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On an earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su says Microsoft's ...

2026-02-03T23:50:55Z

On an earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su says Microsoft's next-gen Xbox "is progressing well to support a launch in 2027" and will feature an AMD semi-custom SoC (Tom Warren/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/news/873490/microsoft-next-gen-xbox-console-2027-date-amd?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IkhWNEZXOGpZQWkiLCJwIjoiL25ld3MvODczNDkwL21pY3Jvc29mdC1uZXh0LWdlbi14Ym94LWNvbnNvbGUtMjAyNy1kYXRlLWFtZCIsImV4cCI6MTc3MDU5Mjk4OCwiaWF0IjoxNzcwMTYwOTg4fQ.OrKVYDe1rcR_PFgaQqQ10j0npEOqZjg3fxruBdB-vXI&utm_medium=gift-link
http://www.techmeme.com/260203/p46#a260203p46

Over 200 prominent figures, including senior staffers at AI ...

2025-09-22T22:06:01Z

Over 200 prominent figures, including senior staffers at AI companies, call for international action to create "red lines" for AI development by the end of 2026 (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)

https://www.transformernews.ai/p/nobel-laureates-ai-developers-red-lines-un-general-assembly
http://www.techmeme.com/250922/p28#a250922p28

On the H-1B fee, Jensen Huang says he's "glad" to see ...

2025-09-22T18:10:48Z

On the H-1B fee, Jensen Huang says he's "glad" to see "Trump making the moves he's making"; Sam Altman says "outlining financial incentives seems good to me" (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/22/nvidia-openai-ceos-huang-altman-trump-h1b-visas.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250922/p23#a250922p23

Omnea, which makes AI tools for automating procurement, raised a ...

2025-09-22T17:55:46Z

Omnea, which makes AI tools for automating procurement, raised a $50M Series B led by Insight Partners and Khosla Ventures, taking its total funding to $75M (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)

https://www.businessinsider.com/omnea-procurement-ai-startup-raises-50-million-insight-khosla-2025-9
http://www.techmeme.com/250922/p22#a250922p22

The RIAA amends its lawsuit against Suno, now accusing it of ...

2025-09-22T15:15:46Z

The RIAA amends its lawsuit against Suno, now accusing it of unlawfully "stream ripping" songs on YouTube and violating the DMCA (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/news/782448/riaa-suno-ai-lawsuit-update-stream-ripping-youtube
http://www.techmeme.com/250922/p14#a250922p14

Low prices, available land, and cooler weather are driving the ...

2025-09-22T10:15:42Z

Low prices, available land, and cooler weather are driving the data center boom in the Nordics, which have 1.5 GW of capacity live and 7.5 GW in the pipeline (Maggie Shiltagh/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-22/sweden-norway-finland-power-firms-to-cash-in-on-europe-data-center-boom
http://www.techmeme.com/250922/p3#a250922p3

Ethereum's "low-risk DeFi" applications like payments ...

2025-09-22T00:02:10Z

Ethereum's "low-risk DeFi" applications like payments and savings could drive the chain's revenue in a similar way that search and ads sustain Google's business (Vitalik Buterin/Vitalik Buterin's website)

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/09/21/low_risk_defi.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250921/p25#a250921p25

Interviews with Apple's Tim Millet, Arun Mathias, and Kaiann ...

2025-09-21T16:31:23Z

Interviews with Apple's Tim Millet, Arun Mathias, and Kaiann Drance on the new neural accelerators in A19 Pro GPU cores, C1X modem, N1 wireless chip, and more (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/21/apple-now-controls-all-core-iphone-chips-prioritizing-ai-workloads.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250921/p14#a250921p14

An inside look at Léon Thévenin, the only undersea internet ...

2025-09-21T13:10:36Z

An inside look at Léon Thévenin, the only undersea internet cable repair ship permanently stationed in Africa, operated by the French telecom company Orange (Rest of World)

https://restofworld.org/2025/africa-internet-cable-repair-ship/
http://www.techmeme.com/250921/p9#a250921p9

As carriers deploy protections against fraudulent texts, scammers ...

2025-09-21T11:05:38Z

As carriers deploy protections against fraudulent texts, scammers are using "SMS blasters" that impersonate base stations to send fake messages to nearby phones (Matt Burgess/Wired)

https://www.wired.com/story/sms-blasters-scam-texts/
http://www.techmeme.com/250921/p8#a250921p8

A profile of Noah Urban, who was a key member of the Scattered ...

