Solve: the cost of insuring against debt defaults at hyperscalers Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Oracle has hit its highest level since 2021 (Gunjan Banerji/Wall Street Journal)

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:00:01 -0500 · Techmeme

Lumaril, which develops AI software for optimizing industrial production by connecting to existing control systems, raised a $66M Series A at a $400M valuation (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 01:35:00 -0500 · Techmeme

Binance has started resuming withdrawals in phases, including for BTC and ETH, after covering 95% of the $6.3B in tokens stolen in the hack by TraderTraitor (Reuters)

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 01:30:02 -0500 · Techmeme

Shanghai-based NeuroXess, which is developing BCI technology for movement support, speech decoding, and control of external devices, raised a ~$105M Series B (TechNode)

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 01:25:02 -0500 · Techmeme

Enterprise voice AI tools provider Deepgram acquires Daily, which has raised $62M+ and develops open-source voice AI framework Pipecat, for an undisclosed sum (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 01:15:00 -0500 · Techmeme

DeepSeek open sources Super-Agent, a coding agent research prototype it says proactively monitors developer group chats for coding issues and suggests solutions (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 01:00:13 -0500 · Techmeme

A look at a crude campaign of cyberattacks by Russia-linked hacktivist groups that have caused physical damage in NATO-aligned countries over the past two years (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 01:00:01 -0500 · Techmeme

Insurance software maker Guidewire agrees to acquire Hyperexponential, which makes AI-powered insurance underwriting and pricing software, for $1.7B+ in cash (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:50:00 -0500 · Techmeme

The FBI attributes the $6.3B Binance hack to North Korea's elite hacking unit TraderTraitor, which the agency has also blamed for the $1.5B Bybit hack in 2025 (Kevin Whitelaw/Bloomberg)

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 23:10:01 -0500 · Techmeme

Tests: chatbots rely on three obscure AI-built voter sites for US midterm answers; Copilot cited the error-prone Ballot Brief in 75% of tests and ChatGPT in 22% (Washington Post)

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 20:00:14 -0500 · Techmeme

Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug to OpenAI that would let attackers run code in logged-in sessions of all who opened the hacker's ChatGPT share link (Swati Khandelwal/The Hacker News)

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:01:11 -0500 · Techmeme

Sources: Meta built a prototype humanoid robot with Chinese firm Fourier in three months and is building a second; Meta says it has no plans to sell these units (Jyoti Mann/The Information)

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:20:02 -0500 · Techmeme

Binance says it has covered 90% of its hack losses, having set aside $6.34B+ of company funds; the remaining 10% is in less liquid tokens (Angela Christy/Reuters)

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 11:45:01 -0500 · Techmeme

How AI detectors like Pangram are changing human writing: authors drop em dashes, "not X, but Y" phrasing, and words like "delve", or add typos, to look human (Morgan Meaker/Bloomberg)

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:40:53 -0400 · Techmeme

A look at growing bipartisan opposition to AI data centers in drought-stricken Arizona, where TSMC's chip fabs were welcomed but newer projects face backlash (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 05:25:55 -0400 · Techmeme

As AI models commoditize, lasting wealth will accrue to those controlling chokepoints like distribution, payment rails, and a stablecoin dollar, not to the labs (The Commanding Heights)

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 02:30:01 -0400 · Techmeme

When talking about local inference, Sam Altman says supply-constrained DRAM is better used in data centers than sitting in PCs and "being used 5% of the time" (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 02:10:48 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: neoclouds CoreWeave, Nebius, and Nscale have effectively been shut out of the bond market in recent weeks as lenders and investors demand tougher terms (Wall Street Journal)

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 01:15:01 -0400 · Techmeme

S&P downgraded Meta's outlook from stable to negative, citing high capex and negative free cash flow; META fell 15% in October, its worst month in four years (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 01:10:42 -0400 · Techmeme

Anthropic says a malicious actor used access to Cursor's marketplace to publish a "tampered" copy of the Claude Code extension, which it didn't build or publish (Felix Rieseberg/@felixrieseberg)

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 01:00:15 -0400 · Techmeme

John Ternus says Apple doesn't "want to ship AI for AI's sake" and that Tim Cook is "available to help wherever I ask" on policy; Ternus has yet to meet Trump (Steven Levy/Wired)

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:30:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: OpenAI has secured ~$11B in commitments for its latest funding round, less than half its initial $30B target, and expects to raise more in coming weeks (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 22:30:02 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: OpenAI now seeks ~$20B at a $1.25T valuation for its latest round, from $30B at a $1.4T valuation, as some investors cut commitments amid an AI selloff (Financial Times)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 21:00:53 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: Baseten is raising ~$2B in two tranches, one valuing it at $26B and the other at $30B; Baseten was valued at $13B in June after raising $1.5B (Bloomberg)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:20:02 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: Google is in talks with the DOD on a new effort to secure the data that feeds into software being built for the Golden Dome missile defense program (Bloomberg)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:50:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Filing: Vancouver, WA-based Powerlattice, which makes a power delivery chiplet to reduce AI compute power needs by 50%+, raised $86M, after raising $31M in 2025 (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:05:00 -0400 · Techmeme

