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London-based e-commerce logistics platform Swap raised a $100M Series C led by DST Global and Iconiq, after raising a $40M Series B in March 2025 (Axios)
2026-01-07 15:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nike quietly sold its digital products subsidiary RTFKT on December 16 for an undisclosed sum, roughly one year after Nike shuttered the NFT unit (Matthew Kish/Oregonian)
2026-01-07 13:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
As Trump and Big Tech aim to build SMRs to win the AI race, a look at the issues they face; none of the 50 SMRs under development have a US operating license (Jamie Smyth/Financial Times)
2026-01-07 14:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
London-based data center company GTR raised $1.5B from KKR and ~$400M from Oak Hill to develop its facilities in England, Barcelona, Zurich, and Tel Aviv (Financial Times)
2026-01-07 13:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Memo: JPMorgan's asset management unit cuts ties with proxy advisory firms to use its AI-powered Proxy IQ platform to assist on US votes, an industry first (Jack Pitcher/Wall Street Journal)
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Intel spinout and enterprise AI company Articul8 raised over half of a $70M Series B at a $500M pre-money valuation and expects the round to close in Q1 2026 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
2026-01-07 12:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Roblox expands mandatory age estimations for chat features to all regions using Persona's tech, after a rollout in Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands (Jay Peters/The Verge)
2026-01-07 12:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
WBD's board unanimously rejects Paramount's amended $108.4B acquisition offer, saying the bid still has "significant" risks compared to Netflix's $83B offer (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
2026-01-07 12:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Researcher: Grok generated ~6,700 sexually suggestive or "nudifying" images per hour on X between January 5 and January 6; 85% of Grok images are sexualized (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
2026-01-07 12:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filing: Samsung plans to acquire $1.73B of its stock for employee and executive compensation, as part of a performance-linked scheme introduced in October 2025 (Kyu-seok Shim/Reuters)
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Polymarket is disputing that the US mission to capture Nicolás Maduro constituted an "invasion", refusing to pay out bets on a contract with $10.5M in wagers (Financial Times)
2026-01-07 11:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Samsung says it expects memory chip supply shortages to raise prices across the electronics industry, including potentially among its own consumer products (Bloomberg)
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Jensen Huang says Nvidia has "fired up" H200 production in the expectation of resumed China sales and it is working on the "last details" with the US government (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
2026-01-07 11:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
GWI: LinkedIn's 2025 revenue rose to $17B from $7B in 2020 as users doubled to 1.3B; 4.7% of US users checked more than once per day in 2025, from 3.9% in 2020 (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-07 09:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Kalshi and Polymarket's lucrative shift toward sports, as high-profile real-world bets raise questions about access, integrity, and US CFTC regulation (Bloomberg)
2026-01-07 08:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese AI startups Zhipu and MiniMax are set to go public in Hong Kong on January 8 and 9, respectively; MiniMax has 210M+ users, and Zhipu has 8,000+ clients (Bloomberg)
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As data center development pressures power grids, officials have proposed requiring data centers to power down or switch to a backup when blackout risks rise (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-07 07:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An interview with Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu on his new role as Google's chief AI architect, Gemini 3, progress toward the goal of AGI, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
2026-01-07 07:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
PitchBook-NVCA: global VC investments hit $512B in 2025 with AI accounting for 50%+; VC fundraising fell to a 10-year low of $118.6B, ~$100B less than in 2024 (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
2026-01-07 07:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How Google's ambitious approach to training Gemini on text, code, audio, images, and video helped it stage a powerful comeback, triggering a Code Red at OpenAI (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-07 07:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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