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4月13日 – 4月19日
Voice actors worldwide are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances (Rina Chandran/Rest of World) (techmeme.com)
A primer on interpretability and how AI researchers are figuring out how to open and understand the "black box" that holds the formulas within most AI models (Oliver Whang/New York Times) (techmeme.com)
How cyberscammers are bypassing major banks' KYC facial scans using stolen biometric data and virtual camera tools sold via Telegram channels (Fiona Kelliher/MIT Technology Review) (techmeme.com)
India produces over 1.5M CS graduates annually, but scale is no longer an advantage with the rise of AI coding tools; Infosys revamps hiring to focus on AI (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Analysis: China's chipmaking tool imports from Singapore rose 17% YoY to $5.7B in 2025, from Malaysia rose 2x+ to $3.4B; direct US imports fell 34% YoY to ~$2B (Nikkei Asia) (techmeme.com)
Sources say Ola's AI venture Krutrim's smart assistant Kruti is unavailable to users and the development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, has stalled (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times) (techmeme.com)
Amazon launches its first smart warehouse in Shenzhen, aiming to cut local merchant storage costs by up to 45% as competition with Shein and Temu intensifies (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post) (techmeme.com)
Ohio's gambling regulator proposes to fine Kalshi $5M for unlicensed sports gambling, after a federal judge ruled that Kalshi's sports bets constitute gambling (Max Filby/The Columbus Dispatch) (techmeme.com)
OpenAI updates Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for deploying and testing agents on long-horizon tasks (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Companies that hire young "AI natives" have found that AI tools can be both helpful and debilitating to workers, in some cases requiring more careful oversight (Jo Constantz/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
European VC funding in Q1 2026 rose nearly 30% YoY to $17.6B, AI claimed over 50% of all European funding for the quarter, and deal volume dropped 40% YoY (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access "certain capabilities" (Jose Antonio Lanz/Decrypt) (techmeme.com)
A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores via search, despite company policy prohibiting them; they generated $122M+ in revenue (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
X launches Cashtags, a feature that lets users view real-time financial data on stocks and crypto directly in their timelines, in the US and Canada (Timmy Shen/The Block) (techmeme.com)
Former Mercor staffers describe "operational mishaps" at the $10B startup, including employee fraud, a security breach, and suspected North Korean infiltration (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes) (techmeme.com)
Filings: Caterpillar acquires self-driving electric tractor startup Monarch Tractor's assets, after it raised $200M+ and struggled to pivot to software services (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Apple plans to send a significant part of its Siri team, known as a laggard, to an AI coding bootcamp; the group is expected to be fewer than 200 (The Information) (techmeme.com)
X users complain that the latest crackdown on bots purged secret accounts they had used for years to watch and curate their favorite porn (Jason Parham/Wired) (techmeme.com)
Objection, which aims to use AI and experts to evaluate claims in news stories, debuts with funding from Peter Thiel, Balaji Srinivasan; evaluations cost $2,000 (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
NY-based Auctor, which uses AI to curate resource plans and process flows to help companies adopt new software, raised $20M in a combined seed and Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios) (techmeme.com)
A jury finds that Live Nation and Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in the ticketing market, in a case brought by state AGs after the DOJ settled (NBC News) (techmeme.com)
Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, a text-to-speech model with support for over 70 languages and audio tags that give developers granular speech control (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder) (techmeme.com)
Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's supply chain moat, competition from ASICs like Google's TPU, investing in AI labs and neoclouds, selling to China, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast) (techmeme.com)
WPP, Dentsu, and Publicis settle with the FTC over claims they colluded on misinformation policies that denied ad revenue to conservative publishers (David McCabe/New York Times) (techmeme.com)
Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, which can orchestrate and execute multistep tasks across Creative Cloud apps, available in public beta in the coming weeks (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Google launches a Gemini Mac app, featuring a keyboard shortcut, screen sharing for better context, image generation with Nano Banana, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google) (techmeme.com)
The US Energy Information Administration plans to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use (Molly Taft/Wired) (techmeme.com)
Cal.com, which provides scheduling software, is moving its core open-source codebase to a closed repository, citing the dangers of AI hacking its open code (Steven Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNET) (techmeme.com)
AI cloud infrastructure company Parasail raised a $32M Series A led by Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures, bringing its total funding to $42M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Filings: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz donated $25M to pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future, bringing the group's total cash on hand to over $51M (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Hilbert, whose AI software connects data across teams to help companies make decisions from a single system, raised a $28M Series A led by a16z (Madison Mills/Axios) (techmeme.com)
A survey of US teens: ~90% say entertainment is a reason they use TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat, 57% Snapchat message daily, and 37% say TikTok impacts sleep (Pew Research Center) (techmeme.com)
Artemis, which aims to replace rule-based cybersecurity systems with an AI-driven centralized "brain", emerges from stealth with a $70M Series A led by Felicis (Sharon Goldman/Fortune) (techmeme.com)
London-based Gizmo, which uses AI to turn young students' notes into gamified study materials, raised a $22M Series A led by Shine Capital and reports 13M users (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios) (techmeme.com)
AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm invest $60M in London-based self-driving tech startup Wayve as part of an extension to its $1.2B Series D, announced in February (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Trainer maker Allbirds, which sold last week for $39M after its valuation fell from $4B in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 150%+ (Bryce Elder/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
The European Commission issues a supplementary statement of objections threatening Meta with an interim ban on WhatsApp policies that allegedly block rivals (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Accel raised $5B, including a $4B Leaders fund, focused on writing large checks to late-stage startups globally, and a $650M sidecar fund, taking AUM to $36B (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Survey: only 35% of Virginia voters are comfortable with new data center construction, down from 69% in 2023, and just 37% support data center tax breaks (Washington Post) (techmeme.com)
ASML says South Korea surpassed China as its largest market in Q1 2026, with shipments hitting 45% of net system sales, or €2.84B, up from 22% in Q4 2025 (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Trading firm Jane Street takes an additional $1B stake in CoreWeave, and plans to spend ~$6B to access CoreWeave's Vera Rubin chips to build and deploy AI (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
The EU unveils an open-source age verification app that requires legal ID to shield minors from harmful content, aiming to standardize verification in the bloc (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Analysis: nearly 90 schools and 600 students globally have been impacted by AI-generated deepfake nudes; North America had nearly 30 reported cases since 2023 (Matt Burgess/Wired) (techmeme.com)
Tel Aviv-based eToro agrees to acquire crypto wallet provider Zengo, a source says for ~$70M, mostly in cash; Zengo lets traders swap between tokens and fiat (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match tool to support 30 additional languages (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Memo: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the company plans to lay off ~1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, to cut costs and achieve profitability (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
A US judge issues a $322.2M judgment against pirate library Anna's Archive for scraping Spotify, a largely symbolic victory as the site is anonymously operated (Rachel Scharf/Billboard) (techmeme.com)
Sources: SoftBank invites more banks to join its $40B loan backing its OpenAI investment, requiring them to commit ~$5B each; SoftBank has already invested $30B (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
ByteDance launches its Seedance 2.0 video model to enterprise clients in 100+ countries, excluding the US amid legal disputes, after a February launch in China (Juro Osawa/The Information) (techmeme.com)
PitchBook: US growth and late-stage venture funds raised $23.6B YTD, up from $7.4B in 2025 and above the totals for any of the past 12 years, amid the AI boom (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
Q&A with ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski on how audio models work, the company's business model, the conversational Turing Test, voice agents, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint) (techmeme.com)
Asia's startup funding rose 93% YoY to $27.4B in Q1, the highest quarterly total in 3+ years, with Chinese startups raising $16.5B and Indian startups $3.8B (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News) (techmeme.com)
Apple endorses the ~$11.6B Amazon-Globalstar deal, citing a "proven track record" with Amazon infrastructure; Apple holds a ~20% stake in Globalstar (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
ASML reports Q1 net sales of €8.8B, vs. €8.5B est., and €2.8B net profit, vs. €2.5B est., and raises 2026 net sales forecast to €36B-€40B from €34B-€39B (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
Sources and analyst estimates: Uber is on track to spend $7.5B+ on buying robotaxis and $2.5B+ on equity stakes in their makers over the next few years (Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 robotic reasoning model, says it shows significant spatial and physical reasoning improvements over ER 1.5 (Google DeepMind) (techmeme.com)
Sources: ahead of US midterms, Democrats have been advised not to antagonize a ~$300M pro-AI lobby; internal polling shows broad support for tougher AI rules (Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
Global smartphone shipments fell 4.1% YoY in Q1, the first decline since 2023, amid a memory chip crunch; Samsung's shipments grew 3.6% and Apple's grew 3.3% (IDC) (techmeme.com)
Sources: a Snap-Perplexity AI search deal calling for Perplexity to pay Snap $400M has fallen apart; Snap is set to announce significant layoffs on Wednesday (Alex Heath/Sources) (techmeme.com)
A profile of BusPatrol, whose AI-powered cameras on 35K+ school buses in 24 US states record vehicles passing illegally, claiming they help reduce violations (Byard Duncan/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Sources: at least two US federal agencies and three congressional committees have reached out to Anthropic to test Claude Mythos, quietly bypassing Trump's ban (Politico) (techmeme.com)
How some mathematicians are exploring ways to incorporate LLM models into their research without losing direct experience with mathematical understanding (Konstantin Kakaes/Quanta Magazine) (techmeme.com)
Maine's legislature passed a bill blocking new data centers that exceed 20 MW capacity until November 2027, making it the first state to enact such a measure (Alyssa Lukpat/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
Omdia: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok now capture over 90% of social media ad revenue, with Meta accounting for 70% of the total (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter) (techmeme.com)
Mintlify, which uses AI to help companies generate software documentation, raised a $45M Series B led by a16z and Salesforce Ventures at a $500M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes) (techmeme.com)
Google releases a Windows desktop app with a macOS Spotlight-like search box for the web, Google Drive, and local files, a screen sharing feature, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Anthropic has fielded multiple offers from VCs valuing the company at as much as $800B in recent weeks; it was valued at $380B in February (Ben Bergman/Business Insider) (techmeme.com)
In a letter to senators in January, Apple said it notified X that Grok could be removed from the App Store over Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes (David Ingram/NBC News) (techmeme.com)
Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga says the company's surging use of AI coding tools has maxed out its full-year AI budget just a few months into 2026 (Laura Bratton/The Information) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Microsoft ended production of its Surface Hub 3 collaborative touch displays and scrapped plans for a Hub 4; Hub 3 debuted in 2023 in 50" and 85" sizes (Zac Bowden/Windows Central) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic recently changed Claude Enterprise pricing; customers now pay $20/month per user plus consumption-based charges, instead of a fixed subscription (The Information) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic details using AI agents to accelerate alignment research on "weak-to-strong supervision", where a weak model supervises the training of a stronger one (Anthropic) (techmeme.com)
Meta and Broadcom announce an expanded partnership to co-develop multiple generations of Meta's MTIA chips; Broadcom CEO Hock Tan plans to leave Meta's board (CNBC) (techmeme.com)
The FCC grants Netgear a conditional approval to import its future consumer routers, cable modems, and cable gateways into the US through October 1, 2027 (Sean Hollister/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
US-based Credo, which specializes in data center connectivity, agrees to acquire Israeli chip company DustPhotonics in a cash-and-stock deal worth up to $1.3B (CTech) (techmeme.com)
AWS launches Amazon Bio Discovery, a new AI-powered application designed to speed up drug development, giving scientists access to biological foundation models (Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Users accuse Anthropic of degrading the performance of Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Code; employees publicly deny the company degrades models to manage capacity (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) (techmeme.com)
Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi says the crypto exchange has confidentially filed for a US IPO; it was valued at $13.3B this month, down from a $20B peak in late 2025 (Cory Schouten/Semafor) (techmeme.com)
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.4-Cyber to some participants in its Trusted Access for Cyber program, a week after Anthropic announced Mythos (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic redesigns Claude Code on desktop, adding a sidebar for managing multiple sessions, a drag-and-drop layout, an integrated terminal, and a file editor (Claude) (techmeme.com)
Source: Anthropic is preparing to release Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations, as soon as this week (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) (techmeme.com)
Nvidia stock rose 18%+ over the past ten days, its longest winning streak since 2023; Jensen Huang said in March that Nvidia has $1T of GPU orders through 2027 (Katie Tarasov/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
Bluefish, which helps brands manage visibility across AI platforms such as ChatGPT and Claude, raised a $43M Series B, bringing its total funding to $68M (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek) (techmeme.com)
Microsoft agrees to rent 30,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin chips from Nscale at a site in Norway that was initially intended for OpenAI and marketed as part of Stargate (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic launches a repeatable routines feature for Claude Code as a research preview, allowing developers to schedule and automate software development tasks (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) (techmeme.com)
Google launches Skills, repeatable AI prompts users can run in Chrome with a keyboard shortcut; users can set up their own Skills or choose from 50+ presets (Reece Rogers/Wired) (techmeme.com)
Glydways, a robocar startup backed by Sam Altman, Khosla, and others, says it is in talks to raise $250M at a $1B+ valuation, following a ~$170M Series C (Min-Jeong Lee/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Microsoft debuts MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a faster version of its flagship text-to-image model, which it says offers production-ready quality at ~50% the cost (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat) (techmeme.com)
Pillar, which helps businesses driven by commodities, like metals, manage financial risk, raised a $20M seed led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $23M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Sygaldry, which wants to design AI data center servers that integrate quantum hardware and classical chips, raised a $34M seed and a $105M Series A (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune) (techmeme.com)
A malicious Ledger Live app clone available via Apple's App Store appears to have drained about $9.5M from over 50 victims between April 7 and April 13 (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk) (techmeme.com)
Source: US Treasury CIO Sam Corcos aims to gain access to Mythos as soon as this week, and directed the Treasury's cybersecurity team to prepare for AI threats (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
YouTube livestreams will show fewer ads to users who support creators with Super Chat, Super Sticker, or gift purchases, and disable ads during peak engagement (Andrew Romero/9to5Google) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic opposes an Illinois bill backed by OpenAI that would shield AI labs from liability, even for "critical harms" like 100+ deaths or $1B+ in damage (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) (techmeme.com)
Sources: cloud-computing startup Fluidstack is in talks to raise ~$1B at an $18B valuation, up from $7.5B when it raised money earlier in 2026 (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets users connect their Google accounts for tailored Gemini answers, to India, initially for AI Pro and Ultra users (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Nvidia announces the Ising AI models, which it says are the first open models aimed at quantum computing calibration and error correction (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE) (techmeme.com)
Adobe patches a zero-day in Acrobat DC, Reader DC, and Acrobat 2024, which hackers have been actively exploiting for at least four months (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic appoints Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan to its board, its second board addition in recent months as it eyes an IPO and pushes further into healthcare (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
Samsung quietly increases US prices of the Galaxy S25 Edge, S25 FE, Z Flip 7, Tab S11, Tab S11 Ultra, and more; the 1TB Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra jumps by $280 (Adrian Diaconescu/PhoneArena) (techmeme.com)
Polymarket is auditing its Builders Program, which gives up to $2.5M in grants, after concerns that some participating startups are facilitating insider trading (Michael Roddan/The Information) (techmeme.com)
Q&A with New York Assembly member and ex-Palantir staffer Alex Bores on running for Congress, Palantir, opposition from super PAC Leading the Future, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired) (techmeme.com)
Amazon agrees to pay $11.57B to acquire Globalstar, or $90 per share; the deal requires Globalstar to meet certain HIBLEO-4 replacement satellite milestones (Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Amazon agrees to buy satellite operator Globalstar, set to close in 2027, to expand Leo; Amazon and Apple agree for Leo to power some iPhone and Watch services (About Amazon) (techmeme.com)
EV maker Lucid says Uber agreed to buy 35K+ additional Lucid vehicles for its robotaxi fleet and invest $200M, taking its total investments in Lucid to $500M (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
Kraken parent Payward is raising $200M from Frankfurt stock exchange operator Deutsche Börse for a 1.5% fully diluted stake, valuing Kraken at $13.3B (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Chinese chipmaker YMTC plans to build two more factories in addition to one that will be completed in 2026, more than doubling its production capacity (Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Iran's internet blackout enters a record 45th day, per NetBlocks, amid the war; the country's 90M people now rely on the domestic National Information Network (Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
OpenAI's economic agenda is oddly socialist and wildly hypocritical, and is largely undermined by OpenAI's support for Republicans who attack welfare programs (Eric Levitz/Vox) (techmeme.com)
US affidavit: the man charged with attacking Sam Altman's home had a document that "identified views opposed" to AI and listed addresses of other AI executives (New York Times) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Amazon is in advanced talks to acquire satellite operator Globalstar in a deal that could be announced as soon as Tuesday; GSAT jumps 15%+ pre-market (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Google designates "back button hijacking" as malicious, saying sites interfering with a browser's back button function may be demoted in Search starting in June (Abner Li/9to5Google) (techmeme.com)
A profile of Jeffrey Yan and his startup Hyperliquid, a $10B crypto exchange that never took VC money and generated $900M+ in profit in 2025 with 11 employees (Dom Cooke/Colossus) (techmeme.com)
OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for an undisclosed sum; Hiro stops new signups, will shut down on April 20 and delete all data on May 13 (Julie Bort/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Regulators in Europe were largely left out of the loop as Anthropic limited the release of its latest model Mythos to select companies and organizations (Politico) (techmeme.com)
Voters in Festus, Missouri, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection last week, days after the council's approval of a $6B data center (Jeff Tomich/Politico) (techmeme.com)
Oracle expands its partnership with fuel cell maker Bloom to procure up to 2.8 GW of capacity, after receiving a warrant to purchase $400M of Bloom stock (Jordan Novet/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
Daniel Moreno-Gama, a 20-year-old Texas man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home, is charged with attempted murder and attempted arson (Hadas Gold/CNN) (techmeme.com)
Sources: data labeling startup Handshake's gross annualized revenue hit ~$1B, vs. $550M in January; Mercor hit a $1B+ gross annualized revenue pace this year (The Information) (techmeme.com)
AI penetration testing company CodeWall says its agent was able to hack into one of Bain's internal AI tools, following a similar hack at McKinsey (Ellesheva Kissin/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
Roblox says developers will need Roblox Plus, a new $4.99-per-month subscription offering benefits like discounts, to publish games for Kids and Select accounts (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Microsoft raises prices for Surface PCs, with Laptop 7 and Pro 11 now $500 more expensive than at their 2024 launch, citing higher memory and component costs (Zac Bowden/Windows Central) (techmeme.com)
Filing: Anthropic hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with strong ties to Trump administration, days after DOD designated the company a supply chain risk (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic says its $20M donation to Public First Action can't be "used to influence federal elections" and is to educate the public on AI policy (Veronica Irwin/Transformer) (techmeme.com)
Internal memo: Microsoft's gaming chief Asha Sharma says "Game Pass has become too expensive for players" and that Microsoft needs "a better value equation" (Tom Warren/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
Amazon Leo unveils the Aviation Antenna, saying it can deliver up to 1 Gbps download and 400 Mbps upload speeds for in-flight Wi-Fi (Michael Kan/PCMag) (techmeme.com)
Memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says Anthropic is "grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google" and overstating its "run rate by roughly $8B" (Hayden Field/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
Shares of Dell and HP jump after a report said Nvidia "has been in negotiations for over a year to buy a large company and it will reshape the PC landscape" (Dina Bass/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Intel added $100B+ in market value after its stock soared 53% in nine sessions following announcements to repurchase an Ireland fab and join the Terafab project (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Cybersecurity analysis: Claude Mythos Preview had a 73% success rate on expert-level capture-the-flag challenges, which no model could finish before April 2025 (AI Security Institute) (techmeme.com)
Stanford HAI 2026 AI Index Report: AI capability is accelerating, not plateauing, the US-China gap closed, the US leads in data centers and investment, and more (Stanford HAI) (techmeme.com)
The EU appoints Anthony Whelan as its top competition official; Whelan says he will press ahead with Big Tech investigations despite President Trump's pressure (Barbara Moens/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
Microsoft says it is "exploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context", including a team of always-on agents within Microsoft 365 (Aaron Holmes/The Information) (techmeme.com)
Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says the Microsoft deal "limited our ability" to reach clients on Bedrock and touts its Amazon deal (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
Roblox unveils Kids accounts for ages 5-8 and Select accounts for ages 9-15, with age verification, coming in June; games for both must pass a three-step review (Jay Peters/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
Originality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter supporting the Archive (Kate Knibbs/Wired) (techmeme.com)
Amazon quietly expands Amazon Autos to offer cars from Kia, Mazda, Subaru, Chevrolet, and Jeep, after launching with Hyundai; the service is in 130+ US cities (Sean McLain/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
Rockstar confirms "a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach"; ShinyHunters demand a ransom (Zack Zwiezen/Kotaku) (techmeme.com)
A verified @elonmusk TikTok account posted its first video, promoting SpaceX and Tesla and hitting 2M+ views; a verified Instagram account is yet to post (Ryan Mac/New York Times) (techmeme.com)
