|
January 7, 2026, 1:05 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Researcher: Grok generated ~6,700 sexually suggestive or “nudifying” images per hour on X between January 5 and January 6; 85% of all Grok images are sexualized — Elon Musk's X has become a top site for images of people that have been non-consensually undressed by AI …
More: Wired, American Prospect, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Reuters, Washington Post, Kotaku, Irish Independent, BBC, International Business Times, Semafor, The Independent, Sanjana Hattotuwa, and Associated Press
X: @stclairashley, @mikeisaac, @stephenlcasper, @byzantinespirit, @drewharwell, @ellamaulding, @unblockmekitten, @mikeisaac, @tiffanyfong, @daisyldixon, @amyklobuchar, @adrianweckler, and @ashleyrgold. LinkedIn: Melissa McKay
Bluesky: @eliothiggins, @chafkin, @thinkorswim, @gsoh31, @ryanlcooper.com, @ryanlcooper.com, @ddayen, @jamesrball.com, @ottoenglish, @shiraovide, @carnage4life, and @bencollins
Forums: r/Twitter, r/technology, and r/technews
| Financial Times: |
Polymarket is disputing that the US mission to capture Nicolás Maduro constituted an “invasion”, refusing to pay out bets on a contract with $10.5M+ in wagers — Prediction market disputes US raid amounted to an invasion in fight over more than $10.5mn in wagers
More: New York Post, Quartz, Forbes, Cryptonews, BeInCrypto, The Crypto Basic, MarketWatch, crypto.news, and Yahoo Finance
X: @thetrillbillies, @rmdmac, @admcrlsn, @trader_53, @ahall_research, @divine_economy, @mikeandallie, @kath_krueger, @theneedledrop, @yc, @ripplebrain, @edzitron, and @fortunapro_sol
Bluesky: @jkarsh, @jessicacalarco.com, @caseynewton, @stevekovach, @nicoledesignsdata.com, and @carnage4life. Forums: Slashdot
| Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: |
Polymarket agrees to supply Dow Jones outlets like the WSJ and Barron's with prediction market trading data for online and in print, its first media partnership — Polymarket will supply Dow Jones with trading data under a new partnership, the latest in a string of deals between exchanges …
More: The Block, Reuters, Business Wire, Watcher Guru, and Crypto Briefing
X: @polymarket, @polymarket, and @jasonshubnell
| Bloomberg: |
More: Axios, Business Insider, and Politico
| Hugh Langley / Business Insider: |
Filings: Larry Page moved his assets out of California ahead of its proposed wealth tax, meeting an end-of-2025 deadline; a source says he had left the state — - Google cofounder Larry Page is cutting ties with California. — A source said Page had already left the state.
More: Android Headlines, Newsmax, Neowin, Telegraph, and Implicator.ai
X: @teddyschleifer. LinkedIn: Hugh Langley. Bluesky: @laurajnelson, @carnage4life, @davelee.me, @fbajak, @joshsternberg.com, @rmac, and @mattrosoff. Forums: r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
More: New York Times, Fortune, Inc, The Ankler, The Week, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Quartz, Forbes, and Fox Business
X: @kylascan, @jimthegiant, @realmfoster, @mattbruenig, @tojamesconnor, @firstadopter, @aaronbastani, @iamtexture, and @danprimack. Bluesky: @laurajnelson
| Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal: |
How Google's ambitious approach to training Gemini on text, code, audio, images, and video helped it stage a powerful comeback, triggering a Code Red at OpenAI — After ChatGPT dominated early chatbot market, Google staged comeback with powerful AI model; biggest search-engine overhaul in years
More: The Economic Times, Business Insider, Moneycontrol, Search Engine Land, and Trak.in. LinkedIn: Alex Joseph
| Jamie Smyth / Financial Times: |
As Trump and Big Tech aim to build SMRs to “win” the AI race, a look at the issues they face; none of the 50+ SMRs under development have a US operating license — On an industrial site on the shores of Lake Michigan, hundreds of workers are racing to do something that has never … | Evan Halper / Washington Post: |
More: The Register, Financial Times, and Raw Story
| Qianer Liu / The Information: |
Sources: China has told some local tech companies to temporarily halt purchase orders for Nvidia's H200 chips while officials deliberate whether to approve them — The Chinese government this week asked some tech companies to temporarily halt plans to buy Nvidia's H200 AI chips … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Chinese officials are reviewing Meta's $2B Manus acquisition for possible tech export control violations, including Manus' relocation to Singapore — Commerce ministry assessing whether deal for Chinese-founded group violates technology export controls| Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap: |
WBD's board unanimously rejects Paramount's amended $108.4B acquisition offer, saying the bid still has “significant” risks compared to Netflix's $83B offer — The board says the revised $108.4 billion bid continues to offer “significant costs, risks and uncertainties” compared to its $83 billion deal with Netflix