2025-09-21T01:05:59Z

A profile of Noah Urban, who was a key member of the Scattered Spider group because of his social engineering skills and is serving a 10-year prison sentence (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-09-19/multimillion-dollar-hacking-spree-scattered-spider-teen-s-jailhouse-confessions?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1ODI4MTkwMSwiZXhwIjoxNzU4ODg2NzAxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMlUyTVNHUTFZWVUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwNUVDNUJDRTNFOTA0ODQ0OThBOTc5MkM0MDIwNkUzNyJ9.hZarEq-EdSn6zXTfZnJEI870hLN66BhFQhLN7kqmKds
http://www.techmeme.com/250920/p18#a250920p18

Collins Aerospace, which provides check-in and boarding systems, ...

2025-09-20T09:50:56Z

Collins Aerospace, which provides check-in and boarding systems, confirms a "cyber-related disruption" as Heathrow and other European airports report issues (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/en/cyberattack-causes-flight-delays-cancellations-brussels-airport-2025-09-20/
http://www.techmeme.com/250920/p5#a250920p5

Microsoft says it will bring a $3.3B data center in Wisconsin ...

2025-09-20T00:51:14Z

Microsoft says it will bring a $3.3B data center in Wisconsin online in early 2026 and calls it "the world's most powerful AI datacenter" (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-microsofts-plans-for-the-most-advanced-ai-data-center-in-the-world-ee50bd4c?st=Vso4Sh&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/250919/p25#a250919p25

Analysis: since his inauguration, President Trump posted 2,262 ...

2025-06-03T11:30:47Z

Analysis: since his inauguration, President Trump posted 2,262 times on Truth Social in 132 days, 3x+ the volume of tweets in the same period of his first term (Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/03/trump-truth-social-twitter/
http://www.techmeme.com/250603/p12#a250603p12

Some say ChatGPT fueled their loved ones' spiritual ...

2025-05-05T10:40:43Z

Some say ChatGPT fueled their loved ones' spiritual delusions; experts warn AI's human-like chats can exacerbate existing psychological vulnerabilities (Miles Klee/Rolling Stone)

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/
http://www.techmeme.com/250505/p4#a250505p4

Some Bolivians, frustrated with spotty internet from the ...

2025-02-16T14:40:38Z

Some Bolivians, frustrated with spotty internet from the state's China-built satellite, are smuggling in Starlink kits despite the country's ban in August 2024 (William Wroblewski/Rest of World)

https://restofworld.org/2025/bolivians-smuggle-starlink-to-escape-china-backed-internet/
http://www.techmeme.com/250216/p5#a250216p5

Reddit says content licensing deals with Google and OpenAI ...

2025-02-14T02:45:49Z

Reddit says content licensing deals with Google and OpenAI account for ~10% of its revenue, but its primary focus is on ad revenue, which grew 60% YoY in Q4 (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)

https://www.adweek.com/social-marketing/ai-licensing-deals-with-google-and-openai-make-up-10-of-reddits-revenue/
http://www.techmeme.com/250213/p46#a250213p46

Sources: late on Friday night DOGE staffers gained access to all ...

2025-02-10T17:40:49Z

Sources: late on Friday night DOGE staffers gained access to all of the CFPB's data systems, which hold confidential info potentially pertaining to X's rivals (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-02-10/doge-backed-halt-at-cfpb-comes-amid-musk-s-plans-for-x-digital-wallet?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTczOTE5OTMzNywiZXhwIjoxNzM5ODA0MTM3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTUkdQNTlUMVVNMFgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIyQjE3NzFFOTlEODc0QzRDOTY1Njg1RTZBQkJGM0QwRCJ9.L98joZiIyb7TYFH6UcOk8T4tjZfcJLx2uwgw1T3xXlI
http://www.techmeme.com/250210/p21#a250210p21

Elon Musk accused an X user of "a crime" who named ...

2025-02-04T18:56:04Z

Elon Musk accused an X user of "a crime" who named federal staff in a post that X then removed--showing what actual government social media censorship looks like (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/musk-shows-us-what-actual-government-censorship-on-social-media-looks-like/
http://www.techmeme.com/250204/p23#a250204p23

Sources: Zuckerberg told Stephen Miller that he would do nothing ...

2025-01-16T21:07:36Z

Sources: Zuckerberg told Stephen Miller that he would do nothing to obstruct Trump's agenda and blamed Sheryl Sandberg for an inclusivity initiative at Facebook (New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/us/politics/stephen-miller-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk4.bIb0.BWyB-KWYxZ6u&smid=url-share
http://www.techmeme.com/250116/p46#a250116p46

Nvidia reveals the RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: a $1,999 RTX ...

2025-01-07T03:15:38Z

Nvidia reveals the RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: a $1,999 RTX 5090, a $999 RTX 5080, a $749 RTX 5070 Ti, and a $549 RTX 5070, available starting in January (Tom Warren/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24337396/nvidia-rtx-5080-5090-5070-ti-5070-price-release-date
http://www.techmeme.com/250106/p36#a250106p36

A test of ~1,300 top games on Microsoft's new Copilot+ PCs ...