OpenAI plans to open its first permanent London office with a 500+ staff capacity; in February, OpenAI said it would make London its largest non-US research hub (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
The Trump family's World Liberty Financial faces an investor revolt; Justin Sun accuses WLFI of building a "backdoor" that could be used to blacklist investors (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
For the first time, 50% of employed US adults say they use AI at work a few times per year or more; leaders are more likely to see AI's impact as positive (Andy Kemp/Gallup) (techmeme.com)
A profile of the Biological Computing Company, which uses living neurons to build AI chips and algorithms, and emerged from stealth in February with a $25M seed (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View) (techmeme.com)
Law firms say lawyers are spending more time responding to swaths of AI-generated client documents, potentially leading firms to raise fixed-fee contract prices (Elizabeth Bratton/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
Sources: SoftBank, Sony, Honda, and six other Japanese companies launch a new AI company to develop a 1T-parameter foundation model for "physical AI" by 2030 (Natsuki Yamamoto/Nikkei Asia) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Meta is building photorealistic, AI-powered 3D characters; Zuckerberg helped train and test an AI version of himself that offers feedback to employees (Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
Analysis: US state lawmakers introduced 12 data center moratorium bills in 2026, 11 stalled or voted out, with a Maine bill set for a final vote on April 15 (Ellen Thomas/Business Insider) (techmeme.com)
Ornn Compute Price Index: Nvidia Blackwell GPU hourly rent hit $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two months ago, driven by agentic AI demand (Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
Shenzhen-listed server PCB maker Victory Giant plans an April 21 Hong Kong listing, aiming to raise as much as $2.2B; the company was valued at $37B on April 10 (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
4月6日 – 4月12日
Sources: the US FTC is in settlement talks with ad companies to end an antitrust probe into their alleged coordinated boycotts against sites like Elon Musk's X (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
Sources: the US' AI chip export push risks being undermined by licensing bottlenecks, staff attrition, and unclear policy at the Bureau of Industry and Security (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic debuts Claude for Word in beta, which adds AI editing tools and clickable citations, targeting document-heavy workflows, for Team and Enterprise users (Tristan Anthony/Business Insider) (techmeme.com)
Police report: Sam Altman's home appears to have been targeted in a second attack after a gun appeared to have been fired at his home from a car early Sunday (Jonah Owen Lamb/The San Francisco ...) (techmeme.com)
A look at the escalating global AI arms race, as the US, China, Russia, and others rush to build AI-backed autonomous weapons and defense systems (New York Times) (techmeme.com)
A deep dive into the debate about Claude Mythos Preview, the model's capabilities, attempts to refute Anthropic's claims, and what it means for the future of AI (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase) (techmeme.com)
As weather betting grows on prediction markets, climate experts are debating whether it improves forecasts by aggregating knowledge or is simply a zero-sum game (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Sources: UK regulators plan to warn banks, insurers, and exchanges about security risks exposed by Claude Mythos Preview at a meeting within the next two weeks (Martin Arnold/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Apple is testing four AI glasses designs with rectangular and oval frames, multiple colors, and a camera system with vertically oriented oval lenses (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Flipkart and Amazon's quick commerce push in India is intensifying competition in an already crowded space where profitability remains under pressure (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
A journalist recounts how he used ChatGPT to develop a fitness plan to prepare for the Paris Marathon, resulting in a 20-pound weight loss and faster race times (Derek Wallbank/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
The Linux Kernel Organization now lets developers submit AI-generated code, as long as it complies with the guidelines, licensing, and attribution requirements (Simon Batt/XDA Developers) (techmeme.com)
Analysts and researchers say Google's TurboQuant compression algorithm to make LLMs more efficient is more likely to expand memory chip demand than reduce it (Daniel Tudor/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
Takeaways from HumanX, one of the AI industry's main events: Claude Code dominated the conversation, while some execs noted China's lead in open-weight models (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
Q&A with NYT reporter Tiffany Hsu about AI-generated online influencers, how the volume of synthetic content produces exhaustion for users, and more (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic) (techmeme.com)
Survey of 6,698 people across six EU countries: around 84% said they don't trust US tech companies with their personal data; 93% don't trust Chinese companies (Ellen O'Regan/Politico) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Anthropic met with Christian leaders in March to seek input on Claude's moral and spiritual development and if it could be considered a "child of God" (Washington Post) (techmeme.com)
A wave of top AI researchers returned from the US to China in the past year, driven by better pay, quality of life, and a more restrictive US immigration system (Zijing Wu/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
Google says that Polymarket bets showing up in Google News was an error, and the prediction market's bets on real world events were not supposed to appear there (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
Japan approves an additional $4B in subsidies to Rapidus to bankroll the chipmaker's work for Fujitsu, taking the total state investment and fees to $16.3B (Mari Kiyohara/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
An investigation details Webloc, an ad-based geo surveillance system providing access to a constantly updated stream of records from up to 500M mobile devices (The Citizen Lab) (techmeme.com)
How AI is transforming golf: optimizing course operations, virtual assistants handling tee time bookings, and AI instructor apps improving player performance (Bradley S. Klein/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's recent amendments to his OpenAI lawsuit are a "legal ambush", calling them "legally improper and factually unsupported" (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Ramp data: 30.6% of US businesses paid for Anthropic's tools in March, up from 24.4% in February; OpenAI's US business adoption remained nearly flat MoM at ~35% (Clara Murray/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
Indian IT giant TCS reports Q4 sales up 9.7% YoY to $7.63B, net profit up 12.2% to $1.48B, both above est., and says new AI models did not hurt services demand (Reuters) (techmeme.com)
UK activist investor Palliser has built a stake in Ajinomoto, urging it to raise prices for its ABF, a key material used to form advanced chipmaking substrates (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
Alat, a $100B Saudi Arabia PIF-backed electronics manufacturing fund, has removed CEO Amit Midha; sources say it has dropped plans to invest in chip production (Matthew Martin/Semafor) (techmeme.com)
OpenAI says a GitHub workflow used to sign its macOS apps downloaded a malicious Axios library on March 31, but no user data or internal system was compromised (Sam Sabin/Axios) (techmeme.com)
Sources: three senior executives who helped launch OpenAI's Stargate initiative are leaving the company and joining Meta (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
The US CFTC says a district court judge granted its request for a temporary restraining order barring Arizona from continuing its criminal case against Kalshi (Jack Queen/Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Sources: US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross is leading an effort to identify security vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure that AI could exploit (Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
Report: Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha are in talks to merge; the German government would be willing to become a key customer of a combined company (Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Sam Altman reflects on the attack on his house, OpenAI's success, personal regrets, and advocates for de-escalating rhetoric and tactics in the AI industry (Sam Altman) (techmeme.com)
Amazon Luna is dropping support for game purchases and third-party game stores and subscriptions; previously purchased games will be accessible until June 10 (Michael Kan/PCMag) (techmeme.com)
Blackstone files for an IPO of a new data center acquisition vehicle to buy already-built and leased properties, and, sources say, plans to raise ~$2B (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Cisco is in talks to acquire Tel Aviv-based Astrix Security, which sells software to monitor and secure AI agents, for between $250M and $350M (The Information) (techmeme.com)
Tesla says Dutch regulators approved the use of its full self-driving software, marking the first regulatory sign-off for the feature in Europe (Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and other banks are testing Anthropic's Mythos model internally; JPMorgan Chase is the only bank named in Project Glasswing (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Sources: a week before Mythos release, JD Vance and Scott Bessent questioned Amodei, Altman, and others about AI model security and responding to cyber attacks (Samantha Subin/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
Analysis: Trump's World Liberty Financial used 5B of its WLFI tokens to borrow $75M from a platform its adviser co-founded; WLFI falls to an all-time low (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk) (techmeme.com)
Source: federal prosecutors have subpoenaed Reddit to appear before a grand jury, to provide personal data on an anonymous user who criticized ICE (Ryan Devereaux/The Intercept) (techmeme.com)
Microsoft unveils plans to streamline the Windows Insider program, offering a simplified channel structure, moving between channels without wiping PCs, and more (Ed Bott/ZDNET) (techmeme.com)
Trump hails Palantir's "great war fighting capabilities", days after short seller Michael Burry said the company will lose to AI startups; PLTR is down ~25% YTD (Joe Miller/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
Three senior executives who helped launch OpenAI's Stargate initiative are leaving, sources say to join the same new company (Anissa Gardizy/The Information) (techmeme.com)
San Francisco police arrested a suspect for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home and also making threats outside OpenAI's headquarters (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) (techmeme.com)
France says it plans to move government computers running Windows to Linux, to further reduce its reliance on US technology, without providing a timeline (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Jury deliberations began Friday in the Live Nation antitrust trial, after state attorneys general continued to pursue the case even as the US DOJ settled (Ben Sisario/New York Times) (techmeme.com)
Waymo and Waze launch a pilot program to send pothole data collected by robotaxi sensors to the Waze for Cities platform and Waze app, starting in five markets (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Documents: Amazon is working on "Project Houdini", which aims to cut the time it takes to construct data centers by preassembling core server rooms into modules (Eugene Kim/Business Insider) (techmeme.com)
Snap announces a partnership between Specs, its AR glasses-focused subsidiary, and Qualcomm, whose Snapdragon XR platform will power Specs' upcoming AI glasses (TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
CoreWeave says it has signed a multiyear deal with Anthropic, including a variety of Nvidia chips at data centers in the US; it now has 43 active data centers (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
YouTube raises Premium prices in the US, with individual plans up $2 to $15.99 per month, family plan up $4 to $26.99, and Premium Lite up $1 to $8.99 (Dominic Preston/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
Google News is showing Polymarket bets alongside news articles in the "For you" section; in tests, Polymarket bets also appeared on the Google News homepage (Frank Landymore/Futurism) (techmeme.com)
Google rolls out end-to-end encryption for Gmail on Android and iOS devices for enterprise users, letting them read and compose emails without additional tools (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) (techmeme.com)
Apple led global Q1 smartphone shipments for the first time with a 21% market share in Q1 2026; overall smartphone shipments fell due to memory chip shortages (Counterpoint Research) (techmeme.com)
The CIA says it recently used AI to create its first-ever autonomous intelligence report, and plans to build "AI co-workers" into all of its analytic platforms (John Sakellariadis/Politico) (techmeme.com)
HSBC and Standard Chartered obtain the first stablecoin licenses in Hong Kong, beating 34 other applicants; they are expected to issue stablecoins in H2 2026 (Kiuyan Wong/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Documents: Shenzhen-based computing company Sharetronic bought hundreds of Super Micro systems containing banned Nvidia H100 and H200 chips in 2025, worth ~$92M (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35% YoY to ~$35.6B, above est., suggesting global chip demand remained intact during the first weeks of the war in the Middle East (Debby Wu/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
