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Tim Cook attending a private White House screening of the documentary Melania hours after ICE killed a man suggests horrible judgment, or worse, cowardice (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
2026-01-26 22:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Billionaire Tom Steyer, who is running for California governor, says he'll vote for the one-time 5% tax on billionaire wealth if it reaches the November ballot (Eliyahu Kamisher/Bloomberg)
2026-01-26 22:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A group of YouTubers with a combined 6.2M subscribers adds Snap to a class action lawsuit, alleging the company trained its AI systems on their video content (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2026-01-26 22:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Wikimedia data puts iOS 26 adoption at ~50% in January vs. iOS 18's 72% in 2025 as Apple slows auto-updates; Statcounter showed 15% after missing Safari changes (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
2026-01-26 19:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google agrees to pay $68M to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that Google Assistant inappropriately recorded private conversations on users' devices (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
2026-01-26 21:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Shares of Zoom jump 10%+ after analysts at Baird estimated that Zoom's 2023 investment in Anthropic could be worth $2B to $4B, depending on dilution (Nate Wolf/Barron's Online)
2026-01-26 18:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Zocks, which offers an AI assistant for financial advisers, raised a $45M Series B co-led by Lightspeed and QED Investors, taking its total funding to $65M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
2026-01-26 18:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Anthropic rolls out a new extension to MCP to let users interact with apps directly inside the Claude chatbot, with support for Asana, Figma, Slack, and others (Robert Hart/The Verge)
2026-01-26 18:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
UpScrolled, a platform for sharing photos, videos, and text that claims political impartiality, says user growth has surged since TikTok's US takeover (Emma Roth/The Verge)
2026-01-26 18:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Qwen releases Qwen3-Max-Thinking, its flagship reasoning model that it says demonstrates performance comparable to models such as GPT-5.2 Thinking and Opus 4.5 (Qwen)
2026-01-26 17:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
In a 38-page essay, Dario Amodei warns of civilization-level damage from superintelligent AI, questioning whether humanity has the maturity to handle such power (Axios)
2026-01-26 17:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
TikTok US says it is working to restore services after a power outage at a data center and any algorithm changes users noticed were likely due to the outage (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
2026-01-26 16:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Upwind Security, which filters out false security alerts in cloud apps to let security teams address actual risks, raised a $250M Series B at a ~$1.5B valuation (Angus Loten/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-26 17:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft unveils the Maia 200, its 2nd-generation AI accelerator built on TSMC's 3nm process, deploying today in its Azure US Central data center region (Tom Warren/The Verge)
2026-01-26 16:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: OpenAI targets ~$60 per 1,000 views for ChatGPT ads, on par with live NFL broadcasts and above Meta's sub-$20 CPM, while offering little conversion data (The Information)
2026-01-26 14:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nvidia announces its Earth-2 Medium Range weather model, built on its Atlas architecture, claiming it outperforms Google DeepMind's GenCast in 70+ variables (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
2026-01-26 14:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The EU Commission says WhatsApp's Channels fall under the DSA's Very Large Online Platform rules, joining Instagram and Facebook, requiring it to address risks (Anupriya Datta/Euractiv)
2026-01-26 15:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: the US DOT plans to use Gemini to draft federal regulations, cutting the process to just 30 days; the DOT used it to draft a still-unpublished FAA rule (Jesse Coburn/ProPublica)
2026-01-26 15:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Apple unveils a second-gen AirTag with an updated speaker and the same second-gen Ultra Wideband chip as in the iPhone 17, costing $29 for one and $99 for four (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
2026-01-26 14:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Intel Panther Lake laptop CPU review: the 18A-based Core Ultra X9 388H outperforms Apple's M5 and AMD's top-tier Strix Halo in some tests like 4K video exports (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
2026-01-26 14:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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