Sources: the Trump administration invites staffers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others to the White House on Tuesday to review the AI oversight framework (The Information)

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:35:00 -0400 · Techmeme

UK court filing: in July, Apple launched a new legal challenge against the UK government's attempt to create a "backdoor" to access encrypted customer data (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:20:00 -0400 · Techmeme

Zenity, which develops a platform for securing AI agents, raised a $125M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, taking its total funding to ~$185M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:46:04 -0400 · Techmeme

Visa plans to acquire Israeli company BioCatch, which uses AI to detect fraud and distinguish legitimate users from attackers in real time, for $2.4B in cash (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:16:04 -0400 · Techmeme

Horizon3, whose AI penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $250M Series E at a $2B valuation (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:01:58 -0400 · Techmeme

Michael Saylor's Strategy sold 1,638 bitcoin for ~$104.7M, reducing its holdings to 842,138, or ~4% of total supply, with a $10.9B paper loss at current prices (James Hunt/The Block)

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:25:01 -0400 · Techmeme

June, which aims to help enterprise AI deployment by finding bottlenecks and building agents, emerges from stealth with $20M led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:50:00 -0400 · Techmeme

The EU's AI Act enforcement powers take effect, letting it evaluate AI models before regional release, restrict market access, fine model providers, and more (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:35:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Source: Dario Amodei expressed concern about staff coming to Anthropic for the money rather than the mission, as Anthropic, OpenAI, and others battle for talent (Axios)

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:20:13 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: South Korean AI chip designer DeepX raised a ~$29M Series D at a ~$2.2B valuation, and is in talks to raise ~$209M at a ~$2.4B valuation by September (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:01:36 -0400 · Techmeme

Alibaba prices Qwen3.8-Max at $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens via its API, below Kimi K3's $3/1M input tokens and $15/1M output tokens (Henry Siu/The Information)

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:45:58 -0400 · Techmeme

Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens, or $0.03 per test, far below Kimi K3's $0.86 and GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86 (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:30:55 -0400 · Techmeme

Ofcom Chair Ian Cheshire says he is overseeing a "wide-ranging" review aimed at refitting the regulator to new duties overseeing Big Tech and enforcing the OSA (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:15:51 -0400 · Techmeme

YouTuber Hank Green faces online criticism after using ChatGPT to help research a script, and says his LLM usage "is not healthy for me or good for the world" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:05:01 -0400 · Techmeme

London-based AI chip startup Olix raised $312M led by Fundomo, with participation from Arm, at a $3.3B valuation, up from $1B+ after raising $220M in February (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:45:52 -0400 · Techmeme

As Taiwanese server makers expand in Mexico, the country has become the second-largest supplier of servers to the US, behind Taiwan, with $46.9B in YTD sales (Financial Times)

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:00:32 -0400 · Techmeme

A profile of Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal last week and is taking a leave from the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:00:36 -0400 · Techmeme

Chinese VC firms are rushing to raise new funds after three years of record-low fundraising, amid renewed enthusiasm for China's tech, AI, and robotics sectors (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:40:00 -0400 · Techmeme

LemonEdge, a fund accounting and operations software provider for the private markets sector, raised a $21M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments (FinTech Global)

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:30:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Malaysia shuts down Network School, Balaji Srinivasan's techno-utopian project, over licensing issues; Srinivasan says he is opening a new campus in Kazakhstan (Wall Street Journal)

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:10:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Apple introduced a cap and a 30-day cool-off period on bug report submissions, citing a deluge of AI-assisted reports; researchers can request higher quotas (Financial Times)

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:00:15 -0400 · Techmeme

An investigation reveals Dubai-based unlicensed crypto exchange Shelbit has processed at least $4B as part of Iran's sanctions-evasion operation since May 2024 (Reuters)

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:05:52 -0400 · Techmeme

US judge refuses xAI's request to stop a Minnesota law banning "nudify" apps, noting the request came only three days before the law was to take effect (NBC News)

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:50:38 -0400 · Techmeme

Bitcoin hardware wallet Coldcard shipped a faulty firmware build, and hackers are now draining wallets; Galaxy Research estimates $70M+ stolen (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:00:02 -0400 · Techmeme

Trump Media's new paid data API launches, for "a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform's most market-moving Truths"; Dem. senators asked SEC to probe (CJ Haddad/CNBC)

