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A look at the rise of AI companion apps; a researcher counts 206 such apps on the App Store and 253 on Google Play, with 220M+ total downloads as of July 2025 (Financial Times)
2026-01-01 12:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Hundreds of megawatts of new data center capacity are being planned in Vernon, a city near LA, which is a key US-Asia cable-linking hub and is becoming crowded (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times)
2026-01-01 10:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic could IPO in 2026; those three deals alone would exceed the total proceeds from roughly 200 US IPOs in 2025 (George Hammond/Financial Times)
2026-01-01 08:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index rose 28% in 2025, its best percentage performance since 2017, driven by tech, AI, and semiconductor stocks (Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-01 08:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Report: China-based Moonshot AI, maker of Kimi models, raised a $500M Series C at a $4.3B valuation led by IDG Capital, with Alibaba and Tencent participating (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)
2026-01-01 07:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Analysts and manufacturers expect smartphone, PC, and consumer electronics prices to rise by as much as 20% in 2026, as AI demand drives up memory chip costs (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)
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Some 2025 takeaways in LLMs: reasoning as a signature feature, coding agents were useful, subscriptions hit $200/month, and Chinese open-weight models impressed (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
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IDC: Apple partner Luxshare halted Vision Pro production at the start of 2025; Sensor Tower says Apple cut digital ad spend for the headset by 95% in 2025 (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
2026-01-01 06:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How AI labs are deploying on-site gas generators for power as the US electric grid struggles to keep pace with the growing demands of AI infrastructure (SemiAnalysis)
2026-01-01 03:09 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Elon Musk says Neuralink plans to start "high-volume production" of brain-computer interface devices and move to a fully automated surgical procedure in 2026 (Reuters)
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Adam Mosseri details trends shaping Instagram and says it'll be more practical to authenticate real media than label AI, as AI gets better at imitating reality (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
2026-01-01 01:09 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The FBI says fraudsters bilked Americans out of $333.5M via bitcoin ATM scams from January through November 2025, up from roughly $250M in 2024 (Lucien Bruggeman/ABC News)
2025-12-31 23:09 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Thiel Capital opens an office in Miami, as Peter Thiel and others reportedly look to cut ties with California over a proposed ballot measure to tax billionaires (Biz Carson/Bloomberg)
2025-12-31 22:09 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
TSMC says the US government has granted the company an annual license to import US chip manufacturing equipment to its facilities in Nanjing, China (Reuters)
2025-12-31 22:09 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Internal docs reveal Meta's tactics to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, including efforts to make scam ads "not findable" for regulators and others (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)
2025-12-31 21:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filing: Chinese AI chip startup Biren raises ~$717M in its Hong Kong IPO; institutional and retail tranches were oversubscribed ~26x and ~2,348x, respectively (Himanshi Akhand/Reuters)
2025-12-31 20:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Unsealed documents detail a US operation that stopped the alleged smuggling of $160M worth of Nvidia H100 and H200 GPUs to China between Oct. 2024 and May 2025 (CNBC)
2025-12-31 19:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Uber is in talks to acquire the parking space reservation app SpotHero; the parking app was last valued at $290M (The Information)
2025-12-31 18:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Finland seizes a ship suspected of damaging an undersea cable linking Helsinki and Estonia in the Gulf of Finland; Estonia says a second cable was also damaged (Essi Lehto/Reuters)
2025-12-31 15:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Trump Media, owner of Truth Social, plans to distribute a new token to shareholders with partner Crypto.com, expected to operate on the Cronos blockchain (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
2025-12-31 17:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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