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IPO prospectus: Anthropic reports a net loss of $42B in 2025, ...

2026-09-29T00:58:40Z

IPO prospectus: Anthropic reports a net loss of $42B in 2025, with operating losses of $8B+; revenue grew 12x to ~$4.6B, ~25% of which came from two customers (Echo Wang/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/anthropics-ipo-prospectus-shows-sweeping-ai-vision-surging-costs-2026-09-28/
http://www.techmeme.com/260928/p40#a260928p40

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers introduces a bill to bar the ...

2026-09-26T01:06:45Z

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers introduces a bill to bar the federal government from equipping sensitive government systems with Chinese optical transceivers (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-lawmakers-aim-keep-chinas-datacenter-tech-out-sensitive-government-systems-2026-09-25/
http://www.techmeme.com/260925/p26#a260925p26

X adds a "Trade" option to its Cashtag feature, letting ...

2026-09-16T21:03:15Z

X adds a "Trade" option to its Cashtag feature, letting US users complete trades at brokerages including Interactive Brokers, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/16/x-will-now-let-u-s-users-trade-via-cashtags/
http://www.techmeme.com/260916/p44#a260916p44

Researchers say Meta ran 300+ ads with CSAM this year; some ...

2026-09-08T13:41:06Z

Researchers say Meta ran 300+ ads with CSAM this year; some featured morphed images of real children, and many linked to "nudification" apps from China (Matt Burgess/Wired)

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-failed-to-catch-hundreds-of-ai-child-abuse-ads-some-included-images-of-real-kids/
http://www.techmeme.com/260908/p18#a260908p18

How Reddit moderators are battling AI-powered astroturfing ad ...

2026-08-05T06:35:50Z

How Reddit moderators are battling AI-powered astroturfing ad campaigns that exploit the platform's trusted reputation to promote skincare and other products (Mia Sato/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/973098/reddit-ai-search-seo-marketing-brands-spam?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6ImxFdUx0VXBLR1MiLCJwIjoiL2FpLWFydGlmaWNpYWwtaW50ZWxsaWdlbmNlLzk3MzA5OC9yZWRkaXQtYWktc2VhcmNoLXNlby1tYXJrZXRpbmctYnJhbmRzLXNwYW0iLCJleHAiOjE3ODYyNzcxNDQsImlhdCI6MTc4NTg0NTE0NH0.5xvH6sSk5P0dplXamVR86M7YGKK3aSa-PeL8MZI3TL0&utm_medium=gift-link
http://www.techmeme.com/260805/p4#a260805p4

Sources: possible cyberattacks targeting water and wastewater ...

2026-08-04T19:52:23Z

Sources: possible cyberattacks targeting water and wastewater utilities have now been reported in at least 12 US states, and Iran is the prime suspect (ABC News)

https://abcnews.com/US/12-states-face-cyberattacks-water-systems-sources/story?id=135348482
http://www.techmeme.com/260804/p38#a260804p38

Letter: the US EPA says power plants providing electricity only ...

2026-07-28T16:20:52Z

Letter: the US EPA says power plants providing electricity only to data centers and not to the public grid would not be subject to federal pollution laws (Tim McLaughlin/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/epa-says-power-data-centers-can-sidestep-pollution-laws-2026-07-27/
http://www.techmeme.com/260728/p32#a260728p32

OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with ...

2026-07-23T18:10:48Z

OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/openai-makes-chatgpt-health-available-to-all-u-s-users/
http://www.techmeme.com/260723/p37#a260723p37

AMD and Anthropic sign an AI server deal worth tens of billions; ...

2026-07-22T12:38:24Z

AMD and Anthropic sign an AI server deal worth tens of billions; Anthropic will buy 2GW of Instinct MI450 chips in H1 2027, and AMD will invest $5B in Anthropic (Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amd-and-anthropic-sign-major-chips-and-investment-deal-4adfdc45?st=oGnmYV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/260722/p12#a260722p12

Google agrees to buy 100% of the initial output from the Steel ...

2026-07-14T07:56:29Z

Google agrees to buy 100% of the initial output from the Steel River Energy Center's 1.6GW solar project in Arkansas when it becomes operational in 2029 (Martha Muir/Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/e9db6384-b295-4ab2-96bf-55025db9ee1d
http://www.techmeme.com/260714/p3#a260714p3

Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worried about ...

2026-07-09T21:46:11Z

Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worried about declining engagement and are exploring adding live TV and bundling streaming services like Peacock (Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/netflix-is-exploring-live-tv-and-bundles-as-it-struggles-to-keep-viewers-hooked-e1eb28f6?st=S1LJye&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/260709/p38#a260709p38

Instagram has been running ads promoting child sexual abuse ...

