Sources: the Trump admin is weighing a $100K fee for foreign students seeking to work in the US after graduation; a judge blocked Trump's $100K H-1B fee in June (Michelle Hackman/Wall Street Journal)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:25:02 -0400 · Techmeme

Counterpoint: Q2 global smartphone revenue rose 7% YoY, and average device selling price rose 17% to $400; Apple took 49% of global revenue, and Samsung 16% (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:05:14 -0400 · Techmeme

The EU Commission charges Temu with failing to cooperate during a December 2025 raid on its Dublin HQ as part of a probe into the company's foreign subsidies (Inti Landauro/Reuters)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:50:03 -0400 · Techmeme

Letter: Situational Awareness is down ~67% in July, but remains up ~80% in 2026; sources say it planned to sell $3.5B of its Anthropic stake but backed out (Wall Street Journal)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:20:00 -0400 · Techmeme

Chinese state media: Xi Jinping called for more defense applications using autonomous and AI technologies, as he pushes to build an advanced fighting force (Josh Xiao/Bloomberg)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:05:01 -0400 · Techmeme

DeepSeek rolls out the official V4 Flash API in public beta, touting enhanced agent capabilities and benchmark scores "far surpassing" V4 Pro Preview (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:55:01 -0400 · Techmeme

New York sues Kalshi for alleged violations of its gambling laws; the CFTC files an emergency motion to stop the state's enforcement, calling it an "overreach" (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:45:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Australia's online safety regulator says social media use among under-16s fell to 81.5% in March 2026, compared to 85.9% before ban took effect in December 2025 (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:20:04 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness has sold all of its public stock holdings after losses on AI stocks and a bad bet against software stocks (David Faber/CNBC)

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:55:00 -0400 · Techmeme

London-based Inforcer, which helps managed service providers handle their clients' Microsoft 365 accounts, raised a $50M Series C led by Insight Partners (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:30:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Scale AI hires former Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, replacing interim CEO Jason Droege, who took over last year after Alexandr Wang left for Meta (Madison Mills/Axios)

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:20:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Simile, which offers "agentic twins" of real people to assess companies' products, brands, and services, raised $200M led by Greenoaks at a $2B valuation (Sri Muppidi/New York Times)

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:40:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Amazon's Zoox receives the NHTSA's first US approval for paid deployment of its steering wheel-free robotaxi and can deploy up to 2,500 per year through 2028 (Abhirup Roy/Reuters)

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:35:01 -0400 · Techmeme

K2 Space, which builds satellites for tasks like data-heavy communications and may power space-based data centers, raised a $500M Series D at a $6.8B valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:25:00 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: TSMC is developing advanced AI chip packaging tech, internally called "EMIB-like", similar to Intel's Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge technique (Qianer Liu/The Information)

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:15:00 -0400 · Techmeme

London-based Nscale agrees to acquire Anyscale, a source says for ~$1.65B; Anyscale, which helps AI workloads run more efficiently, had a $1B+ valuation in 2022 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:05:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Google-backed nuclear fusion company Commonwealth Fusion Systems raised $1B, after raising a $1.8B Series B in 2021 and $863M in 2025, and plans a 2030s launch (Zachary Skidmore/DatacenterDynamics)

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:50:00 -0400 · Techmeme

Google integrates Nano Banana 2 into Google Earth via a new Create Image button, letting users prompt to create infographics or visual alterations of locations (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:45:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Filing: Meta reports $279B in future lease agreements in Q2 related to AI data centers that are not reflected on its balance sheet, up 53% from the prior period (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg)

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:30:00 -0400 · Techmeme

Intercontinental Exchange agrees to acquire electronic fixed-income trading platform MarketAxess for $6B in cash, a 33% premium, set to close in H1 2027 (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:10:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: Amazon staff find "catastrophically expensive" AI costs due to a lack of controls, like $1.8M on Claude to fail to match author details with listings (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:35:01 -0400 · Techmeme

LinkedIn says it will keep its investments in GPUs, compute, and storage capacity flat during FY 2027, after doubling its GPU efficiency in the past six months (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:25:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro is leading a tech overhaul of Disney+ to close the gap with Netflix and YouTube, including better recommendations and vertical videos (Bloomberg)

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:10:05 -0400 · Techmeme

Survey: 77% of US adults support in-class cellphone bans for middle and high school students, up from 74% in 2025 and 68% in 2024; just 18% oppose such bans (Jeffrey Gottfried/Pew Research Center)

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:55:51 -0400 · Techmeme

Brookfield and NextEra partner to develop a $100B, 1.2GW+ AI data center campus at a former DOE uranium-enrichment site in Kentucky, set to open in 2032 (Robb M. Stewart/Wall Street Journal)

