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Pomelo Care, which delivers 24/7 virtual care for women by using data to flag pregnancy risks and more, raised $92M led by Stripes at a $1.7B valuation (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
2026-01-08 15:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The EU says it ordered X to retain all internal docs and data relating to Grok until the end of 2026, after criticizing Grok's nonconsensual image generation (Louise Breusch Rasmussen/Reuters)
2026-01-08 13:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Protege, which offers an AI data platform to access high-quality, proprietary training data at scale, raised $30M from a16z, extending its $25M Series A (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
2026-01-08 13:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google rolls out an AI Inbox view for Gmail, showing users to-dos and summaries of topics rather than a traditional email list, first for US "trusted testers" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
2026-01-08 13:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google makes Help Me Write, AI email summaries, and Suggested Replies free to all Gmail users; the features required a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription (Abner Li/9to5Google)
2026-01-08 13:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: China is considering how to build fences around its AI know-how amid the AI race and is identifying standout companies to add to an export control list (Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-08 12:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Israeli data security startup Cyera raised a $400M Series F led by Blackstone Growth at a $9B valuation, up from $6B after raising $540M in June 2025 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
2026-01-08 12:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood predicts "we'll see the first 100% AI-generated hit movie" within three years and discusses Roku's new $3/month Howdy streamer (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
2026-01-08 11:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Lego says its Smart Brick is "here to stay" but "does not mean that we're leaving our core proposition behind", after criticism of abandoning non-digital play (Tom Phillips/IGN)
2026-01-08 12:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources and US tax lawyers: the IRS's planned audit of private equity and VC firms is faltering under President Trump, as many senior leaders leave the agency (Jesse Drucker/New York Times)
2026-01-08 12:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: China's Salt Typhoon accessed the emails of staff on powerful US House committees, detected last December, and intercepted senior US officials' calls (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
2026-01-08 10:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: wealthy Californians are quietly mobilizing on WhatsApp and calls in a long-shot bid to oust Rep. Ro Khanna, who supports a controversial wealth tax (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
2026-01-08 11:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of Replit co-founder Amjad Masad, who was shunned in investor circles for his criticism of Israel's war in Gaza before Replit's AI agent took off (Margaux MacColl/The San Francisco ...)
2026-01-08 10:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
China says it will investigate Meta's $2B Manus acquisition to assess compliance with laws on export controls, tech import and export, and overseas investment (CNBC)
2026-01-08 09:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of VC firm Index Ventures, which saw billions in gains from exits in 2025, including Figma, Scale AI, and Dream Games, as it looks ahead to succession (Bloomberg)
2026-01-08 10:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: China plans to approve some imports of Nvidia's H200 chips as soon as Q1 2026 while still barring them from military use and critical infrastructure (John Liu/Bloomberg)
2026-01-08 07:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Big US hospital systems have become a proving ground for AI adoption; a survey finds that 27% of health systems are paying for commercial AI licenses (Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-08 07:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Samsung says Ballie, a robot announced six years ago but never released, is an "active innovation platform" within the company helping inform other products (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
2026-01-08 06:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Local governments across China are funding dozens of "robot training centers", where human trainers mimic movements like folding clothes to teach the robots (Rest of World)
2026-01-08 07:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US FCC exempts some new models of foreign-made drones and critical components from an import ban, announced in December 2025, until the end of 2026 (David Shepardson/Reuters)
2026-01-08 07:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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