Mini-Techmeme

Jump to Top Items
Recent Items
Decrypt: 5 mins ago
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
Financial Times: 10 mins ago
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
Bloomberg: 2 hours ago
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
Reuters: 2½ hours ago
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”
Extend
Top Items
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Apple signs a multiyear Google deal to use Gemini models to power a more personalized Siri in 2026, saying Google's tech “provides the most capable foundation”
RELATED:
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Google says Gemini will help power not only a more personalized version of Siri, but also future Apple Intelligence features
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
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”
Webb Wright / ZDNET:
Anthropic launches Cowork for Claude, built on Claude Code to automate complex tasks with minimal prompting, as a research preview for Claude Max subscribers
RELATED:
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Hands-on with Claude Cowork: looks well positioned to bring the powerful capabilities of Claude Code to a wider audience, but risks of prompt injections remain
New York Times:
Sources: Meta plans to lay off ~10% of its 15,000-person Reality Labs division, disproportionately affecting those working on VR headsets and Horizon Worlds
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Meta appoints Dina Powell McCormick, a prominent banking executive and former Republican official, as president and vice chair, reporting to Mark Zuckerberg
Laura Cress / BBC:
The UK plans to bring into force a law this week that will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images, as Ofcom investigates X
RELATED:
Financial Times:
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
Laura Mandaro / The Information:
OpenAI acquires Torch, a one-year-old AI healthcare app that aggregates and analyzes medical records; source: OpenAI is paying about $100M in equity
Emily Mason / Bloomberg:
Personal finance app Betterment says an individual accessed certain systems to send fake crypto scam notification and believes the person accessed user info
Financial Times:
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
Reuters:
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
Decrypt:
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
Business Insider:
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
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
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
Bloomberg:
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
Sponsor Items
Okara:
Meet Okara, the AI platform that doesn't train on your data
Soxton:
AI-powered law for startups
Zoho:
Reduce SLA breaches with Zoho Desk and Zoho Contracts integration
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Sister Sites

Mini-Mediagazer - Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web

Mini-memeorandum - What US political commentators are discussing online right now

Mini-WeSmirch - The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page