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Documents: OpenAI is asking contractors to upload their work from current or previous jobs to evaluate its models, leaving it to them to scrub confidential info (Wired)
2026-01-10 02:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service; CEO Matthew Prince says he will discuss it with US officials (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
2026-01-10 01:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Poland's President Karol Nawrocki vetoes legislation meant to enforce the EU's DSA in Poland, arguing it would grant excessive powers to government officials (Wojciech Kość/Politico)
2026-01-10 00:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Anthropic adds safeguards to prevent third-party apps, like OpenCode, from spoofing Claude Code to access Claude models for more favorable pricing and limits (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
2026-01-10 00:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The FCC approves SpaceX's request to deploy an additional 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites, bringing the total to 15,000 satellites worldwide (David Shepardson/Reuters)
2026-01-09 23:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US Commerce Department drops a plan to impose restrictions on Chinese drones to address national security concerns; FCC barred imports in December 2025 (David Shepardson/Reuters)
2026-01-09 23:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Boltz, which is developing open frontier AI models for biomolecular research, raised a $28M seed led by Zetta, Amplify, and a16z at a valuation of $125M (Andrew Dunn/Endpoints News)
2026-01-09 22:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A deep dive into a16z, which has stakes in 10 of the top 15 private companies by valuation and whose Funds 1-4 totaled $853B in enterprise value at distribution (Packy McCormick/Not Boring)
2026-01-09 21:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI and kids safety group Common Sense Media partner to consolidate competing measures for a California ballot initiative meant to protect kids from chatbots (Maria Curi/Axios)
2026-01-09 21:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: OnePay, the fintech firm behind Walmart's "super app", recently bought back shares from employees at a price that values the startup at more than $4B (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
2026-01-09 20:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Amazon files planning documents in Illinois to construct a 225,000 square foot big-box store, a return to a "Target-like" retail concept it previously shelved (Ann Gehan/The Information)
2026-01-09 20:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI and SoftBank says they will each invest $500M in SB Energy to support the infrastructure company's growth as a data center developer and operator (Bloomberg)
2026-01-09 19:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The UK government says X restricting Grok's image creation to paid users is insulting as it just makes the ability to generate unlawful images a premium service (The Guardian)
2026-01-09 18:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The Golden Globes signs a deal with Polymarket, which will provide stats and predictions about the awards show at the official 2026 viewing party (Jordan Moreau/Variety)
2026-01-09 17:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The UK FCA grants Ripple approval for its Electronic Money Institution license and crypto asset registration, clearing the way for Ripple's UK expansion (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
2026-01-09 16:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A16z captured 18%+ of all US venture capital allocated in 2025 and now manages $90B in assets, vs Sequoia Capital's $56B and General Catalyst's $43B (Iain Martin/Forbes)
2026-01-09 15:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources say DeepSeek will launch V4, its next-generation model, in the coming weeks and say it outperformed Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's GPT series in coding (The Information)
2026-01-09 14:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Rain, which helps businesses issue stablecoin-linked Visa cards, raised a $250M Series C led by ICONIQ at a $1.95B valuation, bringing total funding to $338M+ (Pragyan Kalita/Reuters)
2026-01-09 13:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
X is restricting Grok's image capabilities via the @grok reply command, but free users can still create sexual deepfakes through the standalone Grok app or site (Robert Hart/The Verge)
2026-01-09 13:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The EU says it is considering designating WhatsApp a "very large platform", after WhatsApp published user numbers above the DSA threshold in February 2025 (Louise Breusch Rasmussen/Reuters)
2026-01-09 13:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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