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2026-07-29 20:07:55 UTC

Microsoft reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $90B, net income up 31% to $35.8B, and Microsoft Cloud revenue up 27% to $59.3B; MSFT jumps 3%+ after hours (Microsoft)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2026-Q4/press-release-webcast
http://www.techmeme.com/260729/p35#a260729p35

2026-07-29 19:57:03 UTC

Waymo gradually resumes freeway routes, starting with Phoenix, more than two months after suspending them to improve performance around construction zones (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/waymo-robotaxis-are-starting-to-return-to-freeways/
http://www.techmeme.com/260729/p34#a260729p34

2026-07-29 15:36:00 UTC

Groundcover, which provides observability software that can monitor AI agents, raised a $100M Series C led by One Peak, bringing its total funding to $160M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/r19aupvrme
http://www.techmeme.com/260729/p27#a260729p27

2026-07-29 15:20:57 UTC

ChipAgents, which uses AI agents to help speed up the process of chip design, raised a $60M Series A2 led by B Capital, bringing the expanded round to $134M (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-partner-chipagents-raises-60-million-accelerate-chip-design-with-ai-2026-07-29/
http://www.techmeme.com/260729/p25#a260729p25

2026-07-29 14:41:24 UTC

A look at OpenAI's open-source agent harness that now powers Codex and ChatGPT Work, as the company works to optimize the harness to cut runaway token usage (Jason Hiner/The Deep View)
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/openai-s-secret-weapon-underneath-codex
http://www.techmeme.com/260729/p22#a260729p22

2026-07-29 10:36:03 UTC

OpenAI, Google, Meta, BlackRock, and others are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands, with some of the highest pay the industry has ever seen (Lydia DePillis/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/business/economy/data-center-electricians-training.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1VA.e8sV.PdyR8boC53M4&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.techmeme.com/260729/p12#a260729p12

2026-07-29 08:10:53 UTC

CXMT's IPO prospectus showed Alibaba had a ~5% stake, which is now worth $20B+, a nearly 20x return, based on CXMT's ~$464B closing market cap on July 28 (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3362156/cxmt-zhipu-how-alibabas-investment-pays-growing-ai-and-chip-portfolio
http://www.techmeme.com/260729/p7#a260729p7

2026-07-29 06:30:56 UTC

A look at Kioxia, the Japanese memory chipmaker that went from being cash-strapped in 2023 to an expected 30-fold jump in operating income in Q1 FY 2026 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-07-28/rescued-by-the-ai-boom-japan-s-kioxia-faces-a-capex-race?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NTI4NzEyNywiZXhwIjoxNzg1ODkxOTI3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSVdMMFFLR1pBS1MwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBRDcxOUY5NDBGRTk0MzNBOERCNzI2OEJDOTY3NzY3QyJ9.ve4G51ud788pfq2jY0wt5qLRFfLH_CITCpci6FK5B7k
http://www.techmeme.com/260729/p5#a260729p5

2026-07-29 06:01:30 UTC

GPTZero finds AI hallucinations in four PwC Middle East reports; GPTZero's earlier investigations led EY and KPMG to retract reports with similar issues (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7e149ac8-2ce2-4266-8940-192f9821b33c?accessToken=zwAAAZ-saNlskc9-FJrILOJCZtOJQBkvmCGzPA.MEQCIB4QcO-EieUBJcSm2aKVE-2CPlzIp6X2ybz0z7CtBCWVAiBW2x-m3L_HC80hcP_ZAaHnRwPU6o3Lsz5ykpMfPd5r8g&sharetype=gift&token=6a7e4856-f5f9-4071-996e-8fedf70334e7
http://www.techmeme.com/260729/p4#a260729p4

2026-07-29 03:30:54 UTC

Mark Zuckerberg says the US should not ban Chinese AI models and that AI model peer reviews or vetting could be positive if "done well with thoughtful people" (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/af4fa147-7fdd-42eb-8eb2-3f624a89a4e4
http://www.techmeme.com/260728/p54#a260728p54

2026-07-29 01:11:17 UTC

OpenAI says the rogue AI that breached Hugging Face used exposed credentials from "four accounts" tied to four "publicly available" third-party services (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openais-rogue-ai-agent-hacked-more-than-just-hugging-face/
http://www.techmeme.com/260728/p51#a260728p51

