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Anthropic launches Agent Skills, which let AI assistants perform specialized tasks using modular instructions, and says Microsoft, Cursor, and others use them (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
2025-12-18 18:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources describe tensions between OpenAI's research and ChatGPT product groups, leading to the "code red"; OpenAI is set to beat its 2025 revenue goal of $13B (The Information)
2025-12-18 17:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Edison, which last month released AI tool Kosmos to speed up and automate complex scientific hypothesis generation, raised $70M at a $250M valuation (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
2025-12-18 17:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Rivian launches Universal Hands-Free driving for second-generation R1 EVs, expanding coverage from 135,000 highway miles to 3.5M+ miles across the US and Canada (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
2025-12-18 17:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Endra, whose AI tools automate mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design for commercial buildings, raised a $20M seed led by Notion (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
2025-12-18 16:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Imprint, which helps retailers like Brooks Brothers offer co-branded credit cards and manage loyalty programs, raised $150M led by Khosla at a $1.2B valuation (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
2025-12-18 14:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
North Korean hackers stole a record $2.02B in crypto in 2025, a 51% YoY rise that takes its cumulative stolen total to $6.75B; individual wallet hacks hit 158K (Chainalysis)
2025-12-18 13:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Boat rental services Boatsetter and GetMyBoat plan to merge; Boatsetter CEO Michael Farb says the combined company is set to have $100M+ in bookings in 2025 (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-18 15:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Luma AI launches Ray3 Modify, which allows users to modify existing footage by providing character reference images; users can also define start and end frames (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
2025-12-18 16:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Stockholm-based vibe coding startup Lovable raised $330M led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures at a $6.6B valuation, up from $1.8B after raising $200M in July (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)
2025-12-18 13:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Documents: OpenAI has sold 700K+ ChatGPT licenses to ~35 US public universities for students and faculty, who used it 14M+ times in September, beating Copilot (Bloomberg)
2025-12-18 13:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 2024 Bitcoin mining levels, and AI carbon emissions could hit 32.6M to 79.7M tons, compared to NYC's 50M (Justine Calma/The Verge)
2025-12-18 13:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
TMTG agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and begin building the "world's first utility-scale fusion power plant" in 2026 (Financial Times)
2025-12-18 12:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Apple says it will roll out more App Store ads in 2026 "to increase opportunity in search results"; Apple's website says 800M+ users visit the App Store weekly (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
2025-12-18 12:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
UK AI Security Institute report: AI models are rapidly improving at potentially dangerous biological and chemical tasks, and show fast jumps in self-replication (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
2025-12-18 12:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Amazon CSO Stephen Schmidt says subtle keystroke data lag, measuring 110ms instead of the expected tens of milliseconds, helped catch a North Korean IT worker (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg)
2025-12-18 12:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Circana: Xbox Series console sales fell 70% YoY to an all-time low in November, compared to the PS5's 40% YoY drop and Switch 1 and 2's combined 10% YoY fall (Rebekah Valentine/IGN)
2025-12-18 12:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Honda plans to halt production in Japan and China from December 29 to January 6, showing the ongoing fallout of the global chip shortage and Nexperia takeover (Bloomberg)
2025-12-18 11:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Yann LeCun is in early talks to raise €500M for his startup at a ~€3B valuation, and plans to name Alexandre LeBrun as CEO, ahead of a January launch (Financial Times)
2025-12-18 11:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr tells a Senate committee the FCC "is not an independent agency"; the agency removed "independent agency" from its site as he testified (Axios)
2025-12-18 10:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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