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Techmeme - 2026-01-31T02:10:47-05:00

Ant Group reports 30M MAUs for its AI health chatbot Ant Afu, which integrates appointments, test analysis, and insurance payments within Alipay's ecosystem (Viola Zhou/Rest of World) - 2026-01-31T02:10:01-05:00

Global Net: three Chinese firms ranked among the world's top 20 chipmaking equipment manufacturers in 2025, up from one in 2022, with Naura Tech rising to fifth (Fumie Yaku/Nikkei Asia) - 2026-01-31T01:50:01-05:00

TechCreate's shares surged ~1,995% in the past week; the payment software company says it is not aware of any info that would account for the trading activity (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News) - 2026-01-31T01:40:02-05:00

Sandisk and Kioxia announce a five-year extension of their JV manufacturing contract from 2029 to 2034; the new deal involves SanDisk paying Kioxia $1.165B (Ryo Mukano/Nikkei Asia) - 2026-01-31T01:30:05-05:00

Taiwan's GDP rose 12.68% in Q4 2025, its fastest quarterly growth since 1987; full-year GDP grew 8.63%, topping the 7.5% forecast on AI demand for tech products (Bloomberg) - 2026-01-31T01:05:01-05:00

OpenAI details its custom internal-only GPT‑5.2-powered AI data agent that allows its employees to do natural language data analysis across 600+ PB of data (OpenAI) - 2026-01-31T00:05:01-05:00

Even though Moltbook has security risks and a lot of spam, the scale of nearly 150,000 autonomous AI agents interacting with each other is unprecedented (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy) - 2026-01-30T23:02:07-05:00

A look at South Park Commons, the VC firm behind a startup community focusing on idea exploration over immediate business plans, as it aims to raise $500M (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg) - 2026-01-30T22:10:01-05:00

A US judge says her "tentative view" is to grant OpenAI's motion to dismiss xAI's lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets by poaching xAI employees (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) - 2026-01-30T21:10:01-05:00

Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen and crypto evangelist Tim Draper plan to spend millions this year on an effort to elect moderate California legislators (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times) - 2026-01-30T20:30:01-05:00

Report: Jensen Huang has privately criticized what he has described as a lack of discipline in OpenAI's business approach (Fabiola Arámburo/Reuters) - 2026-01-30T19:55:01-05:00

Indian e-commerce platform Meesho reports Q3 net loss of Rs. 4.91B, or $53.4M, up from Rs. 374.3M a year ago, in its first earnings report since its IPO (Komal Salecha/Reuters) - 2026-01-30T19:50:03-05:00

Sources: Nvidia's plan to invest up to $100B in OpenAI, announced in September 2025, has stalled after some inside Nvidia expressed doubts about the deal (Wall Street Journal) - 2026-01-30T19:01:47-05:00

Tether says it generated over $10B in net profits in 2025, down from $13B+ in 2024, and says it holds $193B in assets backing the $186B USDT in circulation (Daniel Kuhn/The Block) - 2026-01-30T18:20:04-05:00

A look at the clash between Coinbase and Wall Street over the Clarity Act and whether crypto exchanges can offer stablecoin "rewards" (Wall Street Journal) - 2026-01-30T18:00:36-05:00