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Techmeme - 2026-01-12T10:50:37-05:00

Document: Meta said last week that it would exclude Italy from its ban on rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp, after an order from the country's antitrust authority (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters) - 2026-01-12T10:50:00-05:00

Alphabet hits a $4T market cap in intraday trading, becoming the fourth Big Tech company to reach the milestone, after its stock rose 6% in the past month (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times) - 2026-01-12T10:48:26-05:00

Researchers from Nvidia, Microsoft, and others use AI on 1M+ species to generate potential new gene editing and drug therapies, including AI-designed enzymes (Financial Times) - 2026-01-12T10:40:02-05:00

Apple announces a multi-year Google deal to use Gemini and Cloud to power Siri's features in 2026, saying Google's tech "provides the most capable foundation" (Samantha Subin/CNBC) - 2026-01-12T10:24:44-05:00

Nvidia and Eli Lilly plan to invest $1B over five years in a new Silicon Valley-based AI drug laboratory, aiming to boost the pharmaceutical industry's AI use (Bloomberg) - 2026-01-12T10:15:00-05:00

A viral Chinese app called "Are You Dead?" that checks on people living alone becomes the top paid app in Apple's App Store in China, as many elderly live alone (Financial Times) - 2026-01-12T10:05:00-05:00

Crypto custody company BitGo aims to raise up to $201M in its IPO on the NYSE at an up to $1.96B valuation, selling 11.8M shares at $15 to $17 per share (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters) - 2026-01-12T09:35:08-05:00

Eddy Cue says 2025 was a "record-breaking year" for Apple services: December was a monthly TV engagement record, the App Store has 850M+ weekly users, and more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter) - 2026-01-12T09:15:01-05:00

Michael Saylor's Strategy bought 13,627 bitcoin for ~$1.25B between January 5 and 11, taking its total holdings to 687,410, and boosts its USD reserve to $2.25B (James Hunt/The Block) - 2026-01-12T09:00:52-05:00

Meta appoints Dina Powell McCormick, a prominent banking executive and former Republican official, as president and vice chair, reporting to Mark Zuckerberg (Sara Fischer/Axios) - 2026-01-12T08:50:03-05:00

Ampere Analysis expects streaming services' content spend to grow 6% in 2026 to $101B, crossing $100B for the first time, and overall content spend to grow 2% (Max Goldbart/Deadline) - 2026-01-12T08:25:00-05:00

Ofcom opens an investigation under the OSA into Grok over the sexualized deepfakes of women and kids being generated on X and threatens X with a ban or a fine (Financial Times) - 2026-01-12T06:35:00-05:00

Global smartphone shipments rose 2% YoY in 2025; Apple led with 20% market share and 10% YoY growth, followed by Samsung's 19% market share and 5% YoY growth (Counterpoint Research) - 2026-01-12T06:25:00-05:00

Paris-based autonomous drone maker Harmattan AI raised a $200M Series B led by Dassault at a $1.4B valuation, and aims to produce 10K drones per month in 2026 (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg) - 2026-01-12T06:05:00-05:00

Sources and filings: Peter Thiel donated $3M to a group to beat California's wealth tax proposal, the first of several expected tech leader donations in 2026 (New York Times) - 2026-01-12T05:55:01-05:00