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Q&A with Blizzard President Johanna Faries on company staff bonus transparency, working under Xbox leadership, restoring the NetEase partnership, and more (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
2025-12-21 13:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: tech lobbyists say that David Sacks' push for an EO blocking state AI laws undercut their efforts to craft a permanent, bipartisan federal solution (Politico)
2025-12-21 15:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with Harvard economist Jason Furman, who consults for OpenAI, on the similarities between the AI boom and the dot-com era, AI's impact on jobs, and more (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
2025-12-21 07:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
DataLane, which is using AI to build an identity graph to map local businesses across the US, raised a $22.5M Series A led by Amplify Partners (Chris Metinko/Axios)
2025-12-21 07:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Waymo says it temporarily suspended its ride-hailing service in San Francisco during a citywide blackout, as downed traffic lights appeared to halt its vehicles (Joe Rivano Barros/Mission Local)
2025-12-21 06:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Tokyo-based neocloud provider Datasection, which sources say has a $1.2B+ contract giving Tencent access to a large share of its 15K Blackwell chips (Financial Times)
2025-12-21 06:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
METR: Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50% task completion time horizon of about 4 hours and 49 minutes, more than double that of Claude Opus 4 released earlier this year (@metr_evals)
2025-12-21 05:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads announces a new generation of chips slated for mass production from 2026, just weeks after its blockbuster IPO in China (Bloomberg)
2025-12-21 05:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Surveillance tools exported by China, based on US tech and obtained by Chinese companies, to countries like Nepal are being used to stifle Tibetan refugees (Associated Press)
2025-12-21 04:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of Josh Woodward, the head of Google Labs who is credited with turning around the Gemini app, growing its MAUs from 350M in March to 650M by October (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
2025-12-21 01:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
S&P Global: data center deals hit $61B globally in 2025; debt issuance nearly doubled YoY to $182B, with Meta raising $62B debt since 2022, ~50% of that in 2025 (April Roach/CNBC)
2025-12-20 22:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The RAISE Act requires AI companies with $500M+ in revenue to publish safety protocols and disclose safety incidents within 72 hours, with fines up to $3M (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-20 19:29 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google advises some employees on visas, including H-1B visas, not to travel outside the US due to processing delays, following new social media screening rules (Business Insider)
2025-12-20 21:29 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Morgan Stanley: ad tiers account for 30% of Netflix subscribers and 50% of Disney+ subscribers; ad tiers accounted for all net subscriber additions in 2025 (Max Knoblauch/Sherwood News)
2025-12-20 18:29 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google says it needs more time to upgrade Assistant to Gemini on most Android devices; Google previously planned to complete the transition by the end of 2025 (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
2025-12-20 16:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Inside NeurIPS 2025, and how it has transformed from a small academic conference into a massive industry event with 24,000+ attendees, yacht parties, and more (Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-20 15:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Security company Koi finds browser extensions with 8M+ total installs that collected users' conversations with AI chatbots and sold them for marketing use (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
2025-12-20 14:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Meta's 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, with the first phase opening in 2028; an analysis shows sales tax breaks on GPUs could total $3.3B+ (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
2025-12-20 08:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Micron projects FY Q2 sales to grow over 2x YoY to $18.7B and adjusted operating income to rise over 5x to $11.3B, signaling higher memory chip prices in 2026 (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-20 11:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI introduces a framework to evaluate chain-of-thought monitorability and a suite of 13 evaluations designed to measure the monitorability of an AI system (OpenAI)
2025-12-20 07:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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