Search: “techmeme”

Bloomberg: Filings: YouTube and Snap reached agreements to settle a lawsuit headed to trial in June over claims addiction to social media has disrupted students' learning — Google's YouTube and Snap I

Akshay Gangwar / Android Authority: Google confirms it's testing a new storage policy after some users reported that new Gmail accounts get only 5GB of free storage unless they add a phone number — Up

Bianca Giacobone / Latitude Media: Gridcare, which uses AI to detect underused capacity in electric grids, raised a 64M Series A, following a 13.5M seed in 2025 — The grid intelligence startup uses AI

Bill Gurley / Bill's Substack: How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how such efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AVs, and more — How the S

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: In a viral X post that parodies the old Mac vs. PC commercials, General Catalyst posted a “VC vs GC” video, with the VC apparently modeled after Marc Andreessen — One of the m

Pramugdha Mamgain / DealStreetAsia: Indian ride-hailing app Rapido raised 240M led by Prosus as part of a broader primary and secondary financing transaction, valuing Rapido at 3B post-money — Ride-ha

Bloomberg: Kioxia reports record Q4 earnings of ~3.8B, forecasts Q1 operating profit of ~8.2B, and says it is planning a US listing; Kioxia shares are up 300% YTD — Kioxia Holdings Corp., the world's

Kieran Smith / Financial Times: London-based edtech startup Multiverse raised 70M at a 2.1B valuation from Index and others as it pushes into AI training; it acquired StackFuel in January — Multiverse

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta rolls out new features for Ray-Ban Display glasses, including neural handwriting support for all users, and opens up the device to third-party developers — You can also no

Meaghan Tobin / New York Times: Nvidia's future in China remains unclear after the Trump-Xi Summit; Trump says China “chose not to” buy Nvidia chips as “they want to try to develop their own” — The st

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Ofcom says X has committed to implementing stronger protections for UK users, including reviewing illegal hate and terror content within 24 hours, after a probe — Soci

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: OpenAI debuts personal finance tools for US ChatGPT Pro users, partnering with Plaid to give access to 12K+ financial institutions to analyze spending and more — On Friday, Op

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI memo: Greg Brockman says he will lead product strategy as part of a reorg, folding ChatGPT, Codex, and developer-facing API into one core product team — OpenAI is once aga

Transformer: OpenAI's disavowal of a liability shield in Illinois SB 3444 bill and endorsement of a stronger SB 315 suggest it is open to meaningful AI safety legislation — Transformer Weekly: US-Chin

John Ainger / Bloomberg: Power prices on the largest electric grid in the US, operated by PJM, jumped 76% YoY to an average of $136.53/MWh in Q1 due to rampant demand from data centers — Power prices

Stephen Foley / Financial Times: Professional services firm EY has withdrawn a study on loyalty rewards programs after researchers at GPTZero found apparent AI hallucinations and fake footnotes — Inci

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Replit says it has “worked things out with Apple”, which has approved a Replit update after four months, following a reported dispute over vibe coding apps — All's well that ends w

Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: Semiconductor stocks fell globally on Friday after the Trump-Xi summit concluded without major chip deals; Nvidia closed down 4.42% and AMD closed down 5.69% — Beijin

Lee Jaewoon / The Elec: Seoul-based WIRobotics, which develops wearable and humanoid robots and is collaborating with Nvidia and AWS, raised a ~$68M Series B led by JB Investment — Company to accelera

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Source: Kraken cut ~150 staff after AI tools improved efficiency and its IPO may be delayed until late 2026 or early 2027 due to a drop in digital-asset prices — Kraken, one o

Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: Sources detail friction between Samsung's memory and logic chip businesses over higher bonuses for memory chip workers, leading many to leave or apply elsewhere — A looming 18-d

Bloomberg: Sources: HSG, formerly Sequoia China, has set up a 3B continuation fund anchored by its ByteDance stake, offering entry into the company valued at 370B — HSG, the investment firm formerly k

Sean Silcoff / Globe and Mail: Sources: Nord Quantique, a quantum computing startup that is pursuing a hardware-level quantum error correction approach, raised 30M at a 1.4B valuation — West Coast pip