2026-07-28 22:45:52 UTC

OpenAI and Anthropic release statements in support of the "Pacing the Frontier" initiative; Anthropic says Dario Amodei and several co-founders have signed it (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/tech-employees-call-us-backed-global-effort-manage-risks-advanced-ai-2026-07-28/
http://www.techmeme.com/260728/p47#a260728p47

2026-07-28 18:41:05 UTC

Q&A with Sam Altman on the Hugging Face breach, the race for compute, distillation, open source, concentration of power, robotics, OpenAI's future, and more (Invest Like The Best on YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDB5beon4DY
http://www.techmeme.com/260728/p38#a260728p38

2026-07-28 15:50:49 UTC

Corning's shares fall 16%+ after weak Q3 guidance, as its growth is squeezed by production limits on its AI connectivity products; Q2 sales rose 17% to $4.74B (Adriano Marchese/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/corning-posts-higher-profit-sales-on-ai-demand-000765cd?st=FpXqQA&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/260728/p29#a260728p29

2026-07-28 14:40:59 UTC

Memo: Visa is cutting ~2,600 jobs, or ~7% of staff, primarily affecting tech and product teams; source: Visa plans to reinvest in stablecoin and other offerings (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-28/visa-to-cut-7-of-workforce-as-ceo-seeks-to-revamp-payments-firm
http://www.techmeme.com/260728/p24#a260728p24

2026-07-28 14:30:55 UTC

Core Scientific and AMD announce a deal under which AMD will secure 500+ MW of US data center capacity starting in 2027, with the ability to scale up to 2.5 GW (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/409887/core-scientific-ties-ai-pivot-amd-multi-gigawatt-infrastructure-deal
http://www.techmeme.com/260728/p23#a260728p23

2026-07-28 14:01:26 UTC

UK startup Dwelly, which buys real estate businesses and adds AI to handle maintenance, contracts, and other tasks, raised $95M in equity and $75M in debt (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-28/ai-startup-dwelly-raises-170-million-for-real-estate-rollup
http://www.techmeme.com/260728/p21#a260728p21

2026-07-28 13:21:29 UTC

Sources: Moonshot is seeking access to more Nvidia Blackwell chips to prepare for Kimi K4; the Chinese startup trained K3 on Nvidia chips including Blackwell (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chinese-ai-startup-moonshot-seeks-nvidia-blackwell-chips-next-model
http://www.techmeme.com/260728/p18#a260728p18

2026-07-28 11:35:50 UTC

PayPal reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $8.68B, above $8.47B est., transaction margin dollars up 1% YoY to $3.9B, and a $1.1B profit, down from $1.26B in Q2 2025 (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/paypal-lifts-profitability-guidance-says-turnaround-is-progressing-ddfd0c54?st=WyEaXL&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/260728/p14#a260728p14

2026-07-28 11:20:47 UTC

Sources: Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, deprecating several flagship Nova AI models, as it shifts resources to its Frontier Model Research initiative (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-overhauls-ai-strategy-phasing-out-most-nova-models-2026-7
http://www.techmeme.com/260728/p13#a260728p13

2026-07-28 09:55:49 UTC

Meta and BlackRock form a strategic venture to develop a 1GW data center campus in El Paso, set to cost ~$14B and bring capacity online starting in 2028 (Meta Newsroom)
https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/meta-announces-new-venture-with-blackrock-to-develop-data-center-in-el-paso/
http://www.techmeme.com/260728/p6#a260728p6

2026-07-27 12:50:40 UTC

Way Security, which uses AI automation and agentic workflows to help deploy IAM systems, raised a $20M seed from Insight Partners and Glilot Capital (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/07/27/identity-way-security-microsoft-software
http://www.techmeme.com/260727/p10#a260727p10

2026-07-26 19:35:35 UTC

Once hailed as an AI visionary, Satya Nadella faces pressure as a compute crunch forces Microsoft to prioritize its own AI products over Azure cloud customers (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-nadella-hardest-year-microsoft-ai-azure-github-2026-7
http://www.techmeme.com/260726/p7#a260726p7

2026-07-24 22:40:55 UTC

Sources: Prentis, which develops computer use models and is co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Marc Pincus, is in talks to raise $100M at a $1B valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/prentis-new-ai-lab-co-founded-by-reid-hoffman-marc-pincus-in-talks-to-raise-100m/
http://www.techmeme.com/260724/p33#a260724p33

