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Montreal-based Vention raised a $110M Series D to scale its physical AI platform into manufacturing plants worldwide, taking its total raised to ~$216M (Madison McLauchlan/BetaKit)
2026-01-27 15:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Samsung says the Galaxy Z TriFold costs $2,899, or $899 more than the Galaxy Z Fold 7, launching in the US on January 30 exclusively via its website and stores (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
2026-01-27 15:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of White House AI adviser Sriram Krishnan, who wrote an EO against "Woke" AI, aims to "fight China", and rallies executives around Trump's policies (Financial Times)
2026-01-27 13:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
US court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to "destructively scan" up to 2M books with a hydraulic "cutting machine" led by an ex-Google exec (Washington Post)
2026-01-27 12:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Documents: a whistleblower details the Boshang scam compound in Laos that defrauded victims of ~$2.2M over 11 weeks and utilized a system of worker debt bondage (Wired)
2026-01-27 12:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The EU gives Google a six-month deadline to lift technical barriers to rival AI search assistants on Android and give key data to other search engine providers (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
2026-01-27 11:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Khaby Lame, the world's biggest TikToker, partners with Nasdaq-listed Rich Sparkle in a $975M, 36-month deal to monetize his fan base, including an AI version (Katarina Hoije/Bloomberg)
2026-01-27 13:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Corning says Meta committed to paying up to $6B through 2030 for fiber-optic cable in its AI data centers, and it plans to expand its Hickory, NC, factory (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
2026-01-27 13:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Micron plans to invest $24B over the next decade to build a 700,000 square foot memory chip facility in Singapore, with wafer output starting in H2 2028 (Reuters)
2026-01-27 06:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2.5, saying the model can process text, images, and videos simultaneously and beats its open-source peers in some tests (Bloomberg)
2026-01-27 11:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An interview with OpenAI for Science head Kevin Weil on the team's mission, why LLMs can't come up with game-changing discoveries yet, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
2026-01-27 08:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 builds on K2 with "pretraining over ~15T mixed visual and text tokens" and "can self-direct an agent swarm with up to 100 sub-agents" (Kimi)
2026-01-27 11:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
TikTok US says it doesn't "have rules against sharing the name Epstein in direct messages" and is "investigating why some users are experiencing issues" (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
2026-01-27 07:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
YC updated its website to remove Canada from its list of approved jurisdictions for incorporation, leaving the US, Cayman Islands, and Singapore as options (Murad Hemmadi/The Logic)
2026-01-27 02:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he will launch a review into whether TikTok is violating state law by censoring content critical of President Donald Trump (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
2026-01-27 04:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US Army signs a $5.6B, 10-year contract with Salesforce to speed up outdated practices; as part of the deal, military recruiters will get access to Slack (Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-27 02:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla and Ethan Choi disavow Keith Rabois' comments on an ICE shooting; Rabois said the man killed by agents was committing a "felony" (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
2026-01-27 00:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
StepFun, a Chinese AI startup that develops LLMs and has partnered with automaker Geely and smartphone brands like Oppo and Honor, raised a ~$717M Series B+ (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)
2026-01-26 22:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta says it will test new paid subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on its apps and plans to scale Manus as part of those offerings (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
2026-01-26 23:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A test of ChatGPT Health and Claude for Healthcare with data from Apple Health finds the chatbots provided questionable and inconsistent responses (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Washington Post)
2026-01-27 00:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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