2026-07-03T16:11:05Z

Instagram has been running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, with terms like "rape video" and "child video" and linking to Telegram channels (Divya Arya/BBC)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgm4e0316zo
http://www.techmeme.com/260703/p11#a260703p11

A teardown reveals the Trump Mobile T1 is a gold-painted HTC U24 ...

2026-06-11T11:35:43Z

A teardown reveals the Trump Mobile T1 is a gold-painted HTC U24 Pro but features some changes, including memory from Micron instead of SK Hynix (Shahram Mokhtari/iFixit News)

https://www.ifixit.com/News/117789/teardown-confirms-the-trump-phone-is-a-gold-painted-htc-u24-pro
http://www.techmeme.com/260611/p15#a260611p15

Analysis: Conservative and Reform UK MPs have increased their ...

2026-06-11T05:36:05Z

Analysis: Conservative and Reform UK MPs have increased their volume of posts on X since Elon Musk's takeover, while center-left politicians have reduced theirs (Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/43f44d4a-09c6-4452-a37c-b1c2955143d0
http://www.techmeme.com/260611/p3#a260611p3

Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball said Game Pass lost ...

2026-06-10T08:45:54Z

Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball said Game Pass lost "millions" of subscribers in the months following a 50% price hike announced in October 2025 (Eddie Makuch/GameSpot)

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/is-xbox-fixable/
http://www.techmeme.com/260610/p13#a260610p13

How LinkedIn is transforming into a "post-cringe" social ...

2026-06-07T01:55:55Z

How LinkedIn is transforming into a "post-cringe" social network as it courts high-profile influencers, who are building audiences on corporate-friendly topics (Isabella Kwai/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/business/linkedin-social-media-influencers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.n1A.CB-z.d-b0OiKg5BM7&smid=url-share
http://www.techmeme.com/260606/p12#a260606p12

Source: White House AI advisor Sriram Krishnan plans to leave his ...

2026-06-06T16:51:20Z

Source: White House AI advisor Sriram Krishnan plans to leave his role at the end of June; sources: Krishnan plans to start a pro-Trump AI policy institution (Leo Schwartz/The Information)

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/white-house-ai-policy-advisor-krishnan-leave-position
http://www.techmeme.com/260606/p9#a260606p9

Raspberry Pi closed up 27%+ on June 5 after saying it expects ...

2026-06-06T14:25:58Z

Raspberry Pi closed up 27%+ on June 5 after saying it expects adjusted EBITDA of at least $38M in H1, putting it on track to beat $42M est. for the full year (Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/22c5c127-fbab-44eb-a982-a26b9a40eb5c
http://www.techmeme.com/260606/p8#a260606p8

FOIA docs reveal Amazon's extensive control over delivery ...

2026-06-06T13:10:59Z

FOIA docs reveal Amazon's extensive control over delivery drivers it insists are not employees, in a case the NLRB sought to settle on terms favorable to Amazon (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-06-02/amazon-trump-settlement-win-showed-just-how-tough-delivery-drivers-have-it?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4MDM5NzYwNCwiZXhwIjoxNzgxMDAyNDA0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJURzAxNDdLR1pBSkcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDQThGQ0Y4NkY1QjY0ODlCODA4ODkwNTFBNjMxRERBRCJ9.Nsck2fZijofhPwaWJblBkI_9Kyt9lKg81iM3ebUKGB8
http://www.techmeme.com/260606/p7#a260606p7

Microsoft and Mayo Clinic partner for an AI model trained on ...

2026-06-02T19:25:51Z

Microsoft and Mayo Clinic partner for an AI model trained on Mayo's medical data, with plans to build an AI healthcare assistant and AI tools for clinicians (Clare Duffy/CNN)

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/02/tech/ai-for-healthcare-microsoft-mayo-clinic
http://www.techmeme.com/260602/p54#a260602p54

A look at the Seckinger school cluster in Georgia, including the ...

2026-06-01T10:35:59Z

A look at the Seckinger school cluster in Georgia, including the US' "first AI-themed educational institution", as parents say AI integration is often sparse (New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/opinion/ai-high-school.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mVA.O73q.61A71U8KJ0h3&smid=url-share
http://www.techmeme.com/260601/p24#a260601p24

Bluesky and Clemson researchers detail a novel Russian influence ...

2026-05-21T11:15:59Z

Bluesky and Clemson researchers detail a novel Russian influence campaign that hijacked legitimate, influential accounts to spread pro-Kremlin propaganda (Steven Lee Myers/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/business/bluesky-russia-hacking-accounts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kFA.Mf5v.2XWGYgIy3PJN&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.techmeme.com/260521/p15#a260521p15

Microsoft says it's retiring Teams' Together Mode, ...

2026-05-18T06:05:53Z

Microsoft says it's retiring Teams' Together Mode, debuted in 2020, and plans to simplify meeting layouts and focus on video quality, stability, and performance (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/tech/932215/microsoft-teams-together-mode
http://www.techmeme.com/260518/p5#a260518p5

Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video ...