OpenAI backs an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from liability even for "critical harms," like 100+ deaths or $1B+ damage, if safety reports were published (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Alibaba appointed Cloud CTO Zhou Jingren to lead its AI unit after a pivot from open source to monetizable "MaaS" models led to Qwen exec departures (Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
AfterQuery, which sells coding and finance training data to AI labs, says it raised a $30M Series A at a $300M valuation, and has hit a $100M+ annual run rate (Anna Tong/Forbes) (techmeme.com)
Luminai, an AI-native platform for automating administrative healthcare workflows, raised a $38M Series B led by Peak XV, bringing its total funding to $60M (Seth Joseph/Forbes) (techmeme.com)
Apple is closing its Towson, Maryland store, the first US location where retail employees unionized; the union says it is "outraged" and exploring legal options (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) (techmeme.com)
Sources: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned bank CEOs about Anthropic's Mythos model's risks at an urgent meeting Tuesday (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Alibaba led a ~$293M funding round for ShengShu, just two months after the creator of the Vidu AI video generator raised ~$88M (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Sources: SpaceX lost just under $5B last year while generating more than $18.5B in revenue; the loss figure includes xAI (Cory Weinberg/The Information) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Anthropic is weighing the possibility of designing its own chips, but it has yet to commit to a design or put together a dedicated team for the project (Reuters) (techmeme.com)
How Black Forest Labs, a 70-person startup based in Germany, became a top competitor in AI image generation; sources: it recently declined to partner with xAI (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) (techmeme.com)
xAI has filed a lawsuit challenging Colorado's landmark AI anti-discrimination law, set to take effect in the summer, saying it violates free speech protections (Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
A gap in understanding AI is growing, as casual users cite flaws in old free models while power users point to new models' staggering gains in technical domains (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy) (techmeme.com)
An OpenAI note to investors after Anthropic announced Mythos says OpenAI's early push to increase computing resources gives it a key advantage over Anthropic (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Internal memo: Meta is pulling top engineers into its new Applied AI Engineering division, as part of a push to improve its models and "compete in the AI race" (Jyoti Mann/The Information) (techmeme.com)
An Ohio man is the first convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing real and AI-generated explicit images of 10+ victims (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica) (techmeme.com)
EFF says it is leaving X, as "X is no longer where the fight is happening" and an X post now gets less than 3% of the views a tweet got seven years ago (Kenyatta Thomas/Electronic Frontier ...) (techmeme.com)
OpenAI launches a $100/month ChatGPT Pro subscription, which offers 5x more Codex usage than Plus; the $200/month Pro plan offers 20x higher limits than Plus (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) (techmeme.com)
Google says the Gemini app can now generate interactive 3D models and simulations; users must select the Pro model in the prompt bar (Emma Roth/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
Sources: the White House is pushing back on GOP-led AI bills in Nebraska and Tennessee, putting new pressure on GOP state lawmakers who support AI guardrails (Axios) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic makes Claude Cowork, previously available as a "research preview", generally available to all paid plans, and adds six features for enterprise use (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) (techmeme.com)
Florida's AG launches a probe into OpenAI and ChatGPT, saying its data could fall "into the hands of America's enemies" and citing a mass shooter's ChatGPT use (Juby Babu/Reuters) (techmeme.com)
X brings back Voice Notes to X Chat, supporting one-on-one and group conversations via a new voice input icon, as it tests a standalone X Chat spinoff on iOS (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Visa unveils Intelligent Commerce Connect, a platform that facilitates payments for AI agents across multiple card networks, including those of Visa competitors (Kelly Tyko/Axios) (techmeme.com)
Chapter, which uses AI to help seniors enroll in Medicare, raised a $100M Series E, doubling its valuation to $3B and bringing its total funding to $285M (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) (techmeme.com)
RISC-V chip designer SiFive raised a $400M Series G led by Atreides at a $3.65B valuation; CEO Patrick Little says it is the final funding round before an IPO (Stephen Nellis/Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Elorian, which builds visual AI models with better reasoning capabilities for industries like robotics, emerges from stealth with $55M at a $300M valuation (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Google and Intel expand their partnership to deploy Intel's Xeon 6 chips and co-develop custom Infrastructure Processing Units to improve computing efficiency (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Annual letter: Andy Jassy says AWS's AI revenue has reached a $15B annual run rate as of Q1, and Amazon plans to spend ~$200B in capital expenditures in 2026 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) (techmeme.com)
Documents: OpenAI expects ads to generate ~$2.4B in 2026 revenue and to quadruple in 2027 to nearly $11B; in 2030, OpenAI expects ads to generate ~$102B (Sri Muppidi/The Information) (techmeme.com)
In his annual letter, Andy Jassy says Amazon's space-internet service Leo will "launch in mid-2026", after delays; Amazon has FCC approval for 3,236 satellites (Thomas Ricker/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
Meta begins removing dozens of Facebook and Instagram ads that trial lawyers placed to reach eligible plaintiffs, after social media addiction trial losses (Dan Primack/Axios) (techmeme.com)
Researchers: a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader has been actively exploited since at least December 2025, and some docs contain Russian-language lures (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) (techmeme.com)
Samsung plans to invest $4B to construct a chip packaging facility in Vietnam's Thai Nguyen province to support AI demand; sources say the first phase costs $2B (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Spotify is adding toggles to stop video from playing inside the app for both music and podcasts, rolling out worldwide on all platforms and devices (Dominic Preston/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Alibaba anonymously released an AI video model called HappyHorse-1.0, which ranks top of Artificial Analysis' AI model leaderboard, above Seedance 2.0 (Juro Osawa/The Information) (techmeme.com)
Meta commits to spending additional $21B on AI cloud infrastructure from CoreWeave, running from 2027 to 2032, on top of its prior $14.2B deal that ends in 2031 (Jordan Novet/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
A survey of 1,500 people aged 14 to 29: hopefulness regarding AI has dropped from 27% to 18% over the past year, and 50% report using GenAI daily or weekly (Callie Holtermann/New York Times) (techmeme.com)
Source: OpenAI is finalizing a model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that it plans to release only to a small set of companies, similar to Anthropic (Sam Sabin/Axios) (techmeme.com)
OpenAI pauses Stargate in the UK, citing the high energy costs and regulatory environment; OpenAI announced it in September 2025 alongside Nvidia and Nscale (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Vinted reports 2025 revenue up 38% YoY to €1.1B, Gross Merchandise Value up 47% YoY to €10.8B, and net profit down 19% YoY to €62M, as it expands in Europe (Andrea Figueras/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
YouTube launches a Shorts feature to let creators generate photorealistic AI avatars using a "live selfie" recording of their face and voice, powered by Veo (Abner Li/9to5Google) (techmeme.com)
Tubi becomes the first streamer to launch a native app within ChatGPT, allowing viewers to find movies or shows to watch by using conversational phrases (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Yuga Labs settles its 2022 lawsuit against artist Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen over their alleged copycatting of its BAYC NFTs; the terms were not disclosed (CoinDesk) (techmeme.com)
As AI transforms white-collar work, executives across sectors say trust, not AI, is the key differentiator where accuracy, accountability, and regulation matter (Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
A look at a global scramble to protect submarine cables vulnerable to potential sabotage, as new monitoring tech like distributed acoustic sensing is developed (Mike Cherney/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
TSMC says its most advanced chip packaging tech, CoWoS, is growing at an 80% CAGR as it ramps up capacity; Nvidia has reportedly reserved most of the capacity (Katie Tarasov/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Arm CEO Rene Haas is in line for an additional role at SoftBank Group to advance Project Izanagi, the Japanese group's AI chip strategy (Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
UAE's leading AI company G42 says its data center campus and overseas plans are on track despite regional tensions and Iranian attacks on UAE infrastructure (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Memo: UK NHS data chief Ming Tang says Palantir-built Federated Data Platform is delivering "outstanding results" as she pushes deeper rollout of Palantir tech (Chris Smyth/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
A look at Neo, a VC firm that made early bets on startups including Kalshi and Cursor, pushing the value of its first two funds far above industry averages (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
Poke, an AI agent that lets users automate tasks via text message, raised $10M, on top of a $15M seed last year, at a $300M post-money valuation (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Nava, which develops cloud infrastructure for AI workloads by combining data centers, GPUs, and software tools, raised a $22M Series A led by Greenoaks Capital (Samreen Ahmad/Tech in Asia) (techmeme.com)
An analysis of the 200 most-recent tweets on X by 18 big publishers indicates links seem to hurt engagement, after debate arose over X's value for sharing news (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab) (techmeme.com)
John Deere agreed to pay $99M into a fund to settle a 2022 right-to-repair class action lawsuit, and make digital repair tools available to farmers for 10 years (Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Anthropic completes an employee tender offer at a $350B valuation, falling short of the $6B investors wanted, as employees held shares ahead of the IPO (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Memo: xAI is reorganizing its engineering team, as SpaceX SVP Michael Nicolls says xAI is "clearly behind"; source: Nicolls has taken the title of xAI president (Grace Kay/Business Insider) (techmeme.com)
Google introduces "notebooks" in the Gemini app for deeper NotebookLM integration and a dedicated space to organize chats and files (Abner Li/9to5Google) (techmeme.com)
Yuga Labs settles its 2022 lawsuit against artist Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen over their alleged copycatting of its BAYC NFTs; the terms were not disclosed (CoinDesk) (techmeme.com)
A DC appeals court denies Anthropic's bid to pause the DOD's supply chain risk designation, after a California judge granted a preliminary injunction in March (Jack Queen/Reuters) (techmeme.com)
The OpenAI Foundation says it is working to finalize over $100M in grants this month, across six institutions, to support and accelerate Alzheimer's research (Jacob Trefethen/OpenAI Foundation) (techmeme.com)
CFO Sarah Friar says OpenAI will "for sure" reserve shares for retail investors in its IPO, after "strong demand" from individuals in its latest funding round (CNBC) (techmeme.com)
A hacker claims to have stolen 10PB+ of data, including classified defense docs and missile schematics, from China's National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin (Isaac Yee/CNN) (techmeme.com)
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis says Greece will ban children under 15 from accessing social media starting January 1, 2027, and calls for coordinated EU action (Antonis Pothitos/Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic announces Claude Managed Agents, offering developers an agent harness and other infrastructure to help businesses build and deploy AI agents at scale (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) (techmeme.com)
Internal memo: Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft's developer division, will resign after 34 years and move to an "advisory role" at the end of June (Tom Warren/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
Amazon says Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won't be able to access the Kindle Store from May 20; downloaded books can still be read (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
