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TikTok US says it has resolved technical issues caused by an Oracle data center outage; core features such as video view counts were impacted over the past week (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

Techmeme

Apple, long dominant in the electronics supply chain, is starting to be outbid by AI companies for components like memory, as suppliers gain leverage over Apple (Wall Street Journal)

Techmeme

Oracle says it plans to raise $45B to $50B in 2026 to build additional capacity for its cloud infrastructure through a combination of debt and equity sales (Vincent Lee/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

SpaceX and Tesla are feeling the gravitational pull toward xAI, as Elon Musk looks to use his empire to fund xAI's ravenous appetite for cash and compute (Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Bad Bunny Goes Off on ICE and Other Major Moments, Snubs at 2026 Grammys

The Root

Major Moments and Snubs at 2026 Grammys, Including Bad Bunny Going Off on ICE

The Root

Melania Trump Documentary Fails To Sell Tickets

The Onion

A survey of 100 companies in the Global 2000 on AI use: 78% of CIOs use OpenAI models in production, above Anthropic's 44%, but Anthropic's gains are impressive (a16z)

Techmeme

Don Lemon Makes Red Carpet Appearance at 2026 Grammys Days After Shocking Arrest

The Root

Researchers detail how AI tools for generating deepfakes proliferated on Civitai before it banned them in 2025; many tools submitted before the ban remain live (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)

Techmeme

From Detainee to Commissioner: Stanley Richards to Lead City Jails

THE CITY - All

Bill Gates says accusations contained in Epstein files are ‘absolutely absurd’

The Verge - All Posts

Shedding light on Iran’s longest internet blackout

The Verge - All Posts

Grammys 2026: Michelle Williams, Shaboozey and Other Black Stars Who Stunned on the Red Carpet

The Root

India proposes zero taxes for foreign cloud providers through 2047 on services sold outside the country as long as they run workloads from Indian data centers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

Independence Day is still the ultimate alien invasion movie — and it's streaming on Netflix

Polygon - All

You need to listen to M83’s icy post-rock record Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts

The Verge - All Posts

Indonesia lifts its ban on Grok after receiving a letter from X "outlining concrete steps" to prevent misuse; Indonesia was the first country to ban Grok (Jin Yu Young/New York Times)

Techmeme

Sources: Apple execs question if it has the ingredients to win in AI-first era, new MacBook Pros are about to launch, Apple considers clamshell foldable iPhone (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Highguard's mounts are the best part of the game, now I want a racing mode

Polygon - All