% YoY and above pre-pandemic totals, but much lower than 2021's peak of $141.6B (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
2026-01-16 01:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Ashley St. Clair, mother of one of Elon Musk's children, sues xAI, alleging Grok refused to stop making sexualized deepfakes of her, amid custody disputes (Peter Senzamici/New York Post)
2026-01-16 00:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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