OpenAI releases the Child Safety Blueprint tackling AI-enabled child sexual exploitation, focusing on updating legislation and improving detection and reporting (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Meta will offer Muse Spark in private preview via API to select partners, and plans to offer paid API access to a wider audience at a later date; META jumps 8%+ (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
Meta says Muse Spark powers Meta AI's "shopping mode" feature and that it plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open-source license (Ina Fried/Axios) (techmeme.com)
Meta releases Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang, to "power a smarter and faster" Meta AI across Meta's products (Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
Source: Meta shutters an internal, employee-built leaderboard, dubbed Claudeonomics, tracking staff token usage, due to the data "being shared externally" (Jyoti Mann/The Information) (techmeme.com)
Patreon says it now has 7.6M paid podcast memberships and revenue generated by podcasters on the platform hit $629M in 2025, up 33% YoY (Todd Spangler/Variety) (techmeme.com)
New York-based Patlytics, which builds software for law firms and businesses to automate patent filing and litigation, raised a $40M Series B led by SignalFire (Melia Russell/Business Insider) (techmeme.com)
Alibaba and China Telecom launch a data center in southern China that is powered by 10,000 of Alibaba's Zhenwu chips designed for AI training and inferencing (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
Lookonchain: three anonymous Polymarket wallets made well-timed Iran ceasefire wagers, netting $480K+ in profits; the $60M April 7 contract is under dispute (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
An Iranian union official says Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in crypto of $1 per barrel for tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz (Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
AWS launches Amazon S3 Files, a new capability built on Amazon's Elastic File System to let applications and AI agents access S3 buckets as local file systems (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) (techmeme.com)
Memo: Alibaba Cloud CTO Jingren Zhou will step down as CTO to focus on leading AI models in the new role of chief AI architect; executive Feifei Li becomes CTO (Juro Osawa/The Information) (techmeme.com)
Asus ROG Xbox Ally review: comfortable design, Xbox Full Screen beats Windows 11, and affordable, but sleep/wake issues, weak display, and average performance (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware) (techmeme.com)
X is rolling out worldwide automatic post translation powered by xAI's Grok models, and updates its iOS image editor to add tools like drawing and blurring (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
UK-based currency hedging platform MillTech raised $60M from Apax Digital Funds at a $325M valuation, and plans to expand in North America and build AI tools (Carter Johnson/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
A profile of South Korea's Galaxy, which is trying to disrupt K-pop's traditional idol system by blending AI characters and life-size robots, as it plans an IPO (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic's Mythos Preview is not a publicity stunt, and sources say tech companies privately spoke to Trump officials about the implications for US security (Thomas L. Friedman/New York Times) (techmeme.com)
GoPro says it will cut 23% of its workforce, or 145 employees, starting in Q2 and costing $11.5M to $15M, as the company struggles to return to profitability (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
AI Forensics: in 16 Italian and Spanish Telegram groups, 24K+ men are sharing nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing (Matt Burgess/Wired) (techmeme.com)
TikTok says ad leader Khartoon Weiss is leaving to pursue a new opportunity after nearly six years at the company, the latest high-profile executive to exit (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
An investigation suggests Blockstream CEO Adam Back, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, is Bitcoin's pseudonymous inventor Satoshi Nakamoto (New York Times) (techmeme.com)
RationalFX: tech layoffs totaled 78,557 in Q1 2026, with the US accounting for 76.7%; nearly half were attributed to AI implementation and workflow automation (Nikkei Asia) (techmeme.com)
Z.ai raises prices for its most advanced AI model, GLM-5.1, by at least 8% compared to GLM-5 Turbo, joining Alibaba and Tencent as demand for agentic AI surges (Luz Ding/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Sam Altman says OpenAI is resetting Codex usage limits "to celebrate 3M weekly codex users" and will reset them for every 1M new users until it reaches 10M (Sam Altman/@sama) (techmeme.com)
FBI: US victims lost ~$21B to cybercrime in 2025, up 26% YoY, driven by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, and data breaches (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer) (techmeme.com)
Kuka, one of the largest industrial robotics suppliers, says it is prioritizing US and Asia investments, as Europe's industrial companies are slow to adopt AI (Marilen Martin/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
TikTok says it plans to invest €1B to build a second data center in Finland as part of its €12B European data sovereignty initiative for the data of 200M+ users (Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Perplexity's estimated ARR rose to over $450M in March, jumping 50% in a month after the launch of a new agent tool and a shift to usage-based pricing (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
Bengaluru-based KreditBee, a digital lending service for personal and business loans and more, raised a $280M Series E at a $1.5B post-money valuation (Harsh Upadhyay/Entrackr) (techmeme.com)
Modus, which builds AI agents for audit workflows and invests in established accounting firms, raised a $5M seed and an $80M Series A led by Lightspeed (Ryan Lawler/Axios) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Bain's data center unit cuts ties with Megaspeed, which is under US investigation over if it helped Chinese companies evade Nvidia AI chip export curbs (Kari Soo Lindberg/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Bill Gates is set to appear before the US House Oversight Committee on June 10 about his Epstein ties; he says he's "looking forward" to answering the questions (Ana Faguy/BBC) (techmeme.com)
Niantic Spatial launches Scaniverse, a platform that lets companies and individuals create robot-ready 3D maps using phone, 360-degree camera, and drone data (Janko Roettgers/Fast Company) (techmeme.com)
Letter: ICE officials confirm they are using Graphite spyware to intercept encrypted messages, saying it is primarily used to target fentanyl traffickers (Jude Joffe-Block/NPR) (techmeme.com)
A pro-Iranian cybercrime group claims responsibility for cyberattacks on Chime and Pinterest that knocked the websites of both companies offline this month (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Mythos Preview system card: the model was able to escape a sandbox after it was instructed to try, and posted details about its exploit without being prompted (Brent D. Griffiths/Business Insider) (techmeme.com)
The US FDIC proposes a rule to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers, including requirements related to reserve assets, under the GENIUS Act (Sarah Wynn/The Block) (techmeme.com)
Super Micro begins an independent probe into the indictment of three people for export control violations and an internal review of its trade compliance program (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic hires Microsoft executive Eric Boyd as head of infrastructure; Boyd oversaw Microsoft's AI platform and worked at the company for 16 years (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B-parameter model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Pro, available under an MIT license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) (techmeme.com)
A group of US agencies including the FBI and the NSA warns that Iran-linked hackers have targeted industrial control devices used in US critical infrastructure (Andy Greenberg/Wired) (techmeme.com)
Google rolls out an AI Enhance button for Photos on Android globally, offering automated lighting and contrast adjustments, and video playback speed controls (Andrew Romero/9to5Google) (techmeme.com)
Elon Musk amends his OpenAI lawsuit to ask that damages he might win be awarded to OpenAI's charity arm and that Altman be removed from OpenAI's nonprofit board (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic says Mythos Preview achieves 93.9% on SWE-bench Verified, compared with 80.8% for Opus 4.6, and 77.8% on SWE-bench Pro, versus 53.4% for Opus 4.6 (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat) (techmeme.com)
Q&A with OpenAI President Greg Brockman about OpenAI's research direction, how far it can push Codex, shutting down Sora, text vs. world models, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic says Mythos Preview is a general-purpose model and found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major OS and web browser (Anthropic) (techmeme.com)
Google updates Chrome with vertical tabs, a feature that Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge have long offered, and a new full-screen reading mode (Lance Whitney/ZDNET) (techmeme.com)
Interviews with Anthropic executives on why Claude Mythos Preview is a cybersecurity "reckoning", not releasing it publicly over misuse concerns, and more (Kevin Roose/New York Times) (techmeme.com)
Waterloo-based Mappedin, which uses AI and LiDAR to create and maintain 3D digital maps of indoor spaces, raised $24.5M, bringing its total funding to $35M (Chris Metinko/Axios) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic's Project Glasswing includes AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Palo Alto Networks, and others (David Gewirtz/ZDNET) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic says Mythos Preview is a general-purpose model and found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major OS and web browser (Anthropic) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic commits up to $100M in usage credits for Project Glasswing, along with $4M in direct donations to open-source security organizations (Greg Otto/CyberScoop) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic says it will make a preview of its Mythos model available to more than 40 organizations, as part of a new Project Glasswing cybersecurity initiative (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Sources say Apple plans to announce its foldable iPhone in September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, rebutting a report about production delays (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
The UK says Russia-linked hacking group APT28 is hijacking popular internet routers from MikroTik, TP-Link, and others to steal credentials and redirect traffic (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Los Angeles-based Hermeus, which aims to build unmanned hypersonic fighter aircraft, raised $200M led by Khosla Ventures and $150M in debt at a $1B valuation (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Asus Zenbook A16 review: the $1,599 laptop uses the fast and power hungry Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme with 18 cores, but a plain design and includes bloatware (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware) (techmeme.com)
True Footage, which uses AI trained on years of appraisal data to generate property valuations, raised a $40M Series C led by Cox Enterprises' Socium Ventures (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios) (techmeme.com)
Spotify expands Prompted Playlists, its AI feature for creating playlists, to include podcasts, for Premium users in the US, Canada, the UK, and other countries (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
The Trump administration proposes cutting CISA's budget for 2027 by $707M+ to help the agency refocus on its "core mission", not "weaponization and waste" (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Intel says it will join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip complex project along with SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI (Deborah Sophia/Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Aria Networks, which builds what it calls the world's first AI-native network to work with any AI chip, raised a $125M Series A from Sutter Hill and others (Juby Babu/Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the history of Google and AI, speed and Search, Google's AI comeback, bottlenecks, capital allocation, how Google works, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint) (techmeme.com)
GoDaddy integrates Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control into its hosting platform, enabling site owners to block, permit, or possibly monetize automated crawler access (Alistair Barr/Business Insider) (techmeme.com)
Natter, an AI platform for large-scale video conversation insights, raised a $23M Series A led by Renegade Partners and says it grew revenue 5x in 2025 (Chris Metinko/Axios) (techmeme.com)
Adobe launches Acrobat Spaces, a free AI study tool to help students generate flashcards, quizzes, and Express presentations without logging in (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Silicon Valley investors say annual recurring revenue, a popular metric with AI startups, is unreliable because it lacks SEC definitions and can be inflated (Annie Bang/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Q&A with UpScrolled founder Issam Hijazi, who says the non-algorithmic social app hit 5M users, mainstream apps were censoring pro-Palestinian content, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired) (techmeme.com)
Kalshi signs a deal with Fox Corp. to integrate its forecasts into Fox News, Fox Business Network, Fox One, and Fox Weather, following deals with CNN and CNBC (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter) (techmeme.com)
Google is updating Gemini to add a UI that triggers support hotline referrals and a "help is available" module when chats indicate potential crises like suicide (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