2024-09-04T03:40:53Z

A test of ~1,300 top games on Microsoft's new Copilot+ PCs finds only about half ran smoothly; Microsoft says some titles with demanding graphics may not play (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/microsoft-rolled-out-ai-pcs-that-cant-play-top-gamesand-theres-no-quick-fix-0a1b6376?st=tehrtpnld2rac6n
http://www.techmeme.com/240903/p36#a240903p36

Apple is gearing up for a battle with app makers and legislators ...

2024-09-02T10:10:39Z

Apple is gearing up for a battle with app makers and legislators over whether regulation of teen's social media use should happen in apps or at the device level (Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-helped-nix-part-of-a-child-safety-bill-more-fights-are-expected-23905d4d
http://www.techmeme.com/240902/p4#a240902p4

As Nvidia passes Microsoft's market cap, John Chambers, who ...

2024-06-19T06:30:44Z

As Nvidia passes Microsoft's market cap, John Chambers, who was the CEO when Cisco passed Microsoft during the dot-com boom, says the situation now is different (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidias-ascent-to-most-valuable-company-has-echoes-of-dot-com-boom-dd836c90?st=276shvptwdhe3vf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/240619/p7#a240619p7

Sources: Huawei, which is considering taking a cut of in-app ...

2024-06-19T06:25:48Z

Sources: Huawei, which is considering taking a cut of in-app purchases on HarmonyOS, nears a deal with Tencent to exclude WeChat from revenue sharing (Pei Li/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-19/huawei-tencent-near-deal-to-exclude-wechat-from-revenue-sharing
http://www.techmeme.com/240619/p6#a240619p6

A Google DeepMind study involving 20 professional comedians who ...

2024-06-19T06:20:59Z

A Google DeepMind study involving 20 professional comedians who already use AI in their work finds LLMs struggled to produce material that was original or funny (Rhiannon Williams/MIT Technology Review)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/17/1093740/what-happened-when-20-comedians-got-ai-to-write-their-routines/
http://www.techmeme.com/240619/p5#a240619p5

Fengate Asset Management acquires over two-thirds stake in ...

2024-06-19T05:51:02Z

Fengate Asset Management acquires over two-thirds stake in eStruxture, which operates data centers in 15 locations in four Canadian cities, in a $1.3B deal (Paul Vieira/Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/fengate-acquires-canada-data-storage-firm-estruxture-in-1-3-billion-deal-ed53d33f?st=l6ntf0pel38stz5&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/240619/p4#a240619p4

Japan is looking to lure AI investment away from Europe and ...

2024-06-19T05:26:09Z

Japan is looking to lure AI investment away from Europe and elsewhere by adopting a light-touch, industry-led approach to regulating AI (Nikkei Asia)

https://t.co/p1HSNmxzxM
http://www.techmeme.com/240619/p3#a240619p3

Sources: Google and OpenAI have stepped up staff vetting over ...

2024-06-19T04:31:04Z

Sources: Google and OpenAI have stepped up staff vetting over Chinese espionage threat; Sequoia has encouraged some portfolio companies to tighten staff vetting (Financial Times)

https://t.co/QWmahZMWcQ
http://www.techmeme.com/240619/p2#a240619p2

A look at Mozilla's acquisition of Anonym, which offers ...

2024-06-19T04:05:45Z

A look at Mozilla's acquisition of Anonym, which offers "privacy-preserving" ad tools, and how Anonym might interact with a user base that tends to block ads (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/18/mozilla_buys_anonym_betting_privacy/
http://www.techmeme.com/240619/p1#a240619p1

FOI documents: eight UK train stations scanned passenger faces ...

2024-06-19T02:35:44Z

FOI documents: eight UK train stations scanned passenger faces for two years as part of AI trials; Amazon software was used to predict age, gender, and emotions (Matt Burgess/Wired)

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ai-cameras-emotions-uk-train-passengers/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p38#a240618p38

Consensys says the US SEC is closing its investigation into ...

2024-06-19T01:35:58Z

Consensys says the US SEC is closing its investigation into Ethereum 2.0 and "will not bring charges alleging that sales of ETH are securities transactions" (Ryan Ozawa/Decrypt)

https://decrypt.co/236039/sec-dropping-ethereum-investigation-consensys
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p37#a240618p37

The California Labor Commissioner's Office fines Amazon $5.9M ...

2024-06-19T01:10:46Z

The California Labor Commissioner's Office fines Amazon $5.9M for violating a 2022 state law by failing to properly inform workers of quotas at two warehouses (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/18/amazon-fine-labor-law-california/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p36#a240618p36

Internal memo: Meta merges its Reality Labs teams into the ...

