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Sources: Chinese officials told customs agents that Nvidia H200 chips are barred from China and instructed local tech companies not to buy them unless necessary (Reuters)
2026-01-14 08:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An inside look at a Myanmar online scam center that opened in 2024 with 3,500 workers from ~30 countries and closed in November 2025 after rebels captured it (New York Times)
2026-01-14 08:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
WithCoverage, which replaces traditional insurance brokers with its AI-based flat-fee risk management model, raised a $42M Series B led by Sequoia and Khosla (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
2026-01-14 08:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US urged UN members to take a tougher stance against North Korea IT worker scams and crypto thefts; an October 2025 report said 40+ countries were affected (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
2026-01-14 08:09 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How smuggled Starlink receivers and customized software let some Iranians evade a near-total internet blackout as the regime brutally cracked down on protesters (Financial Times)
2026-01-14 07:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Caterpillar hits a $300B market cap for the first time, driven by demand for its data center power generation equipment; CAT is up 12% in 2026 to a record ~$640 (Matthew Griffin/Bloomberg)
2026-01-14 07:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Saudi Arabia's PIF is transferring ~$12B worth of gaming company shares, including Nintendo, to Savvy Games; PIF transferred 11M Take-Two shares in December (Bloomberg)
2026-01-14 07:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Z.ai releases GLM-Image, an open-source multimodal AI model trained on Huawei chips that it says is China's first to be fully trained using domestic chips (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
2026-01-14 06:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Bandcamp bans music and audio that is "generated wholly or in substantial part by AI", hoping to build trust with fans that the music they find was human-made (Maya Perez/WebProNews)
2026-01-14 07:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Checkr, which offers employee background checks, says its revenue grew to $800M, up 14% from 2024, amid a surge in AI-generated CVs and fake financial documents (Iain Martin/Forbes)
2026-01-14 06:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Apple and Qualcomm are scrambling to secure glass cloth fiber, used in chip substrates and PCBs, as the AI boom boosts demand for the component (Nikkei Asia)
2026-01-14 02:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Survey: 41% of US teens aged 13 to 17 support a ban on middle and high school students from using phones in class while 51% oppose it; 73% oppose a full-day ban (Pew Research Center)
2026-01-14 03:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Matthew McConaughey has secured eight trademarks of himself from the USPTO in the past several months to protect his likeness and voice from unauthorized AI use (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-14 05:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source details how Apple's Gemini deal works: new Siri features launching in spring and at WWDC, Apple can finetune Gemini, no Google branding, and more (The Information)
2026-01-14 00:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Under new licensing requirements, the US Commerce Department says exports of Nvidia's H200 chips and AMD's MI325X chips will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis (Bloomberg)
2026-01-14 00:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google announces MedGemma 1.5 with improved medical imaging support, and MedASR for medical dictation, both available on Hugging Face and Vertex AI (Google Research)
2026-01-13 23:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Liftoff, which helps companies place ads in mobile apps, files for a US IPO, reporting a $25.6M net loss on $491.6M in revenue in the nine months up to Sept. 30 (Natalia Kniazhevich/Bloomberg)
2026-01-14 00:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Holistic Resilience, a US group that helps Iranians secure internet access, says SpaceX has waived Starlink subscription fees amid a days-long internet blackout (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg)
2026-01-14 02:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Defense Unicorns, which provides open-source air-gapped software to the US DOD, raised a $136M Series B led by Bain Capital, bringing its valuation to $1B+ (Aishwarya Jain/Reuters)
2026-01-14 01:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras is in talks to raise ~$1B, valuing the startup at $22B before the new investment, up from an $8.1B valuation in September 2025 (The Information)
2026-01-13 23:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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