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Sources: Strava, the fitness app founded in 2009, filed confidentially for an IPO; its revenue grew more than 50% YoY in 2025 but was still less than $500M (The Information)
2026-01-08 21:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Mississippi Gov. Reeves says xAI is set to spend $20B+ to build its MACROHARDRR data center in Southaven, xAI's third data center in the greater Memphis area (Sophie Bates/Associated Press)
2026-01-09 00:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; the deal was previously reported to be valued at around $1B (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
2026-01-08 22:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks to raise about $2B, after raising more than $1.5B across a pair of rounds in September and October (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
2026-01-08 21:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI is rolling out a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT for clinicians to assist with medical reasoning and administrative tasks, at Cedars-Sinai and others (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
2026-01-08 20:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI VP of research Jerry Tworek is leaving, sources say after OpenAI sided with Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki in a dispute over its research direction (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
2026-01-08 20:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Google, Meta, Netflix, Microsoft, and Amazon will not be included in the EU's Digital Networks Act, despite calls from telecoms companies (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
2026-01-08 20:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Statcounter: four months after its release, iOS 26 is in use by only about 15% of iPhone users; in January 2025, about 63% of users were on iOS 18 (Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac)
2026-01-08 20:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: a few weeks before Grok started "digitally undressing" people, Elon Musk expressed frustration over guardrails on Grok's image and video generator (Hadas Gold/CNN)
2026-01-08 19:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Are people updating to iOS 26? Here's what the data reportedly shows (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
2026-01-08 19:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
NetBlocks says internet connectivity in Iran has fallen on multiple providers as protests hit 100+ cities; Cloudflare says IPv6 traffic has dropped sharply (Cody Combs/The National)
2026-01-08 19:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: OpenAI has been slow to expand in-app checkouts for ChatGPT as the startup and its partners Shopify and Stripe struggle to standardize merchant data (Ann Gehan/The Information)
2026-01-08 19:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tailwind CSS lays off three of its four engineers after Google traffic to its documentation fell ~40% from early 2023 due to AI, causing an ~80% drop in revenue (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
2026-01-08 17:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
ThreatModeler, which helps developers identify vulnerabilities in their applications, acquires IriusRisk, its largest competitor, a source says for $100M+ (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
2026-01-08 17:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of Apple SVP of Hardware Engineering John Ternus, who sources say is considered the front-runner to succeed Tim Cook, who wants to reduce his workload (New York Times)
2026-01-08 17:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
FIFA says parts of 2026 World Cup soccer games will be broadcast live on TikTok and some creators will get access to press conferences and training sessions (Jessica Hopkins/The Athletic)
2026-01-08 16:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese AI startup MiniMax raises ~$619M in its Hong Kong IPO, at the top of its marketed range; sources: its institutional offering was oversubscribed by 70x+ (Dave Sebastian/Bloomberg)
2026-01-08 16:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft launches Copilot Checkout in the US, enabling in-chat purchases via PayPal, Shopify, Stripe, and others; Shopify merchants are automatically enrolled (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
2026-01-08 15:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
CrowdStrike buys identity management startup SGNL, in a deal valued at nearly $740M, to bolster identity security defenses on its flagship Falcon platform (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
2026-01-08 15:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Illicit crypto addresses received a record $154B in 2025, up 162% YoY, driven by sanctions evasion; Russia's A7A5 token transacted $93.3B+ in less than one year (Chainalysis)
2026-01-08 14:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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