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Israeli data security startup Cyera raised a $400M Series F led by Blackstone Growth at a $9B valuation, up from $6B after raising $540M in June 2025 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
2026-01-08 12:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood predicts "we'll see the first 100% AI-generated hit movie" within three years and discusses Roku's new $3/month Howdy streamer (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
2026-01-08 11:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Lego says its Smart Brick is "here to stay" but "does not mean that we're leaving our core proposition behind", after criticism of abandoning non-digital play (Tom Phillips/IGN)
2026-01-08 12:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources and US tax lawyers: the IRS's planned audit of private equity and VC firms is faltering under President Trump, as many senior leaders leave the agency (Jesse Drucker/New York Times)
2026-01-08 12:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: China's Salt Typhoon accessed the emails of staff on powerful US House committees, detected last December, and intercepted senior US officials' calls (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
2026-01-08 10:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: wealthy Californians are quietly mobilizing on WhatsApp and calls in a long-shot bid to oust Rep. Ro Khanna, who supports a controversial wealth tax (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
2026-01-08 11:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of Replit co-founder Amjad Masad, who was shunned in investor circles for his criticism of Israel's war in Gaza before Replit's AI agent took off (Margaux MacColl/The San Francisco ...)
2026-01-08 10:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
China says it will investigate Meta's $2B Manus acquisition to assess compliance with laws on export controls, tech import and export, and overseas investment (CNBC)
2026-01-08 09:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of VC firm Index Ventures, which saw billions in gains from exits in 2025, including Figma, Scale AI, and Dream Games, as it looks ahead to succession (Bloomberg)
2026-01-08 10:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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
 
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)
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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)
2026-01-08 07:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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)
2026-01-08 07:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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)
2026-01-08 06:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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)
2026-01-08 06:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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)
2026-01-08 06:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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)
2026-01-08 05:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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
 
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