2026-07-24 22:05:55 UTC

An appeals court narrowly blocks Texas from enforcing a monitoring and filtering requirement under its children's online safety law, over Section 230 preemption (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-appeals-court-blocks-part-texas-childrens-online-safety-law-2026-07-24/
http://www.techmeme.com/260724/p32#a260724p32

2026-07-12 11:01:12 UTC

Users of AI coding tools are flooding open-source projects with low-quality contributions, overwhelming maintainers and potentially eroding community engagement (Sam Learner/Financial Times)
https://as.ft.com/r/b7f62212-989e-412f-b76a-6905b6333afd
http://www.techmeme.com/260712/p5#a260712p5

2026-07-10 23:46:09 UTC

SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung says the memory industry is heading for its worst-ever supply shortage in 2027 and demand will outstrip supply beyond 2030 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sk-hynix-ceo-sees-worst-ever-memory-supply-shortage-2027-says-demand-outstrip-2026-07-10/
http://www.techmeme.com/260710/p36#a260710p36

2026-07-09 19:40:44 UTC

Anthropic, set to add usage-based billing for Fable 5 on July 12, aims to return the model to Claude's subscription plans "when sufficient capacity allows" (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/model-behavior-anthropic-will-charge-consumers-extra-to-use-claude-fable-5/
http://www.techmeme.com/260709/p33#a260709p33

2026-07-08 10:37:07 UTC

Omdia expects a 22% YoY drop in global smartphone shipments priced below $400 for 2026 amid soaring DRAM and NAND costs; Q1 memory costs were ~60% of materials (Zaker Li/Omdia)
https://omdia.tech.informa.com/blogs/2026/july/global-smartphones-priced-below-400-dollars-will-decline-by-22percent-as-memory-costs-soar
http://www.techmeme.com/260708/p17#a260708p17

2026-07-03 16:11:05 UTC

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

2026-07-02 13:41:00 UTC

Global VC funding hit a record $510B in H1 2026, with OpenAI and Anthropic accounting for $217B, or 43% of the total; in Q2, VCs put $205B into 5K+ startups (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/global-startup-exits-ipo-ma-soar-ai-q2-h1-2026/
http://www.techmeme.com/260702/p23#a260702p23

2026-07-01 00:04:14 UTC

Anthropic says the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 and that it will begin restoring access Wednesday (@anthropicai)
https://x.com/anthropicai/status/2072106151890809341
http://www.techmeme.com/260630/p40#a260630p40

2026-06-11 11:35:43 UTC

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

2026-06-10 08:45:54 UTC

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

2026-06-08 15:10:40 UTC

Amazon announces a multiyear, multibillion-dollar deal with Corning to produce optical fiber for its US data centers; Corning shares jump 8%+ (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/08/amazon-taps-corning-for-op.html
http://www.techmeme.com/260608/p16#a260608p16

2026-05-30 20:45:49 UTC

Antenna: bundles make up 33% of new major streaming service subscriptions in the US, and 28% of all subscriptions, up from just 10% of new subscriptions in 2024 (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/business/media/streaming-tv-hulu-disney-hbo.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mVA.eaY9.pJIPo5Jm9njv&smid=url-share
http://www.techmeme.com/260530/p13#a260530p13

2026-05-25 02:15:37 UTC

Quartermaster, which is building an analytics platform and a SmartMast, with sensors on a ship's mast to relay real-time maritime data, raised a $43M Series A (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/this-startup-raised-43m-to-build-a-hive-mind-for-ships/
http://www.techmeme.com/260524/p14#a260524p14

2026-05-22 23:10:51 UTC

Google files its appeal of the US federal ruling deeming it an illegal search monopolist, arguing it "prevailed in the marketplace fair and square" (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/936175/google-search-monopoly-ruling-appeal?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IkgwenRTSWJWckciLCJwIjoiL3BvbGljeS85MzYxNzUvZ29vZ2xlLXNlYXJjaC1tb25vcG9seS1ydWxpbmctYXBwZWFsIiwiZXhwIjoxNzc5OTIyNjQ3LCJpYXQiOjE3Nzk0OTA2NDd9.dPB1y9gWvB3iGftw8eAVfk4_DG2M2YwJFAoMT7oVsKw&utm_medium=gift-link
http://www.techmeme.com/260522/p30#a260522p30