2026-05-17T12:01:20Z

Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast short-form video libraries from their own apps (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/a7db4a0f-cfc1-42a2-ad66-ad798a1f28a0
http://www.techmeme.com/260517/p6#a260517p6

MoonPay acquires DFlow, a platform that facilitates trading on ...

2026-05-10T04:46:47Z

MoonPay acquires DFlow, a platform that facilitates trading on the Solana blockchain, sources say for $100M in stock; DFlow had raised $7.5M across two rounds (Jack Kubinec/Fortune)

https://fortune.com/2026/05/05/moonpay-acquires-solana-100m-all-stock/
http://www.techmeme.com/260510/p2#a260510p2

FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, ...

2026-05-09T22:55:49Z

FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service, raising privacy fears (Ken Macon/Reclaim The Net)

https://reclaimthenet.org/the-fcc-wants-your-id-before-you-get-a-phone-number
http://www.techmeme.com/260509/p14#a260509p14

Filing: Lime files for an IPO, reporting 2025 revenue of $886.7M, ...

2026-05-08T11:45:57Z

Filing: Lime files for an IPO, reporting 2025 revenue of $886.7M, up from $686.6M YoY, and a net loss of $59.3M, up from $33.9M; it was valued at $510M in 2020 (Jordan Fitzgerald/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-08/uber-backed-electric-scooter-rental-firm-lime-files-for-ipo
http://www.techmeme.com/260508/p16#a260508p16

A profile of David Sacks, appointed as White House AI adviser in ...

2026-05-06T12:11:08Z

A profile of David Sacks, appointed as White House AI adviser in December 2024, who has a ruthless devotion to self-interest and helped pass the GENIUS Act (George Packer/The Atlantic)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/06/david-sacks-crypto-ai-venture-capital/686941/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK38RUbn3fdh2sogd45ccc3R0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.techmeme.com/260506/p22#a260506p22

Sources: the Trump administration is discussing an EO to create ...

2026-05-04T19:56:09Z

Sources: the Trump administration is discussing an EO to create an AI working group to examine AI oversight procedures, including vetting models before release (New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/technology/trump-ai-models.html
http://www.techmeme.com/260504/p34#a260504p34

An interview with Dario Amodei, who says the negative narrative ...

2026-04-17T13:25:54Z

An interview with Dario Amodei, who says the negative narrative around AI is dominant because the industry hasn't yet fully delivered the benefits it promises (John Thornhill/Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/9e0e0fc6-ab7d-4b69-a8b1-5a972b82fb06
http://www.techmeme.com/260417/p15#a260417p15

Filings: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz donated $25M to pro-AI ...

2026-04-15T15:26:03Z

Filings: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz donated $25M to pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future, bringing the group's total cash on hand to over $51M (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-15/andreessen-horowitz-boost-ai-super-pac-cash-to-over-50-million
http://www.techmeme.com/260415/p30#a260415p30

Hilbert, whose AI software connects data across teams to help ...

2026-04-15T15:21:02Z

Hilbert, whose AI software connects data across teams to help companies make decisions from a single system, raised a $28M Series A led by a16z (Madison Mills/Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/15/exclusive-a16z-backed-hilbert-raises-28-million
http://www.techmeme.com/260415/p29#a260415p29

Florida's AG launches a probe into OpenAI and ChatGPT, saying ...

2026-04-09T16:45:44Z

Florida's AG launches a probe into OpenAI and ChatGPT, saying its data could fall "into the hands of America's enemies" and citing a mass shooter's ChatGPT use (Juby Babu/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/business/florida-ag-probe-openai-chatgpt-2026-04-09/
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p29#a260409p29

Interviews with Codex lead Alexander Embiricos, OpenClaw's ...

2026-04-03T19:44:57Z

Interviews with Codex lead Alexander Embiricos, OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger, and others about OpenAI's upcoming superapp that combines ChatGPT with Codex (Alex Heath/Sources)

https://sources.news/p/openai-super-app-plan-codex
http://www.techmeme.com/260403/p14#a260403p14

Q&A with New Mexico AG Raúl Torrez about the New Mexico and ...

2026-03-27T00:50:53Z

Q&A with New Mexico AG Raúl Torrez about the New Mexico and LA social media trials, Big Tech's "Big Tobacco" moment, what it means for Congress, and more (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2026/03/26/new-mexicos-ag-on-next-steps-after-beating-meta-00846463
http://www.techmeme.com/260326/p50#a260326p50

Social media addiction trial: the plaintiff, Meta, and YouTube ...

