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Investigation: Google removed AI Overviews for two liver health queries after expert inaccuracy warnings, but slight keyword tweaks still trigger AI responses (Andrew Gregory/The Guardian)
2026-01-12 10:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at claims from Google and others about quantum computing breakthroughs over the past few months that helped boost quantum computing stocks in 2025 (Richard Waters/Financial Times)
2026-01-12 10:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
President Trump says "we may speak to Elon" about using Starlink to restore the internet in Iran, after the state imposed an internet blackout amid protests (Rachael Levy/Reuters)
2026-01-12 07:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
CES 2026 report: AI, autonomy, and robotic products are still finding their way, country-level booths are growing, Nvidia underpinned much of the show, and more (Steven Sinofsky/Hardcore Software)
2026-01-12 11:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta says it shut down nearly 550K accounts in Australia to comply with its under-16 social media ban, including 330K Instagram and 173K Facebook accounts (Nasteho Said/Bloomberg)
2026-01-12 11:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
CES 2026: how some companies are trying to make their AI products cute and relatable, from Lenovo's chatty motorized laptop to Sharp's ChatGPT-powered Poketomo (Chris Velazco/Washington Post)
2026-01-12 09:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Naver, the largest South Korean buyer of Nvidia chips, is pitching its AI cloud services as an alternative for countries reluctant to use US or Chinese services (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)
2026-01-12 04:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of China's CXMT, whose $4.2B IPO goal would rank among the century's biggest chip debuts, as the memory chip maker faces US and South Korean curbs (Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-12 07:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese AI executives say China is unlikely to eclipse the US in the AI race anytime soon, citing limited resources and US chip export curbs as key constraints (Bloomberg)
2026-01-12 06:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Qatar and UAE will join the Pax Silica coalition on January 12 and 15, respectively, expanding the US-led effort to secure AI and semiconductor supply chains (Jarrett Renshaw/Reuters)
2026-01-12 02:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Despite projections of memory shortages for PCs and phones, producers like Micron will proceed cautiously in adding new capacity, mindful of past downcycles (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-12 03:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
ATG, which is developing the AI-powered wealth strategist app Autonomous, emerges from stealth and raises a $15M pre-seed led by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)
2026-01-11 21:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Anthropic announces Claude for Healthcare to offer HIPAA-ready tools for providers, insurers, and consumers, and expands its life sciences offerings (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
2026-01-11 22:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell, who has worked at the company since 2002, and is known as a customer emissary and Musk translator (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-12 00:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Instagram says there was no breach and it fixed an issue that let an external party send password reset emails, after reports that 17.5M users' data was exposed (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
2026-01-11 18:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tucuvi, which develops AI agents that check in with patients and escalate cases to human teams when needed, raised a $20M Series A, led by Cathay and Leadwind (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
2026-01-11 19:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tel Aviv-based Torq, which operates an autonomous AI-powered security operations platform, raised $140M led by Merlin Ventures at a $1.2B valuation (Andrew Martin/Bloomberg)
2026-01-11 17:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Walmart to expand Wing, Alphabet's on-demand drone delivery service, to another 150 stores, bringing the total to 270+ stores, covering ~10% of US population (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
2026-01-11 16:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Malaysia becomes the second country to limit access to Grok, joining Indonesia, over the chatbot's generation of sexual content (Bloomberg)
2026-01-11 16:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Walmart partners with Google to offer AI-enhanced shopping, allowing users to purchase Walmart and Sam's Club items directly on Gemini (Jaewon Kang/Bloomberg)
2026-01-11 16:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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