News

Showing news from: https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml

YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M+ hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024 (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
2025-12-20 07:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filings: Tether-owned Northern Data sold its bitcoin mining unit, Peak Mining, for up to $200M to a group including companies controlled by Tether executives (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
2025-12-20 07:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: TSMC plans to move chipmaking tools into its second Arizona fab in summer 2026, in line with its push to accelerate US production by "several quarters" (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
2025-12-20 06:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
China issues new rules letting online merchants set their own prices across platforms for goods and services they sell, effective April 10, 2026, for five years (Bloomberg)
2025-12-20 06:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A at multiple valuation tiers, including at $1B (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
2025-12-20 03:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google plans to charge developers $2.85/app and $3.65/game if a US user follows a link that takes them outside of the Play Store to install it within 24 hours (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
2025-12-20 02:21 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT's characteristics, including how warm or enthusiastic it is, and its use of headers, lists, and emojis (Emma Roth/The Verge)
2025-12-20 01:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras plans to file for a US IPO as soon as next week, targeting a Q2 2026 listing, after withdrawing its prior IPO filing in October (Echo Wang/Reuters)
2025-12-20 00:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the RAISE Act into law; the AI safety bill's text was modified earlier to more closely resemble California's SB 53 (Ashley Gold/Axios)
2025-12-19 23:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Tencent has secured access to Nvidia's Blackwell chips through a cloud service operated by Tokyo-based Datasection (Jacob Adelman/Barron's Online)
2025-12-19 23:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta board member Dina Powell McCormick, an ex-top adviser to Trump, steps down after joining in April; source: she is considering retaining an advisory role (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
2025-12-19 23:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sequoia's Shaun Maguire speculated in an X post that an innocent Palestinian student was behind the Brown University shooting; the post was later deleted (Chris Stokel-Walker/Fast Company)
2025-12-19 23:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The Delaware Supreme Court rules that Elon Musk's 2018 Tesla CEO pay package, worth around $56B when it vested, must be restored, ending a years-long fight (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
2025-12-19 22:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
2025 LLM Year in Review: shift toward RLVR, Claude Code emerged as the first convincing example of an LLM agent, Nano Banana was paradigm shifting, and more (Andrej Karpathy/karpathy)
2025-12-19 22:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google sues data scraping company SerpApi for allegedly using hundreds of millions of fake search requests to access copyrighted material from Google products (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
2025-12-19 20:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
California reaches a $50M settlement with Meta to resolve claims that Facebook users were misled about their ability to limit who could see personal details (The San Francisco Standard)
2025-12-19 21:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence claims vision-language-action models learn to align human videos and robot data as pre-training is scaled up (Physical Intelligence)
2025-12-19 21:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Sam Altman's Merge Labs, which seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of LA-based nonprofit Forest Neurotech (Emily Mullin/Wired)
2025-12-19 20:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Neural Concept, whose 3D product design software uses deep learning to help cut development times, raised a $100M Series C, bringing its total funding to $130M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
2025-12-19 19:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Netflix acquires avatar creation platform Ready Player Me to let its subscribers carry their personas and fandoms across games; the startup raised $72M (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2025-12-19 18:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filter
Clear Filter