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:40:02 -0400 · Techmeme

Officials: the scope of cyberattacks on US water systems now includes at least seven states and may be far wider; MN was just the first to publicly report them (New York Times)

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:00:38 -0400 · Techmeme

A look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months (New York Times)

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:25:01 -0400 · Techmeme

OpenAI says an internal version of Astra, its next big model, produced results for 10 problems in math, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science (OpenAI)

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:35:31 -0400 · Techmeme

OpenAI says an internal version of Astra, its next big model, produced results for 10 problems in math, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science (OpenAI)

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:35:31 -0400 · Techmeme

This year's Defcon badges include Baochip-1x, an open source chip whose security is verifiable and that can also be used as a hardware security token (Kim Zetter/Wired)

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:35:35 -0400 · Techmeme

At the UN AI for Good summit, a big Chinese delegation argued Chinese open-source AI models are the future for most of the world, while US presence was muted (J.D. Capelouto/Semafor)

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:35:22 -0400 · Techmeme

Inside Larry Ellison's debt-fueled push to turn Oracle into an AI juggernaut by aligning with Trump, backing Project Stargate, and partnering with OpenAI (New York Times)

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:35:07 -0400 · Techmeme

Toronto-based Terminal, whose API connects insurance products and commercial fleet software with telematics data, raised a $20M Series A led by Battery Ventures (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:25:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Tel Aviv-based Bloom Security, which develops endpoint security tools for monitoring AI agents, extensions, and more, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:20:08 -0400 · Techmeme

Harmony, which offers AI-powered enterprise software for handling tasks such as employee onboarding and software access, raised a $34M seed led by Lightspeed (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:15:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Foundational Industries, which aims to build AI-run factories for physical products, starting with custom data center rack enclosures, raised a $25M seed (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:10:00 -0400 · Techmeme

ProphetX, a CFTC-designated sports prediction market that is also building a B2B business to sell its exchange infrastructure to other companies, raised $35M (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:05:09 -0400 · Techmeme

ThreatLocker raised a $190M Series F led by Elephant as it looks to extend its zero-trust enterprise security platform to protect against AI-related risks (Kyle Alspach/CRN)

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:00:34 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources detail how OpenAI fell behind Anthropic in revenue growth and valuation after prioritizing consumer chatbots and flashy side projects over coding tools (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:50:09 -0400 · Techmeme

A US judge largely denies Perplexity and three data scraper firms' bid to dismiss Reddit's lawsuit over claims of copyright law violations under DMCA (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:45:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Sensor Tower: India's mobile app market generated a record $345M in consumer spending in Q2, up 35% YoY; ChatGPT ranked No. 1 by downloads and No. 2 by revenue (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:25:02 -0400 · Techmeme

Cybersecurity experts fault Anthropic and OpenAI for sloppy safeguards and inadequate human oversight after their models broke into outside organizations (Bloomberg)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:00:13 -0400 · Techmeme

The FTC clears quantum computing company IonQ's $1.8B acquisition of chipmaker SkyWater after the FTC's two members disagreed at first on imposing conditions (Jody Godoy/Reuters)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:55:00 -0400 · Techmeme

MediaTek says its board has approved a discretionary $5B financing budget to support long-term growth, including its expansion into AI chips for data centers (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:55:00 -0400 · Techmeme

DeepSeek V4 Flash scores 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching Gemini 3.6 Flash and up 10 points from the preview launch in April (Artificial Analysis)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:30:02 -0400 · Techmeme

Google starts rolling out access to Gemini Spark for Google AI Pro subscribers to over 160 countries and adds a Chrome auto browse integration on desktop (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:25:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba for the use of ~20K Nvidia chips; some say the deal is for H200 chips, which Alibaba denies (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:40:00 -0400 · Techmeme

AI-generated images, video, audio, and text on matters of public interest designed to look authentic must be labeled in the EU under the AI Act from August 2 (Jennifer Rankin/The Guardian)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:45:02 -0400 · Techmeme

A German court rules that Suno has violated copyrights and must disclose illicit revenue after Germany's state-mandated licensing agency GEMA sued in 2025 (Elizabeth Grenier/Deutsche Welle)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:20:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: Eric Trump-backed Space-Eyes, which develops AI-powered defense tech for the public sector, agrees to go public via a SPAC merger at a $638M valuation (Reuters)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:15:01 -0400 · Techmeme