TMtechmemeSources: Anthropic discussed buying AI chip startup MatX for ~$7B, but talks are no longer active; MatX is now seeking to raise new capital at a ~$4B valuation (Reuters)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Town, which develops enterprise personal AI assistants, is in talks to raise at a $1B valuation in a round led by Index Ventures (Newcomer)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAlphabet agrees to pay £260M to settle a UK class action lawsuit claiming it levied "unfair" charges on software downloaded from the Google Play app store (Alistair Gray/Financial Times)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon and co-investors back an entity owning 49%, the largest stake, in the company behind the Trump family's planned crypto bank (Wall Street Journal)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeNvidia stock closed up 8.74% on Thursday, adding ~$440B to Nvidia's market cap, after its revenue guidance reassured investors that AI demand remains strong (CNBC)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGoogle adds Expert Intelligence to Gemini Notebook, letting users import eligible titles they own in Google Play Books to ask questions, generate podcasts, more (Emma Roth/The Verge)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSalesforce stock closed up 22.6% on Thursday, its second-best day ever, after the company reported a beat on Q2 earnings and expanded its Anthropic partnership (CJ Haddad/CNBC)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeYouTube adds Amazon to its shopping affiliate program, enabling US creators to tag Amazon products in Shorts, longform videos, and livestreams (Anna Washenko/Engadget)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Anthropic has been working on a plan to allow secondary stock sales in its IPO while also considering lockup periods longer than the standard 180 days (The Information)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAnthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms (Will Knight/Wired)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeInternal memo: Meta's AI agent Hatch "has its own computer" to perform tasks, works when the app is closed, can connect to email, Instagram, OpenTable, and more (Hugh Langley/Business Insider)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSource: Nvidia plans an employee-funded political action committee called NVPAC, as it seeks to step up its efforts to influence US policy (Courtney Rozen/Reuters)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeOpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is "a limited window" to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for "collective action" (Sam Sabin/Axios)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeOpenAI is testing a "Persistent mode" in Codex, designed to let AI agents "continue working until put to sleep" and proactively generate follow-up tasks (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: some Trump administration officials circulated a draft EO to create a self-regulatory organization for AI, but it needs buy-in from Trump and others (Leo Schwartz/The Information)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGoogle launches Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, which it says delivers studio-quality video production, including the ability to extend a scene, 4K upscaling, and more (Google)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeNvidia says its commitments to component suppliers for its AI chips and systems hit $279B in Q2, up from $119B in Q1, $95.2B in Q4 2025, and $50.3B in Q3 2025 (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGoogle launches a pilot of double-blind AI evaluations, keeping external evaluations in a cryptographic "box" to stop benchmark contamination and protect IP (Google DeepMind)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMeta's AG settlement says its age verification framework will use "reliable age signals" shared with it by "OS and app stores operated by Apple and Google" (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)industry18 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeCivilGrid, which collects data about utility assets, property ownership, and more to build a "Google Maps for the underground", raised a $26M Series A (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)industry18 days ago▲ 24Read story→