TMtechmemeEmail: Microsoft is moving its communications function out of its marketing group and into the corporate, external, and legal affairs org led by Brad Smith (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: OpenEvidence, an AI search engine for doctors, raised $250M at a $15B valuation, up from $12B in January; it could be open to selling itself (Katie Roof/Business Insider)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeThe Fed unveils stablecoin proposals, including requiring some issuers to fully back tokens with permissible reserve assets, such as short-term Treasury bills (Megan Howard/Bloomberg)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMeta unveils mobile app Horizon Create and web app Horizon Studio for building games with AI prompts; the games will run on Facebook, Instagram, and Horizon (Jay Peters/The Verge)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeThe US files an application with the EU's General Court in support of X's effort to annul a 2025 €120M DSA fine, arguing the EU engaged in regulatory overreach (Bloomberg)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Jev developer TypeSafe is in talks to raise $1B+ at a $10B+ valuation; last week the startup announced a $40M seed, PitchBook says at a $200M valuation (The Information)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: A24, Sony Pictures, and NYT have registered interest in acquiring Letterboxd, which has a user base of 30M and is expected to be valued at $300M+ (New York Times)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeIn a default judgment, a US federal judge awards Nintendo of America $4.5M in damages in its lawsuit against a Reddit moderator who sold pirated Switch games (Nicole Carpenter/Aftermath)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: the NSA told lawmakers it is spending billions this year to test AI models; proposals for a US AI regulatory body estimated costs of $20M-$40M per year (Jeff Stein/The Washington Sun)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: the White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share new models with UK's AISI until US reviews them; Anthropic appears to have agreed (Politico)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAmazon rolls out multichannel tools in Seller Central, letting US sellers manage eBay, Shopify, TikTok and Walmart sales alongside their Amazon businesses (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGoogle is testing Call for Me, which lets Gemini call businesses on behalf of users, initially for Pixel 11 users with a Gemini subscription in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeNew York AG Letitia James sues Polymarket US, alleging that the site is illegally running a gambling operation, as part of NY's crackdown on prediction markets (Kevin T. Dugan/Wall Street Journal)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAt a White House summit, Xi Jinping says the US and China share the "capability and responsibility" to manage AI for good and calls for healthy competition (Financial Times)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Gen Digital, created by the 2022 merger of NortonLifeLock and Avast, has made a takeover offer for GoDaddy, which has a market cap of $12.2B (Oliver Barnes/Financial Times)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: a White House memo paints effective altruism as a fringe, dangerous cult that "built the AI-doom pipeline" and places Dario Amodei at its foundation (Axios)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeOpenAI discovered the Australian breach in August but didn't alert the government until September 10, when it sent an email to a generic disclosure address (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGoogle plans to launch experimental satellite MVP on a SpaceX rocket on October 1, as part of Project Suncatcher; MVP has four TPUs and will operate for a year (New York Times)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAmazon plans to invest $100M to build a robotics manufacturing facility in Indiana, set to open by 2028; its robots at 300+ facilities help with 75% of orders (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic plan to launch an AI safety standards body without government oversight in late 2026 or 2027, and are considering CEOs (The Information)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→