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Sources: China plans to approve some imports of Nvidia's H200 chips as soon as Q1 2026 while still barring them from military use and critical infrastructure (John Liu/Bloomberg)
2026-01-08 07:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features, including member tags
2026-01-07 15:43 - https://techcrunch.com/feed/
 
A4 Paper Stories
2026-01-07 13:43 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Letting prisons jam contraband phones is a bad idea, phone companies tell FCC
2026-01-06 21:38 - https://arstechnica.com/feed/
 
Big US hospital systems have become a proving ground for AI adoption; a survey finds that 27% of health systems are paying for commercial AI licenses (Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-08 07:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Samsung says Ballie, a robot announced six years ago but never released, is an "active innovation platform" within the company helping inform other products (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
2026-01-08 06:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Local governments across China are funding dozens of "robot training centers", where human trainers mimic movements like folding clothes to teach the robots (Rest of World)
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The US FCC exempts some new models of foreign-made drones and critical components from an import ban, announced in December 2025, until the end of 2026 (David Shepardson/Reuters)
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AI misses nearly one-third of breast cancers, study finds
2026-01-08 07:46 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Show HN: Open database of link metadata for large-scale analysis
2026-01-08 09:47 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Sources: to hedge against Beijing approval risk, Nvidia is requiring Chinese customers to pay upfront for H200 chips, with no cancellations, refunds, or changes (Reuters)
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Ubisoft closes its mobile-focused Halifax studio weeks after majority of the workers voted to unionize, as CWA Canada says it is "demanding information" (Chris Kerr/Game Developer)
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Grok's website and app are being used to produce extremely graphic, sometimes violent, sexual imagery of adults that is far more explicit than images on X (Wired)
2026-01-08 05:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft's chief scientist Eric Horvitz warns that the US' cuts to academic research funding could push talent abroad and hand rivals an edge in the AI race (Financial Times)
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Chinese AI company Zhipu opened up 3.3% in its Hong Kong trading debut after raising ~$558M in its IPO at a valuation of about $6.55B (Yantoultra Ngui/Reuters)
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Sources: OpenAI last fall set aside RSUs worth 10% of the company, which was valued in October at $500B; it has already awarded about $80B in vested equity (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
2026-01-08 03:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How dependabot works
2026-01-08 02:46 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Cyera researchers detail Ni8mare, a critical RCE flaw that lets hackers access local instances of the n8n workflow automation platform, impacting ~100K servers (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
2026-01-08 02:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Ford plans to launch an AI voice assistant on its apps this year before expanding to its vehicles in 2027, and aims to debut Level 3 autonomous driving in 2028 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
2026-01-08 01:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Arm creates a "Physical AI" unit to focus on robotics and automotive sectors, as part of a reorganization that includes "Cloud and AI" and "Edge" business units (Reuters)
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