2026-05-22 02:35:45 UTC

Sources: Trump delayed signing the AI EO because "he just hates regulation"; he spoke with Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and David Sacks just prior to the delay (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/21/trump-ai-executive-order-postponed-why
http://www.techmeme.com/260521/p52#a260521p52

2026-05-18 06:05:53 UTC

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

2026-05-11 19:05:45 UTC

Sources: the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director and Commerce Department's CAISI are fighting over which agency should lead AI model evaluations (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/11/trump-ai-regulation-commerce-intelligence/
http://www.techmeme.com/260511/p32#a260511p32

2026-05-11 13:20:38 UTC

Google's TIG reports the first confirmed instance of "prominent cybercrime threat actors" using AI to find and weaponize a zero-day in a web-based admin tool (Dustin Volz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/politics/google-hackers-attack-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hlA.vW7Y.pO_0G8yLYoca&smid=nytcore-android-share
http://www.techmeme.com/260511/p21#a260511p21

2026-05-09 22:55:49 UTC

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

2026-04-30 19:15:51 UTC

Filing: Meta says it might be forced to withdraw its apps from New Mexico if a judge orders it to adopt the state's proposed safety features (Thomas Barrabi/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/04/30/business/meta-threatens-shutdown-in-new-mexico-if-judge-orders-impractical-kids-protections/
http://www.techmeme.com/260430/p46#a260430p46

2026-04-17 13:25:54 UTC

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

2026-04-10 06:01:15 UTC

OpenAI backs an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from liability even for "critical harms," like 100+ deaths or $1B+ damage, if safety reports were published (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-backs-bill-exempt-ai-firms-model-harm-lawsuits/
http://www.techmeme.com/260410/p2#a260410p2

2026-04-10 04:50:44 UTC

Sources: Alibaba appointed Cloud CTO Zhou Jingren to lead its AI unit after a pivot from open source to monetizable "MaaS" models led to Qwen exec departures (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b39da303-3188-447b-8b65-3dd8dad8b59a
http://www.techmeme.com/260410/p1#a260410p1

2026-04-10 03:11:46 UTC

AfterQuery, which sells coding and finance training data to AI labs, says it raised a $30M Series A at a $300M valuation, and has hit a $100M+ annual run rate (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/04/09/this-23-year-olds-new-ai-data-company-has-already-hit-a-100-million-run-rate/
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p47#a260409p47

2026-04-10 02:45:45 UTC

Luminai, an AI-native platform for automating administrative healthcare workflows, raised a $38M Series B led by Peak XV, bringing its total funding to $60M (Seth Joseph/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sethjoseph/2026/04/09/why-cleveland-clinic-chose-this-ai-startup-to-rewire-key-healthcare-operations/
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p46#a260409p46

2026-04-10 02:05:47 UTC

Apple is closing its Towson, Maryland store, the first US location where retail employees unionized; the union says it is "outraged" and exploring legal options (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/09/three-apple-stores-permanently-closing/
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p45#a260409p45

2026-04-10 01:16:04 UTC

Sources: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned bank CEOs about Anthropic's Mythos model's risks at an urgent meeting Tuesday (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-10/anthropic-model-scare-sparks-urgent-bessent-powell-warning-to-bank-ceos
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p44#a260409p44

2026-04-10 01:11:59 UTC

Alibaba led a ~$293M funding round for ShengShu, just two months after the creator of the Vidu AI video generator raised ~$88M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-10/alibaba-leads-300-million-bet-on-ai-video-generator-shengshu
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p43#a260409p43

2026-04-10 00:26:43 UTC

Sources: SpaceX lost just under $5B last year while generating more than $18.5B in revenue; the loss figure includes xAI (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/spacex-posted-nearly-5-billion-loss-last-year-ai-spending
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p42#a260409p42

2026-04-09 23:26:37 UTC

Sources: Anthropic is weighing the possibility of designing its own chips, but it has yet to commit to a design or put together a dedicated team for the project (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-weighs-building-it-own-ai-chips-sources-say-2026-04-09/
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p41#a260409p41

2026-04-09 23:01:29 UTC

How Black Forest Labs, a 70-person startup based in Germany, became a top competitor in AI image generation; sources: it recently declined to partner with xAI (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/black-forest-labs-ai-image-generation/
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p40#a260409p40

2026-04-09 21:41:45 UTC

xAI has filed a lawsuit challenging Colorado's landmark AI anti-discrimination law, set to take effect in the summer, saying it violates free speech protections (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/55e8cba9-d09c-4f94-b710-4ab447b987f9
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p39#a260409p39

