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Sources: OpenAI staff discussed prioritizing sponsored content in ChatGPT when users ask relevant queries and created mockups with ads in sidebars or as pop-ups (The Information)
2025-12-24 14:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The EU warns of possible action after the US imposes travel bans on five Europeans, saying it will defend its "regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures" (Lorne Cook/Associated Press)
2025-12-24 13:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Nvidia tested Intel's 18A to make chips but stopped moving forward; interviews with 20+ people describe how dealmaker Lip-Bu Tan gave Intel a lifeline (Reuters)
2025-12-24 12:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AST launches its largest-ever satellite from India, hosting the BlueBird Block-2, the first in a series of deployments to challenge SpaceX in satellite internet (Sana Pashankar/Bloomberg)
2025-12-24 11:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Italy's antitrust authority orders Meta to suspend contractual terms that bar rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp; Meta calls the decision "fundamentally flawed" (Elvira Pollina/Reuters)
2025-12-24 11:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chainalysis and TRM Labs estimate that $2.7B was stolen in crypto in 2025 in total, up from $2.2B in 2024; the biggest hack was the $1.4B breach at Bybit (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
2025-12-24 10:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: India raises concerns about the misuse of Indian phone numbers on WhatsApp, which banned 9.8M Indian accounts per month on average in 2025 to October (Kiran Rathee/The Economic Times)
2025-12-24 09:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the growing reliance of US data centers and the Pentagon on Chinese batteries, a dependence increasingly viewed as a national security threat (New York Times)
2025-12-24 09:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
YouTube dominates daytime TV streaming, with 6.3M viewers at 11am in October on average, above Netflix's 2.8M, per Nielsen; prime-time viewership is more even (John Koblin/New York Times)
2025-12-24 07:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Bitcoin miners retooling data centers for AI have boosted their stocks; the CoinShares Bitcoin Mining ETF is up about 90% YTD even as bitcoin has slumped (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-24 07:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Over the past month, the US paused talks on a tech pact with the UK, canceled a South Korea trade meeting, and threatened the EU over Big Tech regulations (Politico)
2025-12-24 06:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: China's AI regulations, which require chatbots to pass a 2,000-question ideological test, have spawned specialized agencies that help AI companies pass (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-24 05:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
HCLSoftware, a subsidiary of Indian IT company HCLTech, agrees to acquire business intelligence company Jaspersoft from Cloud Software Group for $240M in cash (Urvi Malvania/Financial Express)
2025-12-24 05:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Waymo, which paused its service during blackouts in San Francisco on December 20, says it is updating its fleet to improve navigation during widespread outages (Ari Levy/CNBC)
2025-12-24 04:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
South Korean prosecutors allege China's CXMT mass-produced 10nm-class DRAM using leaked Samsung tech, indicting 10 employees who previously worked for Samsung (Heo Kyungjun/The Asia Business Daily)
2025-12-24 02:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Starlink says it has reached 9M "active customers" across 155 countries, territories, and other markets, up from 8M on November 5 (Polly Thompson/Business Insider)
2025-12-24 01:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The Trump administration plans to replace the lottery system for H-1B visas with a "weighted" system prioritizing higher-paid individuals, starting February 27 (Aime Williams/Financial Times)
2025-12-24 01:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Snowflake is in talks to buy app monitoring startup Observe for around $1B; Observe has raised more than $470M (The Information)
2025-12-24 00:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Fleet management software provider Motive files for a US IPO, reporting a $138.5M net loss on $327.3M in revenue for the nine months ended September 30 (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)
2025-12-23 23:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US is imposing visa restrictions on five Europeans, including Thierry Breton, accusing them of pressuring US tech companies to censor certain US viewpoints (Fatima Hussein/Associated Press)
2025-12-23 22:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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