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Google agrees to pay $8.25M to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging its AdMob SDK illegally collected data from children under age 13 (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
2026-01-15 23:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
As Meta shifts resources away from its Supernatural VR fitness service, users mourn the loss of a community built around the platform and its coaches (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
2026-01-16 00:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Replit launches Mobile Apps on Replit, which enables vibe-coding of iOS apps with integrated Stripe monetization (CNBC)
2026-01-15 21:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: at least two more Thinking Machines staffers are expected to join OpenAI soon; some researchers say they are exhausted by the industry's constant drama (Wired)
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Sources: Replit is in advanced discussions to raise about $400M in a new round of funding that would roughly triple its valuation to $9B (Bloomberg)
2026-01-15 21:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Mytra, which is building autonomous robots for warehouses that can move loads up to 3,000 pounds, raised a $120M Series C led by Avenir Growth (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
2026-01-15 21:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Andrea Vallone, who left OpenAI in November as the head of its safety research team, joins Anthropic's alignment team (Hayden Field/The Verge)
2026-01-15 20:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US says Taiwanese companies will invest $250B+ in chip production in the US as part of a trade deal, with Taiwanese government guaranteeing $250B in credit (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
2026-01-15 20:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Symbolic.ai, founded by ex-eBay CEO Devin Wenig and Ars Technica cofounder Jon Stokes, partners with News Corp to offer AI tools to WSJ, Barron's, and others (Ben Sherry/Inc)
2026-01-15 19:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Letter: a top House Republican warns severe DRAM and HBM3E supply shortages may constrain H200 export licenses; Nvidia says it "can serve all approved" orders (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
2026-01-15 18:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Equal1, which was spun out from University College Dublin, raised $60M to deploy its new quantum server for data centers, bringing its total funding to $85M (Ciara O'Brien/The Irish Times)
2026-01-15 18:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google releases TranslateGemma, a suite of Gemma 3-based open translation models available in 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter sizes with support for 55 languages (The Keyword)
2026-01-15 17:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
X revises its developer API policies to "no longer allow apps that reward users for posting on X (aka "infofi")", amid a backlash about growing AI slop on X (André Beganski/Decrypt)
2026-01-15 17:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Apple now needs to fight for TSMC production capacity amid the AI boom; Nvidia was likely TSMC's top customer in at least one or two quarters in 2025 (Tim Culpan/Culpium)
2026-01-15 17:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Amazon files an objection to Saks Global's bankruptcy financing plan, and says its $475M investment in the department store is now effectively "worthless" (CNBC)
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OpenAI says it issued a request for proposals to US-based hardware manufacturers as it seeks to push into consumer devices, robotics, and cloud data centers (Bloomberg)
2026-01-15 17:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs, which Sam Altman co-founded, raised $252M from OpenAI, Bain Capital, and others (Ike Swetlitz/Bloomberg)
2026-01-15 16:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AI video startup Higgsfield raised an $80M Series A extension from Accel and others at a $1.3B+ valuation, and reports a $200M annualized revenue run rate (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
2026-01-15 15:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Boston-based Tulip, which offers an AI-powered frontline operations platform used by 60K workers, raised a $120M Series D led by Mitsubishi at a $1.3B valuation (Gil Press/Forbes)
2026-01-15 14:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Researchers discover WhisperPair, a set of vulnerabilities in Google's Fast Pair protocol affecting 17 audio device models from 10 brands; Google has patched (Wired)
2026-01-15 14:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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