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:45:02 -0400 · Techmeme

A look at OpenAI's open-source agent harness that now powers Codex and ChatGPT Work, as the company works to optimize the harness to cut runaway token usage (Jason Hiner/The Deep View)

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:40:29 -0400 · Techmeme

Eliyan, which aims to license tech and make physical "chiplets" to ease AI chip data transfer bottlenecks, raised a $145M Series C at a $1B valuation (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:30:01 -0400 · Techmeme

X settles a long-running legal battle with the World Federation of Advertisers, ending a case that accused brands like Mars and Shell of illegally boycotting X (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:20:01 -0400 · Techmeme

DoorDash says the FAA granted it Part 135 air carrier certification to operate a drone delivery service and it plans to launch drone deliveries in the fall (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:20:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Source: OpenRouter was recently generating ~$140M in annualized revenue, or ~$12M per month, up nearly 3x since April, making Stripe's $10B offer a big premium (The Information)

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:15:02 -0400 · Techmeme

GlobalFoundries says the US plans to award it $300M in CHIPS Act funding to bolster R&D of silicon photonics tech to power more efficient AI data centers (Reuters)

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:05:03 -0400 · Techmeme

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 review: comfortable when shut, the 4:3 inner display is great, and impressive battery life, but no telephoto or IP68 and some app errors (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:35:01 -0400 · Techmeme

The UK CMA opens an investigation into Microsoft over a potential consumer law breach involving users paying more to renew Microsoft 365 after it added Copilot (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:45:02 -0400 · Techmeme

New York-based AI detection startup Pangram raised $9M led by Menlo, and releases Pangram 4.0 and its first AI image detection model, claiming 99.5% accuracy (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:15:02 -0400 · Techmeme

BNY, the world's biggest bank for safeguarding assets, plans to use blockchain tech for its transfer agency record-keeping systems that service ~$8.6T in assets (Financial Times)

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:50:01 -0400 · Techmeme

OpenAI, Google, Meta, BlackRock, and others are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands, with some of the highest pay the industry has ever seen (Lydia DePillis/New York Times)

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:35:02 -0400 · Techmeme

Lake Mary, Florida-based Spur Intelligence, which helps distinguish human and bot traffic to find fake users and threats, raised $200M led by Insight Partners (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:20:00 -0400 · Techmeme

Freehand, which builds AI agents to manage supply chain spend and operations for Fortune 500 companies, raised a $75M Series B, after a $25M Series A in 2024 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:10:14 -0400 · Techmeme

GrubMarket, which connects wholesalers and distributors to grocers and other food buyers, confidentially files for a US IPO; it was valued at $4.5B in February (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:45:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Memo: Visa is cutting ~2,600 jobs, or ~7% of staff, primarily affecting tech and product teams; source: Visa plans to reinvest in stablecoin and other offerings (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:40:09 -0400 · Techmeme

Core Scientific and AMD announce a deal under which AMD will secure 500+ MW of US data center capacity starting in 2027, with the ability to scale up to 2.5 GW (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:30:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Fish Audio, which offers AI voice models for creators and enterprises and has $21M in ARR, raised a $50M seed led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:10:00 -0400 · Techmeme

UK startup Dwelly, which buys real estate businesses and adds AI to handle maintenance, contracts, and other tasks, raised $95M in equity and $75M in debt (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:00:38 -0400 · Techmeme

Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence signs a $410M, multiyear AWS compute deal to support its self-improving AI systems, after raising $650M in May (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:45:04 -0400 · Techmeme

Tel Aviv-based Act Security, whose platform reduces the access surface across cloud infrastructure, emerges from stealth with a $40M Series A and a $20M seed (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:35:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: Moonshot is seeking access to more Nvidia Blackwell chips to prepare for Kimi K4's development, after training K3 on Nvidia chips, including Blackwell (The Information)

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:20:35 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: Apple is preparing to debut a smart home hub with a 7" square display and facial recognition tech, a new Apple TV, and a refreshed HomePod mini in 2026 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:16:02 -0400 · Techmeme

ESA satellite images show damage to two Amazon data centers in Bahrain, supporting Iran's claims last week that it struck the sites; Amazon declined to comment (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:50:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Apple launches Apple Upgrade, a new US leasing program in partnership with Klarna that replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program, starting at $17.99/month for iPhones (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:25:01 -0400 · Techmeme

PayPal reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $8.68B, above $8.47B est., transaction margin dollars up 1% YoY to $3.9B, and a $1.1B profit, down from $1.26B in Q2 2025 (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:35:02 -0400 · Techmeme