TMtechmemeInterviews with OpenAI leaders, employees, and others on the company's reboot; Sam Altman says OpenAI would have a system he would call AGI by the end of 2026 (Alex Heath/Time)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeBengaluru-based Runable, whose AI agents let small businesses find customers, run ad campaigns, and more, raised a $21M Series A at a $65M post-money valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeXbox announces a disc-to-digital feature that will allow users to digitize their existing physical games, rolling out for Xbox Insider testers on August 31 (Tom Warren/The Verge)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeThe US DOJ says it disrupted a Chinese hacking operation responsible for break-ins at the DOJ, NASA, the Fed, Senate, and others, seizing two platforms' domains (Reuters)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeIn Q2, Apple's base iPhone 17 was the global best-selling smartphone, with a 6% share, followed by the iPhone 17 Pro Max; Apple and Samsung had all 10 top spots (Counterpoint Research)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeZ.ai releases GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively multimodal GLM-5 series model, with 320B parameters, saying it outperforms GLM-5.2 at "one-tenth the price" (Z.ai)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Sword Health plans to acquire mental health company Headspace for between $200M and $300M in cash, far below its ~$3B valuation in 2021 (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAmazon's Ring unveils a new proprietary encryption architecture called TAKE, set to begin rolling out in September as the default encryption for all cameras (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeVanguard agrees to acquire RIA software startup Altruist, a source says for $4.6B in cash; Altruist raised $600M and had a $1.9B valuation in early 2025 (Dan Primack/Axios)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMeta's AG settlement will be distributed to the 48 signing states and four jurisdictions in annual installments over a 10-year period based on their populations (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMeta says its AG deal requires it to create an age assurance standard that is subject to independent testing, with a false positive rate no higher than 10% (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMeta's deal with 51 AGs includes daily time limits for teens and algorithmic feed controls; ~$5.3B of it rests on YouTube and TikTok implementing the measures (Meta Newsroom)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeFiling: Meta agrees to pay up to $16.68B to settle US states' claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers, and more (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeVolodymyr Zelenskyy awards Elon Musk with Ukraine's Order of Freedom; sources say Zelenskyy asked Musk to authorize Starlink use up to 200km inside Russia (Fabrice Deprez/Financial Times)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAlibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weight, 125B-parameter model built on its next-gen Qwen 4 architecture, saying it rivals Opus 4.6 and V4-Flash (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMicrosoft faces investor criticism over opaque financial reporting across capex, its OpenAI deal, and Azure, which is buried in the Intelligent Cloud segment (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeRockstar says GTA 6 gameplay leaking "in this way has been heartbreaking", calling it "unfortunate" that the "game experience may now be impacted" by spoilers (John Walker/Kotaku)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemePublic polling suggests the US' severe anti-data center backlash is primarily driven by local environmental and economic concerns, not anti-Big Tech sentiment (Andy Masley)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeQ&A with SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel on Anthropic and OpenAI controlling global compute, $11T of AI capex between 2024 and 2029, China's compute, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeInvestigation: Meta explored slashing many teams by ~60% to become "AI native", but pulled back after staff revolted and data showed AI agents were ineffective (Katie Paul/Reuters)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→