Docs: xAI had a net loss of $1.46B in Q3, up from $1B in Q1; sources: xAI told investors it plans to build AI that will eventually power Optimus humanoid robots (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-09/musk-s-xai-reports-higher-quarterly-loss-plans-to-power-optimus
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Docs: xAI had a net loss of $1.46B in Q3, up from $1B in Q1; sources: xAI told investors it plans to build AI that will eventually power Optimus humanoid robots
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Nvidia has hired Google Cloud VP of Marketing Alison Wagonfeld to be Nvidia's first CMO; source: Wagonfeld will report to CEO Jensen Huang (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/articles/nvidia-hires-google-veteran-as-its-first-chief-marketing-officer-3dc2163f?st=trauby&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Nvidia has hired Google Cloud VP of Marketing Alison Wagonfeld to be Nvidia
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Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves says xAI is set to spend $20B+ to build its MACROHARDRR data center in Southaven, its third in the greater Memphis area (Sophie Bates/Associated Press)
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Elon Musk's xAI to build $20 billion data center in Mississippi
Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, plans to spend $20 billion on a data center in Southaven, Mississippi. Gov.
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Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves says xAI will spend $20B to build its MACROHARDRR data center in Southaven, xAI
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Filings: Meta has hired Bill McGinley, a veteran Republican operative and the former top lawyer for DOGE, as a lobbyist (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-08/meta-hires-former-doge-trump-election-lawyer-as-lobbyist
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Filings: Meta has hired Bill McGinley, a veteran GOP operative and a former top DOGE lawyer, as a lobbyist, the latest indication of its cozy Trump relationship
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Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; the deal was previously reported to be valued at around $1B (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
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Snowflake announces its intent to buy observability platform Observe | TechCrunch
Snowflake is bolstering its data stack to make the platform better suited to the sheer volume of data produced by AI agents.
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Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; in December, the acquisition was reported to be valued at ~$1B
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Sources: Strava, the fitness app founded in 2009, filed confidentially for an IPO; its revenue grew more than 50% YoY in 2025 but was still less than $500M (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/strava-filed-confidentially-ipo-hired-goldman-sachs
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Sources: Strava, the fitness startup founded in 2009, confidentially filed for an IPO; source: Strava grew revenue 50%+ YoY in 2025 but to still less than $500M
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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
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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) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-08/openai-anthropic-see-health-care-as-next-big-market-for-ai
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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
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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
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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 — 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.