2026-03-13T00:46:40Z

Social media addiction trial: the plaintiff, Meta, and YouTube make closing arguments; jurors begin deliberations Friday on liability for harm to children (Associated Press)

https://apnews.com/article/meta-instagram-facebook-trial-social-media-addiction-0e99c9ba6159421720d616f9facd10f0
http://www.techmeme.com/260312/p57#a260312p57

The US and Israel are using AI to wage war on Iran with ...

2026-03-08T17:50:37Z

The US and Israel are using AI to wage war on Iran with unprecedented speed and precision in attacks, even as the cost of ill-informed decisions remains high (Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-ai-is-turbocharging-the-war-in-iran-aca59002?st=tkAocR&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/260308/p9#a260308p9

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

Mozilla says Firefox users will be able to disable all AI ...

2026-02-02T19:01:14Z

Mozilla says Firefox users will be able to disable all AI features in its desktop browser, starting with Firefox 148, rolling out on February 24 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-will-let-you-turn-off-all-firefox-ai-features/
http://www.techmeme.com/260202/p32#a260202p32

Microsoft confirms it does provide BitLocker recovery keys for ...

2026-01-24T17:25:51Z

Microsoft confirms it does provide BitLocker recovery keys for encrypted data if it receives a valid legal order and the user has stored the keys on its servers (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/22/microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-bitlocker-encrypted-data/
http://www.techmeme.com/260124/p11#a260124p11

Sources: Sequoia is planning a big investment in Anthropic, ...

2026-01-18T15:31:01Z

Sources: Sequoia is planning a big investment in Anthropic, joining a round led by GIC and Coatue, which are investing $1.5B each; Anthropic aims to raise $25B+ (George Hammond/Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/53220829-2ab2-471c-9a00-30d24beb8d48
http://www.techmeme.com/260118/p9#a260118p9

Q&A with SiFive co-founder Krste Asanović, who was part of ...

2026-01-18T15:01:06Z

Q&A with SiFive co-founder Krste Asanović, who was part of the original team that developed RISC-V, on creating a company that builds IP around RISC-V, and more (Dr. Ian Cutress/More Than Moore)

https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-dr-krste-asanovic
http://www.techmeme.com/260118/p8#a260118p8

India's largest retailer Reliance Retail says its daily quick ...

2026-01-18T11:01:04Z

India's largest retailer Reliance Retail says its daily quick commerce orders peaked at 1.6M in Q4 2025; market leader Blinkit averaged 2.4M daily orders in Q3 (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)

https://indiadispatch.com/p/the-mystery-of-reliance-quick-commerce-growth
http://www.techmeme.com/260118/p7#a260118p7

A look at the making of The Thinking Game, a documentary about ...

2026-01-18T07:01:32Z

A look at the making of The Thinking Game, a documentary about Google DeepMind and its CEO Demis Hassabis, garnering 285M+ views on YouTube since November 2025 (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-deepmind-documentary-youtube-thinking-game-732bfa06?st=NkQ8Hp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/260118/p6#a260118p6

OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage ...

2026-01-18T06:56:10Z

OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

https://fortune.com/2026/01/15/former-openai-policy-chief-creates-nonprofit-institute-calls-for-independent-safety-audits-of-frontier-ai-models/
http://www.techmeme.com/260118/p5#a260118p5

Atlantic Council: China-led cross-border digital currency ...

2026-01-18T06:50:55Z

Atlantic Council: China-led cross-border digital currency platform mBridge, still a prototype, has processed 4,000+ cross-border transactions totaling $55.5B (Marc Jones/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-led-cross-border-digital-currency-platform-sees-surge-2026-01-16/
http://www.techmeme.com/260118/p4#a260118p4

Listen Labs, whose AI tools help Microsoft and others run ...

2026-01-18T06:11:00Z

Listen Labs, whose AI tools help Microsoft and others run customer research and interviews, raised a $69M Series B led by Ribbit Capital at a $500M+ valuation (Iain Martin/Forbes)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/01/14/this-500-million-ai-startup-runs-customer-interviews-for-microsoft-and-sweetgreen/
http://www.techmeme.com/260118/p3#a260118p3

Mannheim, Germany-based osapiens, a provider of ESG compliance ...

2026-01-18T06:06:11Z

Mannheim, Germany-based osapiens, a provider of ESG compliance software, raised a $100M Series C solely from Decarbonization Partners at a $1.1B valuation (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)

https://tech.eu/2026/01/14/german-startup-osapiens-becomes-unicorn-following-100m-funding-round/
http://www.techmeme.com/260118/p2#a260118p2

David Sacks and top MAGA influencers are publicly opposing House ...

2026-01-18T05:50:59Z

David Sacks and top MAGA influencers are publicly opposing House Foreign Affairs Chair Brian Mast's proposed AI OVERWATCH Act to regulate AI chip sales to China (Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/16/maga-brian-mast-ai-chips
http://www.techmeme.com/260118/p1#a260118p1

The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center ...

