Techmeme RSS Feed

Filing: Anthropic says it had $5B+ in all-time revenue since 2023 and could lose billions after clients paused deal talks due to supply-chain risk designation (Paresh Dave/Wired)

More than 30 staffers from OpenAI and Google, including DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, file an amicus brief in support of Anthropic in its fight with DOD (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

44m

MacBook Pro 16" (M5 Max) review: "Super core" architecture and 40-core GPU deliver beastly performance, but still retains a five-year-old design (Brian Westover/PCMag)

Apple Studio Display XDR review: great reference picture modes, much improved camera, and 120Hz support on newer Macs, but expensive at $3300 and only for Macs (John Higgins/The Verge)

SoftBank's stock is down ~48% since Nov. 3, as scrutiny into the scale of its OpenAI involvement grows; on Monday, SoftBank fell 9.8% on Stargate delay reports (Financial Times)

Anthropic debuts a Code Review feature for Claude Code, which uses agents working in teams to check pull requests for bugs, available in research preview (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

Jay Graber is stepping down as Bluesky CEO, saying a "seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution" is needed; VC Toni Schneider is named interim CEO (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

Sources: Apple delayed the release of its smart home display, planned for this month, until later this year to let the company finish work on the new Siri (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters: just 26% had a positive view of AI, while 46% had a negative view, the third worst net negative score of all topics (Jake Angelo/Fortune)

UK's AI drive, touted since 2024 and featuring splashy NScale and CoreWeave deals, to build datacenters is riddled with phantom investments and shaky accounting (Aisha Down/The Guardian)

OpenAI agrees to acquire Promptfoo, which fixes security issues in AI systems being built and is "trusted by 25%+ of Fortune 500", to fold into OpenAI Frontier (OpenAI)

Source: UK cyber security company Darktrace names Ed Jennings, who previously led work management platform Quickbase, as CEO, its third chief in 18 months (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)

Qualcomm unveils the Arduino Ventuno Q, a single-board computer for AI and robotics applications, powered by Dragonwing IQ8 processor and 16GB of RAM (Steve Dent/Engadget)

Australia's online age restrictions take effect, requiring platforms to verify users are 18+ before they can access content including porn and R-rated games (Ahmed Yussuf/ABC)

The DOJ reaches a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation in a case that alleged an illegal monopoly over live events in the US (Alanna Durkin Richer/Associated Press)

Anthropic sues to block the DOD from designating it a supply chain risk, says the designation is unlawful and violates its free speech and due process rights (Jack Queen/Reuters)

Nexperia's Chinese subsidiary says it has begun producing its own chips using 12-inch wafers, a further step toward independence from its Dutch parent (Reuters)

Advice to developers: make software that agents want, with API-first design, as AI agents, instead of humans, will become the primary users of future software (Aaron Levie/@levie)

16h

Kalshi is trying to broaden its user base via targeted marketing, enlisting female influencers, and more; 26% of users now are women, up from 13% in May 2025 (Wall Street Journal)

18h

The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend $300B+ on AI investments, putting at risk a potential source of funding for tech companies (Miles Kruppa/The Information)

19h

How some candidates for the midterms are using social media posts and niche buzzwords on their websites to signal for support from crypto and AI super PACs (New York Times)

21h

A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause "AI brain fry", a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity (Harvard Business Review)

23h

Luma AI debuts Uni-1, an image model that combines image understanding and generation in a single architecture, topping Nano Banana 2 on logic-based benchmarks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase, and others are building stablecoin-based agentic payments infrastructure that makes microtransactions between AI agents economical (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

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)

A look at countries that moved to ban social media for kids in recent months, including Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Malaysia, Spain, Indonesia (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

ZyG, whose software coordinates AI agents across SEO, marketing, and more for DTC brands, raised a $58M seed co-led by Bessemer, Viola Ventures, and Lightspeed (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Thoughts on MacBook Neo, as Apple also expands its superpremium tier via "Ultra" products; sources: Apple wants to use aluminum 3D-printing for Watch and iPhone (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

A study finds LLMs from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI can facilitate academic fraud, specifically helping non-researchers submit fabricated papers to arXiv (Elizabeth Gibney/Nature)

A profile of Emil Michael, who made his name as an aggressive dealmaker for Uber, as he takes a leading role in the Pentagon's dispute with Anthropic (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

German quick grocery delivery startup Flink raised $100M led by Prosus, a source says at a $900M valuation; Flink was reportedly valued at $5B in May 2022 (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

Samsung's consumer device chief TM Roh says it is "open to strategic co-operation" with more AI groups, having recently added Perplexity to its mobile OS (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Guild.ai, which helps companies develop, deploy, and observe AI agents, raised a $14M seed and $30M Series A, both led by GV, and is now valued at $300M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Documents show two DOGE employees used ChatGPT to identify National Endowment for the Humanities grants, worth over $100M, to be cut for being related to DEI (Jennifer Schuessler/New York Times)

As cheap, powerful GPS jammers proliferate, a look at some alternatives to GPS, including using supersensitive, quantum-based magnetic sensors (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare and raises doubts over the Gulf as a global AI hub (Daniel Boffey/The Guardian)

Leading the Future, a pro-AI PAC backed by Palantir-cofounder Joe Lonsdale, hit pro-regulation Democrat Alex Bores with attack ads over Bores' work for Palantir (Nancy Scola/Politico)

Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robotics, resigns over concerns about domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons after OpenAI's DOD contract (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

Sources: Palmer Luckey's ModRetro, which wants to sell updated versions of 1990s consoles like the Nintendo 64, is in talks to raise funding at a $1B valuation (Financial Times)

China's commerce ministry warns of global chip shortages due to "new conflicts" between Dutch chipmaker Nexperia and its Chinese subsidiary (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

Financial figures shared with prospective investors: Anduril expects its revenue to grow 100% in 2026 to ~$4.3B, and its operating loss to rise by ~50% to $1.2B (Cory Weinberg/The Information)

A profile of Simile, which offers "agentic twins" modeled on real people to provide answers for polling and market research for companies like CVS and Gallup (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, who have competing visions for how prediction markets should grow (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

Sources: online DTC luxury brand Quince is in talks to raise funding at a $10B+ valuation, up from $4.5B in July; its annualized revenue run rate has hit ~$2B (The Information)

China's smartphone market is seeing one of its widest price hikes as memory chip crunch deepens; Meizu announces it will suspend developing new mobile hardware (Nikkei Asia)

Google's TIG documented 90 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in 2025, up from 78 in 2024; commercial spyware vendors and China-linked groups led the abuse (Jessica Lyons/The Register)

US investors are pushing Asian fund managers to create special vehicles so they can invest in Asia while avoiding US investment restrictions on Chinese tech (Financial Times)

The US' February jobs report shows the tech sector's post-2022 job losses are now outpacing past downturns in 2008 and 2020 (Business Insider)

Alphabet gives Sundar Pichai a new three-year pay deal worth up to $692M, with stock incentives worth as much as $350M linked to the growth of Waymo and Wing (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)