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PJM, the nonprofit operator for a 13-state power grid across the US, expects 4.8% average annual power growth over the next decade driven by the AI boom (Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-13 11:04 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Interviews with Spotify founder Daniel Ek on his CEO exit, and new co-CEOs Gustav Söderström and Alex Norström, who face algorithmic fatigue and angry artists (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
2026-01-13 12:04 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at WhatsApp's enormous global reach and influence, and how the messaging app became the dominant platform for everyday conversation worldwide (Sam Knight/New Yorker)
2026-01-13 08:04 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft warns Chinese companies, especially DeepSeek, are winning AI adoption outside the West, gaining significant market share in the Global South (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
2026-01-13 07:04 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are studying LLMs like living things, not just software, to uncover some of their secrets for the first time (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
2026-01-13 09:04 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The NYC token, launched by ex-New York City Mayor Eric Adams on January 12, saw its market cap drop from ~$600M to ~$100M after suspicious liquidity activity (Decrypt)
2026-01-13 06:04 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A late-2025 amendment to California's wealth tax proposal treats founder control as ownership, a move that could end founder-controlled startups in the state (Mike Solana/Pirate Wires)
2026-01-13 03:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nvidia denies that it asked Chinese customers to pay upfront for H200 chips, saying it "would never require customers to pay for products they do not receive" (Reuters)
2026-01-13 04:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese chipmaker GigaDevice rose 54% in its Hong Kong debut after raising ~$600M in its IPO, and reported H1 2025 profit of ~$84M, up 14% from H2 2024 (Bloomberg)
2026-01-13 04:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Balderton cashed out ~$2B of its Revolut stake in the past year, turning an early £1M bet into a historic European VC win; its fifth fund returned 25x (Financial Times)
2026-01-13 06:04 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Personal finance app Betterment says an individual accessed certain systems to send fake crypto scam notification and believes the person accessed user info (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
2026-01-13 00:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Hands-on with Claude Cowork: looks well positioned to bring the powerful capabilities of Claude Code to a wider audience, but risks of prompt injections remain (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
2026-01-12 23:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Trump says Microsoft will "ensure" Americans don't face higher bills due to data centers' power use and Big Tech must "pay their own way" for their data centers (Business Insider)
2026-01-13 01:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
SK Hynix will invest ~$12.9B to build an advanced chip packaging plant in South Korea to meet rising memory chip demand, targeting completion by the end of 2027 (Reuters)
2026-01-13 02:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Bakkt agrees to acquire Distributed Technologies Research, the stablecoin infrastructure company founded by Bakkt CEO Akshay Naheta; BKKT closes up 18.69% (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
2026-01-12 22:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Elon Musk says Apple and Google's Gemini deal "seems like an unreasonable concentration of power for Google given that [they] also have Android and Chrome" (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
2026-01-12 21:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI acquires Torch, a one-year-old AI healthcare app that aggregates and analyzes medical records; source: OpenAI is paying $100M in equity (Laura Mandaro/The Information)
2026-01-12 22:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Meta plans to lay off ~10% of its 15,000-person Reality Labs division, disproportionately affecting those working on VR headsets and Horizon Worlds (New York Times)
2026-01-12 21:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Anthropic launches Cowork for Claude, built on Claude Code to automate complex tasks with minimal prompting, as a research preview for Claude Max subscribers (Webb Wright/ZDNET)
2026-01-12 20:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Italy's antitrust authority says it reduced the record fine imposed on Amazon in 2021, from €1.13B to €752M, after a recalculation (Elvira Pollina/Reuters)
2026-01-12 19:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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