The bid comes from Quantum Computing Inc., which already lined up to buy Luminar's semiconductor division. Luminar founder Austin Russell has also expressed interest.
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Monday, January 12, 2026
Meta hires former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick as president and vice chair
Before joining Meta, Powell McCormick was working as deputy national security advisor to President Donald Trump.
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Sunday, January 11, 2026
inDrive turns to ads and groceries to diversify revenue
Advertising on inDrive is being rolled out across its top 20 markets following mid-2025 tests.
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Motional puts AI at center of robotaxi reboot as it targets 2026 for driverless service
Motional says it will launch a driverless robotaxi service in Las Vegas before the end of 2026.
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Google co-founders may be leaving California
Sergey Brin and Larry Page appear to be pulling back from the state where they co-founded Google.
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Instagram says there’s been ‘no breach’ despite password reset requests
Instagram says that although some users received suspicious-looking password reset requests, it has not been breached.
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Google removes AI Overviews for certain medical queries
This follows an investigation by the Guardian that found Google AI Overviews offering misleading information in response to some health-related queries.
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Nuclear startups are back in vogue with small reactors, and big challenges
Small modular reactor startups are betting that mass manufacturing will help them bring costs down. But are they underestimating the challenge?
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Wing to expand drone delivery to another 150 Walmart stores
The partnership will grow Wing's drone delivery service to more than 270 Walmart stores by 2027.
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Google announces a new protocol to facilitate commerce using AI agents
Google said that merchants can now offer discounts to users directly in AI mode results
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Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes
Indonesian officials said Saturday that they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok.
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Saturday, January 10, 2026
SpaceX gets FCC approval to launch 7,500 more Starlink satellites
The Federal Communications Commission has given SpaceX approval to launch another 7,500 of its second generation Starlink satellites.
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OpenAI is reportedly asking contractors to upload real work from past jobs
An intellectual property lawyer says OpenAI is "putting itself at great risk" with this approach.
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Indonesia blocks Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes
Indonesian officials said Saturday that they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok.
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Friday, January 9, 2026
I met a lot of weird robots at CES — here are the most memorable
If the robots don't always give a totally accurate representation of where commercial deployment is at the moment, they do give visitors a peek at where their parent companies might be headed.
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