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Sources: Notion told staff it is doing a $300M tender offer at an $11B valuation, ahead of a potential IPO; it passed $600M in ARR, half of it from AI products (Anna Tong/Forbes)
2025-12-15 21:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US FTC, along with 21 states and DC, files an amended complaint against Uber, alleging deceptive billing and cancellation practices related to Uber One (Reuters)
2025-12-15 19:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Cloudflare 2025 report: global internet traffic grew 19% in 2025, ChatGPT was the most popular AI service, global traffic from Starlink grew 2.3x, and more (Cloudflare)
2025-12-15 19:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
GM is adding native Apple Music to select vehicles, and rolls out support for digital keys, after it started phasing out CarPlay in 2023 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
2025-12-15 18:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Lidar manufacturer Luminar files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and says it reached a deal to sell its semiconductor subsidiary to Quantum Computing Inc. for $110M (Reshmi Basu/Bloomberg)
2025-12-15 18:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: xAI has created an enterprise AI sales group, but xAI's lack of experience in selling to big businesses is holding potential customers back (Theo Wayt/The Information)
2025-12-15 18:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Mexico-based fintech Plata raised up to $500M in a financing deal arranged by Nomura Securities International, as it moves toward becoming a full-fledged bank (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)
2025-12-15 17:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google is shutting down its dark web monitoring tool, launched in 2024 to alert users when their personal info is detected on the dark web, on February 16, 2026 (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
2025-12-15 17:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
NY-based Octane, which offers "instant" financing for large recreational and lifestyle purchases, raised a $100M Series F at a post-money valuation of $1.3B (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
2025-12-15 17:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The Trump administration launches US Tech Force to recruit ~1,000 staffers from Apple, Meta, xAI, and others for two-year stints to modernize the government (Natalie Alms/Nextgov/FCW)
2025-12-15 16:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Dragoneer raised $4.3B for its seventh VC fund and now has over $30B in AUM; it raised $3.8B for its sixth private fund in 2022 (Dan Primack/Axios)
2025-12-15 16:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nvidia announces it has acquired SchedMD, the developer of Slurm, an open-source workload management system for HPC and AI (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)
2025-12-15 16:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Thrive Holdings announces it has hired Palantir CIO Jim Siders to serve as CEO of Shield Technology Partners, a newly created business focused on IT services (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
2025-12-15 16:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
LG smart TV owners say a webOS update pinned Microsoft Copilot to TV home screens, with no apparent way to remove the app; LG unveiled an AI TV strategy at CES (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)
2025-12-15 15:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Internal documents: Meta earned $18B+ in annual ad sales from China in 2024, making up 10%+ of its global revenue, with $3B+ linked to fraudulent ads like scams (Reuters)
2025-12-15 14:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Lightspeed raised a record $9B across six funds to invest in AI, with $3.3B to back breakout companies like Anthropic; Lightspeed has backed 165 AI startups (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
2025-12-15 14:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Memo: Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos lay out Netflix's WBD case, moving to quell concerns about job losses and the end of theater releases, after Paramount's bid (Rose Henderson/Bloomberg)
2025-12-15 13:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3, a family of AI models using a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture and the Mamba-Transformer design, in 30B, 100B, and ~500B sizes (Emilia David/VentureBeat)
2025-12-15 14:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AI drug discovery startup Chai Discovery raised a $130M Series B led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $225M (Caroline Hyde/Bloomberg)
2025-12-15 12:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tech whistleblowers like Yaël Eisenstat say coming forward has unexpectedly derailed their lives and careers; Meta is in litigation with Sarah Wynn-Williams (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
2025-12-15 12:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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