TMtechmemeHow Amazon's Zoox, which has ~100 AVs in its fleet, is utilizing social media influencers, community events, and ad campaigns to compete with Waymo in SF (Emmy Martin/New York Times)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeChinese tech giants are hiring skilled professionals as specialized AI trainers to build high-quality datasets, mirroring efforts by US platforms like Mercor (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeQ&A with AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who quit Anthropic, on the need for industry-wide, international coordination to limit recursive self-improvement, and more (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Chinese AI chipmakers Huawei, Cambricon, MetaX, and Iluvatar CoreX have raised prices for current and next-gen chips by 20%-50% due to rising HBM costs (Reuters)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources including French public officials detail how Mistral's rise over the past three years owes much to the privileged relationship it built with Macron (Océane Herrero/Politico)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeOpenAI Foundation board member Paul Christiano says the AI industry is currently not on track to reduce the acute loss-of-control risk to an "acceptable" level (Paul Christiano/@paulfchristiano)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Alibaba is set to lead a $300M round in AI model testing startup UniPat AI at a $2.5B valuation; UniPat founder Li Kuan worked at Alibaba's Tongyi Lab (Bloomberg)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAmazon names Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to its board of directors, noting his extensive experience "combating cyber threats" in public and private sectors (Annie Palmer/CNBC)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeNew Mexico, the only US state taking the Cambridge Analytica case to trial, accused Meta of failing to protect Facebook user data in its opening statements (Mikella Schuettler/Associated Press)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemePaul Christiano, an AI researcher and advisor at CAISI, is joining the OpenAI Foundation board of directors and its Safety and Security Committee (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeKepler Computing, which claims its 3D stacking and new material can increase HBM and SRAM density without relying on EUV, emerges from stealth with $468M (Lauren Goode/Wired)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMassachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signs an EO requiring data centers above 25MW of peak demand to bring their own power and meet 100% of demand with clean energy (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: DOJ is investigating whether Nvidia tried to skirt antitrust scrutiny of its 2025 Groq deal, described by Groq as a "nonexclusive licensing agreement" (New York Times)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAI researcher Jacob Coxon says he quit Anthropic after four months, two months before his equity would have vested; he still has equity in prior employer OpenAI (Madison Mills/Axios)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom signs into law two bills, backed by Anthropic and OpenAI, regulating how outside groups evaluate AI for safety (Christine Mui/Politico)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeApple unveils AppleCare One Family, extending AppleCare coverage to every eligible device in an Apple Family Sharing group of up to 6 people for $49.99/month (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Jeffrey Katzenberg, ex-OpenAI Sora head Bill Peebles, and ex-Dropbox CFO Sujay Jaswa plan to launch a startup to train AI video models for filmmakers (The Information)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeApple unveils a new Health app with Apple Intelligence, featuring an Insights tab, "readiness" and Health Age metrics, and more, rolling out later in 2026 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeConsensys plans to split into two companies: MetaMask, with Joe Lubin as CEO, and a new Consensys focused on Ethereum and institutional infrastructure (Jason Shubnell/The Block)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSlack message: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says CFO Mark Davies "conspired" with board members to put him on paid leave and Davies was voted to be interim CEO (Samantha Cole/404 Media)industry4 days ago▲ 24Read story→