The US IRS is yet to issue guidelines on whether prediction market gains should be taxed as derivatives, gambling winnings, or income, worrying accountants (Kate Knibbs/Wired) (techmeme.com)
Analysis: Gemini 3-based AI Overviews are accurate ~90% of the time, meaning across 5T searches per year, tens of millions of answers are erroneous every hour (New York Times) (techmeme.com)
The US Treasury says Robinhood and BNY will work with the federal government to handle tax-sheltered "Trump Accounts" for children when they launch this summer (Stacy Cowley/New York Times) (techmeme.com)
MLB rolls out "robot umps", or an Automated Ball-Strike System, using Sony-made advanced cameras to help officiate games, but it often validates human umpires (Austin Carr/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
South Korea is deploying thousands of ChatGPT-enabled social care robots to help elderly people; over-65s now account for ~20% of the country's 51M people (Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
Polymarket plans to launch the CTF Exchange V2 upgrade within the next three weeks, including a rebuilt trading engine and a native, USDC-backed USD stablecoin (Daniel Kuhn/The Block) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Meta has an internal leaderboard dubbed "Claudeonomics" where employees compete on AI-token usage and earn rewards like "Token Legend" status (Jyoti Mann/The Information) (techmeme.com)
Israel-based Q-Factor, which is developing a quantum computer based on neutral atom technology, emerges from stealth with a $24M seed led by NFX and TPY Capital (Sophie Shulman/CTech) (techmeme.com)
A cryptography engineer calls for urgent rollout of post-quantum cryptography schemes, saying the risk of inaction is now unacceptable, after Google's warning (Filippo Valsorda) (techmeme.com)
OpenAI announces a Safety Fellowship program for external researchers, engineers, and practitioners to study the safety and alignment of advanced AI systems (OpenAI) (techmeme.com)
A look at the gold rush for firms claiming to help brands get cited by AI search tools, via tactics like hiding instructions behind "Summarize with AI" buttons (Mia Sato/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
A Taiwan intelligence report to lawmakers says China is targeting Taiwan to obtain its chip manufacturing tech and talent to break through global "containment" (Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Sources: AI music startup Suno's licensing talks with UMG and Sony have stalled; labels argue that AI tools like Suno rely on human-made music and should pay (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
Oracle reinstates the CFO role, appointing Hilary Maxson after Safra Catz became principal financial officer in 2014, amid investor scrutiny over AI spending (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters) (techmeme.com)
A look at Tencent-backed Even Realities, which makes $600 G2 smartglasses with no camera; Omdia says AI smartglasses shipments grew 322% YoY to 8.7M in 2025 (William Langley/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Apple is facing issues in the test phase of its foldable iPhone that are taking longer than expected to resolve, potentially delaying mass production (Nikkei Asia) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus has hired xAI co-founder Kyle Kosic from OpenAI and has hundreds of staff across its SF HQ and London and Zurich offices (Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
Q&A with Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins on data centers in space, memory shortage, Cisco's networking business, AI bubble, layoffs, AI coding, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
A look at Alibaba's Accio, an AI sourcing tool that helps small online sellers connect with manufacturers, including in China; it exceeded 10M MAUs in March (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review) (techmeme.com)
An Indianapolis city councilor says his home was targeted in what appeared to be a politically motivated shooting over a proposed data center in the city (Kiki Intarasuwan/CBS News) (techmeme.com)
Sources: SpaceX plans to earmark a large portion of shares for retail investors and will host 1,500 of them at an event in June after the IPO roadshow launch (Echo Wang/Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Anthropic plans to invest $200M in a new venture with PE firms to sell AI tools to their portfolio companies; it's in talks to raise $1B for the effort (Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
The US NHTSA ends a 2025 probe into ~2.6M Tesla vehicles over the "Actually Smart Summon" driverless feature after finding it involved only low-speed incidents (Reuters) (techmeme.com)
A look at Catches and other startups that are offering AI tools to let shoppers visualize fit and style before buying clothes, aiming to curb online returns (Elsa Ohlen/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
Samsung reports preliminary Q1 operating profit of ~$38B, up more than 8x YoY and above ~$27B est., a record, and revenue up 68% YoY to ~$88B (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Amazon and USPS reach a new delivery deal; sources: Amazon will reduce the packages it ships through USPS by 20%, instead of the two-thirds cut proposed earlier (Esther Fung/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
OpenAI sends a letter to the California and Delaware AGs, urging them to investigate "anti-competitive behavior" by Elon Musk, ahead of a trial in April (CNBC) (techmeme.com)
Filing: Broadcom agrees to produce future versions of Google's TPUs and expands its Anthropic deal to give the startup access to ~3.5 GW of computing capacity (Jordan Novet/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic signs an agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple GWs of TPU capacity, and says run-rate revenue has crossed $30B, up from ~$9B at 2025's end (Anthropic) (techmeme.com)
The rapid adoption of AI coding tools has let workers generate massive volumes of code, leaving companies scrambling to review and secure the AI-generated code (New York Times) (techmeme.com)
Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are sharing information via the Frontier Model Forum to detect adversarial distillation attempts that violate their ToS (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Australian AI infrastructure startup Firmus raised $505M led by Coatue at a $5.5B valuation, bringing its funding raised in the last six months to $1.35B (Ian King/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
A look at Eko, whose Arkansas "capture factory" creates digital product catalogs intended to serve as training data for retail-focused AI models (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
How social media became a freak show: X punishes external links and most top accounts, such as Catturd, are very low-quality but get more engagement than NYT (Nate Silver/Silver Bulletin) (techmeme.com)
A federal appeals court rules New Jersey cannot block Kalshi users in the state from sports-related event contracts, finding CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction (Nate Raymond/Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Meta is preparing to release the first AI models developed under Alexandr Wang, with plans to offer versions of those models via an open source license (Ina Fried/Axios) (techmeme.com)
Netflix launches Netflix Playground, a games app for kids aged eight and under, in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, and New Zealand (Andrew Webster/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
Source: Binance Chief Compliance Officer Noah Perlman is looking to leave sometime in 2026 or 2027; other senior compliance staff left over the past few months (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
OpenAI buying TBPN makes little sense, par for the course for a company that, like Twitter, stumbled into a big market and may never build a functional business (Ben Thompson/Stratechery) (techmeme.com)
How advanced chip packaging became one of Intel's fast-growing businesses; sources: Intel is in talks with Google and Amazon for its advanced packaging services (Lauren Goode/Wired) (techmeme.com)
Xoople, which is developing a satellite constellation to collect earth data for training AI models, raised a $130M Series B, bringing its total funding to $225M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
Interviews with Sam Altman and 100+ people on if he can be trusted amid allegations of persistent lying and more: some defend him, others call him a sociopath (New Yorker) (techmeme.com)
Jack Dorsey says Apple removed his Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat, used during protests in Iran and Uganda, from China's App Store following CAC's demands (Stephen Katte/Cointelegraph) (techmeme.com)
OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher capital gains taxes, a public AI investment fund, strengthened safety nets, and more (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
Japan, driven by labor shortages, is increasingly adopting robotics and physical AI, with a hybrid model where startups innovate and corporations provide scale (Kate Park/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Sources: companies like Palo Alto Networks and Sophos see increased demand for their ransom negotiators, as businesses seek help in talks with cybercriminals (Kieran Smith/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
Netflix - yes Netflix - jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor (Thomas Claburn/The Register) (techmeme.com)
Indian IT giant Wipro agrees to buy Mindsprint, the IT services arm of Singapore-based Olam, for $375M, and strikes an eight-year, $1B contract with Olam (Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Documents: OpenAI and Anthropic have projected profitability to investors with and without training costs, and report inference costs exceeding half of revenue (Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
3月30日 – 4月5日
Microsoft is updating devices from Windows 11 24H2 to version 25H2 with no way to fully opt out, and says an "intelligent" ML-based system handles the rollout (Kunal Khullar/Tom's Hardware) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Sam Altman has excluded OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar from some key financial meetings; Friar began reporting to Fidji Simo instead of the CEO in August 2025 (The Information) (techmeme.com)
China, which dominates the global drone industry, has sharply tightened its drone use rules, as some users say they are hindering routine and lawful flights (Joy Dong/New York Times) (techmeme.com)
A deep dive into China's efforts to integrate AI into K-12 education to reduce teacher workloads, improve rural schools, and help students with disabilities (Lily Ottinger/ChinaTalk) (techmeme.com)
Medvi, glorified by the NYT as a two-employee startup with $1B+ in revenue, is a warning about how AI can be misused for shady business and marketing practices (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI) (techmeme.com)
Drift details how suspected North Korean attackers stole $270M posing as a quant trading firm in a 6+ month operation with in-person meetings and a $1M+ deposit (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk) (techmeme.com)
A profile of Mikko Hyppönen, a cybersecurity veteran who pivoted from fighting malware to developing anti-drone systems for law enforcement and the military (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
TrueUp data shows over 67,000 software engineering job openings, up 30% so far in 2026 and the most in three years, with listings up about 2x since mid-2023 (Alistair Barr/Business Insider) (techmeme.com)
How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost-cutting and workload demands (Mia Galuppo/The Hollywood Reporter) (techmeme.com)
According to Microsoft Copilot Terms of Use, updated in Oct. 2025, "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only" and "Don't rely on Copilot for important advice" (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware) (techmeme.com)
Samsung plans to discontinue its Messages app in the US in July 2026 and offers instructions for users on older Android versions to switch to Google Messages (Abner Li/9to5Google) (techmeme.com)
Sources: the UK has stepped up its efforts to get Anthropic to expand in the country, including a dual listing proposal, after Anthropic's clash with the US DOD (Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
US commercial satellite provider Planet Labs is indefinitely withholding access to imagery of Iran and the conflict region, citing US government's request (Ismail Shakil/Reuters) (techmeme.com)
EU legislation allowing voluntary CSAM scanning by tech and social media companies expired April 3 after lawmakers failed to agree on the terms of an extension (Sam Clark/Politico) (techmeme.com)
A look at how some teens use popular role-playing chatbots and, for parents, the high stakes task of understanding the impact of the possibly addictive products (New York Times) (techmeme.com)
How India's film industry is embracing AI, as studios use the tech to cut production time and costs, while union rules constrain its use in Hollywood (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Apple reportedly signed a 3rd-party driver, by Tiny Corp, for AMD or Nvidia eGPUs for Apple Silicon Macs; it's meant for AI research, not accelerating graphics (AppleInsider) (techmeme.com)
Research across 1,372 participants and 9K+ trials details "cognitive surrender", where most subjects had minimal AI skepticism and accepted faulty AI reasoning (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica) (techmeme.com)
VCs are covering expenses like rent for young college dropouts founding AI startups; Antler: average AI unicorn founder age fell from 40 in 2020 to 29 in 2024 (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
Y Combinator appears to have dropped Delve, removing the company's profile from its startup directory, following allegations of fake compliance certificates (The Economic Times) (techmeme.com)