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI across multiple crawlers (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:05:00 -0400 · Techmeme

OpenAI tightens limits on the weapons-related information that ChatGPT provides teens, even when a question appears harmless, as part of new safeguards (Reuters)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:55:37 -0400 · Techmeme

Binance says it has reserved $6.34B+ in company funds, including $5B already held in impacted token assets, to deal with the fallout from the $6.3B hack (Rajveer Singh Pardesi/Reuters)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:30:01 -0400 · Techmeme

FEC data: AI-oriented PACs spent nearly $80M on the 2026 US elections, mostly before the primaries; pro-regulatory PACs outspent Leading the Future's network (Ian Krietzberg/Puck)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:10:01 -0400 · Techmeme

CXMT reports Q3 revenue of ~$16.7B, up 613.2% YoY, and a net profit of ~$8.17B, swinging to profitability on the back of rising AI-driven memory chip prices (Reuters)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:20:02 -0400 · Techmeme

NAND maker Kioxia reports FY Q2 operating profit up 22x YoY to ~$12.7B, in line with est., but forecasts Q3 operating profit of ~$12.7B, below ~$14.9B est. (Bloomberg)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 07:50:01 -0400 · Techmeme

The UK CMA opens a probe into whether Meta imposed exploitative terms on publishers and advertisers to use their content to develop its AI and other services (Reuters)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 07:40:12 -0400 · Techmeme

Binance reveals that a follow-up investigation has found "additional points of breach" beyond a possibly compromised laptop and says this was a "complex attack" (@binance)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 07:15:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Dream, which is training AI world models on US building data to automate construction design and engineering, emerges from stealth with a $17M seed led by a16z (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:15:00 -0400 · Techmeme

Ravical, whose AI-powered platform helps accounting and tax firms manage their operations, raised a $17M seed led by MMC, bringing its total funding to $25M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:10:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Inside Nscale's 2,250-acre, 8GW Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia, which has been hit by construction issues, local opposition, and financing risks (Financial Times)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 05:40:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: Spotify aims to launch an AI product in Q1 2027 that lets subscribers create their own remixes and covers for ~$5 per month, pending licensing deals (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 04:45:02 -0400 · Techmeme

How a wave of startups are betting on AI to make formal software verification practical and essential, including &Truth, which launches with a $70M seed (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 02:30:03 -0400 · Techmeme

TRM Labs attributes the Binance hack to North Korea-based TraderTraitor, which drained ~$6.36B from Binance wallets across 10 blockchains, mostly in ~20 minutes (Tom Westbrook/Reuters)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 01:00:14 -0400 · Techmeme

Binance pledges to cover all losses from a ~$6.3B hack, potentially the largest crypto theft ever, surpassing the $1.5B Bybit hack in February 2025 (South China Morning Post)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:50:00 -0400 · Techmeme

CrowdStrike: China-linked hackers used AI tool ARTEX with a DeepSeek LLM and another model to target 200+ organizations in 11 days, compromising at least nine (Kevin Collier/NBC News)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:01:16 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: DeepSeek doubled its latest round's size due to surging black market Nvidia Blackwell chip prices, with Chinese state-owned investors representing 27% (The Information)

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 23:35:00 -0400 · Techmeme

Foundry, a manufacturing-as-a-service startup that builds factories with robots powered by physical AI models, raised a $100M Series A led by Marlinspike (Rocket Drew/The Information)

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:40:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Dropbox plans to cut ~6% of its staff, or ~200 jobs, costing $27M to $33M in severance and related costs, and says CTO Ali Dasdan will step down on November 18 (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:30:01 -0400 · Techmeme

X adds an intrusive promotional animation of an arm reaching across the screen to direct users to a "promote" post button, targeting verified and Premium users (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 09:50:00 -0400 · Techmeme

Chinese PCB maker Dongshan rises on its Hong Kong debut, after raising ~$1.3B in an IPO, below its $3B goal, at a $30B valuation, amid a tricky IPO market (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 09:40:02 -0400 · Techmeme

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Colorsoft review: premium feel, lightweight, nice colors, and snappy performance, but expensive after price increases (Nena Farrell/Wired)

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 09:30:04 -0400 · Techmeme

Artificial Analysis launches the Intelligence Index v5, with new coding and science benchmarks, built on private datasets; Claude Opus 5.5 (max) leads at 58 (@artificialanlys)

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:55:02 -0400 · Techmeme

Google unveils Google Multi-Party Compute (MPC), a digital-asset custody and security service in private preview, set for commercial availability in early 2027 (Aoyon Ashraf/CoinDesk)

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:45:04 -0400 · Techmeme