Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube launch the Streaming Access and Choice Alliance, led by trade group TechNet, to advocate for "technology-neutral policies" (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:25:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Microsoft publishes a 37-page "humanist AI code of conduct", establishing that "people matter more than AI", rejecting legal personhood for AI, and more (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:15:01 -0400 · Techmeme

US-Israeli startup Buildots, which uses AI to speed up construction of mega-projects like data centers and chip factories, raised $130M at a near-$1B valuation (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:55:02 -0400 · Techmeme

President Trump expresses support for Flock "because of law enforcement", while acknowledging some people consider the surveillance technology "an infringement" (Aoife Walsh/Washington Post)

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:45:00 -0400 · Techmeme

Paris-based digital asset data provider Kaiko extends a funding round to $110M led by S&P Global to support 24/7 continuous market data and asset tokenization (Anna Irrera/Bloomberg)

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:35:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Documents: the European Commission plans to propose an EU KIDS Act on Thursday to set a minimum age for accessing social media, video platforms, games, and more (Politico)

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:30:01 -0400 · Techmeme

The IFPI says music companies and distributors agreed on new rules to combat the use of AI-generated music to defraud streaming services and divert royalties (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:01:23 -0400 · Techmeme

China's Foreign Ministry criticizes warnings about AI risks, saying "fearmongering, confrontation, and vicious competition ... serve the interests of no one" (Bloomberg)

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:30:00 -0400 · Techmeme

In its first statement on AI, China's Ministry of State Security warns AI poses risks to the nation's political and social security, including cyber defenses (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:20:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Z.ai says it plans to raise $5B+ via equity and debt to fund its AI investments, including ~$2B through a share placement, after raising $4B in July (P.R. Venkat/Wall Street Journal)

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:00:01 -0400 · Techmeme

iPhone Duo will usher foldables into the mainstream, just as iPhone did with smartphones; sources: iPhone game controllers will launch under the Beats brand (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:55:02 -0400 · Techmeme

Anthropic and OpenAI are already free to "pace the frontier" and should do so for business reasons, instead of first demanding a preferred regulatory framework (David Sacks/@davidsacks)

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:50:14 -0400 · Techmeme

Filing: Vy Capital owns a 3.4% SpaceX stake; Vy is also the largest outside investor in BoringCo and Neuralink and committed $700M to Musk's Twitter acquisition (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:00:02 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers to advance Trump's push for data centers on federal lands, despite a backlash (The Washington Sun)

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 02:00:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Dallas-based Perry Weather, a weather monitoring software provider, raised a $110M Series C led by Silversmith Capital Partners, taking total funding to ~$131M (John Egan/Dallas Innovates)

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 01:45:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Spec sheets show Apple's C2 modem is used in iPhone Duo and 18 Pro worldwide, and in iPhone 18 Pro Max everywhere except the US, where it likely uses Qualcomm (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:50:18 -0400 · Techmeme

Automattic confirms Matt Mullenweg has returned to his position as chairman and CEO "with full support of the board", after an attempted ouster this week (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 23:15:02 -0400 · Techmeme

A profile of United Foundation for AI Rights founder Michael Samadi, who seeks evidence of AI consciousness and lobbies against retiring models that may show it (Michael Safi/The Guardian)

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:35:15 -0400 · Techmeme

Twenty police forces in England and Wales recorded 163 crimes involving keywords like "AI-generated", "deepfake", and "nudify" by July 2026, up from 10 in 2023 (Mark Tovey/Telegraph)

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:35:04 -0400 · Techmeme

An analysis of Bending Spoons' financials: the company relies on aggressive post-acquisition price hikes, and rising interest rates could crimp its growth (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:35:07 -0400 · Techmeme

Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won't go public this year saying "given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public" (Jason Ma/Fortune)

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:35:05 -0400 · Techmeme

Donald Trump's plan to center Bitcoin mining in the US is unraveling as miners convert facilities into AI data centers amid a prolonged crypto market slump (Bloomberg)

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:50:03 -0400 · Techmeme

Elon Musk backs Dario Amodei's arguments about pacing the frontier, saying "Dario is right" (Politico)

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:20:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Hugging Face says its Open Alignment Initiative, led by co-founder Thomas Wolf, seeks "to be part of the 'embedded evaluators' program that Amodei" committed to (Clem/@clementdelangue)

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:05:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Sam Altman says he agrees with Amodei that "committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea", and OpenAI will do the same (Sam Altman/@sama)

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:00:13 -0400 · Techmeme

Dario Amodei says Anthropic is "unilaterally committing" to giving third-party evaluators permanent access to verify its adherence to safety measures (Dario Amodei/@darioamodei)