2026-01-18T01:01:38Z

The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren't enough skilled workers in the US, such as electricians, to keep up (Caroline Haskins/Wired)

https://www.wired.com/story/why-there-arent-enough-electricians-and-plumbers-to-build-ai-data-centers/
http://www.techmeme.com/260117/p14#a260117p14

A look at Michael Saylor's Strategy, known for buying bitcoin ...

2026-01-17T21:31:06Z

A look at Michael Saylor's Strategy, known for buying bitcoin via creative financing strategies, as its stock trades way below its peak amid the crypto downturn (Rob Copeland/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/business/michael-saylor-strategy-bitcoin.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FFA.u3Tk.HVVGkUgrdgcZ&smid=url-share
http://www.techmeme.com/260117/p13#a260117p13

Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, ...

2026-01-17T19:30:54Z

Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY and a single-year record; AI artist Xania Monet had 125M on-demand audio streams (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)

https://apnews.com/article/music-listening-habits-2025-christian-rock-latin-a5e06a001705cd7e5d3854d8fab901b8
http://www.techmeme.com/260117/p12#a260117p12

ZachXBT: a crypto user lost $282M+ in BTC and LTC in a hardware ...

2026-01-17T18:01:50Z

ZachXBT: a crypto user lost $282M+ in BTC and LTC in a hardware wallet social engineering scam; XMR jumped as the attacker began converting the funds to Monero (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

https://www.theblock.co/post/386014/monero-hit-all-time-high-this-week-crypto-sleuth-zachxbt-thinks-he-knows-why
http://www.techmeme.com/260117/p11#a260117p11

Micron signs a letter of intent to buy a fabrication site in ...

2026-01-17T15:55:52Z

Micron signs a letter of intent to buy a fabrication site in Taiwan from Powerchip for $1.8B to expand DRAM memory chip production, expected to close in Q2 2026 (Valentine Baldassari/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-17/micron-to-buy-taiwan-chip-fabrication-site-for-1-8-billion
http://www.techmeme.com/260117/p10#a260117p10

Beaconcha.in: a record ~36M ethereum tokens, or 30% of ...

2026-01-17T14:50:56Z

Beaconcha.in: a record ~36M ethereum tokens, or 30% of ethereum's total supply, worth ~$119B, are now staked, as institutional investors grow their share (Sage D. Young/Sherwood News)

https://sherwood.news/crypto/a-record-36-million-ethereum-tokens-are-now-dedicated-to-staking/
http://www.techmeme.com/260117/p9#a260117p9

Sources: following investor backlash, Monzo to give outgoing CEO ...

2026-01-17T11:35:52Z

Sources: following investor backlash, Monzo to give outgoing CEO TS Anil an expanded role after he steps down in February; he is likely to retain a board seat (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/7d4e11d3-f30e-4c33-bedc-908cf221cffc
http://www.techmeme.com/260117/p8#a260117p8

TrendForce: data centers will use 70%+ of the high-end memory ...

2026-01-17T07:35:55Z

TrendForce: data centers will use 70%+ of the high-end memory chips all manufacturers will produce in 2026, with little new manufacturing capacity until 2027 (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/memory-ram-shortage-2026-f55324b0?st=JAS43z&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/260117/p7#a260117p7

Filing: Elon Musk seeks $79B-$134B damages from OpenAI and ...

2026-01-17T07:20:53Z

Filing: Elon Musk seeks $79B-$134B damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging OpenAI defrauded him by abandoning nonprofit roots and partnering with Microsoft (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-17/musk-seeks-up-to-134-billion-damages-from-openai-microsoft
http://www.techmeme.com/260117/p6#a260117p6

Appfigures: Sora 2 had ~6M iOS downloads as of December 2025; the ...

2026-01-17T07:06:14Z

Appfigures: Sora 2 had ~6M iOS downloads as of December 2025; the Android version, available since early November 2025, had ~3.1M, as growth begins to slow (Sherwood News)

https://sherwood.news/tech/openais-sora-2-started-off-scorching-hot-things-have-slowed-down-since/
http://www.techmeme.com/260117/p5#a260117p5

Adobe's stock has slumped more than 45% since the end of ...

2026-01-17T06:45:53Z

Adobe's stock has slumped more than 45% since the end of 2023, reflecting analyst concerns over the threat of AI-driven disruption to SaaS companies (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-13/adobe-analysts-turn-most-bearish-since-2013-as-ai-threat-looms
http://www.techmeme.com/260117/p4#a260117p4

Sources: the EU's cybersecurity proposal, to be presented on ...

2026-01-17T06:30:55Z

Sources: the EU's cybersecurity proposal, to be presented on Jan. 20, is expected to phase out vendors such as Huawei from the bloc's critical infrastructure (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/eb677cb3-f86c-42de-b819-277bcb042295
http://www.techmeme.com/260117/p3#a260117p3

Luxembourg-based Hydrosat, which builds AI-based thermal infrared ...

