TMtechmemeING: India's software services exports have risen to ~5.2% of GDP from 3.3% before the pandemic, as AI pushes the country's IT industry toward higher-value work (Anup Roy/Bloomberg)industry2 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA look at AI safety groups METR, Redwood Research, and Apollo Research, as AI misalignment incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic thrust them into the spotlight (Hayden Field/The Verge)industry2 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeEU Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra rebuffs calls for an EU-wide digital services tax until "all possibilities" for taxation at the global level are exhausted (Financial Times)industry2 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeVantora, formerly UP.Labs, which builds AI-native startups designed to solve problems for corporate customers, raised $100M+ from Silversmith Capital Partners (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)industry2 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeBusiness intelligence startup Veridion, which develops an AI-powered, real-time map of ~640M businesses worldwide, raised a $20M Series A led by Hoxton Ventures (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)industry2 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeIndia requires caller ID and call-management apps to share users' spam reports with telcos; Truecaller calls it a "one-way exchange" that is "anti-competitive" (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)industry2 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeInternal email: Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program; sources say a significant number of Flock's ~1,500 employees may depart, as customers flee (Wired)industry2 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeNex, which makes Nex Playground, raised a $150M Series E; Nex has sold 1M units of the motion-based gaming system targeted toward kids since its launch in 2023 (Sophie McEvoy/GamesIndustry.biz)industry2 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAnthropic adds support for the AGENTS.md instructions spec to Claude Code; OpenAI contributed AGENTS.md to the Agentic AI Foundation last year (Thomas Claburn/The Register)industry2 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Anthropic considers releasing a new AI model to counter OpenAI's momentum since Astra's launch, ahead of an IPO and after Amodei's call for a slowdown (Reuters)industry2 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAd tech company Infillion says it is acquiring Foursquare, which will continue operating as an independent brand (Kerry Flynn/Axios)industry2 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMeta's personal AI agent Muse climbs to No. 1 among free apps on Apple's US App Store, ahead of ChatGPT; Muse launched on September 8 (Georgia Hennessy/Business Insider)industry2 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: ~$18B of debt tied to an Oracle New Mexico data center slid into stressed territory, as investors grow wary of construction delays amid local pushback (Financial Times)industry2 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeLeaked presentation: OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278B from 2026 to 2030 and projects its revenue will grow from $36B this year to $350B in 2030 (Financial Times)industry2 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeUS officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children (Bloomberg)industry2 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAn arbitrator orders Uber to pay $40M to the parents of a woman fatally hit by a car after an Uber driver ordered her out of his car in 2023 (Christine Hauser/New York Times)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGemini hacked three companies in May during a test by Irregular; Google says the model stopped after determining it had accessed real companies' systems (Wall Street Journal)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Anthropic plans to stage its IPO in November, later than many investors expected; the decision was made before ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon left (Wall Street Journal)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAngle Health, which wants to use AI to expedite healthcare benefits for small businesses, raised $600M led by Vitruvian Partners at a $2.7B valuation (Maria Armental/Wall Street Journal)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAnthropic partners with Accenture to embed evaluators within Anthropic, including red teaming models and conducting alignment assessments (Anthropic)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→