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Nvidia invests an additional $2B in CoreWeave to help speed up adding 5GW+ of AI computing capacity by 2030 and deploy Nvidia's new Vera CPU; CRWV jumps 9%+ (Bloomberg)
2026-01-26 13:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How the explicit deepfake ecosystem evolved from images to high-quality video; an analysis shows 1.4M+ Telegram accounts signed up to 39 deepfake creation bots (Matt Burgess/Wired)
2026-01-26 13:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
TSMC's conservative capex approach is resulting in supply-demand imbalances and foregone revenue, and hyperscalers must build up Samsung or Intel as its rivals (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
2026-01-26 13:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
As tech CEOs stay silent after two fatal shootings, 450+ workers at Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and others urge CEOs to cancel any ICE contracts and speak out (Axios)
2026-01-26 14:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: NY-based Tandem, which uses AI to automate the paperwork for writing and receiving medical prescriptions, raised a $100M Series B at a $1B valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
2026-01-26 12:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Interviews with 100+ therapists and psychiatrists on clients' AI chatbot usage show, while there are some upsides, conversations also deepened negative feelings (New York Times)
2026-01-26 12:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI says nearly 1.3M weekly users are discussing "advanced topics in hard science" in January, with an average of 8.4M ChatGPT messages on those topics (Ashley Gold/Axios)
2026-01-26 12:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Morgan Stanley: UK companies reported that AI led to 8% net job losses over the past 12 months, above Japan's 7%, Germany's 4%, Australia's 2%; the US added 2% (Irina Anghel/Bloomberg)
2026-01-26 11:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Ricursive, founded by ex-Google researchers to automate advanced chip design, raised $335M from Sequoia, Radical, Lightspeed, and others at a $4B valuation (Cade Metz/New York Times)
2026-01-26 11:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Documents: China's military is focused on harnessing AI to deploy swarms of drones, robot dogs, and other autonomous systems, learning from hawks and coyotes (Josh Chin/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-26 11:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Claude Code can feel daunting, and most people's problems are not software-shaped, but it is clearly autonomous and the home-cooked app renaissance is great (Jasmine Sun/@jasmine's substack)
2026-01-26 11:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Quantum computing company IonQ acquires US chipmaker SkyWater for ~$1.8B, paying $35/share, in IonQ's biggest deal yet; SkyWater will operate as a subsidiary (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-26 10:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The EU opens a formal DSA investigation into xAI over Grok generating sexualized images of women and children; xAI faces fines of up to 6% of global revenue (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
2026-01-26 11:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: SoftBank halts talks about a ~$50B acquisition of US data center operator Switch, a setback to Masayoshi Son's goal to roll out Stargate infrastructure (Bloomberg)
2026-01-26 10:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Digital Realty, QTS, and NTT Data warn the data center industry is doing a poor job of combating local opposition; 24+ US projects were blocked in January alone (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
2026-01-26 11:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese autonomous trucking company DeepWay raised ~$173M ahead of its planned Hong Kong IPO, filed in November 2025; DeepWay reported ~$215M in H1 2025 revenue (Dong Cao/Bloomberg)
2026-01-26 10:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Entropy, a decentralized crypto custodian that raised a $25M seed led by a16z in June 2022, is shutting down after "several pivots, and two rounds of layoffs" (Zack Abrams/The Block)
2026-01-26 06:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Manufacturers say that AI is fundamentally changing how some new products are created, finding unexpected solutions and reducing R&D time from weeks to days (John Keilman/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-26 08:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
London-based enterprise AI video startup Synthesia raised a $200M Series E led by GV at a $4B valuation, up from $2.1B after raising $180M in January 2025 (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View)
2026-01-26 09:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Samsung enters the final qualification phase to supply its HBM4 chips to Nvidia, and targets mass production in February; Samsung's shares jumped 3.2% (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
2026-01-26 04:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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