2024-06-18T23:45:44Z

Internal memo: Meta merges its Reality Labs teams into the "Metaverse" product group that now includes Quest, and the AR product group, now called "Wearables" (Alex Heath/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/18/24181420/meta-wearables-reality-labs-layoffs
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p35#a240618p35

Qilin, a cohort of Russian-speaking hackers, claims ...

2024-06-18T21:45:45Z

Qilin, a cohort of Russian-speaking hackers, claims responsibility for the ransomware attack impacting London hospitals for weeks and demands $50M to end it (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-18/uk-hospital-hackers-say-they-ve-demanded-50-million-in-ransom
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p34#a240618p34

Qualcomm agrees to pay $75M to resolve a suit from shareholders ...

2024-06-18T21:16:20Z

Qualcomm agrees to pay $75M to resolve a suit from shareholders accusing Qualcomm of defrauding them by hiding its anticompetitive sales and licensing practices (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/technology/qualcomm-reaches-75-mln-settlement-over-sales-licensing-practices-2024-06-18/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p33#a240618p33

AMD says it is looking into claims that company information was ...

2024-06-18T21:01:25Z

AMD says it is looking into claims that company information was stolen in a hack, after a user on BreachForums said they breached AMD's systems (Ian King/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-18/amd-is-investigating-claims-that-company-data-was-stolen-in-hack
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p32#a240618p32

Appfigures: iOS 18 could "Sherlock" trail apps, grammar ...

2024-06-18T20:45:51Z

Appfigures: iOS 18 could "Sherlock" trail apps, grammar helpers, math solvers, password managers, and emoji apps that have an estimated $393M in annual revenue (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/ios-18-could-sherlock-400m-in-app-revenue/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p31#a240618p31

The US FTC says it has referred a complaint to the DOJ against ...

2024-06-18T20:35:48Z

The US FTC says it has referred a complaint to the DOJ against TikTok and ByteDance over potential violations of the Children's Online Privacy Act (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-ftc-refers-complaint-against-tiktok-justice-department-2024-06-18/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p30#a240618p30

An ex-Snap engineer debuts Butterflies, a social network where ...

2024-06-18T20:01:23Z

An ex-Snap engineer debuts Butterflies, a social network where users can create AI personas that then interact with users and other AIs via posts and DMs (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/former-snap-engineer-launches-butterflies-a-social-network-where-ais-and-humans-coexist/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p29#a240618p29

Forbes demands Perplexity not infringe on Forbes IP and drop ...

2024-06-18T19:20:53Z

Forbes demands Perplexity not infringe on Forbes IP and drop Forbes-sourced articles; Perplexity-made content remains without attribution, including on YouTube (Sara Fischer/Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/18/forbes-perplexity-ai-legal-action-copyright
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p28#a240618p28

Devs say Apple is denying or delaying notarization of iOS apps, ...

2024-06-18T18:30:43Z

Devs say Apple is denying or delaying notarization of iOS apps, including emulators and AltStore apps, to enforce its rules, defeating the point of the EU's DMA (Jason Snell/Six Colors)

https://sixcolors.com/link/2024/06/apple-refuses-to-notarize-emulator-app/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p27#a240618p27

HPE and Nvidia unveil private cloud offerings for generative AI ...

2024-06-18T18:15:48Z

HPE and Nvidia unveil private cloud offerings for generative AI workloads coming this fall, including HPE Private Cloud AI, a co-developed "turnkey" option (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)

https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/insights/hpe-unveils-private-cloud-ai-broad-nvidia-partnership-aimed-genai-workloads
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p26#a240618p26

Nvidia passes Microsoft during intraday trading to become the ...

2024-06-18T17:19:03Z

Nvidia passes Microsoft during intraday trading to become the most valuable public company, with a ~$3.33T market cap; NVDA is up over 9x since January 2023 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/18/nvidia-passes-microsoft-in-market-cap-is-most-valuable-public-company.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p25#a240618p25

Filings: X is still working on Venmo-like payments features, with ...

2024-06-18T17:05:49Z

Filings: X is still working on Venmo-like payments features, with a 2024 US launch target; X had $1.48B in revenue in first six months of 2023, down ~40% YoY (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-18/documents-show-how-musk-s-x-plans-to-become-the-next-venmo
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p24#a240618p24

AI search engine startup Genspark launches, offering a Sparkpage ...

2024-06-18T16:25:50Z

AI search engine startup Genspark launches, offering a Sparkpage overview for queries, and raised a $60M seed led by Lanchi at a $260M post-money valuation (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/genspark-is-the-latest-attempt-at-an-ai-powered-search-engine/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p23#a240618p23

ASUS VivoBook S 15 Copilot+ PC review: Snapdragon X Elite is ...

2024-06-18T15:50:52Z

ASUS VivoBook S 15 Copilot+ PC review: Snapdragon X Elite is incredible, all day battery life, gorgeous 15.6" OLED screen, and $1,299 for 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/laptops/asus-vivobook-s-15-copilot-pc-review
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p22#a240618p22

Source: Apple told at least one supplier it has suspended work on ...