Russian media says attempts to limit VPN use may have triggered a widespread banking outage, as Moscow intensifies a crackdown on internet use and Telegram (Anthony Halpin/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as the inflection point for coding, exhaustion due to managing coding agents, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny's Newsletter) (techmeme.com)
A profile of Benjamin Brundage, a 22-year-old college senior who helped uncover the Kimwolf botnet, which launched 26,000+ DDoS attacks targeting 8,000+ victims (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
The White House's latest effort to enact legislation that would preempt state AI laws stalls as multiple Democrats dismiss the proposal as a partisan play (Politico) (techmeme.com)
Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is seeking a chief scientist with an annual pay of as much as ~$18M; China's AI industry has eschewed mega pay packages (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Generalist, which raised $140M at a $440M valuation in 2025, releases GEN-1, an AI model to help robots handle high-dexterity tasks typically done by humans (Anna Tong/Forbes) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Microsoft's Judson Althoff said Copilot sales hit "some pretty big audacious goals" in Q3; only 3% of customers were paying for Copilot as of January (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
The Artemis II moon mission is one of the first times NASA has let astronauts fly with smartphones, giving them modified iPhones for taking photos and videos (Kalley Huang/New York Times) (techmeme.com)
Health data startup Bevel's CEO pushes back against Whoop's lawsuit that alleges Bevel copied the look of the Whoop app, saying Whoop's actions are "lawfare" (Leila Sheridan/Inc.com) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is back to writing code after a two-decade hiatus, submitting three diffs to Meta's monorepo, and is a heavy user of Claude Code CLI (Gergely Orosz/The Pragmatic Engineer) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic says Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw starting April 4 at 12pm PT, to better manage capacity (Jay Peters/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic says Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw starting April 4 at 12pm PT, to better manage capacity (Boris Cherny/@bcherny) (techmeme.com)
Filing: Anthropic has formed AnthroPAC, a new PAC that will be funded exclusively and voluntarily by its employees and is expected to be bipartisan (Miranda Nazzaro/The Hill) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Meta's "Project Walleye" Ohio data center seeks $3B in loans in a first-of-its-kind deal where lenders will fund both the building and the power assets (Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Meta has paused its work with Mercor while it investigates a security breach at the data vendor; OpenAI says it is investigating the security incident (Wired) (techmeme.com)
Utah launches a one-year pilot program allowing Legion Health's AI chatbot to renew prescriptions for 15 low-risk psychiatric maintenance medications (Robert Hart/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
Internal memo: Iranian strikes have rendered two AWS zones "hard down" in Dubai and Bahrain and Amazon expects them to be "unavailable for an extended period" (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology) (techmeme.com)
Interviews with Codex lead Alexander Embiricos, OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger, and others about OpenAI's upcoming superapp that combines ChatGPT with Codex (Alex Heath/Sources) (techmeme.com)
OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap is transitioning to a special projects role reporting to Sam Altman; Fidji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Mercor asked professionals in fields like entertainment to sell their prior work materials for AI training, even if the IP could belong to ex-employers (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Elon requires banks seeking roles in SpaceX's IPO to subscribe to Grok and advertise on X; some banks are spending tens of millions integrating Grok (Maureen Farrell/New York Times) (techmeme.com)
Chinese semiconductor companies like SMIC reported record 2025 revenue, driven by AI demand and China's self-sufficiency push as a result of US restrictions (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
Tower Semiconductor's market cap tops $20B, four years after a near-sale to Intel for $5B; shares are up ~60% over the past month and ~525% over the past year (CTech) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Huawei's Ascend 950PR chip, set for mass production soon, saw prices rise 20% after Chinese tech giants placed bulk orders to run DeepSeek's V4 model (Qianer Liu/The Information) (techmeme.com)
Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech) (techmeme.com)
A US bill seeks to ban exports of DUV lithography tech to China, whose imports of chipmaking equipment reportedly grew from $10.7B in 2016 to ~$51.1B in 2025 (Jared Perlo/NBC News) (techmeme.com)
Some startups and researchers who can't access the most advanced chips are adopting a "frugal AI" approach, building smaller models on open-weight systems (Rina Chandran/Rest of World) (techmeme.com)
The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its Staten Island warehouse; Amazon plans to appeal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed "to sell more Cloudflare services" and lacks the cross-platform democratization of WordPress (Matt Mullenweg) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Chinese companies move to cement their role in humanoid robot supply chains as Tesla and others turn to China for components the US sees as strategic (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
Arcee AI releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399B-parameter MoE AI model under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing full customization and commercial use (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic researchers find that an AI model's representations of emotion can influence its behavior "in ways that matter," such as driving it to act unethically (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View) (techmeme.com)
Noon, an AI-native product design tool, emerges from stealth with $44M in funding from Chemistry, First Round Capital, Scribble Ventures, and others (Vaibhavi Khanwalkar/The Economic Times) (techmeme.com)
Microsoft partners with SoftBank and Sakura Internet to build AI data infrastructure in Japan, investing $10 billion over four years and training 1M engineers (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Alcatraz, which develops AI-powered facial-recognition security systems for building access, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M+ (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Supabase is in talks to raise ~$500M at a ~$10B valuation, roughly doubling its October 2025 valuation; GIC is expected to lead the funding round (Katie Roof/The Information) (techmeme.com)
Sony Interactive Entertainment acquires Cinemersive Labs, a UK startup developing tools to convert 2D photos and videos into 3D volumetric photographs (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget) (techmeme.com)
A domestic shortage of electrical equipment such as transformers and switchgear is forcing the US to rely on Chinese imports, delaying data center construction (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Sarvam AI is close to raising $300M-$350M at a ~$1.5B valuation, which could close as soon as next week; Bessemer Venture Partners is expected to lead (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Source: Anthropic has acquired Coefficient Bio, which was developing a platform that enables AI to run biotech tasks such as planning drug research, for ~$400M (The Information) (techmeme.com)
Sources detail Fidji Simo's moves at OpenAI, including spearheading the TBPN acquisition and pushing OpenAI to cut Sora and avoid other social media products (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Meta has told members of its Oversight Board that it may stop funding the board after 2028, though eliminating all funding is not its preferred option (Casey Newton/Platformer) (techmeme.com)
Amazon adds a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge to fulfillment fees for US and Canadian third-party sellers from April 17, as the Iran war drives up oil prices (Annie Palmer/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
LinkedIn job posting data: companies added 640K AI-related jobs from 2023 to 2025 in the US, including 225K "head of AI" jobs, up 49% from the prior four years (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
Sources: SpaceX is floating a $2T+ valuation to prospective investors in its IPO; SpaceX's acquisition of xAI reportedly valued the combined company at $1.25T (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Source: OpenAI bought TBPN, which was set to generate $30M in 2026, for "low hundreds of millions of dollars"; OpenAI says TBPN will be editorially independent (George Hammond/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
The CFTC sues Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois over their actions against prediction markets, saying it has the "exclusive" authority to regulate such markets (Alex Harring/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
Mental health startup Kintsugi is shutting down and open-sourcing its AI tech to detect depression and anxiety, after failing to secure FDA clearance (Robert Hart/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
OpenAI acquires popular tech news show TBPN; Fidji Simo says in a memo that the show's purchase is to encourage constructive conversation around AI (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
OpenAI acquires popular tech news show TBPN; the show will stay the same and will continue to air live at 11am PT every weekday (John Coogan/@johncoogan) (techmeme.com)
Cursor launches Cursor 3, an "agent-first" coding product designed to compete with Claude Code and Codex by letting developers manage multiple AI agents (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) (techmeme.com)
Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, after over a year in beta (David Pierce/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
Google adds new features to its video editing app Vids, including directing and customizing avatars through text prompts and Veo 3.1 support (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Google launches Gemma 4, its "most intelligent" open model family, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, under an Apache 2.0 license (The Keyword) (techmeme.com)
Coinbase says it has won conditional approval from US banking regulators for a national trust company charter, which could let it issue stablecoins and more (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft is "not able to build models in the very largest scale yet" but its "computation ramp is coming to enable us to do" it in 2026 (Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
An interview with Mustafa Suleyman on Microsoft's AI reorg, how revising its OpenAI contract "unlocked [Microsoft's] ability to pursue superintelligence", more (Hayden Field/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
Challenger: US tech sector job cuts rose to 18,720 in March, up 24% YoY, taking the Q1 total to 52,000+; AI accounted for 25% of layoffs across all industries (Julia Fanzeres/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Microsoft launches in-house AI models MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2, built by its superintelligence team, as it pushes "AI self-sufficiency" (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat) (techmeme.com)
How AI helped Medvi, a telehealth provider of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs with just two full-time employees, hit $401M in 2025 sales, as it tracks for $1.8B in 2026 (Erin Griffith/New York Times) (techmeme.com)
OpenClaw launches an official China mirror, with ByteDance providing the servers to host the Chinese-language service, as OpenClaw explodes in the country (Juro Osawa/The Information) (techmeme.com)
Sources: Chinese optics company and Nvidia supplier Innolight confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO that could raise $3B+; Innolight is listed in Shenzhen (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
UK National Education Union poll：イングランドの中等学校教員の66%がAI使用の生徒はライティングなどのコアスキルの能力を失いつつあると述べる（Sally Weale/The Guardian） (techmeme.com)
複数筋報道：米国務省が海外影響力工作対抗のため各国大使館に指示、反米感情の世界的拡大を懸念（New York Times） (techmeme.com)
Cloudflareが EmDash をリリース。MIT ライセンスの TypeScript ベース CMS で、Astro で構築された WordPress の「精神的な後継者」。GitHub で利用可能 (techmeme.com)
Alibabaが3日間で3番目のプロプライエタリなクローズドソースAIモデル「Qwen3.6-Plus」をリリース、エージェント型コーディングを「大幅に強化」と発表 (techmeme.com)
Microsoft CFO Amy Hood、昨年のデータセンター拡張一時停止決定が供給危機と成長ボトルネックを招いたとの指摘（Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
IDC：2025年、中国製GPUおよびAIチップが中国AIサーバー市場の約41%を占有、Nvidia のシェア（約220万枚）を大きく侵食（Reuters） (techmeme.com)
Ofcom：英国成人のSNS 積極投稿率が49%に低下（2024年の61%から）、ユーザー選別化が加速（Dan Milmo/The Guardian） (techmeme.com)
Oracle、インドで約10,000人（インド従業員の約20%）をリストラ——世界中で約30,000人が影響（The Economic Times） (techmeme.com)
AI スタートアップPoolside、CoreWeave 取引と20億ドルNvidia 主導ラウンド頓挫後、テキサスのデータセンタープロジェクト復活でGoogle ほかと協議（Stephen Morris/Financial Times） (techmeme.com)
暗号資産マネージャーCoinShares、Nasdaq での取引開始——Vine Hill との12億ドルSPAC 統合後、米国公開市場参入（Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block） (techmeme.com)
Treeline、レガシー企業 IT の代替になる AI・ソフトウェア企業、Andreessen Horowitz が主導する Series A で $25M を調達（Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune） (techmeme.com)
Tim Cook、Apple 50 年の歩み、Steve Jobs のレガシー、企業価値、「アクセスしやすい」Trump 政権との協力について語る（Ryan D'Agostino/Esquire） (techmeme.com)
Variance、コンプライアンス・不正調査用 AI エージェント企業、Ten Eleven Ventures が主導する Series A で $21.5M を調達、YC などが参加（Ryan Lawler/Axios） (techmeme.com)
告発者、Delve がオープンソースノーコードツール SimStudio の改変版を自社製品として販売と指摘、ライセンス違反の可能性（Julie Bort/TechCrunch） (techmeme.com)
Elon Musk と US SEC、2022年のTwitter株未開示問題で公判に向けて準備完了と共同発表 (techmeme.com)