2026-01-17T06:15:56Z

Luxembourg-based Hydrosat, which builds AI-based thermal infrared satellite tech to provide data for water resource management and more, raised a $60M Series B (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)

https://resiliencemedia.co/hydrosat-raises-60m-at-a-180m-valuation-for-its-thermal-satellite-imaging-tech/
http://www.techmeme.com/260117/p2#a260117p2

Anthropic appoints Irina Ghose, a former Microsoft India managing ...

2026-01-17T06:11:01Z

Anthropic appoints Irina Ghose, a former Microsoft India managing director, to lead its business in India, which has the second-largest user base for Claude (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/15/anthropic-taps-former-microsoft-india-md-to-lead-bengaluru-expansion/
http://www.techmeme.com/260117/p1#a260117p1

Micron breaks ground in New York for its memory manufacturing ...

2026-01-17T03:15:59Z

Micron breaks ground in New York for its memory manufacturing complex, announced in 2022, that it says will be the largest semiconductor facility in the US (Glenn Coin/Syracuse Post-Standard)

https://www.syracuse.com/micron/2026/01/micron-breaks-ground-on-massive-chipmaking-plant-that-could-transform-central-ny.html
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p33#a260116p33

Grid operator PJM plans to require large data centers to either ...

2026-01-17T02:30:54Z

Grid operator PJM plans to require large data centers to either bring their own power generation or curtail electricity use to prevent a large-scale outage (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/pjm-unveils-plan-tackle-ai-driven-power-demand-surge-2026-01-16/
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p32#a260116p32

Sources: suppliers of parts for Nvidia's H200 chips have ...

2026-01-17T02:01:56Z

Sources: suppliers of parts for Nvidia's H200 chips have paused production after Chinese customs officials blocked shipments of the AI processors (Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/02a3eb7c-684f-4e39-87b8-36e9595ef800
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p31#a260116p31

The US EPA rules that xAI acted illegally by using dozens of ...

2026-01-17T01:25:55Z

The US EPA rules that xAI acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 data centers in the Memphis area (Dara Kerr/The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-memphis
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p30#a260116p30

Sources: leaders at Thinking Machines Lab confronted Barret Zoph ...

2026-01-17T00:56:07Z

Sources: leaders at Thinking Machines Lab confronted Barret Zoph over an alleged relationship with another employee, who is no longer at the lab, in summer 2025 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

https://www.wired.com/story/thinking-machines-lab-cofounder-office-relationship-firing-openai/
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p29#a260116p29

Anthropic makes Claude Cowork available to $20/month Pro ...

2026-01-17T00:40:54Z

Anthropic makes Claude Cowork available to $20/month Pro subscribers, after launching it for Max users, and says Pro users may hit their usage limits sooner (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)

https://www.engadget.com/ai/anthropic-opens-up-its-claude-cowork-feature-to-anyone-with-a-20-subscription-194000021.html
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p28#a260116p28

California's AG sends a cease-and-desist letter to xAI, ...

2026-01-16T23:50:53Z

California's AG sends a cease-and-desist letter to xAI, demanding the company halt the generation and distribution of non-consensual intimate images and CSAM (Julianna Bragg/Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/16/xai-california-elon-musk-deepfakes-children-grok
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p27#a260116p27

Google says it's appealing the US v. Google ruling that found ...

2026-01-16T23:16:07Z

Google says it's appealing the US v. Google ruling that found it has an illegal search monopoly and asks a court to pause some of the remedies during the appeal (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/news/863710/google-search-antitrust-monopoly-appeal
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p26#a260116p26

Sources: Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered US ...

2026-01-16T23:01:28Z

Sources: Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered US digital asset bank, is seeking to raise $200M to $400M, ahead of a possible IPO in 2027 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-16/anchorage-digital-said-to-seek-more-than-200-million-in-funding
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p25#a260116p25

Sources: Google is in talks with broadband operator Radiate to ...

2026-01-16T22:10:57Z

Sources: Google is in talks with broadband operator Radiate to set up a JV to hold their fiber assets; Stonepeak Partners will invest $1B to support the deal (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-16/google-in-talks-with-stonepeak-s-radiate-for-fiber-asset-venture
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p24#a260116p24

Claude Code represents a "ChatGPT moment repeated" and an ...

2026-01-16T21:35:51Z

Claude Code represents a "ChatGPT moment repeated" and an "extinction-level event" for horizontal software companies focused on human-oriented consumption (Doug OLaughlin/Fabricated Knowledge)

https://www.fabricatedknowledge.com/p/the-death-of-software-20-a-better
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p23#a260116p23

Sources: ElevenLabs seeks to raise hundreds of millions at a ...

