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Techmeme - 2026-01-09T12:20:42-05:00

The Golden Globes signs a deal with Polymarket, which will provide stats and predictions about the awards show at the official 2026 viewing party (Jordan Moreau/Variety) - 2026-01-09T12:20:01-05:00

The UK FCA grants Ripple approval for its Electronic Money Institution license and crypto asset registration, clearing the way for Ripple's UK expansion (Sarah Wynn/The Block) - 2026-01-09T11:15:01-05:00

a16z captured 18%+ of all venture capital allocated in the US in 2025 and now manages $90B in assets, vs. Sequoia Capital's $56B and General Catalyst's $43B (Iain Martin/Forbes) - 2026-01-09T10:35:00-05:00

Sources say DeepSeek will launch V4, its next-generation model, in the coming weeks and say it outperformed Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's GPT series in coding (The Information) - 2026-01-09T09:20:12-05:00

Rain, which helps businesses issue stablecoin-linked Visa cards, raised a $250M Series C led by ICONIQ at a $1.95B valuation, taking its total funding to $338M+ (Pragyan Kalita/Reuters) - 2026-01-09T08:45:01-05:00

X is restricting Grok's image capabilities via the @grok command for free users, but they can still create sexual deepfakes via X's "Edit image" or Grok's app (Robert Hart/The Verge) - 2026-01-09T08:35:13-05:00

The EU says it is considering designating WhatsApp a "very large platform", after Meta published WhatsApp user numbers above the DSA threshold in February 2025 (Louise Breusch Rasmussen/Reuters) - 2026-01-09T08:20:13-05:00

a16z raises $15B+ across five new funds, including $6.75B for its fifth growth fund, the largest sum, and $3B for unspecified "other venture strategies" (Dan Primack/Axios) - 2026-01-09T08:10:01-05:00

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) - 2026-01-09T07:55:02-05:00

Meta strikes a 20-year deal to buy 2,600+ MW of nuclear power from three Vistra plants, and announces deals to back new TerraPower and Oklo reactor projects (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal) - 2026-01-09T06:55:04-05:00

How Craigslist has stayed relevant as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds, public profiles, or ratings (Jennifer Swann/Wired) - 2026-01-09T05:20:14-05:00

Grok says image generation and editing are now limited to paid subscribers, after outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery (Helena Horton/The Guardian) - 2026-01-09T03:00:14-05:00

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) - 2026-01-09T02:25:00-05:00

Chinese humanoid robotics companies dominated CES 2026, but a wide gap remains between choreographed demonstrations and large-scale, real-world deployment (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg) - 2026-01-09T02:00:01-05:00

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) - 2026-01-09T00:25:02-05:00