Sources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks to raise about $2B, after raising more than $1.5B across a pair of rounds in September and October (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
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Nvidia-Backed Nscale Is Said to Eye $2 Billion Funding Round
Data center company Nscale is in talks with investors to raise about $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, a little over three ...
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Sources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks with investors to raise ~$2B, after raising $1.5B+ across a pair of rounds in September and October
By Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
OpenAI is rolling out a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT for clinicians to assist with medical reasoning and administrative tasks, at Cedars-Sinai and others (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
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OpenAI, Anthropic See Health Care as Next Big Market for AI
Health care is shaping up to be a key battleground for the top AI labs this year. But first…
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OpenAI launches a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT for clinicians to help with medical reasoning and reduce administrative work, at Cedars-Sinai and elsewhere
By Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
OpenAI VP of research Jerry Tworek is leaving, sources say after OpenAI sided with Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki in a dispute over its research direction (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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AI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride?
Tech companies are calling AI the next platform. But some developers are reluctant to let AI agents stand between them and their users.
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OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek is leaving, sources say after OpenAI sided with Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki in a disagreement over its research direction
By Maxwell Zeff / Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.
Statcounter: four months after its release, iOS 26 is in use by only about 15% of iPhone users; in January 2025, about 63% of users were on iOS 18 (Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac)
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iOS 26 still struggles to gain traction with iPhone users
iOS 26 is turning out to be a dud β€” adoption among iPhone users trails way behind what's typical months after an Apple OS release. Here&#039...
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Statcounter: only ~15% of iPhone users have iOS 26 installed four months after its release; in January 2025, ~63% of users were using iOS 18, a 4x adoption rate
By Ed Hardy / Cult of Mac. View the full context on Techmeme.
Sources: Google, Meta, Netflix, Microsoft, and Amazon will not be included in the EU's Digital Networks Act, despite calls from telecoms companies (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/big-tech-spared-strict-rules-eu-digital-rule-overhaul-sources-say-2026-01-08/
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Sources: Google, Meta, Netflix, Microsoft, and Amazon will be subject to a voluntary framework rather than binding rules under the EU
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Source: a few weeks before Grok started "digitally undressing" people, Elon Musk expressed frustration over guardrails on Grok's image and video generator (Hadas Gold/CNN) http://www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/tech/elon-musk-xai-digital-undressing
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Source: weeks before Grok started “digitally undressing” people, Musk expressed frustration to xAI staff about restrictions on Grok
By Hadas Gold / CNN. View the full context on Techmeme.
NetBlocks says internet connectivity in Iran has fallen on multiple providers as protests hit 100+ cities; Cloudflare says IPv6 traffic has dropped sharply (Cody Combs/The National)
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Iran in 'digital blackout' as Tehran limits mobile internet access | The National
Cloudflare Radar says country’s IPv6 traffic has dropped sharply as protests spread across 100 cities
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NetBlocks says internet connectivity in Iran has fallen on multiple providers, as protests spread to 100+ cities; Cloudflare says IPv6 traffic share dropped 85%
By Cody Combs / The National. View the full context on Techmeme.
Sources: OpenAI has been slow to expand in-app checkouts for ChatGPT as the startup and its partners Shopify and Stripe struggle to standardize merchant data (Ann Gehan/The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-shopping-ambitions-hit-messy-data-reality
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Sources: OpenAI has been slow to expand in-app checkouts for ChatGPT as the startup and its partners Shopify and Stripe struggle to standardize merchant data
By Ann Gehan / The Information. View the full context on Techmeme.
Tailwind CSS lays off 75% of its engineers after Google traffic to its documentation fell 40% since early 2023 due to AI, leading to an 80% decrease in revenue (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
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Tailwind CSS Lets Go Of 75% Of Engineering Team After 40% Traffic Drop To Docs From Google
Adam Wathan the creator of Tailwind CSS posted that he had to let go of 75% of his engineering team because of AI. He said traffic to the Tailwind ...
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Tailwind Labs, the maker of Tailwind CSS, lays off staff after online traffic to its documentation fell ~40% from 2023 due to AI, causing an ~80% revenue drop
By Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable. View the full context on Techmeme.
ThreatModeler, which helps developers identify vulnerabilities in their applications, acquires IriusRisk, its largest competitor, a source says for $100M+ (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
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Invictus-backed cybersecurity company ThreatModeler acquires competitor IriusRisk for over $100 million | Fortune
As AI coding increases, so does the need for robust cybersecurity practices, CEO Matt Jones told Fortune.
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ThreatModeler, which helps developers identify vulnerabilities in their applications, acquires IriusRisk, its largest competitor, a source says for $100M+
By Leo Schwartz / Fortune. View the full context on Techmeme.