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a16z raises over $15B across five new funds, including $6.75B for its fifth growth fund and $3B for unspecified "other venture strategies" (Dan Primack/Axios)
2026-01-09 13:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filings: X's UK revenue fell 58.3% YoY from £69.1M in 2023 to £28.9M in 2024; pre-tax profit fell from £8.5M in 2022 and £2.2M in 2023 to £767K in 2024 (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
2026-01-09 13:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta strikes a 20-year deal to buy 2,600+ MW of nuclear power from Vistra, and announces deals to back new reactor projects from TerraPower and Oklo (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-09 12:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles (Jennifer Swann/Wired)
2026-01-09 10:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Omdia: global humanoid robot shipments rose more than 5x YoY in 2025 to ~13K units; China accounted for the vast majority, led by AgiBot shipping ~5,168 units (Bloomberg)
2026-01-09 07:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
X limits Grok's image generation and editing to paying subscribers after widespread outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery (Helena Horton/The Guardian)
2026-01-09 08:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese humanoid robotics companies dominated CES 2026, but a wide gap remains between choreographed demonstrations and real-world deployment (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
2026-01-09 07:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Artemis Analytics: total stablecoin transaction volumes rose 72% YoY to a record $33T in 2025, led by Circle's USDC at $18.3T and Tether's USDT at $13.3T (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)
2026-01-09 05:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese AI startup MiniMax jumped as much as 54% in its Hong Kong debut on Friday, after raising ~$619M in its IPO priced at ~$21.17 per share (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)
2026-01-09 04:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Lambda, which rents access to AI chips and is backed by Nvidia, is in talks to raise $350M+ led by Mubadala Capital, ahead of an IPO planned for H2 2026 (The Information)
2026-01-09 03:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Seattle-based Spangle AI, which makes AI tools for online retailers to build custom storefronts, raised a $15M Series A led by NewRoad at a $100M valuation (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
2026-01-09 02:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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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