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Docs: xAI had a net loss of $1.46B in Q3, up from $1B in Q1; sources: xAI told investors it plans to build AI that will eventually power Optimus humanoid robots (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
2026-01-09 01:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Hands on with a prototype of Clicks’ Communicator, a new BlackBerry-like smartphone
2026-01-08 14:47 - https://techcrunch.com/feed/
 
MCP Is a Fad
2026-01-09 10:50 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time
2026-01-08 20:49 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Nvidia has hired Google Cloud VP of Marketing Alison Wagonfeld to be Nvidia's first CMO; source: Wagonfeld will report to CEO Jensen Huang (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-09 01:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filings: Meta has hired Bill McGinley, a veteran Republican operative and the former top lawyer for DOGE, as a lobbyist (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
2026-01-08 23:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Strava, the fitness app founded in 2009, filed confidentially for an IPO; its revenue grew more than 50% YoY in 2025 but was still less than $500M (The Information)
2026-01-08 21:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Mississippi Gov. Reeves says xAI is set to spend $20B+ to build its MACROHARDRR data center in Southaven, xAI's third data center in the greater Memphis area (Sophie Bates/Associated Press)
2026-01-09 00:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; the deal was previously reported to be valued at around $1B (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
2026-01-08 22:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks to raise about $2B, after raising more than $1.5B across a pair of rounds in September and October (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
2026-01-08 21:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Logistics Is Dying; Or – Dude, Where's My Mail?
2026-01-09 03:50 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Grok turns off image generator for most after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
2026-01-09 09:50 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
On Getting Hacked
2026-01-09 05:50 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
OpenAI is rolling out a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT for clinicians to assist with medical reasoning and administrative tasks, at Cedars-Sinai and others (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
2026-01-08 20:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Gmail debuts a personalized AI Inbox, AI Overviews in search, and more
2026-01-08 14:47 - https://techcrunch.com/feed/
 
Making Magic Leap past Nvidia's secure bootchain and breaking Tesla Autopilots
2026-01-08 22:49 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs
2026-01-08 18:48 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Pole of Inaccessibility
2026-01-08 23:49 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Show HN: A geofence-based social network app 6 years in development
2026-01-08 22:49 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
OpenAI VP of research Jerry Tworek is leaving, sources say after OpenAI sided with Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki in a dispute over its research direction (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
2026-01-08 20:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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