2024-06-18T15:22:41Z

Source: Apple told at least one supplier it has suspended work on the next Apple Vision Pro; sources: it's still aiming to debut a cheaper model by end of 2025 (The Information)

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-suspends-work-on-next-high-end-headset-focused-on-releasing-cheaper-model-in-late-2025
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p21#a240618p21

A study of 10 chatbots, including from Perplexity and OpenAI, ...

2024-06-18T15:01:09Z

A study of 10 chatbots, including from Perplexity and OpenAI, shows how often they repeat Russian disinfo and cite fugitive John Dougan's fake local news sites (Ina Fried/Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/18/ai-chatbots-russian-propaganda
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p20#a240618p20

London-based SurrealDB, which helps developers consolidate their ...

2024-06-18T13:55:44Z

London-based SurrealDB, which helps developers consolidate their databases, raised $20M led by FirstMark and Georgian, taking its total funding to $26M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/surrealdb-is-helping-developers-consolidate-their-databases/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p19#a240618p19

Xreal unveils the $199+ Beam Pro, a 6.5-inch device that powers ...

2024-06-18T13:40:41Z

Xreal unveils the $199+ Beam Pro, a 6.5-inch device that powers Xreal's glasses, runs Android 14-based NebulaOS, uses a Snapdragon chip, and has two USB-C ports (David Pierce/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/18/24180298/xreal-beam-pro-ar-glasses-usb-c-launch
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p18#a240618p18

Maryland-based Huntress, an SMB-focused managed security ...

2024-06-18T13:25:49Z

Maryland-based Huntress, an SMB-focused managed security platform, raised a $150M Series D led by Kleiner Perkins, Meritech, and Sapphire at a $1.5B+ valuation (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cyber-company-huntress-raises-150-million-in-series-d-funding-d76a04f6?st=ctfrhm386o7a9kn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p17#a240618p17

Blackstone plans to buy Japanese digital comic provider Infocom ...

2024-06-18T12:45:42Z

Blackstone plans to buy Japanese digital comic provider Infocom in a ~$1.7B deal, in its biggest private equity transaction in Japan to date (Lisa Du/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-18/blackstone-taps-steamy-romance-manga-fans-in-1-7-billion-deal
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p16#a240618p16

Autonomous trucking startup Waabi raised a $200M Series B led by ...

2024-06-18T12:25:40Z

Autonomous trucking startup Waabi raised a $200M Series B led by Uber and Khosla Ventures, after an $83.5M Series A in 2021, and aims for a full launch in 2025 (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/autonomous-trucking-startup-waabi-raises-200-mln-2024-06-18/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p15#a240618p15

Sources: Apple is set to settle a long-running EU antitrust ...

2024-06-18T11:05:44Z

Sources: Apple is set to settle a long-running EU antitrust investigation over payments, after the EU accepted measures that Apple committed to in January 2024 (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)

https://t.co/3JSLCKQoNm
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p14#a240618p14

Amazon Labor Union members vote to join forces with the ...

2024-06-18T10:55:40Z

Amazon Labor Union members vote to join forces with the 1.3M-member Teamsters union; ALU President Christian Smalls says Teamsters allocated $8M for organizing (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/business/economy/amazon-labor-union-teamsters.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p13#a240618p13

Margrethe Vestager says Apple has a number of "very ...

2024-06-18T10:40:40Z

Margrethe Vestager says Apple has a number of "very serious" issues under the EU's DMA, and the conclusions of an investigation will arrive "hopefully soon" (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/18/apple-issues-very-serious-under-landmark-eu-rules-vestager.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p12#a240618p12

Some Google users, frustrated by the results, turn to Reddit as a ...

2024-06-18T10:21:03Z

Some Google users, frustrated by the results, turn to Reddit as a search alternative; a weeklong test finds Reddit is best for product recommendations and more (Ann-Marie Alcántara/Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/can-you-replace-google-search-with-reddit-i-tried-it-for-a-week-ea1f36c5?st=dnyht7vzp8jzvng&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p11#a240618p11

Sources: Huawei is considering taking a cut of in-app purchases ...

2024-06-18T09:55:41Z

Sources: Huawei is considering taking a cut of in-app purchases on its Harmony OS, and has discussed a ~20% fee with developers, below Apple and Google's 30% (Pei Li/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-18/huawei-considers-app-store-fees-as-it-surpasses-iphone-in-china
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p10#a240618p10

A look at Apple's upcoming CarPlay updates, which aim to be ...

2024-06-18T09:35:40Z

A look at Apple's upcoming CarPlay updates, which aim to be "a design toolkit for automakers", including feature "layers", "remote UI", and "punch-through UI" (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/17/24180353/apple-carplay-wireless-system-features
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p9#a240618p9

Meta launches its much-awaited Threads API, letting developer ...

