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A look at US tech laws rolling out in 2026, including California's SB 53 AI transparency law and Virginia's new social media limits for minors, effective today (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
2026-01-01 19:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions on rising economic inequality, and why highly progressive taxes on capital can help slow the spiral (Philosopher Count)
2026-01-01 20:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Ukraine has become a live-fire test range for AI drones like the Bumblebee, provided by a secretive Eric Schmidt-led venture, raising alarms in Kremlin circles (C.J. Chivers/New York Times)
2026-01-01 18:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
DeepSeek researchers detail a new mHC architecture they used to train 3B, 9B, and 27B models, finding it scaled without adding significant computational burden (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
2026-01-01 17:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: OpenAI ramped up efforts to improve its audio AI models, in preparation for its AI-powered personal device, which is expected to be largely audio-based (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
2026-01-01 15:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tech startups have started to offer nicotine pouches as a free perk to employees, as some claim the products help them focus despite health hazards (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-01 14:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the rise of AI companion apps; a researcher counts 206 such apps on the App Store and 253 on Google Play, with 220M+ total downloads as of July 2025 (Financial Times)
2026-01-01 12:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Hundreds of megawatts of new data center capacity are being planned in Vernon, a city near LA, which is a key US-Asia cable-linking hub and is becoming crowded (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times)
2026-01-01 10:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic could IPO in 2026; those three deals alone would exceed the total proceeds from roughly 200 US IPOs in 2025 (George Hammond/Financial Times)
2026-01-01 08:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index rose 28% in 2025, its best percentage performance since 2017, driven by tech, AI, and semiconductor stocks (Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-01 08:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Report: China-based Moonshot AI, maker of Kimi models, raised a $500M Series C at a $4.3B valuation led by IDG Capital, with Alibaba and Tencent participating (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)
2026-01-01 07:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Analysts and manufacturers expect smartphone, PC, and consumer electronics prices to rise by as much as 20% in 2026, as AI demand drives up memory chip costs (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)
2026-01-01 08:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Some 2025 takeaways in LLMs: reasoning as a signature feature, coding agents were useful, subscriptions hit $200/month, and Chinese open-weight models impressed (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
2026-01-01 07:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
IDC: Apple partner Luxshare halted Vision Pro production at the start of 2025; Sensor Tower says Apple cut digital ad spend for the headset by 95% in 2025 (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
2026-01-01 06:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How AI labs are deploying on-site gas generators for power as the US electric grid struggles to keep pace with the growing demands of AI infrastructure (SemiAnalysis)
2026-01-01 03:09 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Elon Musk says Neuralink plans to start "high-volume production" of brain-computer interface devices and move to a fully automated surgical procedure in 2026 (Reuters)
2026-01-01 02:09 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Adam Mosseri details trends shaping Instagram and says it'll be more practical to authenticate real media than label AI, as AI gets better at imitating reality (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
2026-01-01 01:09 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The FBI says fraudsters bilked Americans out of $333.5M via bitcoin ATM scams from January through November 2025, up from roughly $250M in 2024 (Lucien Bruggeman/ABC News)
2025-12-31 23:09 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Thiel Capital opens an office in Miami, as Peter Thiel and others reportedly look to cut ties with California over a proposed ballot measure to tax billionaires (Biz Carson/Bloomberg)
2025-12-31 22:09 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
TSMC says the US government has granted the company an annual license to import US chip manufacturing equipment to its facilities in Nanjing, China (Reuters)
2025-12-31 22:09 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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