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Techmeme - 2026-01-13T03:55:38-05:00

Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are studying LLMs like living things, not just software, to uncover some of their secrets for the first time (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review) - 2026-01-13T03:45:01-05:00

A look at WhatsApp's enormous global reach and influence, and how the messaging app became the dominant platform for everyday conversation worldwide (Sam Knight/New Yorker) - 2026-01-13T02:25:02-05:00

Microsoft warns Chinese companies, especially DeepSeek, are winning AI adoption outside the West, gaining significant market share in the Global South (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times) - 2026-01-13T01:20:00-05:00

The NYC token, launched by ex-New York City Mayor Eric Adams on January 12, saw its market cap drop from ~$600M to ~$100M after suspicious liquidity activity (Decrypt) - 2026-01-13T00:50:02-05:00

Sources: Balderton cashed out ~$2B of its Revolut stake in the past year, turning an early £1M bet into a historic European VC win; its fifth fund returned 25x (Financial Times) - 2026-01-13T00:45:00-05:00

Chinese chipmaker GigaDevice rose 54% in its Hong Kong debut after raising ~$600M in its IPO, and reported H1 2025 profit of ~$84M, up 14% from H2 2024 (Bloomberg) - 2026-01-12T23:00:13-05:00

Nvidia denies that it asked Chinese customers to pay upfront for H200 chips, saying it "would never require customers to pay for products they do not receive" (Reuters) - 2026-01-12T22:35:00-05:00

A late-2025 amendment to California's wealth tax proposal treats founder control as ownership, a move that could end founder-controlled startups in the state (Mike Solana/Pirate Wires) - 2026-01-12T21:40:00-05:00

SK Hynix will invest ~$12.9B to build an advanced chip packaging plant in South Korea to meet rising memory chip demand, targeting completion by the end of 2027 (Reuters) - 2026-01-12T20:25:00-05:00

Trump says Microsoft will "ensure" Americans don't face higher bills due to data centers' power use and Big Tech must "pay their own way" for their data centers (Business Insider) - 2026-01-12T19:50:01-05:00

Personal finance app Betterment says an individual accessed third-party systems to send fake crypto scam notification and believes the person accessed user info (Emily Mason/Bloomberg) - 2026-01-12T18:05:00-05:00

Claude Cowork hands-on: looks well positioned to bring the powerful capabilities of Claude Code to a wider audience, but the risks of prompt injections remain (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog) - 2026-01-12T17:15:01-05:00

Bakkt agrees to acquire Distributed Technologies Research, the stablecoin infrastructure company founded by Bakkt CEO Akshay Naheta; BKKT closed up 18.69% (Daniel Kuhn/The Block) - 2026-01-12T17:00:34-05:00

OpenAI acquires Torch, a one-year-old AI health care app that aggregates and analyzes medical records; a source says OpenAI is paying about $100M in equity (Laura Mandaro/The Information) - 2026-01-12T16:05:00-05:00

Elon Musk says Apple and Google's Gemini deal "seems like an unreasonable concentration of power for Google given that [they] also have Android and Chrome" (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) - 2026-01-12T16:00:45-05:00