sumi.news
Search
Following
Sign in
← Back to news
T
Techmeme
RSS Feed
www.techmeme.com
www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
Follow
Latest
Sun Apr 5
Security camera companies are embracing AI to give customers detailed descriptions of surveillance footage that are often spot on but can also be wildly wrong (Scott Calvert/Wall Street Journal)
15m
T
Study: US schools with strict cellphone bans in class have not seen higher test scores on average so far, but students reported a greater sense of well-being (Dana Goldstein/New York Times)
35m
T
Sources: Blue Origin outlines a new employee stock plan to quell staff unrest and make its incentives more competitive with SpaceX (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
40m
T
Google has quietly shut down Project Mariner, its Chrome-browsing AI agent for completing tasks on users' behalf, after highlighting it onstage at I/O 2025 (Max Zeff/@zeffmax)
1h
T
Germany-based eleQtron, which develops trapped-ion quantum computing processors using proprietary tech, raised a €57M Series A led by Schwarz Digits (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
1h
T
Source: Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to give their portfolio companies AI model access, after OpenAI's and Anthropic's JVs with PE firms (The Information)
1h
T
Nace.AI, which lets companies build specialized AI models tailored to their business' mission and language, raised a $21.5M seed led by Walden Catalyst (Chris Metinko/Axios)
2h
T
Coupang reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to $8.5B and a net loss of $266M following a 2025 Korean customer data breach, its largest loss since Q4 2021 (The Korea Herald)
3h
T
CRM software company Freshworks said it plans to cut 11% of its workforce, or ~500 jobs, as it deals with AI's impact; FRSH has dropped ~26% in 2026 (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
3h
T
US labor experts and economists warn US unemployment benefits are unlikely to protect against AI job losses, and the GOP-led Congress is doing little to prepare (New York Times)
4h
T
Samsung reaches a $1T valuation, making it only the second Asian company after TSMC to hit the mark, after its stock rose 4x+ over the past year on the AI boom (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)
5h
T
Sources: the WH is mulling EOs to address security risks from advanced AI, including barring companies from "interfering" with the government's use of models (Politico)
5h
T
Doc and sources: Google is testing an agent in the Gemini app, internally named Remy, that can integrate with Google services to take actions on a user's behalf (Hugh Langley/Business Insider)
5h
T
Astrocade, which lets users create video games using natural language prompts, raised $56M, including a Series A and a Series B, and says it has ~5M MAUs (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
6h
T
Sources: Meta is building an OpenClaw-inspired agent internally called Hatch, to be powered by its Muse Spark model, and an agentic shopping tool in Instagram (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
6h
T
Sources: Alphabet sold its biggest-ever euro-denominated bonds, raising €9B, and its first Canadian dollar notes, raising CA$8.5B, months after raising $20B (Bloomberg)
7h
T
Kaspersky says Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
7h
T
EA reports Q4 net bookings up 3.6% YoY to $1.86B, vs. $2B est., weighed down by a post-launch drop-off in engagement for Battlefield 6 (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
8h
T
GlobalFoundries reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.63B, in line with est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted earnings above estimates; GFS closes up 9.28% (Patrick Seitz/Investor's Business Daily)
8h
T
Micron closes up 11% after announcing its highest-capacity SSD has started to ship, lifting its market cap past $700B for the first time; Sandisk closes up 12% (Lola Murti/CNBC)
8h
T
A US court sentences a Latvian national to 8.5 years for acting as a negotiator for Russia's Karakurt ransomware group (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
8h
T
Super Micro reports Q3 revenue up 123% YoY to $10.24B, vs. $12.33B est., forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted profit above estimates; SMCI jumps 17%+ after hours (Juby Babu/Reuters)
9h
T
Match Group reports Q1 revenue up 4% YoY to $864M, vs. $855M est., as Tinder's new user registrations grew for the first time since 2024, up 1% (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
9h
T
Source: Anthropic plans to spend about $200B on Google's cloud and chips over five years, representing 40%+ of the "revenue backlog" Google disclosed last week (The Information)
9h
T
Apple reaches a $250M settlement in a CA federal court to resolve a false advertising class action lawsuit over the launch of a "personalized" Siri in 2024 (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
9h
T