2024-06-18T09:01:25Z

Meta launches its much-awaited Threads API, letting developer publish posts, fetch content, manage replies, and view analytics, after an API beta in March 2024 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/threads-finally-launches-its-api-for-developers/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p8#a240618p8

Social media creators say earning a decent, reliable income is ...

2024-06-18T08:01:31Z

Social media creators say earning a decent, reliable income is getting harder, as platforms pay less for popular posts and brands get pickier about partnerships (Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/social-media-influencers-arent-getting-richtheyre-barely-getting-by-71e0aad3?st=snqhy92nimb59t6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p7#a240618p7

A look at Shein's efforts to diversify away from fast ...

2024-06-18T06:30:46Z

A look at Shein's efforts to diversify away from fast fashion, as the company struggles to get third-party merchants to sign up for its marketplace (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

https://t.co/N5eh5bu9L3
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p6#a240618p6

Down-ballot campaigns in the US are experimenting with AI, which ...

2024-06-18T06:20:41Z

Down-ballot campaigns in the US are experimenting with AI, which can help them save money and time, while also raising fears about the threats of AI deepfakes (Associated Press)

https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-local-races-deepfakes-2024-1d5080a5c916d5ff10eadd1d81f43dfd
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p5#a240618p5

A look at India's quick commerce market, which has become an ...

2024-06-18T06:10:52Z

A look at India's quick commerce market, which has become an important distribution channel for Indian food brands, as Zepto and others expand beyond groceries (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/can-quick-commerce-leapfrog-e-commerce-in-india/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p4#a240618p4

Google launches Gemini app for Android in India, supporting ...

2024-06-18T05:20:36Z

Google launches Gemini app for Android in India, supporting English and nine other languages; Gemini will be available via Google app on iOS in the coming weeks (Amar Subramanya/Google)

https://blog.google/intl/en-in/company-news/technology/gemini-in-india-now-on-mobile-multilingual-and-more-powerful-for-your-everyday-tasks/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p3#a240618p3

Cambridge-based CuspAI, which is developing AI-powered tech for ...

2024-06-18T05:01:18Z

Cambridge-based CuspAI, which is developing AI-powered tech for designing new materials, raised a $30M seed and has added Geoffrey Hinton to its advisory board (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-18/ai-legend-geoffrey-hinton-to-advise-uk-green-materials-startup
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p2#a240618p2

Signal president Meredith Whittaker warns the EU's recent ...

2024-06-18T04:50:43Z

Signal president Meredith Whittaker warns the EU's recent "upload moderation" proposal to detect CSAM "fundamentally undermines encryption" of messaging apps (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/stop-playing-games-with-online-security-signal-president-warns-eu-lawmakers/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p1#a240618p1

Sources: Shein CEO Xu Yangtian has deliberately kept a low ...

2024-06-18T03:01:01Z

Sources: Shein CEO Xu Yangtian has deliberately kept a low profile for fear of attracting unwanted public attention; Shein has never published any photos of him (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3266882/shein-heads-towards-ipo-its-chinese-billionaire-founder-stays-under-cloak-secrecy
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p35#a240617p35

Finbourne, which helps financial companies organize and use their ...

2024-06-18T02:15:37Z

Finbourne, which helps financial companies organize and use their data in AI and other models, raised a £55M Series B at a valuation just over £280M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/finbourne-taps-70m-for-tech-that-turns-financial-data-dust-into-ai-gold/
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p34#a240617p34

Q&A with Tubi CEO Anjali Sud, who joined from Vimeo in ...

2024-06-18T01:01:16Z

Q&A with Tubi CEO Anjali Sud, who joined from Vimeo in September 2023, on the streaming industry, working within Fox, subscription fatigue, copyright, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/24178580/tubi-ceo-free-tv-streaming-ads-decoder-podcast-interview
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p33#a240617p33

Constructor, which provides an AI-powered product discovery and ...

2024-06-18T00:20:46Z

Constructor, which provides an AI-powered product discovery and search service for e-commerce companies, raised a $25M Series B at a $550M valuation (Abhinaya Prabhu/Tech Funding News)

https://techfundingnews.com/constructor-raises-25m-for-e-commerce-companies-to-transform-product-discovery-with-ai/
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p32#a240617p32

Adobe unveils Firefly-powered image generation in Acrobat, and ...

2024-06-17T23:30:39Z

Adobe unveils Firefly-powered image generation in Acrobat, and support for analysis of multiple documents, including non-PDF files, in Acrobat AI Assistant (Calvin Wankhede/Android Authority)

https://www.androidauthority.com/adobe-ai-assistant-acrobat-3451988/
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p31#a240617p31

Inside Snapchat's teen opioid crisis: law-enforcement sources ...