2026-01-16T21:10:53Z

Sources: ElevenLabs seeks to raise hundreds of millions at a valuation of $11B, four months after a secondary share sale that valued it at $6.6B (Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/5bb87485-7641-4577-8b64-144a1553d42e
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p22#a260116p22

Some top California Democrats join Governor Gavin Newsom in ...

2026-01-16T20:45:56Z

Some top California Democrats join Governor Gavin Newsom in opposing a ballot initiative led by a healthcare union seeking a one-time 5% tax on $1B+ in assets (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-16/billionaire-tax-plan-draws-fire-from-california-top-democrats?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2ODU5NDg0NywiZXhwIjoxNzY5MTk5NjQ3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUOFlYMEFLSVVQVkMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIzOEVENDg5NkRGOEU0Njk4OUE2NTI2QTA0MzNFQjgyNSJ9.H1B0GPOd78lBEKoLzVGPsSTaIVH6qJbnjmAgf5CqVwE
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p21#a260116p21

FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson says the agency is examining Big ...

2026-01-16T20:05:54Z

FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson says the agency is examining Big Tech's acqui-hires to make sure "they are not an attempt to get around" its merger review process (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-16/us-is-scrutinizing-big-tech-talent-acquisitions-ftc-chief-says
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p20#a260116p20

TikTok has launched a standalone micro drama app, PineDrama, in ...

2026-01-16T19:35:52Z

TikTok has launched a standalone micro drama app, PineDrama, in the US and Brazil, offering vertical serialized shows for free without ads or paywalls for now (Business Insider)

https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-launches-a-new-micro-drama-app-called-pinedrama-2026-1
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p19#a260116p19

OpenAI expands its $8/month ChatGPT Go subscription tier to the ...

2026-01-16T18:24:52Z

OpenAI expands its $8/month ChatGPT Go subscription tier to the US and the rest of the world, after previously launching it in India and some other countries (Elissa Welle/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/news/863466/openai-chatgpt-go-global-release
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p18#a260116p18

OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some ...

2026-01-16T18:20:58Z

OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-testing-ads-us/
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p17#a260116p17

OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free ...

2026-01-16T18:14:35Z

OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US; source: it expects to make "low billions" from ads in 2026 (Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/ec1656cd-e07b-48ed-92a8-26c7fe517899
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p16#a260116p16

Vietnam's military-run telecom company Viettel begins ...

2026-01-16T17:35:50Z

Vietnam's military-run telecom company Viettel begins construction of the country's first chip plant, with trial production expected to start by late 2027 (Phuong Nguyen/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/viettel-begins-construction-vietnams-first-chip-plant-trial-run-targeted-by-2026-01-16/
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p15#a260116p15

Istanbul-based TaleMonster Games, the studio behind the puzzle ...

2026-01-16T16:40:55Z

Istanbul-based TaleMonster Games, the studio behind the puzzle game Match Valley, raised a $30M Series A led by Arcadia Gaming Partners and a16z (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

https://tech.eu/2026/01/15/talemonster-games-closes-30m-series-a-round/
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p14#a260116p14

Analysis: Colossus 2, one of the world's largest AI ...

2026-01-16T16:01:40Z

Analysis: Colossus 2, one of the world's largest AI datacenters, will use as much water/year as 2.5 average In-N-Outs, assuming only drinkable water and burgers (SemiAnalysis)

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/from-tokens-to-burgers-a-water-footprint
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p13#a260116p13

Unsealed docs from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit, set for a jury ...

2026-01-16T15:30:52Z

Unsealed docs from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit, set for a jury trial on April 27, show Sutskever's concerns about treating open-source AI as a "side show", more (Alex Heath/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/column/863319/highlights-musk-v-altman-openai
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p11#a260116p11

DoorDash Chief Revenue Officer Lee Brown is departing the ...

2026-01-16T14:50:53Z

DoorDash Chief Revenue Officer Lee Brown is departing the delivery app company after less than six months; long-term VP Shanna Prevé will become CRO (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-16/doordash-revenue-chief-lee-brown-departs-after-short-stint
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p10#a260116p10

ClickHouse, a Snowflake challenger that offers an OLAP database ...

2026-01-16T14:15:54Z

ClickHouse, a Snowflake challenger that offers an OLAP database management system, raised $400M led by Dragoneer at a $15B valuation, up from $6.35B in May 2025 (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-16/clickhouse-lands-15-billion-valuation-in-ai-database-race
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p9#a260116p9

Source: Italian police searched the offices of the country's ...

2026-01-16T12:40:50Z

Source: Italian police searched the offices of the country's data protection agency, one of EU's most proactive regulators, as part of a corruption probe (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/italys-privacy-watchdog-scourge-us-big-tech-hit-by-corruption-probe-2026-01-15/
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p8#a260116p8

Q&A with Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos about the WBD bid, ...

