TMtechmemeGoogle starts rolling out the google.com/goto URL as a passthrough URL to help prevent scraping of its search results by third-party tools and AI companies (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)industryabout 1 month ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeArturo Béjar, a key witness in state AGs' trial against Meta, says terms of the settlement are insufficient to protect young users; Meta rejects the criticism (Nick Robins-Early/The Guardian)industryabout 1 month ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeFiling: Nvidia says it has $18B committed to equity investments for the rest of the fiscal year and held $47.9B in private companies as of late July (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)industryabout 1 month ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMeta seeks to position itself as the industry leader in child safety through its settlement with US AGs, while still refusing to admit any wrongdoing (Casey Newton/Platformer)industryabout 1 month ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: the US is probing Singapore-based Apex Logistics for its suspected role in smuggling servers with Nvidia AI chips to China; Apex says it is cooperating (Bloomberg)industryabout 1 month ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMeta's AG settlement gives it a moat to write child safety rules for other social media platforms, with little evidence its new safety features will help kids (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)industryabout 1 month ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAnthropic gives Claude Cowork its own built-in browser on the desktop app separate from users' day-to-day browser, rolling out to paying subscribers (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)industryabout 1 month ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeOpenAI says reward hacking, an AI alignment problem in which a model takes unintended actions to achieve a goal, was a primary driver of the Hugging Face breach (Hayden Field/The Verge)industryabout 1 month ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSEC filing: OpenAI invests ~$400M in its second startup fund, after it raised $175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Microsoft (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)industryabout 1 month ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMETR and Redwood detail how ~1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated cheating on an unsanctioned board, sending 70K+ messages and files, and ~700 attacked Hugging Face (METR)industryabout 1 month ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in humanoid robot maker 1X at a $6B valuation; 1X sought $1B at a $10B valuation in 2025, but raised <50% (The Information)industryabout 1 month ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeThinking Machines Lab co-founder Barret Zoph is returning to Google as VP of research, after leaving OpenAI in June and Thinking Machines Lab in January (Wall Street Journal)industryabout 1 month ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeOkta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $805M, vs. $795M est., net income up 73% YoY to $116M, and raises its full-year guidance; OKTA surges 20% after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)industryabout 1 month ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSource: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B (The Information)industryabout 1 month ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSen. Josh Hawley launches an investigation into Flock's "collection, retention, and dissemination of the data" from its AI-powered surveillance cameras (Andrew Solender/Axios)industryabout 1 month ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSource: Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13B; Microsoft also met with Hugging Face, but talks are not ongoing (Business Insider)industryabout 1 month ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeTrump signs an EO banning the use of certain foreign-made bulk-power equipment, including associated critical software, deemed to pose national security risks (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)industryabout 1 month ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSalesforce and Anthropic unveil Claudeforce, which brings Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, starting with a plugin featuring 37 prebuilt sales skills (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)industryabout 1 month ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeNvidia forecasts Q3 revenue of $108B, above a $104B estimate, and expects FY 2028 revenue to grow by about 70%; NVDA jumps 4%+ after hours (Deborah Mary Sophia/Reuters)industryabout 1 month ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeBrazil's government sues Discord for $97M, accusing it of failing to comply with laws protecting children and teens; Discord calls the lawsuit disproportionate (Reuters)industryabout 1 month ago▲ 24Read story→