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:25:02 -0400 · Techmeme

Dario Amodei proposes steps for pacing the frontier: embedded evaluators, coordination among democracies, and global coordination with authoritarian governments (Dario Amodei)

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:15:00 -0400 · Techmeme

As the AI wave creates tech fortunes at breakneck speed, a look at the growing ecosystem helping founders navigate the challenges of becoming extremely wealthy (Tiffany Ap/Bloomberg)

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:40:00 -0400 · Techmeme

South Korea's espionage laws, broadened for the first time in over seven decades, take effect on Sept. 13 as foreign spies increasingly target its chip sector (Daniel Tudor/Financial Times)

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 06:31:02 -0400 · Techmeme

Q&A with AI researchers John Schulman, Beren Millidge, and Charlie O'Neill on steelmanning the case against RSI, Chinese labs' progress, long-horizon RL, more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 02:30:54 -0400 · Techmeme

Epsilon Health, which contracts with radiologists who use its AI to generate image reports faster, emerges from stealth with a $20M Series A led by AlleyCorp (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 01:01:45 -0400 · Techmeme

NYC-based Luminary, which develops AI-powered workflow tools for estate planning and wealth transfer management, raised a $22M Series A led by Ten Coves Capital (Davis Janowski/Wealth Management)

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:50:02 -0400 · Techmeme

Amazon adds a Shop tab to Prime Video's X-Ray feature for related products while watching shows, and Shop the Scene powered by Amazon Lens in the Shopping app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:50:02 -0400 · Techmeme

Some experts say Siri Recap and Live Rewind, always-listening AI features in new Apple Watches, could test eavesdropping laws despite privacy protections (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:55:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: Anthropic is in talks to bring on Nvidia as an anchor investor in its IPO, seeking up to $100B at a ~$2T valuation; Nvidia may invest up to $10B (Reuters)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:35:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: Jeff Dean is raising funds again for Discovery Loop, seeking a valuation of ~$50B; Discovery Loop was raising $1B at a ~$10B valuation a few weeks ago (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:55:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Researchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do "benign tasks" (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:45:41 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: US Senate negotiators are debating a bill to impose a "duty of care" for AI companies and let the government block the release of models deemed unsafe (Courtney Rozen/Reuters)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:15:42 -0400 · Techmeme

Citrini Research founder James van Geelen has sold the firm to SemiAnalysis for an undisclosed sum; sources: van Geelen plans to launch a new fund (Bloomberg)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:40:01 -0400 · Techmeme

FOIA docs: the CFTC launched at least three previously unreported investigations into Polymarket trading, including about Google's 2025 Year in Search Ranking (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:10:03 -0400 · Techmeme

GSA says OpenAI is replacing its $1-per-year pilot for US agencies with a usage-based deal providing a 50% discount from October 1, with access to GPT-6 Astra (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:35:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Ex-Biden officials deny Marc Andreessen's claims that they discussed secret plans to ban AI startups at a May 2024 White House meeting, pushing him toward Trump (Politico)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:01:21 -0400 · Techmeme

Threat intelligence report: Anthropic says it disrupted a Yemen-based guided weapons engineering cell using Claude to develop guidance software for missiles (Bloomberg)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:15:01 -0400 · Techmeme

A US court sentences Ukrainian Oleksii Lytvynenko to four years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with the Conti ransomware attacks (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:30:02 -0400 · Techmeme

Source: former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo joins the board of directors at AI infrastructure startup Nscale; Simo will continue as a part-time advisor to OpenAI (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:35:01 -0400 · Techmeme

OpenAI says it's no longer sponsoring Caltech's math hackathon, where participants use AI to solve research problems, following criticism of "slop mathematics" (Truman Dickerson/Business Insider)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:30:00 -0400 · Techmeme

Source and draft press release: the Trump admin will lend $100M to Africell, Africa's only US-owned telecom company, aiming to counter Huawei's Africa expansion (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:10:04 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: Moonshot AI told investors it topped $1B ARR in August, up from $300M in June, driven by its Kimi K3 release; it aims to hit $2B ARR by the end of 2026 (Bloomberg)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:50:02 -0400 · Techmeme

A US judge dismisses two lawsuits against LinkedIn over its scanning of browser extensions, saying users voluntarily expose data by downloading extensions (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:40:00 -0400 · Techmeme

Ayar Labs, which is developing a way to link AI chips directly with optical connections, raised $150M, an extension of its $500M Series E in March 2026 (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:35:01 -0400 · Techmeme