2026-01-16T12:11:01Z

Q&A with Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos about the WBD bid, Trump's involvement in the deal, maintaining a 45-day theatrical window for WBD releases, and more (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/business/media/ted-sarandos-netflix.html
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p7#a260116p7

Cloudflare acquires AI data marketplace Human Native for an ...

2026-01-16T11:30:50Z

Cloudflare acquires AI data marketplace Human Native for an undisclosed sum, aiming to create a new system where AI developers pay creators for training content (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/15/cloudflare-ai-human-native-acquisition.html
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p6#a260116p6

Italy's competition regulator opens two investigations into ...

2026-01-16T11:11:04Z

Italy's competition regulator opens two investigations into Microsoft's Activision Blizzard over sales practices it claims were "misleading and aggressive" (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/italy-probes-microsofts-unit-over-sale-practices-call-duty-diablo-video-games-2026-01-16/
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p5#a260116p5

TikTok plans to roll out a new age detection system, which ...

2026-01-16T11:01:31Z

TikTok plans to roll out a new age detection system, which analyzes profile information to predict whether a user is under 13, across Europe in the coming weeks (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/tiktok-tighten-age-checks-europe-regulators-ramp-up-pressure-2026-01-16/
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p4#a260116p4

A profile of Wikipedia as it faces challenges, including attacks ...

2026-01-16T06:40:46Z

A profile of Wikipedia as it faces challenges, including attacks from Elon Musk and the far right, reduced traffic due to AI, and legal challenges in India (Darren Loucaides/Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/513761bb-3b6c-4b32-9931-a34f01047558?accessToken=zwAGSHwGHGowkc9RN2G7O2xLMtOZMaNPAQR1WA.MEUCIAWtWP0doWe42-a7EhbkV6zkpSWJCePmqvAacT5F-MQWAiEAho2k0tjFTvuumtpOKEeVK1yV9sY-bPr8nlv_BiWgLOw&sharetype=gift&token=227ba4dd-9130-42e5-a998-19ef4b540342
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p3#a260116p3

Sources: Chinese AI companies seek to rent compute in Southeast ...

2026-01-16T05:55:47Z

Sources: Chinese AI companies seek to rent compute in Southeast Asia and the Middle East for Nvidia Rubin access, as Zhipu and Alibaba warn of a widening US gap (Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-ai-race-us-chips-9e74b957?st=kgowm4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p2#a260116p2

Australia's eSafety Commissioner reports social media ...

2026-01-16T05:06:02Z

Australia's eSafety Commissioner reports social media platforms "removed access" to ~4.7M accounts under its ban for under-16s, which took effect in December (New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/world/australia/social-media-ban-australia.html
http://www.techmeme.com/260116/p1#a260116p1

SiFive will integrate Nvidia's NVLink Fusion infrastructure ...

2026-01-16T04:45:49Z

SiFive will integrate Nvidia's NVLink Fusion infrastructure with its RISC-V processor IP platforms, allowing SiFive silicon to communicate with Nvidia GPUs (Marco Chiappetta/Forbes)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappetta/2026/01/15/sifive-to-integrate-nvidia-nvlink-fusion-for-next-gen-ai-data-center-chips/
http://www.techmeme.com/260115/p58#a260115p58

California regulators unanimously voted in favor of Verizon's ...

2026-01-16T04:25:49Z

California regulators unanimously voted in favor of Verizon's $10B Frontier acquisition; deliberations included Verizon committing to CA's DEI requirements (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)

https://thedesk.net/2026/01/california-approves-verizon-frontier-merger/
http://www.techmeme.com/260115/p57#a260115p57

Meta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers, on ...

2026-01-16T04:06:10Z

Meta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers, on February 16; Quest headsets and Horizon services will not be sold to businesses as of February 20 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/tech/863209/meta-has-discontinued-its-metaverse-for-work-too
http://www.techmeme.com/260115/p56#a260115p56

Sources: Trump and several state governors agree to direct grid ...

2026-01-16T03:30:47Z

Sources: Trump and several state governors agree to direct grid operator PJM to hold an auction for tech companies to fund new power plants due to AI demand (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-15/trump-to-direct-key-us-grid-operator-to-hold-emergency-auction
http://www.techmeme.com/260115/p55#a260115p55

YouTube revises policy to allow full monetization of nongraphic ...

2026-01-16T02:26:05Z

YouTube revises policy to allow full monetization of nongraphic videos on sensitive issues including abortion, self-harm, suicide, and domestic and sexual abuse (Sam Gutelle/Tubefilter)

https://www.tubefilter.com/2026/01/15/youtube-sensitive-content-ad-monetization-guidelines-update/
http://www.techmeme.com/260115/p54#a260115p54