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Sources: to hedge against Beijing approval risk, Nvidia is requiring Chinese customers to pay upfront for H200 chips, with no cancellations, refunds, or changes (Reuters)
2026-01-08 06:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Ubisoft closes its mobile-focused Halifax studio weeks after majority of the workers voted to unionize, as CWA Canada says it is "demanding information" (Chris Kerr/Game Developer)
2026-01-08 06:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Grok's website and app are being used to produce extremely graphic, sometimes violent, sexual imagery of adults that is far more explicit than images on X (Wired)
2026-01-08 05:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft's chief scientist Eric Horvitz warns that the US' cuts to academic research funding could push talent abroad and hand rivals an edge in the AI race (Financial Times)
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Chinese AI company Zhipu opened up 3.3% in its Hong Kong trading debut after raising ~$558M in its IPO at a valuation of about $6.55B (Yantoultra Ngui/Reuters)
2026-01-08 05:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: OpenAI last fall set aside RSUs worth 10% of the company, which was valued in October at $500B; it has already awarded about $80B in vested equity (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
2026-01-08 03:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Cyera researchers detail Ni8mare, a critical RCE flaw that lets hackers access local instances of the n8n workflow automation platform, impacting ~100K servers (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
2026-01-08 02:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Ford plans to launch an AI voice assistant on its apps this year before expanding to its vehicles in 2027, and aims to debut Level 3 autonomous driving in 2028 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
2026-01-08 01:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Arm creates a "Physical AI" unit to focus on robotics and automotive sectors, as part of a reorganization that includes "Cloud and AI" and "Edge" business units (Reuters)
2026-01-08 00:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Samsung expects Q4 operating profit up 208% YoY to ~$13.8B, vs. ~$12.3B est., and revenue up 23% to ~$64.2B, as demand for AI servers lifted memory chip prices (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
2026-01-08 00:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Larry Page bought two Miami estates in December and January for a combined $173.4M; Sergey Brin is also said to be in discussions to buy a Miami home (Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-07 23:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Alphabet surpassed Apple in market cap for the first time since 2019 after its shares closed up 2.5% on Wednesday, valuing it at $3.89T vs. Apple's $3.85T (Barron's Online)
2026-01-07 22:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Trump family's World Liberty Financial says its entity World Liberty Trust has applied for a US banking license, which would let it issue the USD1 stablecoin (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-08 00:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features: member tags that show user roles, text stickers generated from any word, and custom event reminders (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
2026-01-07 22:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: JPMorgan Chase has reached a deal to take over the Apple credit card program from Goldman Sachs; JPMorgan plans to launch a new Apple savings account (Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-07 21:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Lux Capital raised $1.5B for its ninth fund, the largest in its history, to back companies focusing on fields like breakthrough science and national security (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)
2026-01-07 21:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Health, which lets users import medical records and other data from health apps into ChatGPT, available to a small group via a waitlist (Ina Fried/Axios)
2026-01-07 20:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Docs: Character.AI and Google agree to settle lawsuits with families of teenagers who killed or harmed themselves after interacting with Character.AI's chatbot (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-07 19:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Anthropic plans to raise $10B led by Singapore's GIC and Coatue Management at a $350B valuation before the new investment, up from $183B in September (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-07 18:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Cambodia extradites Chen Zhi, the chairman of online scam conglomerate Prince Group, to China; in October, the US DOJ seized $12B in bitcoin belonging to Chen (Gabriele Steinhauser/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-07 18:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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