2024-06-17T22:55:44Z

Inside Snapchat's teen opioid crisis: law-enforcement sources and parents allege that the company has helped fuel an overdose epidemic across the US (Paul Solotaroff/Rolling Stone)

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/inside-snapchat-teenage-opioid-crisis-1235036691/
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p30#a240617p30

Real-time data analytics startup Tinybird raised a $30M Series B, ...

2024-06-17T21:35:47Z

Real-time data analytics startup Tinybird raised a $30M Series B, at a "significantly higher" valuation than its $37M Series A; source: it's now valued at $240M (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/tinybird-raises-another-30-million-to-transform-data-into-real-time-apis/
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p29#a240617p29

Coinbase debuts "pre-launch markets" on its global and ...

2024-06-17T21:10:39Z

Coinbase debuts "pre-launch markets" on its global and advanced exchanges outside the US, UK, and Canada, for positions on tokens before they hit spot exchanges (Lawrence Lewitinn/The Block)

https://www.theblock.co/post/300497/coinbase-starts-offering-pre-launch-markets-trading-on-its-international-and-advanced-exchanges
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p28#a240617p28

Microsoft says the latest version of Windows 11, version 24H2 now ...

2024-06-17T20:05:40Z

Microsoft says the latest version of Windows 11, version 24H2 now in the Release Preview Channel, is "only available for Copilot+ PCs devices" (Mark Hachman/PCWorld)

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2370043/
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p27#a240617p27

Tether, the top stablecoin provider, says it made a new synthetic ...

2024-06-17T19:55:49Z

Tether, the top stablecoin provider, says it made a new synthetic dollar that is backed by gold and will trade as aUSDT via smart contracts on Ethereum Mainnet (María Paula Mijares Torres/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-17/tether-announces-a-new-synthetic-dollar-that-is-backed-by-gold
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p26#a240617p26

Mandiant: up to 10 companies breached in a campaign targeting ...

2024-06-17T19:30:36Z

Mandiant: up to 10 companies breached in a campaign targeting Snowflake customers have been extorted with stolen data and face ransom demands from $300K to $5M (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-17/hackers-demanding-as-much-as-5-million-from-snowflake-clients
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p25#a240617p25

DeepMind is developing AI tech to take raw pixels of videos and ...

2024-06-17T19:10:52Z

DeepMind is developing AI tech to take raw pixels of videos and generate synced soundtracks; it's not too convincing, and there are no plans to release publicly (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/deepminds-new-ai-generates-soundtracks-and-dialog-for-videos/
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p24#a240617p24

Apple says it is no longer offering Apple Pay Later, the "buy ...

2024-06-17T18:28:46Z

Apple says it is no longer offering Apple Pay Later, the "buy now, pay later" service that launched in the United States last year (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/17/apple-pay-later-united-states-ending/
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p23#a240617p23

Finaloop, which offers accounting tools to e-commerce businesses, ...

2024-06-17T18:05:33Z

Finaloop, which offers accounting tools to e-commerce businesses, raised a $35M Series A led by Lightspeed and says its customer base grew 400% in the last year (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/from-sperm-freezing-to-accounting-tools-finaloops-founder-scores-35m-to-solve-e-commerce-retailers-bookkeeping-headaches/
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p22#a240617p22

Uber says "tens of thousands of riders" in Phoenix have ...

2024-06-17T16:50:49Z

Uber says "tens of thousands of riders" in Phoenix have matched with a "Waymo (AI) driver" and have given "a nearly 4.9 average star rating" (Alan Ohnsman/Forbes)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2024/06/17/a-robotaxi-business-is-a-dream-for-elon-muskbut-already-a-reality-for-waymo/
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p21#a240617p21

The US DOJ sues Adobe for allegedly harming "consumers by ...

2024-06-17T16:05:37Z

The US DOJ sues Adobe for allegedly harming "consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing" plan terms (Emma Roth/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/17/24180196/adobe-us-ftc-doj-sues-subscriptions-cancel
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p19#a240617p19

Around two dozen sources detail Google's decision to form the ...

2024-06-17T15:26:28Z

Around two dozen sources detail Google's decision to form the Google DeepMind "super-unit" in April 2023, shifting the AI lab from research to products (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-17/google-deepmind-shifts-from-research-lab-to-ai-product-factory
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p14#a240617p14

Naver-owned online comics platform Webtoon aims to raise up to ...

2024-06-17T14:45:34Z

Naver-owned online comics platform Webtoon aims to raise up to $315M in a US IPO, offering shares for $18 to $21 each and targeting an up to $2.67B valuation (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/navers-webtoon-entertainment-targets-up-267-bln-valuation-us-ipo-2024-06-17/
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p18#a240617p18

Runway unveils Gen-3 Alpha, a model to generate high-quality, ...

