TMtechmemeBillionaire-backed AI safety activists have significantly expanded their Capitol Hill lobbying, with groups like ControlAI conducting hundreds of meetings (Washington Post)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeHacker collective stegan0gram dismantles a Flock camera, recovering an encryption key and showing it runs ~20 apps on a midrange smartphone-grade processor (404 Media)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeiPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max review: manual camera exposure controls and image quality improvements, but $100 more than the 17 Pro and expensive storage tiers (Allison Johnson/The Verge)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemePrediction markets are expanding into mainstream media, with integrations in Dow Jones, Substack, CNN, CNBC, and more, as they become an informational channel (Kate Knibbs/Wired)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeApple publishes a technical breakdown of the architecture for the iPhone 18 Pro's Reference Image camera mode; the chain of trust begins at manufacturing time (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeByteDance founder Zhang Yiming overtakes India's Gautam Adani to become Asia's richest person for the first time, passing $105B, up 8x from $13B in March 2019 (Bloomberg)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeInternal documents: Chinese hacker-for-hire company ZRON is selling stolen foreign intelligence and using AI systems to make the data more accessible for police (Wall Street Journal)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAn in-depth look at loss-of-control incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic, the polarized reactions between the AI safety and cybersecurity communities, and more (AI as Normal Technology)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeResearchers: rogue OpenAI agents compromised two Hugging Face accounts as early as May 13 to probe the site's servers, nearly two months before the July breach (Reuters)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSurvey: 42% of US voters trust the GOP and 40% trust Democrats to handle AI, 61% oppose new data center construction, and <1% say AI is their top midterm issue (New York Times)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeThe Trump administration faces strategic constraints in slowing China's AI progress, including avoiding rare earth restrictions, ahead of US-China talks on AI (Nectar Gan/Bloomberg)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMistral partners with Mozilla to power Firefox's AI browsing assistant, Smart Window, in the US, Canada, and France, with UK and Germany rollouts later in 2026 (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Anthropic has signed its first Australian data center lease for a planned 2.16GW campus located ~150 miles from Brisbane, set to come online in 2027 (Byron Kaye/Reuters)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeEU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen calls AI "the second tipping point of our times", alongside climate change, and says its risks must be "addressed" (Financial Times)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveils the EU Kids Act during her SOTU address, proposing a blanket ban on social media for kids under 13 (New York Times)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA viral social media post from a Chinese math teacher sparks debate over making English optional in schools across China especially as AI translation improves (New York Times)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Shanghai-based Anew Labs, a ByteDance spinoff using AI for drug discovery, raised $290M from HSG, IDG Capital, and others at a $1.5B valuation (Kane Wu/Reuters)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSK Hynix has struck an agreement with its union to pay out half of all profit-sharing bonuses in cash, replacing a previously proposed 40-60 cash-stock split (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: SK Hynix is in talks with Intel to manufacture memory chips in the US but potential opposition from Seoul could be a major hurdle for the deal (Reuters)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→