2026-04-09 21:05:43 UTC

A gap in understanding AI is growing, as casual users cite flaws in old free models while power users point to new models' staggering gains in technical domains (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)
https://x.com/karpathy/status/2042334451611693415
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p38#a260409p38

2026-04-09 20:41:33 UTC

An OpenAI note to investors after Anthropic announced Mythos says OpenAI's early push to increase computing resources gives it a key advantage over Anthropic (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-09/openai-tells-investors-it-has-computing-advantage-over-anthropic
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p37#a260409p37

2026-04-09 20:26:30 UTC

Internal memo: Meta is pulling top engineers into its new Applied AI Engineering division, as part of a push to improve its models and "compete in the AI race" (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-meta-reassigns-engineers-improve-ai-models
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p36#a260409p36

2026-04-09 19:56:28 UTC

An Ohio man is the first convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing real and AI-generated explicit images of 10+ victims (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/first-man-convicted-under-take-it-down-act-kept-making-ai-nudes-after-arrest/
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p35#a260409p35

2026-04-09 19:46:01 UTC

EFF says it is leaving X, as "X is no longer where the fight is happening" and an X post now gets less than 3% of the views a tweet got seven years ago (Kenyatta Thomas/Electronic Frontier Foundation)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p34#a260409p34

2026-04-09 18:35:46 UTC

OpenAI launches a $100/month ChatGPT Pro subscription, which offers 5x more Codex usage than Plus; the $200/month Pro plan offers 20x higher limits than Plus (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/09/openai-introduces-100-month-pro-plan-aimed-at-codex-users-heres-what-it-includes/
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p33#a260409p33

2026-04-09 17:36:02 UTC

Sources: the White House is pushing back on GOP-led AI bills in Nebraska and Tennessee, putting new pressure on GOP state lawmakers who support AI guardrails (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/trump-white-house-gop-states-ai-rules
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p31#a260409p31

2026-04-09 17:01:34 UTC

Anthropic makes Claude Cowork, previously available as a "research preview", generally available to all paid plans, and adds six features for enterprise use (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/09/anthropic-scales-up-with-enterprise-features-for-claude-cowork-and-managed-agents/
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p30#a260409p30

2026-04-09 16:45:44 UTC

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

2026-04-09 16:11:19 UTC

X brings back Voice Notes to X Chat, supporting one-on-one and group conversations via a new voice input icon, as it tests a standalone X Chat spinoff on iOS (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/09/x-brings-back-voice-notes-to-x-chat/
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p28#a260409p28

2026-04-09 15:45:44 UTC

Visa unveils Intelligent Commerce Connect, a platform that facilitates payments for AI agents across multiple card networks, including those of Visa competitors (Kelly Tyko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/08/visa-ai-agent-payments-platform
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p27#a260409p27

2026-04-09 13:41:07 UTC

Elorian, which builds visual AI models with better reasoning capabilities for industries like robotics, emerges from stealth with $55M at a $300M valuation (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-09/ex-google-deepmind-researchers-debut-startup-called-elorian-focused-on-visual-ai
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p24#a260409p24

2026-04-09 13:35:42 UTC

Google and Intel expand their partnership to deploy Intel's Xeon 6 chips and co-develop custom Infrastructure Processing Units to improve computing efficiency (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/intel-google-double-down-ai-cpus-with-expanded-partnership-2026-04-09/
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p23#a260409p23

2026-04-09 13:26:19 UTC

Annual letter: Andy Jassy says AWS's AI revenue has reached a $15B annual run rate as of Q1, and Amazon plans to spend ~$200B in capital expenditures in 2026 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/not-on-a-hunch-andy-jassy-defends-amazons-200b-spending-spree/
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p22#a260409p22

2026-04-09 13:20:40 UTC

Documents: OpenAI expects ads to generate ~$2.4B in 2026 revenue and to quadruple in 2027 to nearly $11B; in 2030, OpenAI expects ads to generate ~$102B (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-forecasts-advertising-hit-102-billion-2030
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p21#a260409p21

2026-04-09 13:11:07 UTC

In his annual letter, Andy Jassy says Amazon's space-internet service Leo will "launch in mid-2026", after delays; Amazon has FCC approval for 3,236 satellites (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/909122/amazons-starlink-competitor-leo-gets-a-new-date
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p20#a260409p20

