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The UK plans to bring into force a law this week that will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images, as Ofcom investigates X (BBC)
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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is establishing a new "top-level" initiative called Meta Compute to build "tens of gigawatts" of AI infrastructure during this decade (Sara Fischer/Axios)
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Sources: the US nears a trade deal with Taiwan that would reduce tariffs on the island's exports and include a commitment from TSMC to build 5+ fabs in Arizona (New York Times)
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Google says Gemini will help power not only a more personalized version of Siri, but also future Apple Intelligence features (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
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World Liberty Financial launches World Liberty Markets, letting users lend and borrow digital assets among one another, supporting its own token USD1 and others (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
2026-01-12 17:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Document: Meta said last week that it would exclude Italy from its ban on rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp, after an order from the country's antitrust authority (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
2026-01-12 16:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Alphabet hits a $4T market cap in intraday trading, becoming the fourth Big Tech company to reach the milestone, after its stock rose 6% in the past month (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
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Researchers from Nvidia, Microsoft, and others use AI on 1M+ species to generate potential new gene editing and drug therapies, including AI-designed enzymes (Financial Times)
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Apple announces a multi-year Google deal to use Gemini and Cloud to power Siri's features in 2026, saying Google's tech "provides the most capable foundation" (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
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Nvidia and Eli Lilly plan to invest $1B over five years in a new Silicon Valley-based AI drug laboratory, aiming to boost the pharmaceutical industry's AI use (Bloomberg)
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A viral Chinese app called "Are You Dead?" that asks users living alone to "check in" with a button press becomes the top paid app in Apple's App Store in China (Financial Times)
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Crypto custody company BitGo aims to raise up to $201M in its IPO on the NYSE at an up to $1.96B valuation, selling 11.8M shares at $15 to $17 per share (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)
2026-01-12 15:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Eddy Cue says 2025 was a "record-breaking year" for Apple services: December was a monthly TV engagement record, the App Store has 850M+ weekly users, and more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Michael Saylor's Strategy bought 13,627 bitcoin for ~$1.25B between January 5 and 11, taking its total holdings to 687,410, and boosts its USD reserve to $2.25B (James Hunt/The Block)
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Meta appoints Dina Powell McCormick, a prominent banking executive and former Republican official, as president and vice chair, reporting to Mark Zuckerberg (Sara Fischer/Axios)
2026-01-12 14:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Ampere Analysis expects streamer content spending to grow 6% YoY in 2026 to $101B, crossing $100B for the first time; overall global content spend will grow 2% (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
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Global smartphone shipments rose 2% YoY in 2025, with Apple capturing the top position at a 20% share and 10% YoY growth, ahead of Samsung's 19% market share (Counterpoint Research)
2026-01-12 12:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Ofcom opens an investigation under the OSA into Grok over the sexualized deepfakes of women and kids being generated on X and threatens it with a ban or a fine (Financial Times)
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Paris-based autonomous drone maker Harmattan AI raised a $200M Series B led by Dassault at a $1.4B valuation, and aims to produce 10K drones per month in 2026 (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
2026-01-12 12:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources and filings: Peter Thiel donated $3M to a group to beat California's wealth tax, the first of several expected major donations by tech leaders in 2026 (New York Times)
2026-01-12 11:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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