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A look at Kalshi and Polymarket's rise; reports say Polymarket had 491K monthly active traders in December 2025, and <0.04% of addresses took 70% of profits (Benjamin Wallace/New York Times)
2026-01-24 07:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI and longtime US government contractor Leidos announce a partnership to roll out generative and agentic AI tools for specific missions at federal agencies (Miranda Nazzaro/FedScoop)
2026-01-24 07:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: the Trump administration dismissed two Commerce Department officials, who focused on Chinese tech threats, raising concerns about a softening stance (Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-24 07:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Chew hailed the establishment of the TikTok USDS JV as "great news", and said the app is used by 200M US users and 7.5M US businesses (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
2026-01-24 07:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Intel's stock, riding high for months after the US government took a 10% stake, crashed 17% on Jan. 23, after the company flagged continued operational issues (Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-24 06:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Grab's planned acquisition of GoTo has hit a snag over Indonesian carrier Telkomsel's unwillingness to sell its ~2% stake in GoTo at current valuations (Bloomberg)
2026-01-24 06:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google acquires Common Sense Machines, whose AI models create 3D assets from 2D images, and was last valued at $15M after raising $10M from a16z and others (The Information)
2026-01-24 06:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
TikTok users in the US were presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app's ownership transition and now allow precise location tracking (Reece Rogers/Wired)
2026-01-24 02:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Court filing: SEC drops a case against Gemini Trust, founded by the Winklevoss twins, major Trump donors; the case stemmed from Gemini Earn's implosion (New York Times)
2026-01-24 00:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google Photos' latest generative AI-powered feature, "Me Meme", lets users create memes from their own images, launching first in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2026-01-24 00:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Greenoaks, one of Brex's top investors, will return twice its investment after Capital One's Brex acquisition for $5.15B in a half-cash, half-stock deal (The Information)
2026-01-23 22:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Solos Technology sues Meta and EssilorLuxottica, alleging they willfully violated several patents that cover "core technologies in the field of smart eyewear" (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
2026-01-23 22:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: the US DOJ opened a criminal probe and sent out grand-jury subpoenas in recent weeks over allegations that Deel recruited a spy inside rival Rippling (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-23 21:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: China deepens its probe into Meta's Manus acquisition in December to investigate cross-border currency flows, tax accounting, and overseas investments (Bloomberg)
2026-01-23 21:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Richard Socher's Recursive is in talks to raise hundreds of millions at a $4B pre-money valuation to build self-improving superintelligent AI (Bloomberg)
2026-01-23 20:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta says it is pausing teens' access to its AI characters globally across all its apps as it develops a special version of an AI character for teens (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
2026-01-23 17:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Binance considers reintroducing stock tokens after removing them in 2021; OKX, Kraken, Bitget, and others are expanding their tokenized stock offerings (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
2026-01-23 18:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Databricks obtained $1.8B in fresh debt and now has over $7B in debt ahead of a potential IPO; it raised $4B+ in December at a $134B valuation (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
2026-01-23 19:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: smart ring maker Oura plans a tender offer for early investors at a 25% discount to its $11B valuation from Series E, aiming to stay private longer (Bloomberg)
2026-01-23 18:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: by the end of 2025, Claude Code's ARR had grown by at least another $100M from the $1B announced in November, making up 12% of Anthropic's total ARR (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
2026-01-23 15:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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