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Techmeme - 2026-02-01T21:25:34-05:00

TikTok US says it has resolved technical issues and glitches that have impacted core features, such as video likes and view counts, over the past week (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter) - 2026-02-01T21:25:01-05:00

Apple, long dominant in the electronics supply chain, is starting to be outbid by AI companies for components like memory as suppliers gain leverage over Apple (Wall Street Journal) - 2026-02-01T21:00:32-05:00

Oracle says it plans to raise $45B to $50B in 2026 to build additional capacity for its cloud infrastructure through a combination of debt and equity sales (Vincent Lee/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-01T18:40:01-05:00

SpaceX and Tesla are feeling the gravitational pull toward xAI, as Elon Musk looks to use his empire to fund xAI's ravenous appetite for cash and compute (Bloomberg) - 2026-02-01T18:30:02-05:00

Survey of 100 companies in the Global 2000 on AI use: 78% of CIOs use OpenAI models in production vs. 44% for Anthropic, but Anthropic's gains are impressive (a16z) - 2026-02-01T16:45:01-05:00

Researchers detail how AI tools for generating deepfakes proliferated on Civitai before it banned them in 2025; many tools submitted before the ban remain live (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review) - 2026-02-01T15:10:00-05:00

India proposes zero taxes for foreign cloud providers through 2047 on services sold outside the country as long as they run workloads from Indian data centers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-01T13:25:00-05:00

Indonesia lifts its ban on Grok after receiving a letter from X "outlining concrete steps" to prevent misuse; Indonesia was the first country to ban Grok (Jin Yu Young/New York Times) - 2026-02-01T12:55:00-05:00

Sources: Apple execs question if it has the ingredients to win in AI-first era, new MacBook Pros are about to launch, Apple considers clamshell foldable iPhone (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-01T12:35:02-05:00

India to exempt foreign companies from being taxed when providing equipment to their contract manufacturers in the country, a rule change Apple lobbied for (Reuters) - 2026-02-01T11:15:02-05:00

Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotics foundation models and has raised $1B+ (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-01T10:05:00-05:00

A look at iOS 26's call-screening feature: some see it as an executive assistant that filters unwanted calls and some complain it makes people hard to reach (Andrew Zucker/Wall Street Journal) - 2026-02-01T08:05:00-05:00

Chinese government funding is backing traditional Chinese medicine providers to adopt AI for drug discovery, clinical diagnostics, acupuncture robots, and more (Nicole Fan/Rest of World) - 2026-02-01T06:05:01-05:00

A look at China's "genius class" system, which picks ~100K gifted teens annually for elite science-focused schooling; its alumni span ByteDance, PDD, and more (Zijing Wu/Financial Times) - 2026-02-01T04:05:01-05:00

Anthropic positions itself as the AI sector's superego, but it's caught between the pressures to be safe, fast, and rigorous while being commercially successful (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic) - 2026-02-01T02:00:44-05:00