2024-06-17T14:30:33Z

Runway unveils Gen-3 Alpha, a model to generate high-quality, detailed, highly realistic video clips of 10 seconds in length, after releasing Gen-2 in June 2023 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

https://venturebeat.com/ai/runway-unveils-new-hyper-realistic-ai-video-model-gen-3-alpha-capable-of-10-second-long-clips/
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p17#a240617p17

TikTok expands its Symphony ad suite, adding AI dubbing and ...

2024-06-17T13:25:51Z

TikTok expands its Symphony ad suite, adding AI dubbing and custom or stock Digital Avatars based on paid actors or created to resemble specific creators (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/17/24179971/tiktok-ads-ai-generated-avatars-creators-language-dubbing
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p16#a240617p16

YouTube is testing Notes, an experimental crowdsourced tool to ...

2024-06-17T13:10:35Z

YouTube is testing Notes, an experimental crowdsourced tool to let users add context to videos, similar to X's Community Notes, on mobile in the US in English (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/youtube-is-experimenting-with-notes-a-crowdsourced-feature-that-lets-users-add-context-to-videos/
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p15#a240617p15

Vietnam's state media says three of its five active ...

2024-06-17T12:05:33Z

Vietnam's state media says three of its five active international undersea internet cables are down, impacting connections with the US, Europe, and Asia (Khanh Vu/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/three-vietnams-five-undersea-internet-cables-are-down-2024-06-17/
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p13#a240617p13

Swiss privacy-focused app developer Proton establishes the Proton ...

2024-06-17T11:50:35Z

Swiss privacy-focused app developer Proton establishes the Proton Foundation to transition to a nonprofit foundation model, similar to Signal and Mozilla (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/privacy-app-maker-proton-transitions-to-non-profit-foundation-structure/
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p12#a240617p12

The US Surgeon General says platforms should add a "warning ...

2024-06-17T11:35:36Z

The US Surgeon General says platforms should add a "warning label" saying that "social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents" (Vivek H. Murthy/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/opinion/social-media-health-warning.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p11#a240617p11

Hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have breached contractor ...

2024-06-17T11:05:35Z

Hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have breached contractor EPAM Systems to steal data from Ticketmaster and ~165 other Snowflake users; EPAM denies the claim (Kim Zetter/Wired)

https://www.wired.com/story/epam-snowflake-ticketmaster-breach-shinyhunters/
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p10#a240617p10

How Terray Therapeutics uses AI to discover and develop drugs, ...

2024-06-17T10:40:36Z

How Terray Therapeutics uses AI to discover and develop drugs, generating 50TB of raw data daily, part of a wave of startups looking to harness AI in medicine (Steve Lohr/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/business/ai-drugs-development-terray.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p9#a240617p9

Kuo: the Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and its screen ...

2024-06-17T10:20:45Z

Kuo: the Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and its screen will grow from 41mm to 45mm and 45mm to 49mm; Apple will use 3D printing to make some components (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/17/kuo-apple-watch-series-10-larger-screen-thinner/
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p8#a240617p8

Logitech unveils the MX Ink, a stylus for Meta Quest 2 and Quest ...

2024-06-17T10:05:35Z

Logitech unveils the MX Ink, a stylus for Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3, plus "future headsets", the Quest's first third-party input device, shipping in September (Scott Hayden/Road to VR)

https://www.roadtovr.com/quest-first-third-party-input-logitech-stylus/
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p7#a240617p7

Google begins rolling out a "Listen to this page" feature ...

2024-06-17T09:50:48Z

Google begins rolling out a "Listen to this page" feature on Chrome for Android, letting the browser read text-heavy web pages (Abner Li/9to5Google)

https://9to5google.com/2024/06/16/chrome-listen-tts-android/
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p6#a240617p6

McDonald's ends its two-year IBM partnership to test ...

2024-06-17T09:35:33Z

McDonald's ends its two-year IBM partnership to test automated Drive Thru order taking and plans to remove the tech from 100+ restaurants by July 26 (Jonathan Maze/Restaurant Business)

https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/technology/mcdonalds-ending-its-drive-thru-ai-test
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p5#a240617p5

Experts say generative AI is set to make certain skills in ...

2024-06-17T08:10:50Z

Experts say generative AI is set to make certain skills in finance and accounting redundant and free up time for workers to focus more on value-added tasks (Seb Murray/Financial Times)

https://t.co/D3va4RAXGS
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p4#a240617p4

Copywriters detail how AI is changing their jobs, with some ...

2024-06-17T06:30:46Z

Copywriters detail how AI is changing their jobs, with some seeing a new line of work to make AI-generated text sound more human, a job that pays a lot less (Thomas Germain/BBC)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240612-the-people-making-ai-sound-more-human
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p3#a240617p3