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The UK FCA grants Ripple approval for its Electronic Money Institution license and crypto asset registration, clearing the way for Ripple's UK expansion (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
2026-01-09 16:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A16z captured 18%+ of all US venture capital allocated in 2025 and now manages $90B in assets, vs Sequoia Capital's $56B and General Catalyst's $43B (Iain Martin/Forbes)
2026-01-09 15:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources say DeepSeek will launch V4, its next-generation model, in the coming weeks and say it outperformed Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's GPT series in coding (The Information)
2026-01-09 14:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Rain, which helps businesses issue stablecoin-linked Visa cards, raised a $250M Series C led by ICONIQ at a $1.95B valuation, bringing total funding to $338M+ (Pragyan Kalita/Reuters)
2026-01-09 13:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
X is restricting Grok's image capabilities via the @grok reply command, but free users can still create sexual deepfakes through the standalone Grok app or site (Robert Hart/The Verge)
2026-01-09 13:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The EU says it is considering designating WhatsApp a "very large platform", after WhatsApp published user numbers above the DSA threshold in February 2025 (Louise Breusch Rasmussen/Reuters)
2026-01-09 13:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
a16z raises over $15B across five new funds, including $6.75B for its fifth growth fund and $3B for unspecified "other venture strategies" (Dan Primack/Axios)
2026-01-09 13:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filings: X's UK revenue fell 58.3% YoY from £69.1M in 2023 to £28.9M in 2024; pre-tax profit fell from £8.5M in 2022 and £2.2M in 2023 to £767K in 2024 (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
2026-01-09 13:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta strikes a 20-year deal to buy 2,600+ MW of nuclear power from Vistra, and announces deals to back new reactor projects from TerraPower and Oklo (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-09 12:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles (Jennifer Swann/Wired)
2026-01-09 10:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Omdia: global humanoid robot shipments rose more than 5x YoY in 2025 to ~13K units; China accounted for the vast majority, led by AgiBot shipping ~5,168 units (Bloomberg)
2026-01-09 07:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
X limits Grok's image generation and editing to paying subscribers after widespread outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery (Helena Horton/The Guardian)
2026-01-09 08:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese humanoid robotics companies dominated CES 2026, but a wide gap remains between choreographed demonstrations and real-world deployment (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
2026-01-09 07:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Artemis Analytics: total stablecoin transaction volumes rose 72% YoY to a record $33T in 2025, led by Circle's USDC at $18.3T and Tether's USDT at $13.3T (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)
2026-01-09 05:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese AI startup MiniMax jumped as much as 54% in its Hong Kong debut on Friday, after raising ~$619M in its IPO priced at ~$21.17 per share (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)
2026-01-09 04:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Lambda, which rents access to AI chips and is backed by Nvidia, is in talks to raise $350M+ led by Mubadala Capital, ahead of an IPO planned for H2 2026 (The Information)
2026-01-09 03:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Seattle-based Spangle AI, which makes AI tools for online retailers to build custom storefronts, raised a $15M Series A led by NewRoad at a $100M valuation (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
2026-01-09 02:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Docs: xAI had a net loss of $1.46B in Q3, up from $1B in Q1; sources: xAI told investors it plans to build AI that will eventually power Optimus humanoid robots (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
2026-01-09 01:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nvidia has hired Google Cloud VP of Marketing Alison Wagonfeld to be Nvidia's first CMO; source: Wagonfeld will report to CEO Jensen Huang (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-09 01:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filings: Meta has hired Bill McGinley, a veteran Republican operative and the former top lawyer for DOGE, as a lobbyist (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
2026-01-08 23:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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