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Sequoia, a16z, and other VC firms invested $1.2B+ into police and public safety tech startups over the past year, following the success of Palantir and others (Abram Brown/The Information)
2025-12-22 11:34 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How the global AI boom is driven by thousands of newcomers, diluting Big Tech's infrastructure dominance; US data center credit deals hit $178.5B in 2025 so far (Bloomberg)
2025-12-22 11:34 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google's TPUs and Gemini are competitive but Nvidia's and OpenAI's first-mover advantage makes their lead seem durable, and Google faces the innovator's dilemma (SiliconANGLE)
2025-12-22 10:34 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filings: Chinese AI startups Zhipu and MiniMax report 2024 revenue of $44.4M and $30.5M, respectively, as both prepare for Hong Kong IPOs in the coming weeks (Bloomberg)
2025-12-22 10:34 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Some US schools are deploying AI surveillance tech like facial recognition and listening devices; critics say there is little evidence they make school safer (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
2025-12-22 09:34 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Google's TPU evolution, its decision to sell chips to competitors after 12 years of internal use, the TPU vs. GPU architecture showdown, and more (The Chip Letter)
2025-12-22 09:33 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at stablecoin-powered neobanks like Rizon and Dakota that are offering dollar-denominated digital banking services to customers worldwide (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
2025-12-22 09:34 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with iRobot co-founder Colin Angle on the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, regulatory pressure that killed Amazon's deal, his new robotics startup, and more (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
2025-12-22 07:33 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Adam Mosseri says "maybe we'll need" premium longform video for Instagram, and that TikTok's US sale turmoil has given Meta time to retune algorithms (Max Tani/Semafor)
2025-12-22 06:33 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Waymo resumes robotaxi service in San Francisco after a blackout, and says most active trips were completed before vehicles returned to depots or pulled over (CNBC)
2025-12-22 05:33 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Uber plans to trial driverless taxis in London using Baidu's Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis, starting in H1 2026 with services available by the end of 2026 (Bloomberg)
2025-12-22 04:33 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Some experts in the human-computer interaction field say making AI chatbots act humanlike creates cognitive dissonance for users over how much to trust them (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
2025-12-22 03:33 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A group of PE firms led by Permira and Warburg Pincus agrees to buy Clearwater Analytics, in a deal valuing the financial software maker at $8.4B including debt (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)
2025-12-21 22:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at military tech startup Shield AI, recently valued at $5.6B, and its new CEO Gary Steele, who aims to grow annual revenue from $300M to $1B by 2028 (Jessica Mathews/Fortune)
2025-12-22 00:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files (Mitchell Peters/Billboard)
2025-12-22 02:33 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Echo, which uses AI agents to build Docker images that eliminate vulnerabilities at the source, raised a $35M Series A, bringing its total funding to $50M (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
2025-12-21 20:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: The US DHS is investigating whether 6 CISA staffers who were suspended in July misled CISA's acting director into taking a polygraph, which he failed (John Sakellariadis/Politico)
2025-12-21 18:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: OpenAI's compute margin has jumped to about 70% in October from about 52% at the end of 2024 and roughly 35% in January 2024 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
2025-12-21 18:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources detail the efforts SoftBank is making to raise the necessary funds as it races to close its $22.5B funding commitment to OpenAI by the end of this year (Reuters)
2025-12-21 16:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
US CHIPS Act-funded SMART USA Institute, focused on digital twins for chipmaking, says the Department of Commerce will terminate its $285M five-year contract (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)
2025-12-21 10:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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