2026-04-09 13:01:44 UTC

Meta begins removing dozens of Facebook and Instagram ads that trial lawyers placed to reach eligible plaintiffs, after social media addiction trial losses (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/meta-social-media-addiction-ads
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p19#a260409p19

2026-04-09 12:11:23 UTC

Samsung plans to invest $4B to construct a chip packaging facility in Vietnam's Thai Nguyen province to support AI demand; sources say the first phase costs $2B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-09/samsung-to-invest-4-billion-in-chip-packaging-site-in-vietnam
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p17#a260409p17

2026-04-09 11:35:46 UTC

Spotify is adding toggles to stop video from playing inside the app for both music and podcasts, rolling out worldwide on all platforms and devices (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/909099/spotify-video-controls-music-podcasts-canvas
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p16#a260409p16

2026-04-09 11:20:35 UTC

Sources: Alibaba anonymously released an AI video model called HappyHorse-1.0, which ranks top of Artificial Analysis' AI model leaderboard, above Seedance 2.0 (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/alibaba-anonymously-launches-new-ai-video-model
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p15#a260409p15

2026-04-09 10:30:38 UTC

A survey of 1,500 people aged 14 to 29: hopefulness regarding AI has dropped from 27% to 18% over the past year, and 50% report using GenAI daily or weekly (Callie Holtermann/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/style/gen-z-ai-gallup-study.html
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p13#a260409p13

2026-04-09 10:05:39 UTC

OpenAI pauses Stargate in the UK, citing the high energy costs and regulatory environment; OpenAI announced it in September 2025 alongside Nvidia and Nscale (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-09/openai-pauses-stargate-uk-data-center-effort-citing-energy-costs
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p11#a260409p11

2026-04-09 09:55:55 UTC

Vinted reports 2025 revenue up 38% YoY to €1.1B, Gross Merchandise Value up 47% YoY to €10.8B, and net profit down 19% YoY to €62M, as it expands in Europe (Andrea Figueras/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/thrift-app-vinted-posts-revenue-surge-on-expansion-efforts-873d0214?st=sWBLUy&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p10#a260409p10

2026-04-09 09:40:49 UTC

YouTube launches a Shorts feature to let creators generate photorealistic AI avatars using a "live selfie" recording of their face and voice, powered by Veo (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/04/08/youtube-shorts-ai-avatar/
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p9#a260409p9

2026-04-09 08:55:32 UTC

Tubi becomes the first streamer to launch a native app within ChatGPT, allowing viewers to find movies or shows to watch by using conversational phrases (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/tubi-is-the-first-streamer-to-launch-a-native-app-within-chatgpt/
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p8#a260409p8

2026-04-09 06:06:44 UTC

A look at a global scramble to protect submarine cables vulnerable to potential sabotage, as new monitoring tech like distributed acoustic sensing is developed (Mike Cherney/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/inside-the-race-to-protect-submarine-cables-from-sabotage-c90ba18c?st=LKoi9Z&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p5#a260409p5

2026-04-09 05:36:57 UTC

TSMC says its most advanced chip packaging tech, CoWoS, is growing at an 80% CAGR as it ramps up capacity; Nvidia has reportedly reserved most of the capacity (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/08/tsmc-nvidia-advanced-packaging-intel.html
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p4#a260409p4

2026-04-09 05:25:57 UTC

Sources: Arm CEO Rene Haas is in line for an additional role at SoftBank Group to advance Project Izanagi, the Japanese group's AI chip strategy (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7c61190d-e0dd-4ccf-994c-a8af273f5e9c
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p3#a260409p3

2026-04-09 05:10:59 UTC

UAE's leading AI company G42 says its data center campus and overseas plans are on track despite regional tensions and Iranian attacks on UAE infrastructure (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-09/uae-s-g42-ai-champion-pushes-on-with-data-center-for-openai
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p2#a260409p2

2026-04-09 04:40:55 UTC

Memo: UK NHS data chief Ming Tang says Palantir-built Federated Data Platform is delivering "outstanding results" as she pushes deeper rollout of Palantir tech (Chris Smyth/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1ac7a046-329c-4036-b01e-f2291dde28ca
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p1#a260409p1

