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Quadric rides the shift from cloud AI to on-device inference — and it’s paying off

Posted on January 22, 2026 by Techme101

Quadric aims to help companies and governments build programmable on-device AI chips that can run fast-changing models locally.

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Tiger Global, Microsoft to fully exit Walmart-backed PhonePe via its IPO

Posted on January 22, 2026 by Techme101

Tiger Global and Microsoft are offering up their full stakes in the company, while Walmart is choosing to retain its majority stake, and selling up to 45.9 million shares.

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Former Google trio is building an interactive AI-powered learning app for kids

Posted on January 22, 2026 by Techme101

Big tech companies and upcoming startups want to use generative AI to build software and hardware for kids. A lot of those experiences are limited to text or voice, and kids might not find that captivating. Three former Google employees … Continue reading →

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Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Apple is reportedly developing an AI wearable

Posted on January 22, 2026 by Techme101

Should this wearable materialize, it could be released as early as 2027, according to a report on the device.

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Sources: Project SGLang spins out as RadixArk with $400M valuation as inference market explodes

Posted on January 22, 2026 by Techme101

SGLang, which originated as an open source research project at Ion Stoica’s UC Berkeley lab, has raised capital from Accel.

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Apps for boycotting American products surge to the top of the Danish App Store

Posted on January 21, 2026 by Techme101

Two origin ID apps, NonUSA and Made O’Meter, are seeing downloads surge as Europeans boycott US-made goods.

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Irony alert: Hallucinated citations found in papers from NeurIPS, the prestigious AI conference

Posted on January 21, 2026 by Techme101

Research from startup GPTZero points to the impossible problem prestigious conferences face in the age of AI slop.

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Blue Origin’s satellite internet network TeraWave will move data at 6Tbps

Posted on January 21, 2026 by Techme101

The network will be designed for enterprise, data center, and government customers and could offer an alternative to SpaceX’s Starlink service.

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Zipline charts drone delivery expansion with $600M in new funding

Posted on January 21, 2026 by Techme101

The startup plans to expand to at least four new U.S. states in 2026.

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Threads rolls out ads to all users worldwide

Posted on January 21, 2026 by Techme101

Ads on Threads will roll out gradually to users over the coming months, Meta says.

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