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On top of nonconsensual porn images, X users seem to be using Grok to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
2026-01-02 22:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
California launched a free tool on January 1 that lets residents request the deletion of their personal data from over 500 registered data brokers (Michael Kan/PCMag)
2026-01-03 00:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Mumbai-based Knight Fintech, which builds core infrastructure connecting banks, lenders, platforms, and borrowers, raised $23.6M led by Accel (The Economic Times)
2026-01-02 21:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
xAI launches Grok Business, priced at $30 per seat/month, for SMBs, and Grok Enterprise, whose price is not listed publicly, for larger organizations (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
2026-01-02 20:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
India orders X to fix Grok to block the generation of obscene content, giving it 72 hours to submit an action-taken report or risk losing "safe harbor" immunity (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
2026-01-02 19:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filing: OpenAI President and co-founder Greg Brockman donated $25M to Trump's super PAC, MAGA Inc., in H2 2025; Crypto.com operator Foris DAX donated $20M (Bill Allison/Bloomberg)
2026-01-02 18:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Uber rewrote its UK driver contracts to act as an agent rather than a supplier of taxi services outside London, to avoid UK's new 20% "taxi tax" on total fares (Simon Goodley/The Guardian)
2026-01-02 18:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Pebble unveils Pebble Round 2 smart watch with a rounded screen and basic health and activity tracking but no heart rate monitor, shipping in May for $199 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2026-01-02 17:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An interview with analyst Benedict Evans on the role of productization in AI adoption, AI bubble, OpenAI, comparing Nvidia to Sun Microsystems, and more (The Circuit on YouTube)
2026-01-02 17:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
xAI's Grok says "lapses in safeguards" led it to create sexualized images of minors in response to user prompts on X; the images have been taken down (Bloomberg)
2026-01-02 16:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Yann LeCun says Llama 4's "results were fudged a little bit", and that the team used different models for different benchmarks to give better results (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
2026-01-02 14:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tech analyst Dan Wang reflects on the Chinese Communist Party vs. Silicon Valley, AI and manufacturing, and how China and the US are building the future (Dan Wang)
2026-01-02 13:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
UK crypto buyers are required to share their account details with tax officials starting January 1 or face penalties, as the UK seeks to collect unpaid taxes (Rachel Clun/BBC)
2026-01-02 11:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How Meta's Reels became a hit, with a $50B+ annual run rate; Sensor Tower: users spend 27 minutes/day on Instagram Reels, 21 on YouTube Shorts, and 44 on TikTok (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-02 10:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How Nokia has reinvented itself for the AI revolution by expanding into cloud services, data centers, and optical networks, and by partnering with Nvidia (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)
2026-01-02 07:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese AI chip startup Biren surged as much as 119% in its Hong Kong debut, after raising ~$717M in an IPO priced at ~$2.52 per share (Bloomberg)
2026-01-02 04:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How Arizona is training talent for its growing chip industry as suppliers fear tighter US immigration policy; Arizona has drawn $200B+ in investments since 2020 (Nikkei Asia)
2026-01-02 04:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Baidu's AI chip unit Kunlunxin confidentially files for a Hong Kong IPO, paving the way for a spin-off; a recent fundraising reportedly valued it at ~$3B (Sneha Kumar/Reuters)
2026-01-02 02:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Starlink plans to lower its satellites orbiting at ~550km to ~480km in 2026 to improve space safety and reduce the likelihood of debris collisions (Rishabh Jaiswal/Reuters)
2026-01-02 00:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Brookfield is launching a cloud company called Radiant and a new $10B AI fund, and plans to acquire up to $100B in land, data centers, and power assets for AI (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
2026-01-01 22:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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