AMD reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to $10.25B, vs. $9.89B est., Data Center revenue up 57% to $5.8B, forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; AMD jumps 7%+ after hours (Reuters)
9h
T
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says Xbox "will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console" as part of a strategic shift (Jay Peters/The Verge)
9h
T
Sources: Meta is building agentic tools, including an OpenClaw-like assistant powered by its new Muse Spark AI model to help users create AI bots (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
10h
T
Musk v. Altman: on his second day of testimony, Greg Brockman said that OpenAI expects to spend $50B on computing in 2026, up from $30M in 2017 (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
10h
T
Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testified about tense negotiations with Musk in 2017, saying "he knows rockets, he knows electric cars" but "does not know AI" (Bloomberg)
10h
T
Subquadratic launches with a $29M seed and debuts SubQ, an LLM that uses a subquadratic sparse attention architecture to achieve a 12M-token context window (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
10h
T
Blitzy, which says its platform autonomously completes months of software development, raised $200M led by Northzone at a $1.4B valuation (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
11h
T
OpenAI rolls out a beta version of its new Ads Manager tool to advertisers in the US, making it easier for SMBs to buy ChatGPT ads on a cost-per-click basis (Sara Fischer/Axios)
11h
T
Sources: Apple plans to let users choose from multiple third-party AI models to perform tasks like generating and editing text and images in iOS 27 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
12h
T
OpenAI says GPT-5.5 Instant produces 52.5% fewer hallucinated claims "on high-stakes prompts covering areas like medicine, law, and finance" (Megan Morrone/Axios)
12h
T
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5 Instant, which it says is smarter, with more accurate and personalized responses, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant as ChatGPT's default model (OpenAI)
12h
T
Pennsylvania sues Character.AI, alleging that one of its characters posed as a psychiatrist, as the state seeks to prevent chatbots from impersonating doctors (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
13h
T
Memo: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma overhauls the group's leadership, including bringing over executives from Microsoft's CoreAI engineering unit where she worked before (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
13h
T
Sao Paulo-based Enter, which uses AI to handle litigation for companies like Airbnb, raised $100M led by Founders Fund at a $1.2B valuation (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
13h
T
Aylo says it will restore Pornhub access in the UK, but only for users who have verified their age via iOS 26.4's device-level age verification system (Liv McMahon/BBC)
14h
T
Intel's stock jumps 12%+ and hits a new all-time high on a report that Apple has had early-stage talks with Intel to produce chips for Apple's devices in the US (Lola Murti/CNBC)
14h
T
Anthropic unveils 10 new AI agents for the financial sector, including for drafting pitch decks, reviewing financial statements, and escalating compliance cases (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
14h
T
The FTC will ban data broker Kochava and its subsidiary CDS from selling Americans' location data as part of a settlement over charges brought in 2022 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
14h
T
ElevenLabs raised $550M+ in its Series D, up from a previously announced $500M, adding BlackRock, Nvidia, and others as investors; its ARR passed $500M in Q1 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
15h
T
Seattle-based CopilotKit, whose popular AG-UI protocol lets developers deploy app-native AI agents, raised a $27M Series A led by Glilot, NFX, and SignalFire (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
15h
T
Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, alongside novelist Scott Turow, file a class-action copyright lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
16h
T
Dutch quantum processor company QuantWare raised a $178M Series B from Intel Capital, In-Q-Tel, and others to build KiloFab, a quantum manufacturing facility (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
16h
T
Sources: China targets 70%+ of silicon wafers that its chipmakers use to be made domestically by 2026's end, and has an unspoken mandate to use local 12" wafers (Nikkei Asia)
16h
T
RadixArk, led by former xAI employee Ying Sheng, raised a $100M seed at a $400M valuation to make AI inference more efficient via its open-source SGLang engine (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
17h
T
a16z crypto raised $2.2B for its fifth fund, down from its record $4.5B Fund 4 in May 2022, taking its total capital raised across five funds to ~$9.8B (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
17h
T
More →