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Techmeme - 2026-01-12T01:40:32-05:00

President Trump says "we may speak to Elon" about using Starlink to restore the internet in Iran, after the state imposed an internet blackout amid protests (Rachael Levy/Reuters) - 2026-01-12T01:40:04-05:00

A profile of China's CXMT, whose $4.2B IPO goal would rank among the century's biggest chip debuts, as the memory chip maker faces US and South Korean curbs (Wall Street Journal) - 2026-01-12T01:05:01-05:00

Chinese AI executives say China is unlikely to eclipse the US in the AI race anytime soon, citing limited resources and US chip export curbs as key constraints (Bloomberg) - 2026-01-12T00:25:01-05:00

Naver, the largest South Korean buyer of Nvidia chips, is pitching its AI cloud services as an alternative for countries reluctant to use US or Chinese services (Song Jung-a/Financial Times) - 2026-01-11T23:45:01-05:00

Despite projections of memory shortages for PCs and phones, producers like Micron will proceed cautiously in adding new capacity, mindful of past downcycles (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal) - 2026-01-11T22:20:02-05:00

Qatar and UAE will join the Pax Silica coalition on January 12 and 15, respectively, expanding the US-led effort to secure AI and semiconductor supply chains (Jarrett Renshaw/Reuters) - 2026-01-11T21:15:01-05:00

A profile of SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell, who has worked at the company since 2002, and is known as a customer emissary and Musk translator (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal) - 2026-01-11T19:00:44-05:00

Anthropic announces Claude for Healthcare to offer HIPAA-ready tools for providers, insurers, and consumers, and expands its life sciences offerings (Eugene Kim/Business Insider) - 2026-01-11T17:20:02-05:00

ATG, which is developing the AI-powered wealth strategist app Autonomous, emerges from stealth and raises a $15M pre-seed led by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider) - 2026-01-11T16:55:00-05:00

Tucuvi, which develops AI agents that check in with patients and escalate cases to human teams when needed, raised a $20M Series A, led by Cathay and Leadwind (John Reynolds/Tech.eu) - 2026-01-11T14:55:02-05:00

Instagram says there was no breach and it fixed an issue that let an external party send password reset emails, after reports that 17.5M users' data was exposed (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge) - 2026-01-11T13:20:00-05:00

Tel Aviv-based Torq, which operates an autonomous AI-powered security operations platform, raised $140M led by Merlin Ventures at a $1.2B valuation (Andrew Martin/Bloomberg) - 2026-01-11T12:40:00-05:00

Malaysia becomes the second country to limit access to Grok, joining Indonesia, over the chatbot's generation of sexual content (Bloomberg) - 2026-01-11T11:20:00-05:00

Walmart to expand Wing, Alphabet's on-demand drone delivery service, to another 150 stores, bringing the total to 270+ stores, covering ~10% of US population (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch) - 2026-01-11T11:15:00-05:00

Walmart partners with Google to offer AI-enhanced shopping, allowing users to purchase Walmart and Sam's Club items directly on Gemini (Jaewon Kang/Bloomberg) - 2026-01-11T11:00:42-05:00