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools to create clones of people's voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg had raised roughly $4M — The acqu

Reuters: Sources: SpaceX aims to make its IPO prospectus public by next week, targeting a June 12 listing on Nasdaq, driven by a faster-than-expected SEC review — Elon Musk's rocket and satellite make

Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: Sources: the US FTC is investigating whether Arm is trying to illegally monopolize parts of the semiconductor market — Arm Holdings Plc is facing an antitrust investigation by

Zoe Kleinman / BBC: The UK's HMRC tax authority announces a 10-year, £175M deal with London-based Quantexa to use its AI tech to identify fraud incidents and fix tax return errors — HM Revenue and Cus

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: xAI launches Grok Build, an agentic CLI for coding, building apps, and automating workflows, in beta for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers — Elon Musk's xAI is rolling out its fir

Mia Sato / The Verge: YouTube expands its AI likeness detection program to users over the age of 18, after rolling it out to select creators, politicians, journalists, and others — Likeness detection,

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: A look at GameStop's takeover bid for eBay, a bizarre job application by GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen, who does not have the money to buy eBay, to become eBay's CEO — Also Adani Gr

Atsuko Fukase / Bloomberg: Alphabet sold 3.6B of bonds in its debut yen-denominated bond sale, the largest by a non-Japanese company, as AI-driven capital spending accelerates — Alphabet Inc. sold ¥57

Bloomberg: California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes a new 7.25% tax on web-based software sales, targeting $1.1B in state and local tax revenue in the upcoming budget year — California Governor Gavin New

CJ Haddad / CNBC: Cerebras co-founders CEO Andrew Feldman and CTO Sean Lie own stakes worth 3.2B and 1.7B, respectively, representing about 5.5% and 3% of the company — The tech billionaires club has

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Cerebras pops 68% in Nasdaq debut, pushing the AI chipmaker's market cap to 95 billion … Cerebras Systems soared 68% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, closing at 311.07 after selli

Bloomberg: Cerebras shares closed up 68% at 311.07 in the company's Nasdaq debut after it raised 5.5B in the year's largest IPO, giving it a market value of 67B — Cerebras Systems Inc. shares jumped 6

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: Figma reports Q1 revenue up 46% YoY to 333.4M, vs. 313.2M est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates, citing AI monetization; FIG jumps 8%+ after hours — Figma (FIG.N) r

Christian Davies / Financial Times: Ford stock jumped as much as 25% in two days after the launch of Ford Energy, a new subsidiary providing battery storage capacity to AI data centers — New subsidiar

Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: Gemini reports Q1 revenue up 42% YoY to 50.3M, vs. 47.9M est., announces a $100M capital injection from Winklevoss Capital Fund; GEMI jumps 22%+ after hours — Gemini Space Stati

Anthropic: In a policy paper, Anthropic urges the US and allies to enforce export controls, curb distillation attacks, and export US AI to hold the lead over China by 2028 — We're releasing a new pape

Nikkei Asia: LY Corp launches a bid with Bain Capital to buy Kakaku.com, which operates restaurant review and booking site Tabelog, for 4B, challenging EQT's 3.75B offer — TOKYO — The operator of the

Kenrick Cai / Reuters: Musk v. Altman filing: Sam Altman holds 2B+ in stakes in companies that have done business with OpenAI, including a 1.7B stake in fusion startup Helion Energy — OpenAI Chief Exe

Associated Press: Musk v. Altman: in closing arguments, Musk's attorney doubled down on claims of Altman's untrustworthiness, while OpenAI's lawyer said Musk has no evidence — Lawyers for Elon Musk an

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI adds remote access to Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app, letting users control Codex sessions running on a connected computer directly from a phone — OpenAI has released a new

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Riyadh-based Stitch, which develops software for banks and financial services companies, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z, its first investment in the Gulf — Andreessen Hor

Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: Security research firm Calif says it used Mythos to help build a macOS kernel memory corruption exploit circumventing Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement tech —

Theo Wayt / The Information: Sources: 50+ researchers and engineers have left xAI since the SpaceX acquisition via layoffs, firings, and voluntary departures; many have joined Meta and TML — Call it t