More: Warner Bros. Discovery, Engadget, TechCrunch, Fortune, Washington Examiner, CNN, StreamTV Insider, The Irish Times, TV Tech, MS NOW, The Standard, The Independent, UPI, Cord Cutters News, Plain Dealer, BBC, Yahoo Finance, Los Angeles Times, Axios, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Wall Street Journal, GameSpot, New York Times, Financial Times, Deadline, Türkiye Today, The Streamable, CNBC, Media Play News, World of Reel, Mediaite, and BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
X: @sarafischer, @brianstelter, @brianstelter, @brianstelter, and @sarafischer. Bluesky: @tprstly.com. Forums: r/entertainment
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks agrees to acquire accounting platform TRES Finance, sources say for $130M in cash and equity; TRES raised $11M in 2023 — TRES Finance cofounders Tal Zackon (left) and Eilon Lotem.COURTESY OF TRES FINANCE — The blockchain infrastructure company Fireblocks …
More: Fireblocks, The Block, CoinDesk, Globes, Crypto Briefing, NFTgators, and The Paypers
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Discord files confidentially for a US IPO, working with Goldman and JPMorgan; Discord was valued at ~$15B in 2021, and rejected a $12B Microsoft offer — Discord Inc. filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter …
More: Reuters, Game Developer, PocketGamer.biz, Dexerto, MarketWatch, Neowin, Silicon Republic, Yahoo Finance, Fortune, and Benzinga
X: @mukund, @carlosindex02, @autismcapital, and @cecianasta. LinkedIn: Bailey Lipschultz. Mastodon: @djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place
Forums: r/discordapp and Slashdot
| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Motorola unveils the Razr Fold, its first book-style foldable phone, with a 6.6" outer display and an 8.1" 2K LTPO inner screen, expected to launch this summer — Lenovo Group Ltd.'s Motorola unveiled its first folding phone that opens like a book or passport, a departure from the string …
More: GSMArena.com, Tech Advisor, Moneycontrol, Gizchina, Lenovo StoryHub, Ubergizmo, Phandroid, MobileSyrup, MobileSyrup, TechRadar, PhoneArena, Liliputing, T3, Ars Technica, CNET, Android Police, XDA Developers, Wired, Android Headlines, Android Central, Tom's Guide, Engadget, The Verge, SlashGear, Phone Scoop, 9to5Google, 9to5Google, Phone Scoop, CNET, and Android Authority. X: @evleaks
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Roblox expands mandatory age estimations for chat features to all regions using Persona's tech, after a rollout in Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands — After a user's age has been verified, they'll be able to chat with others in similar age groups.
More: Business Wire, Engadget, Roblox, PCMag, Benzinga, Neowin, Stevivor, USA Today, 9to5Mac, The Sun, Mashable, and TechCrunch
Forums: r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/Games, and r/roblox
| Bloomberg: |
Samsung says it expects memory chip supply shortages to raise prices across the electronics industry, including potentially among its own consumer products — Samsung Electronics Co. expects memory chip supply shortages to raise prices across the electronics industry, including potentially among its own consumer products.| Matthew Kish / Oregonian: |
Nike quietly sold its digital products subsidiary RTFKT on December 16 for an undisclosed sum, roughly one year after Nike shuttered the NFT unit — Nike has sold one of its subsidiaries, but it's not the one on the minds of some analysts and industry watchers.
More: CoinDesk, NFTgators, The Business of Fashion, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, Coinspeaker, crypto.news, and Coinpedia Fintech News. Bluesky: @caseynewton
| Politico: |
Utah launches a pilot program with health-tech startup Doctronic to let AI systems handle routine prescription renewals for patients with chronic conditions — That raises new questions about the safety of automating prescription refills, including how they should be regulated.
More: Gizmodo, The Hill, People, FOX 13 News Utah, Healthcare IT News, Deseret News, NewsNation, Washington Examiner, CBS News, NDTV Profit, and commerce.utah.gov
X: @kevintfrazier, @andrewcurran_, and @doctronic
Forums: r/medicalschool, r/pharmacy, r/publichealth, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Spotify launches Listening Activity on iOS and Android, letting users view friends' real-time listening via the sidebar alongside chats, as an opt-in feature — The company is also adding a Request to Jam option to mobile chats. … Since almost day one, Spotify has offered the ability …
More: Spotify, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Thurrott, MacRumors, TechCrunch, PCMag, The Independent, and Android Authority
| Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal: |
GWI: LinkedIn's 2025 revenue rose to $17B from $7B in 2020 as users doubled to 1.3B; 4.7% of US users checked more than once per day in 2025, from 3.9% in 2020 — Data show people are scrolling longer on the site. Its secret is a founding principle that curbs toxicity. — It isn't just you.
