News

Showing news from: https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml

A profile of June Paik, CEO of Seoul-based chip startup FuriosaAI, valued at ~$700M, whose AI chip dubbed "RNGD" is slated to enter mass production this month (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-04 13:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tech workers in Silicon Valley are increasingly experimenting with gray-market peptide drugs from China, legal for personal use, for improving focus and more (Jasmine Sun/New York Times)
2026-01-04 07:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Xreal unveils the $449 1S, a pair of AR glasses with 1200p, 700 nits brightness, 52 degree FOV, and 16:10 aspect ratio; the 1S can convert any 2D video into 3D (Victoria Song/The Verge)
2026-01-04 16:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Hands-on with Xreal's Neo, a $99 battery pack and mini-dock that acts as a passthrough converter so the company's glasses can work with the Nintendo Switch (Scott Stein/CNET)
2026-01-04 16:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
EU officials and policymakers say the EC will intensify its enforcement of the DMA and DSA in 2026, a move expected to renew clashes with US Big Tech and Trump (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
2026-01-04 06:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Reddit surpasses TikTok as the fourth most-visited social media service in the UK, likely driven by changes to Google's search algorithms and AI deals (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
2026-01-04 06:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filing: West Co, founded by Biz Stone and Evan Sharp, raised $29M; it launched the invite-only social app Tangle, "designed for intentional living", in November (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
2026-01-04 06:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Fueled partly by US tech companies, governments worldwide are racing to deploy GenAI in schools and universities, even as agencies such as UNICEF urge caution (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
2026-01-04 02:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A new Polymarket account bet $30K on Maduro's capture just hours before Trump's announcement, renewing questions on insider information in prediction markets (Herb Scribner/Axios)
2026-01-03 22:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at AVA, an AI chatbot developed by Alaska's court system to provide aid in the probate process, which has been plagued by delays and hallucinations (Jared Perlo/NBC News)
2026-01-03 21:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with Kara Swisher on the economics of the AI boom, the upcoming IPOs of SpaceX and OpenAI, Elon Musk, the tech industry's Trump pivot, robotics, and more (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)
2026-01-03 18:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Dating apps are pivoting to Asia as swipe-right fatigue hits the West; India, China, and Indonesia ranked among the top five markets by downloads in 2025 (Financial Times)
2026-01-03 16:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The Groq deal shows the challenges Nvidia faces as options to deploy its cash flood narrow; its annual free cash flow has risen from $4.2B in 2020 to $80B+ now (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-03 14:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A deep dive into co-packaged optics, long promised to transform data center connectivity, covering benefits, challenges, architecture, key companies, and more (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis)
2026-01-03 11:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Elon Musk's bet that Tesla's future is in its Optimus humanoid robots, which for now rely on human helpers and still face commercial challenges (Becky Peterson/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-03 08:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Global SWF: sovereign wealth funds invested $66B in AI and digitalization in 2025, with Mubadala investing $12.9B and Kuwait Investment Authority investing $6B (Alex Dooler/Bloomberg)
2026-01-03 06:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
London is set to become the first city where both US and Chinese robotaxis operate, as Waymo and Baidu prepare to launch their robotaxis in the city in 2026 (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
2026-01-03 06:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
What to expect at CES 2026: laptops with new chips from Intel, Qualcomm, and AMD, more AI integrations, smart home robotics, smart glasses, and more (The Verge)
2026-01-03 03:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Ilya Lichtenstein, sentenced in Nov. 2024 to five years in prison for hacking Bitfinex, has been released early due to First Step Act, Trump's prison-reform law (CNBC)
2026-01-03 01:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Comparing ChatGPT's mini-apps with native iOS apps: some like Uber, OpenTable, and TripAdvisor fell short with frequent error messages, but Instacart did well (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-02 23:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filter
Clear Filter