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Filing: the US greenlights Nvidia H200 exports to China; the chips will be tested by a 3rd-party lab to confirm their AI capabilities before they can be shipped (Reuters)
2026-01-13 22:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
President Trump renominates Sean Plankey to be the next director of CISA, which has been running without a full-time chief since Trump's return to office (John Sakellariadis/Politico)
2026-01-13 23:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
As part of its Reality Labs cuts, Meta is closing three VR gaming studios and will stop developing new content and features for its VR fitness app Supernatural (Jay Peters/The Verge)
2026-01-13 23:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Polygon buys crypto startups Coinme and Sequence for a total of $250M+, as it seeks to bolster its stablecoin and fintech infrastructure and compete with Stripe (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
2026-01-13 22:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Amazon is seeking supplier discounts, from low single digits to 30%, as it moves to reverse concessions made to limit the shock of Trump's tariffs (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
2026-01-13 22:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: AI chip startup Etched raised $500M led by Stripes at a $5B valuation, bringing its total funding to almost $1B (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
2026-01-13 22:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Anthropic shakes up its C-suite; chief product officer Mike Krieger will become the co-lead of its Labs incubator; head of product Ami Vora will become CPO (Hayden Field/The Verge)
2026-01-13 21:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Mercedes pauses the rollout of Drive Pilot, a Level 3 "eyes off" driving feature available in Europe and the US, citing low demand and high production costs (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
2026-01-13 19:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Roblox's AI-powered age verification system, which expanded globally last week using tech from a company called Persona, faces criticism for misidentifying ages (David Gilbert/Wired)
2026-01-13 21:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US Senate passes the Defiance Act that would allow victims to sue over nonconsensual, sexually explicit AI-generated images, amid furor over Grok images (Bloomberg)
2026-01-13 19:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Taiwan issues an arrest warrant for OnePlus CEO Pete Lau for allegedly illegally recruiting 70+ Taiwanese engineers, amid a crackdown on Chinese talent raids (Li Liu/Bloomberg)
2026-01-13 18:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Confer, an open-source AI assistant project from Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike that is designed to provide end-to-end encryption for AI chats (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
2026-01-13 18:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US FCC waives a rule that forced Verizon to unlock phones 60 days after they are activated, which could make it harder for people to switch from Verizon (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
2026-01-13 19:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google makes improvements to Veo 3.1's Ingredients to Video feature to make videos more expressive, and adds native vertical video generation and 4K upscaling (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
2026-01-13 18:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Flip, which offers an Alexa-like voice AI experience for businesses, raised a $20M Series A, bringing its total funding to $31M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
2026-01-13 17:05 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: India asked quick commerce companies to drop their 10-minute delivery promise due to concerns about rider safety; Blinkit already removed the assurance (Bloomberg)
2026-01-13 17:05 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: China has told some tech companies that it will approve Nvidia H200 chip purchases only under special circumstances, such as for university research (Qianer Liu/The Information)
2026-01-13 17:05 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Austin-based webAI, which is building AI models that run locally on devices, raised "high double-digit" millions in a Series A at a $2.5B pre-money valuation (Dan Primack/Axios)
2026-01-13 16:05 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Onebrief, which makes AI-powered military workflow software, raised a $200M Series D, nearly doubling its valuation from $1.1B to $2.1B in about half of a year (Colin Demarest/Axios)
2026-01-13 17:05 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Governor Gavin Newsom says he has been negotiating for four months to neutralize California's wealth tax ballot proposal; a compromise does not appear imminent (Politico)
2026-01-13 17:05 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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