More: PR Daily
| Gabriele Steinhauser / Wall Street Journal: |
Cambodia extradites Chen Zhi, the chairman of online scam conglomerate Prince Group, to China; in October, the US DOJ seized $12B in bitcoin belonging to Chen — Justice Department accused Chen Zhi of running a sprawling scam empire targeting Americans — Chen Zhi, the alleged ringleader …
More: The Record, The Block, DL News, Bloomberg, New York Daily News, and Reuters
| Puyaan Singh / Reuters: |
The US FDA says it will limit regulation of non-medical wellness wearables and AI software, provided they don't make claims about disease diagnosis or treatment — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday that it will limit regulation of wearable devices and software designed …
More: Gadgets & Wearables, Arabian Business, Becker's Hospital Review, and STAT
| xAI: |
xAI raised a $20B Series E, exceeding its $15B targeted round size, with participation from Valor, Nvidia, and others, and says Grok 5 is currently in training — xAI is rapidly accelerating its progress in building advanced AI. — xAI completed its upsized Series E funding round …
More: New York Times, Gizmodo, DatacenterDynamics, Mashable, The Guardian, Axios, AIN, TestingCatalog, Arabian Business, Analytics India Magazine, MarketWatch, eWeek, The Decoder, StrictlyVC, The Week, Forbes Middle East, Deadline, DigiTimes, Decrypt, TESLARATI, Pulse 2.0, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, The Economic Times, The Information, CNBC, Social Media Today, SiliconANGLE, Pixel Envy, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and Crypto Briefing
X: @elonmusk, @thomasslabbers, @aakashgupta, @edenchan, @andrewcurran_, @ayushjaiswal, @yuhu_ai_, @sawyermerritt, @nearlydaniel, @yuchenj_uw, @josephjacks_, @shaunmmaguire, @jimmybajimmyba, @kevinxu, @tetsuoai, @alvinfoo, @andrewcurran_, and @krishnanrohit. LinkedIn: Joe Frederickson. Bluesky: @caseynewton
Forums: r/singularity and r/teslainvestorsclub
Sponsor Posts
Airtable:
The central nervous system of your business — Used by 80% of Fortune 100 companies, Airtable combines AI with the scale of an infinitely flexible, no-code system. With all your data in one place, it's like mission control for your company.
The central nervous system of your business — Used by 80% of Fortune 100 companies, Airtable combines AI with the scale of an infinitely flexible, no-code system. With all your data in one place, it's like mission control for your company.
Intel:
5G's most deployed platform — Powering live networks with built-in Inference across Core and RAN. That's the power of Intel Inside®
5G's most deployed platform — Powering live networks with built-in Inference across Core and RAN. That's the power of Intel Inside®
Zoho:
AI that actually helps: Practical intelligence in Zoho Workplace — Lately, most AI assistants feel like that one over-eager intern who interrupts every five minutes with a suggestion you didn't ask for.At Zoho …
AI that actually helps: Practical intelligence in Zoho Workplace — Lately, most AI assistants feel like that one over-eager intern who interrupts every five minutes with a suggestion you didn't ask for.At Zoho …
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
The Social Radars:
Peter Reinhardt, CEO & co-founder, Charm Industrial; CEO & co-founder, Segment
Come be a fly on the wall as Y Combinator's Jessica Livingston and Carolynn Levy talk to some of the most successful founders in Silicon Valley about how they did it.
Subscribe to The Social Radars.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
Garry Tan, Harj Taggar, and Jared Friedman from YC
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
Acquired:
Formula 1
Learn the playbooks that built the world's greatest companies - and how you can apply them as a founder, operator, or investor.
Subscribe to Acquired.
Big Technology Podcast:
Dario's Choice and Anthropic's Future, Apple's AI Devices, Netflix Loses WBD
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Lenny's Podcast:
The design process is dead. Here's what's replacing it. | Jenny Wen (head of design at Claude)
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
His Excellency Khaldoon Al Mubarak: Investing in an AI-Driven World
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:05 PM ET, January 7, 2026.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Todd Spangler / Variety:Peter White / Deadline:
Isabella Gomez Sarmiento / NPR:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
| Allison Smith / Modern Retail: |
More: Bloomberg, GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, CNBC, The Decoder, Silicon UK, Financial Times, The Verge, Business Insider, and The Information
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
More: The Register, Metacurity, and Security Boulevard
Bluesky: @lorenzofb and @zackwhittaker.com
Mastodon: @eff@mastodon.social and @evacide@hachyderm.io
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: |
More: Globes, The Robot Report, Barron's Online, Silicon UK, CTech, Tech Funding News, eWeek, Yahoo Finance, Benzinga, DigiTimes, TechCrunch, Pulse 2.0, Automotive News, GamesBeat, Mobileye, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, and Business Wire. X: @mobileye
| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
More: Computerworld, Hackster, Gizchina, Phandroid, Android Police, Android Headlines, OSnews, and SammyGuru
X: @mishaalrahman. Mastodon: @bradlinder@fosstodon.org. Forums: r/GrapheneOS, r/linux, r/technology, r/Android, and Slashdot