2026-04-09 03:45:57 UTC

A look at Neo, a VC firm that made early bets on startups including Kalshi and Cursor, pushing the value of its first two funds far above industry averages (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/neo-turned-a-150-million-fund-into-1-2-billion-rare-for-the-2021-vintage-4222191e?st=drFBkk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/260408/p47#a260408p47

2026-04-09 03:30:57 UTC

Poke, an AI agent that lets users automate tasks via text message, raised $10M, on top of a $15M seed last year, at a $300M post-money valuation (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/poke-makes-ai-agents-as-easy-as-sending-a-text/
http://www.techmeme.com/260408/p46#a260408p46

2026-04-09 02:56:02 UTC

Nava, which develops cloud infrastructure for AI workloads by combining data centers, GPUs, and software tools, raised a $22M Series A led by Greenoaks Capital (Samreen Ahmad/Tech in Asia)
https://www.techinasia.com/nava-raises-22m-plug-asias-ai-compute-gap
http://www.techmeme.com/260408/p45#a260408p45

2026-04-09 02:15:56 UTC

An analysis of the 200 most-recent tweets on X by 18 big publishers indicates links seem to hurt engagement, after debate arose over X's value for sharing news (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/do-links-hurt-news-publishers-on-twitter-our-analysis-suggests-yes/
http://www.techmeme.com/260408/p44#a260408p44

2026-04-09 01:55:58 UTC

John Deere agreed to pay $99M into a fund to settle a 2022 right-to-repair class action lawsuit, and make digital repair tools available to farmers for 10 years (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/deere-settles-us-right-to-repair-lawsuit-with-99-million-fund-repair-commitments-2026-04-07/
http://www.techmeme.com/260408/p43#a260408p43

2026-04-09 01:21:30 UTC

Sources: Anthropic completes an employee tender offer at a $350B valuation, falling short of the $6B investors wanted, as employees held shares ahead of the IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-08/anthropic-completes-tender-offer-but-employees-hold-onto-shares
http://www.techmeme.com/260408/p42#a260408p42

2026-04-09 00:41:00 UTC

Memo: xAI is reorganizing its engineering team, as SpaceX SVP Michael Nicolls says xAI is "clearly behind"; source: Nicolls has taken the title of xAI president (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-reorganizes-xai-ahead-of-spacex-ipo-2026-4
http://www.techmeme.com/260408/p41#a260408p41

2026-04-08 23:26:12 UTC

Google introduces "notebooks" in the Gemini app for deeper NotebookLM integration and a dedicated space to organize chats and files (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/04/08/gemini-app-notebooks/
http://www.techmeme.com/260408/p40#a260408p40

2026-04-08 23:01:38 UTC

Yuga Labs settles its 2022 lawsuit against artist Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen over their alleged copycatting of its BAYC NFTs; the terms were not disclosed (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/04/08/yuga-labs-settles-bored-ape-nft-lawsuit-ending-fight-over-alleged-copycat-tokens
http://www.techmeme.com/260408/p39#a260408p39

2026-04-08 22:46:15 UTC

A DC appeals court denies Anthropic's bid to pause the DOD's supply chain risk designation, after a California judge granted a preliminary injunction in March (Jack Queen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-court-declines-block-pentagons-anthropic-blacklisting-now-2026-04-08/
http://www.techmeme.com/260408/p38#a260408p38

2026-04-08 21:31:04 UTC

CFO Sarah Friar says OpenAI will "for sure" reserve shares for retail investors in its IPO, after "strong demand" from individuals in its latest funding round (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/08/openai-ipo-sarah-friar-retail-investors.html
http://www.techmeme.com/260408/p36#a260408p36

2026-04-08 20:36:25 UTC

A hacker claims to have stolen 10PB+ of data, including classified defense docs and missile schematics, from China's National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin (Isaac Yee/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/08/china/china-supercomputer-hackers-hnk-intl
http://www.techmeme.com/260408/p35#a260408p35

2026-04-08 19:01:38 UTC

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis says Greece will ban children under 15 from accessing social media starting January 1, 2027, and calls for coordinated EU action (Antonis Pothitos/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/greece-ban-social-media-under-15s-2027-pm-says-2026-04-08/
http://www.techmeme.com/260408/p34#a260408p34

2026-04-08 18:26:00 UTC

Anthropic announces Claude Managed Agents, offering developers an agent harness and other infrastructure to help businesses build and deploy AI agents at scale (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-launches-claude-managed-agents/
http://www.techmeme.com/260408/p33#a260408p33