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Sources: Google, Meta, Netflix, Microsoft, and Amazon will not be included in the EU's Digital Networks Act, despite calls from telecoms companies (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
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Statcounter: four months after its release, iOS 26 is in use by only about 15% of iPhone users; in January 2025, about 63% of users were on iOS 18 (Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac)
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Source: a few weeks before Grok started "digitally undressing" people, Elon Musk expressed frustration over guardrails on Grok's image and video generator (Hadas Gold/CNN)
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Are people updating to iOS 26? Here's what the data reportedly shows (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
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NetBlocks says internet connectivity in Iran has fallen on multiple providers as protests hit 100+ cities; Cloudflare says IPv6 traffic has dropped sharply (Cody Combs/The National)
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Sources: OpenAI has been slow to expand in-app checkouts for ChatGPT as the startup and its partners Shopify and Stripe struggle to standardize merchant data (Ann Gehan/The Information)
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Tailwind CSS lays off three of its four engineers after Google traffic to its documentation fell ~40% from early 2023 due to AI, causing an ~80% drop in revenue (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
2026-01-08 17:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
ThreatModeler, which helps developers identify vulnerabilities in their applications, acquires IriusRisk, its largest competitor, a source says for $100M+ (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
2026-01-08 17:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of Apple SVP of Hardware Engineering John Ternus, who sources say is considered the front-runner to succeed Tim Cook, who wants to reduce his workload (New York Times)
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FIFA says parts of 2026 World Cup soccer games will be broadcast live on TikTok and some creators will get access to press conferences and training sessions (Jessica Hopkins/The Athletic)
2026-01-08 16:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese AI startup MiniMax raises ~$619M in its Hong Kong IPO, at the top of its marketed range; sources: its institutional offering was oversubscribed by 70x+ (Dave Sebastian/Bloomberg)
2026-01-08 16:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft launches Copilot Checkout in the US, enabling in-chat purchases via PayPal, Shopify, Stripe, and others; Shopify merchants are automatically enrolled (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
2026-01-08 15:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
CrowdStrike buys identity management startup SGNL, in a deal valued at nearly $740M, to bolster identity security defenses on its flagship Falcon platform (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
2026-01-08 15:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Illicit crypto addresses received a record $154B in 2025, up 162% YoY, driven by sanctions evasion; Russia's A7A5 token transacted $93.3B+ in less than one year (Chainalysis)
2026-01-08 14:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Pomelo Care, which delivers 24/7 virtual care for women by using data to flag pregnancy risks and more, raised $92M led by Stripes at a $1.7B valuation (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
2026-01-08 15:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The EU says it ordered X to retain all internal docs and data relating to Grok until the end of 2026, after criticizing Grok's nonconsensual image generation (Louise Breusch Rasmussen/Reuters)
2026-01-08 13:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Protege, which offers an AI data platform to access high-quality, proprietary training data at scale, raised $30M from a16z, extending its $25M Series A (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
2026-01-08 13:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google rolls out an AI Inbox view for Gmail, showing users to-dos and summaries of topics rather than a traditional email list, first for US "trusted testers" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
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Google makes Help Me Write, AI email summaries, and Suggested Replies free to all Gmail users; the features required a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription (Abner Li/9to5Google)
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Sources: China is considering how to build fences around its AI know-how amid the AI race and is identifying standout companies to add to an export control list (Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-08 12:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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