Search: “techmeme”

Qwen: Alibaba launches Qwen3.6-27B, an open-weight dense model with 27B parameters, saying it surpasses Qwen3.5-397B-A17B on major coding benchmarks — · 4226 words · QwenTeam丨Translations:.体中文 — HUGGI

Meaghan Tobin / New York Times: An undergraduate used AI assistants to rewrite leaked source code for Claude Code in a different language, highlighting the uncertainty over copyright and AI — Artifici

John Higgins / The Verge: Anker announces Thus, a compute-in-memory chip it says will bring on-device AI to its products and accessories, starting with its upcoming Soundcore earbuds — The Thus chip

Renju Jose / Reuters: Australia's eSafety Commissioner issues transparency notices to Roblox, Microsoft's Minecraft, and other online gaming platforms to detail child safety measures — Australia's int

Business Insider: Core Automation, co-founded by ex-OpenAI VP Jerry Tworek, launches to build “the world's most automated AI lab” with talent from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind — - A new AI startup,

Heather Landi / Fierce Healthcare: Courier Health, which develops an AI-powered biopharma platform for managing the end-to-end patient experience, raised a $50M Series B led by Oak HC/FT — Oak HC/FT N

Lee Harris / Financial Times: Documents and sources: insurers including QBE and Beazley are moving to cap cyber policy payouts for losses and regulatory fines tied to AI use and “LLMjacking” — Beazley

Bloomberg: Dune Analytics: Polymarket's global trading volumes have fallen behind Kalshi in recent months; sources: product delays are contributing to Polymarket's decline — Polymarket, the long-time

Michael Acton / Financial Times: Efforts to revive chip manufacturing in Pennsylvania have been left in limbo by President Trump's sudden upending of US semiconductor policy over the past year — High-

CoinDesk: Filing: Tron founder Justin Sun sues the Trump family's World Liberty Financial, alleging it unfairly locked up his WLFI holdings and threatened and defamed him — World Liberty unfairly froz

Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: Google Cloud and Wiz debut new AI security agents at Next '26, including Threat Hunting and Detection Engineering agents, to combat automated zero-day exploits — Th

Hugh Langley / Business Insider: Google says 75% of new code created inside the company is now generated by AI and reviewed by human engineers, up from 50% last fall — - Three-quarters of new code at

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google says Meet's Gemini-powered Take Notes for Me feature can now be used for in-person meetings and adds support for Teams and Zoom — Besides Workspace Intelligence, Google a

Jordan Novet / CNBC: IBM reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to 15.92B, vs. 15.62B est., software revenue up 11% to $7.05B, and maintains FY 2026 guidance; IBM drops 7%+ after hours — IBM shares slipped 6% i

Dan Mangan / CNBC: Kalshi suspends and fines congressional candidates Mark Moran of Virginia, Matt Klein of Minnesota, and Ezekiel Enriquez of Texas for political insider trading — Prediction market p

Jordan Novet / CNBC: LinkedIn names COO Daniel Shapero as its new CEO, succeeding Ryan Roslansky, who will retain his position as EVP at Microsoft — Microsoft has tapped Dan Shapero to be the new CEO

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Meta unveils Live Chats on Threads for real-time conversations during cultural events, launching first within the NBA Threads community during the playoffs — Threads is launc

Ainslie Chandler / Bloomberg: Microsoft plans to invest AU25B by 2029 to expand Azure AI supercomputing and cloud infrastructure in Australia, its largest commitment to the country — Microsoft Corp. a

Ryan Lawler / Axios: Monk, which automates accounts receivable workflows, raised a 25M Series A co-led by Footwork and Acrew Capital, bringing its total funding to 29M — Monk, which automates accounts

Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: Netherlands-based ASM, whose deposition tools are used to make advanced chips, projects Q2 revenue of ~€980M, above €886.8M est., driven by AI demand — ASM International NV pr

OpenAI: OpenAI announces workspace agents in ChatGPT, letting teams create Codex-powered shared agents for complex tasks, and says they are “an evolution of GPTs” — Codex-powered agents for teams. — C

OpenAI: OpenAI releases ChatGPT for Clinicians, a tool for medical tasks like documentation and research, free for verified physicians, pharmacists, and more in the US — Built for clinical work, ChatG

OpenAI: OpenAI releases Privacy Filter, an open-weight model for masking personally identifiable information in text, with 1.5B total and 50M active parameters — Our state of the art model for masking

Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: Polymarket says perpetuals are coming to the platform and lets users sign up for early access; it hasn't specified whether crypto perpetual futures are included — Prediction mar

Politico: Sean Plankey, President Trump's pick to lead CISA, withdraws from consideration after resistance from Sen. Rick Scott stalled his nomination for over a year — Spokespeople for the White Hous

Lola Murti / CNBC: ServiceNow reports Q1 subscription revenue up 22% YoY to 3.67B, vs. 3.65B est., says conflict in the Middle East weighed on growth; NOW drops 12%+ after hours — ServiceNow reported

Dylan Butts / CNBC: SK Hynix reports Q1 revenue up 198% YoY to ~35.55B, vs. ~36.2B est., and operating profit up 405% YoY to ~25.4B, vs. ~25.6B est., as memory prices rise — South Korean memory chip g

Reuters: SK Hynix says it plans to invest ~12.85B in a new fab in South Korea for advanced packaging to meet AI demand for HBM, with construction starting this month — SK Hynix (000660.KS) said on Wed

Will Dunham / Reuters: Sony AI says its autonomous ping pong robot is the first robot to attain expert-level performance in a physical sport after beating some top-level human players — An autonomous

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Sooth Labs, founded by ex-Meta employees to build AI models that let businesses forecast geopolitical events, is raising ~50M at a ~335M valuation — Sooth Labs, a new art

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Source: Mira Murati's TML signed a deal with Google Cloud, valued in single-digit billions, to access Google's latest AI systems built on Nvidia's GB300 chips — Former Ope

Ryan Mac / New York Times: Sources detail how Elon Musk has de-emphasized SpaceX's original aim of reaching Mars as it prepares to go public, focusing instead on AI and other moonshots — For years, Sp

Karen Freifeld / Reuters: Sources: Micron is pushing the US Congress to pass the “MATCH Act”, which would put new export restrictions on equipment its Chinese rivals use to make chips — Micron Technol

CNBC: Sources: Microsoft considered buying Cursor in recent weeks but didn't make an offer; Microsoft has been working to boost GitHub Copilot's popularity — Prior to SpaceX's announcement this week t

Sam Sabin / Axios: Sources: OpenAI has been briefing US federal agencies, state governments, and Five Eyes allies on the capabilities of its GPT-5.4-Cyber model over the past week — OpenAI has been br

Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI has pledged up to 1.5B to a new joint venture with PE firms to help deploy AI across their portfolio companies, starting with 500M in equity — Start-up backing new com

Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank seeks a 10B two-year margin loan secured by its OpenAI shares, with an option for a year extension, as SoftBank aims to become an AI linchpin — SoftBank Group Corp. is see

Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX isn't acquiring Cursor immediately because the deal could delay its IPO; Cursor is no longer proceeding with its reported 2B funding round — SpaceX said it has an agreement

The Information: Sources: Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in DeepSeek at a 20B+ valuation, partly benchmarked against Moonshot's pending round at an 18B valuation — Chinese tech giants Tenc

Grace Kay / Business Insider: Sources: xAI held talks in recent weeks with Mistral and Cursor about a potential three-way partnership; Mistral co-founder Devendra Chaplot joined xAI in March — - Elon

On Substack: Substack adds translation tools, and says ~100K publishers earn on the platform, including ~30K outside the US; European creators earn $90M+/year collectively — Who changed your life toda

T. K. Lin / KrASIA: Tencent launches an international beta for QClaw, its OpenClaw-based AI agent, and says the Chinese version, launched in March, reached over 1M users in 10 days — OpenClaw's founde

Ian King / Bloomberg: Texas Instruments reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to 4.83B, vs. 4.52B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; TXN jumps 10%+ after hours — Texas Instruments Inc. shares sur

Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: The UK FCA says it has carried out its first joint operation to disrupt illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading, targeting eight premises across London — Quick Take — The UK'

Mason Boycott-Owen / Politico: The UK's GCHQ believes ~100 countries have procured cyber intrusion software, such as Pegasus, suggesting the barrier to get access to the tech is dropping — GLASGOW — M

Financial Times: TikTok's plan to build a ~38B data center campus in Brazil, its first in Latin America, is facing local pushback over sustainability in a semi-arid area — TikTok's plan for 9.5bn data