Google、月額 $19.99 の AI Pro サブスクリプションのストレージを 2 TB から 5 TB に拡大（追加料金なし） (techmeme.com)
Intel、CEO Lip-Bu Tan が議長の SambaNova に $15M を投資予定、出資比率を 9% に（2月の $35M 投資に続く） (techmeme.com)
関係者：Amazon、低軌道衛星事業を強化するため Globalstar 買収を協議中、Globalstar への Apple の 20% 出資が複雑な要因に (techmeme.com)
Solana系DeFiプラットフォームDriftが「アクティブ攻撃」を警告、Arkhamデータは2.5億ドル以上がDriftから仮ウォレットに流出と報告(Helene Braun/CoinDesk) (techmeme.com)
チップ設計向けAIのCognichip、Seligman Venturesリードで6,000万ドルのSeries A調達、新取締役Lip-Bu Tan参画 (techmeme.com)
情報筋：FBI が中国系ハック事件を『重大インシデント』と認定、監視データ含む (techmeme.com)
Franklin Templeton が CoinFund スピンオフ 250 Digital を買収し Franklin Crypto 形成、機関投資家向け戦略提供へ (techmeme.com)
Super Micro 共同創業者 Yih-Shyan Liaw、数十億ドル相当の Nvidia パワードサーバーの中国密輸助長罪で無罪主張 (techmeme.com)
Raspberry Pi、メモリ価格を理由に $11.25 値上げして $150 に、12月と2月の値上げに続く、3GB Raspberry Pi 4 モデルを $83.75 で発表 (techmeme.com)
スケジューリング、HR、給与計算、その他のワークフローを AI で支援する Sona が、N47 主導の $45M Series B ラウンドで資金調達、総資金は $100M+ に (techmeme.com)
関係者によると、Kalshi の大手投資家 Paradigm は、プロトレーダーとマーケットメーカーに対応する独自の予測市場トレーディングターミナルを構築中 (techmeme.com)
関係者によると、OpenRouter は CapitalG 主導で $1.3B ポストマネー評価額での $120M 資金調達を協議中、年間売上は $50M+ に拡大（10月の $10M+ から） (techmeme.com)
関係者によると、SpaceX は極秘で IPO に提出、6月上場を目指す軌道に、$1.75T+ の評価額を求め、約 $75B を調達する可能性があると報道 (techmeme.com)
筋によると、AWS の Bahrain オペレーションはイランのストライク後にダメージを受けた、Bahrain は以前「施設の火災を消火中」と述べていた (techmeme.com)
SEC提出: Hasbro、3月28日に発見されたサイバー攻撃を確認、解決に「数週間」を要する可能性 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
セカンダリ市場でOpenAI株が人気を失い、投資家がAnthropicへシフトする中で売却困難に (Hema Parmar/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic Claude Codeのリークで「Kairos」アップデートが明らかに、バックグラウンド動作と「ドリームモード」でメモリを統合 (The Information) (techmeme.com)
米国児童安全団体がOpenAIの全額資金提供を後に知った、California法案推進のための「Parents & Kids Safe AI Coalition」 (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco ...) (techmeme.com)
情報筋: AmazonのRufus AI助手向け「スポンサー付きプロンプト」は従来型広告より圧倒的に低いトラフィック、コスト効率は高い (Catherine Perloff/The Information) (techmeme.com)
Intel、Apollo が保有する Leixlip の Fab 34 合弁会社49%株を $14.2B で買い戻し、資金調達に $6.5B の新規債を発行予定 (techmeme.com)
インド、Tiger が2018年売却で $1.6B 支払いを命じられた後、2017年前の外国投資利益は租税回避防止規則から除外と声明 (techmeme.com)
Anthropic が Claude Code ソースコード誤漏洩の影響を封じ込めに奔走、8,000件以上のコピー削除で著作権削除要求を発行 (techmeme.com)
グローバル VC 投資、Q1 2026 で記録的 $297B を達成、前年比150%増加、AI スタートアップが資金の81%を獲得；たった4社が全体の64%を調達 (techmeme.com)
Austin ベースの Coder、ローカルデバイスからクラウドへのコード構築・実行を支援、KKR リード Series C で$90M 調達（2024年$35M 調達後、Julia Hornstein/The Information） (techmeme.com)
ドイツの小州による Microsoft の Linux や Kamailio などのオープンソース代替品への置き換え計画が課題に直面、EU が「デジタル主権」を推進する中で（Laura Pitel/Financial Times） (techmeme.com)
情報筋：イラン戦争下、アジア銀行家らは電力価格上昇とエネルギーセキュリティがデータセンター融資の重要要素になっていると指摘（Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
Apple が50周年を迎える中、戦後日本の経営講座が Steve Jobs のこだわりと iPhone 時代の圧倒的優位性を築いた経緯を振り返る（Patrick McGee/Financial Times） (techmeme.com)
Microsoft、2029年までに Singapore のクラウド・AI インフラに$5.5B 投資予定を発表、タイへの$1B+ 投資計画発表後（Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal） (techmeme.com)
Malta、ESMA による暗号資産監督一元化に反対、政治的な成功への攻撃と見なす（Laura Noonan/Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
韓国の貿易データ：2026年3月のチップ出荷が$32.83B の過去最高達成、YoY 比151.4%増、総輸出を$86.13B の過去最高に、YoY 比48.3%増（Steven Borowiec/Nikkei Asia） (techmeme.com)
Meta・YouTube に対する陪審員判決、プラットフォームデザイン機能の一部に欠陥と認定、Section 230 保護対象と異なる（Casey Newton/Platformer） (techmeme.com)
暗号資産外交で Pakistan が President Trump の獲得を支援した Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority Chairman Bilal Bin Saqib のプロフィール（Faseeh Mangi/Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
Caltech 脳インプラント研究の BCI 受信者 Galen Buckwalter、最近インプラントで音楽音を生成できるようになった——インタビュー（Emily Mullin/Wired） (techmeme.com)
分析：アジアの10最変動株式の半分が最近の AI IPO、中国の Moore Threads と MiniMax を含む、薄機関投資家保有が原因（Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
OpenAI、月間$2B の売上を生成中、エンタープライズが40%以上を占め、2026年末までに消費者とのパリティ達成に向けて進行中（OpenAI） (techmeme.com)
システム障害の疑いで Wuhan 全域の Baidu ロボタクシーが停止、乗客が閉じ込められ、交通混乱と衝突を引き起こしたと報告（Zeyi Yang/Wired） (techmeme.com)
Grab、WeRideとの提携でシンガポール初のロボタクシーサービスを開始、東南アジアの配車大手として初めてドライバーレス運行を実現 (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
EU主要機関、職員による完全AI生成ビデオ・画像の公式通信での使用を禁止 (Pieter Haeck/Politico) (techmeme.com)
Perplexity、インコグニートモードでもMeta・Googleとユーザー個人情報を共有していたとしてカリフォルニア州プライバシー法違反で集団訴訟の被告に (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Apple、iOS 18向けに珍しいバックポートパッチを配信、iPhoneを静かに乗っ取るDarkSwordハッキング脅威から保護 (Andy Greenberg/Wired) (techmeme.com)
Mercor が LiteLLM 関連の供給チェーン攻撃の被害を確認、ハッカー集団 Lapsus$ がデータアクセス・窃取を主張 (techmeme.com)
ワークフローオーケストレーション Kestra、RTP Global 主導で $25M の Series A 調達、GTM 戦略拡大へ (techmeme.com)
Depthfirst、企業脆弱性の発見・修復向け「汎用セキュリティインテリジェンス」構築狙い、$580M 評価で $80M の Series B 調達 (techmeme.com)
情報筋：Googleが今年後半にスクリーンレスのFitbitバンドをリリース予定、基本機能を搭載し、追加機能は有料購読が必要（Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
NYC市長Zohran Mamdani、市の機関によるTikTok使用を許可、前任者によるデータセキュリティ関連の2023年禁止令を撤回（Chris Sommerfeldt/Politico） (techmeme.com)
Salesforce、Slack向けに30以上の新機能を発表、会議トランスクリプション機能と複数ステップタスク自動実行モードを搭載（Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View） (techmeme.com)
情報筋：AT&T が FirstNet 緊急通信ネットワークのアップグレードで最大$2B の契約に合意 (techmeme.com)
Ed Markey 議員宛の手紙：6社の自動運転企業がリモートアシスタントは直接制御しないと主張一方、Tesla はオペレーターの操作を認可 (techmeme.com)
情報筋：Microsoft が Chevron と投資ファンド Engine No. 1 と$7B テキサス発電所巡り交渉 (techmeme.com)
情報筋：脅威アクターが Trivy サプライチェーン攻撃から得た認証情報で Cisco 内部開発環境を侵害、ソースコード盗難 (techmeme.com)
書籍「The Infinity Machine」が DeepMind と Google の初期ガバナンス紛争が Demis Hassabis をどう理想主義者から現実主義者に変えたかを詳述 (techmeme.com)
Samsung が Hearapy をリリース：100Hz 音で乗り物酔い軽減、60秒で2時間の効果 (techmeme.com)
軍事自律船の Saronic、Kleiner Perkins 主導 Series D で$1.75B調達＝評価額$9.25B (techmeme.com)
Sequoia、Doug Leone がチェアマン職で復帰＝2022年退任から (techmeme.com)
Anthropic、Claude Code ソース流出を認める＝「セキュリティ侵害ではなく人為的なパッケージング不具合」 (techmeme.com)
Snap 株が火曜日に14％上昇＝アクティビスト Irenic が人員21％削減・Specs 終了提案 (techmeme.com)
Yupp（a16z crypto 主導$33Mシード調達）、プロダクト・マーケット・フィット不達成で閉鎖 (techmeme.com)
MicrosoftがQ1で株価23%下落、テック企業やNasdaqを大きく上回る落ち込みで2008年の金融危機以来最大（Jordan Novet/CNBC） (techmeme.com)
OpenAIが初めて個人投資家を呼び込み、$122B資金調達ラウンドの一環として$3B+を調達、ARK Investが運用する銀行とETFを通じて（George Hammond/Financial Times） (techmeme.com)
OpenAIがSoftBank、a16zなどが主導する歴史的な$122B資金調達ラウンドを完了、評価額は$852B（Ashley Capoot/CNBC） (techmeme.com)
1ビットLLMで激進的圧縮を実現するPrismML、SAFE及びシード資金$16.25Mを調達してステルスモード脱出(Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
イランメディア報道: 国がStarlink端末販売ネットワークの容疑者46人を逮捕、139台押収、イラン国内に推定50K台(Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Monzoが米国事業を終了し英欧での拡大に注力、6月に約50人レイオフと顧客口座閉鎖予定(Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
GoogleがHTTPクライアントAxiosへの供給チェーン攻撃を北朝鮮の脅威アクターUNC1069によるものと指摘 (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
GoogleがVeo 3.1 Liteを発表。Veo 3.1 Fastの50%未満のコストで『大量動画生成』対応、動画生成ツールへのコミットメントを改めて表明 (Abner Li/9to5Google) (techmeme.com)
イランがApple、Google、Meta、Microsoft、Nvidia、Teslaなど米国テック企業を中東で4月1日午後8時から標的にすると表明 (Julia Shapero/The Hill) (techmeme.com)
Google研究者が警告：量子コンピュータが予想の20分の1リソースで楕円曲線暗号を破る恐れ。仮想資産ウォレットが危機（Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
関係者明かす：AppleがiOS 27でSiriの複数リクエスト同時処理をテスト。Grammarly型キーボード（自動修正拡張）も検討（Mark Gurman/Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
WTOのデジタル取引課税禁止措置が3月30日期限切れ。ジュネーブでの交渉春に再開（Ana Swanson/New York Times） (techmeme.com)
関係者：OracleがAI投資加速で数千人リストラ。2025年5月時点の従業員162,000人（Jordan Novet/CNBC） (techmeme.com)
設定ミス npm パッケージ経由で Claude Code ソースコード流出、内部コードネーム「Self-Healing Memory」アーキテクチャ明かに (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic の Claude Code CLI、設定ミス npm パッケージ経由で TypeScript ソースコード全体が意図せず露出 (Guru Baran/Cyber Security News) (techmeme.com)
Google、米国ユーザーが Google アカウントユーザー名を変更可能に、12ヶ月に1回に制限 (Kris Holt/Engadget) (techmeme.com)
Runway、AI・メディア・ワールドシミュレーション投資向け$10M ファンド立ち上げ、無料 API クレジット提供 (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Meta、Ray-Ban Meta Blayzer Optics・Scriber Optics 発表、$499、スリムフレーム・交換可能鼻パッド・調整可能テンプル搭載、4月14日発売 (Karissa Bell/Engadget) (techmeme.com)
Amazon、Prime Business・Amazon Business クレジットカード発行者を Amex から US Bancorp に変更、数ヶ月以内再開予定 (Yizhu Wang/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
FalconX の共同創業者が立ち上げたFX市場形成・送金スタートアップ OpenFX、Accel 主導で $94M 調達、約 $500M の評価額 (techmeme.com)
ニューヨーク拠点の Linx Security、ID 関連の障害を自動検出・修復する Autopilot エージェント展開、Index 主導で $50M の Series B 調達 (techmeme.com)
Rivian スピンオフのマイクロモビリティ配送 Also、Greenoaks 主導で $200M 調達、$1B 評価額で達成、DoorDash と複数年パートナーシップ (techmeme.com)
AirPods Max 2 レビュー：快適性に優れた音質、多数の新機能も、デザイン据え置き、高価格、ヘルスフィーチャーは1つのみ (techmeme.com)
Instagram、MPA と合意し Teen Accounts マーケティングでの PG-13 商標使用を中止、免責事項を追加 (techmeme.com)
Samsung、Galaxy Watch 4 以降向けに血圧測定機能を米国で展開、従来型腕帯式血圧計と新アプリが必要 (techmeme.com)
Nvidia が DLSS 4.5 をリリース、RTX 50シリーズ GPU 専用の 6x マルチフレーム生成機能搭載、第2世代トランスフォーマー AI モデル活用 (techmeme.com)
TCL、Sony のグローバル家庭用電子機器事業の 51% 買収で合意、$472M 規模、海外展開強化狙い；Sony は 49% 保有継続 (techmeme.com)
情報筋：Tether、HSBC からわずか数ヶ月前に入社したシニア貴金属トレーダー2人を削減、『世界最高の金取引フロア』構築の一環 (techmeme.com)
Nvidia が Marvell に $2B 投資、シリコンフォトニクス技術で協業予定、高速データ伝送を実現；MRVL は 9%+ 上昇 (techmeme.com)
Huawei、2025年度売上は前年同期比 2.2% 増で約 $127.5B、純利益は同 8.7% 増で約 $9.8B、R&D 支出は同 7% 増で約 $27.8B、チップネットワーキング技術に投資継続 (techmeme.com)
CoreWeave、銀行と投資家から $8.5B のローンを調達、クラウドコンピューティング容量を拡張、チップ担保型ローンとしては最大規模と主張 (techmeme.com)
サラソタ拠点の Tenex、AI 搭載の管理型サイバーセキュリティ検出・対応サービス展開、Crosspoint 主導で $250M 調達、$1B 超の評価額 (techmeme.com)
Netflix は顧客が広告層へのダウングレードを選択できることで値上げに自信、2026年は2025年の$1.5B+の広告売上を倍増見通す (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
関係筋:韓国メモリーチップメーカーは少なくとも6月までヘリウム在庫は十分、韓国閣僚が2026年上半期のサプライチェーン混乱を否定 (Reuters) (techmeme.com)
米国CTO Ethan Klein が US-UK技術提携の膠着を受け、ロンドンの会議で英国と同盟国に量子コンピューティング サプライチェーン強化を促す予定 (Joe Miller/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
分析:2025年、ベトナムが初めて中国を上回り、米国へのノートパソコンとゲーム機の最大供給国に、Trump大統領の関税にもかかわらず (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Amazon、Leo衛星事業を通じ Delta便にインターネット提供で合意、2028年から500機が対象、条件は非開示 (Alison Sider/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
英国CMA が Microsoft の業務用ソフトウェア部門に対して「戦略的市場ステータス」指定の是非を審査する調査を開始 (Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
北京拠点の AI企業 Z.ai が2025年売上~$105M（推定~$109M下回る）、純損失が前年比60%増の~$680M（推定~$545Mを上回る）と報告、積極投資が要因 (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Alibaba の新型マルチモーダルモデル Qwen3.5-Omni（テキスト、音声、画像、動画を処理）は独占ライセンスで、オープンソース戦略からの転換を示唆 (Juro Osawa/The Information) (techmeme.com)
ロンドン拠点の 9fin（クレジットトレーダーと投資家向けビジネス新規開拓を支援するAIツール提供）が Series C で$170M調達、評価額$1.3B (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
米国の GPS 次世代運用管制システム（RTX が$8B+で開発）は Space Force が所有権を取得から9カ月後も非稼働 (Stephen Clark/Ars Technica) (techmeme.com)
Iran がハッカーを動員して混乱をまき散らし、情報収集とターゲット探索；元 CISA 局長 Chris Krebs は Iran が「全力で当たっている」と指摘（Financial Times） (techmeme.com)
SpaceX は「異常」後に Starlink 衛星との通信を喪失、12月に似た事態；衛星が爆発した可能性（Thomas Ricker/The Verge） (techmeme.com)
UK 会計監査規制当局 FRC は、監査人 AI 利用ガイダンスを世界初公表後、監査人は AI を監査失敗の言い訳にできないと警告（Ellesheva Kissin/Financial Times） (techmeme.com)
Amsterdam 本拠の Nebius、フィンランド・ラッペーンランタに $10B・310MW データセンター発表、開発元 Polarnode が2027年段階的運用開始予定（Reuters） (techmeme.com)
ウェアラブルメーカー Whoop、Collaborative Fund 主導で $575M 調達、$10.1B 評価額；2025年末までに ARR $1B 達成、2025年売上の60%は米国外（Niko Gallogly/New York Times） (techmeme.com)
Raspberry Pi、2025年売上 $323.2M で前年比25%増、米国と中国需要が主導、チップ販売が初めてコンピュータを上回る（Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
HTTP クライアント Axios（週100Mの npm ダウンロード）がサプライチェーン攻撃で侵害、悪意のある依存関係導入でマルチステージペイロード展開（Socket） (techmeme.com)
インド、FY2026年上期のスマートフォン輸出が$11Bで前年同期比55%増。ただしアナリストはイラン戦争で今後数週間に22～25%低下する可能性があると警告（Quratulain Rehbar/Nikkei Asia） (techmeme.com)
London拠点のチップスタートアップ Fractile、Accel などから$200M以上調達を交渉中で$1B評価。2024年にシードで$15M調達済み（Financial Times） (techmeme.com)
Babel Audio に注目、匿名の見知らぬ者同士を$17/時間からで会話を録音、AIトレーニングデータにバンドル化（Issie Lapowsky/Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
AI コーディングエージェントはゼロデイ脆弱性の発見を自動化し、エクスプロイト開発の実践と経済性を大きく変える（Thomas H. Ptacek/sockpuppet.org） (techmeme.com)
California 州知事 Gavin Newsom、州と契約する AI 企業に安全性とプライバシーガードレールを義務付ける初の行政命令に署名（Cecilia Kang/New York Times） (techmeme.com)
ソーシャルゲーム企業Rec Roomが6月1日にサービス終了、採算化の道見つからず；2021年12月の評価額$3.5B (techmeme.com)
David Sacks、トランプのAI政策形成に；Sriram Krishnan、NECのAI職へ (techmeme.com)
Micron株が月曜10%下落、3月18日好決算来30%安；Sandisk 7%安、Western Digital 9%安 (techmeme.com)
OpenAIがClaude CodeのCodexプラグインを導入、Claude Code内からCodex呼び出しでコード審査やタスク委譲が可能に (techmeme.com)
流出の1月資料：Coatue試算、Anthropicが2026年180億ドル売上で140億ドルEBITDA損失、2030年時価総額1.995兆ドルに達すると見込む (techmeme.com)
AlibabaがQwen3.5-Omniマルチモーダル機をリリース、10時間以上音声入力対応、Plus版がGemini 3.1 Proを音声ベンチマークで凌駕と主張 (techmeme.com)
Levels.fyi：VC支援スタートアップのUS ソフトウェアエンジニア向け基本給中央値が2022年以来25%上昇して$200Kに、総報酬は18%の上昇にとどまる (techmeme.com)
Apple Intelligence が中国でロールアウト中、ユーザー報告によると2024年10月のUS立ち上げ後 (techmeme.com)
米検察、予測市場の賭け（Nicolás Maduro 逮捕含む）がインサイダー取引違反か調査 (techmeme.com)
Meta、Instagram Plus 購読をテスト中 匿名ストーリー閲覧と 48 時間保持機能搭載 (techmeme.com)
Quinnipiac 世論調査：米国人 55%「AI は日常に悪影響」65% がデータセンター建設に反対 (techmeme.com)
Fermi 株 12% 超下落、テキサスデータセンター テナント不足懸念で 486 百万ドル損失計上 (techmeme.com)
Tel Aviv の Sett、Series B で 30 百万ドル調達 ゲーム マーケティング自動化 AI、Greenfield Partners が主導し総資金 57 百万ドルへ (techmeme.com)
スマートコントラクトでプライベートクレジット貸出の自動化を狙うValinoが$25Mシード調達、Castle Island Venturesが主導 (techmeme.com)
E*TradeがSpaceX IPOの小売投資家向け販売を主導で協議中、RobinhoodとSoFiは除外される可能性も(Reuters) (techmeme.com)
AI安全の現状:機能拡大と他モデルの監視が可能になるにつれ、敵対的堅牢性などの問題が続き社会はまだ対応できていない(Boaz Barak/Windows On Theory) (techmeme.com)
Match GroupがFTCの訴訟で和解、2014年にOkCupidのユーザーデータをClarifaiと違法共有したとの主張(Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Delaware裁判官がElon Muskケースを再割り当て、『過度なメディア注目』理由にMusk法的敗北を祝うLinkedInポストに『いいね』との疑惑(Sujeet Indap/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
前 Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath 創業の Sycamore、AI エージェント構築で$65M 調達（Coatue・Lightspeed リード） (techmeme.com)
GitHub PR に Copilot が Raycast 広告掲載、GitHub がプロダクトティップを無効化 (techmeme.com)
スマートフォン万能論を検証：不安、ポピュリズム、分極化の元凶とされるも、害は英語圏に集中 (techmeme.com)
クラウド支出自動化ツール ScaleOps、Insight Partners リードで$130M Series C 調達、評価額$800M 超、総調達額$210M 超に (techmeme.com)
Uber が Berlin を拠点とする配車アプリ Blacklane を買収、Uber Elite 強化へ、2026年末までのクローズを予定 (techmeme.com)
Microsoft が Frontier プログラムで Copilot Cowork をロールアウト、Anthropic・OpenAI モデルを使用した Researcher Critique ツール搭載 (techmeme.com)
ファブレス AI チップスタートアップ Rebellions が $2.34B 評価で $400M の pre-IPO ラウンドを調達、総資金調達額 $850M に（過去6ヶ月で $650M） (techmeme.com)
コードレビュー・テスト・ガバナンス向け AI エージェント企業 Qodo が Qumra 主導で $70M の Series B を調達、総資金調達額は $120M に (techmeme.com)
OpenAI の ChatGPT アプリストアがローンチから6ヶ月で 300+ のアプリ統合を達成、多くのアプリの機能限定で採用が低迷 (techmeme.com)
フィンランドのスタートアップ IQM Quantum Computers が BlackRock から €50M を調達、2026年後半予定の US・Helsinki 併上場に先立ち、グローバル成長を加速 (techmeme.com)
送金企業 Wise（London 拠点）が UK 銀行口座の開設を計画、競争激化する市場に参入；Monzo が 1,500 万人の個人・法人ユーザーを報告 (techmeme.com)
スペースデータセンタースタートアップ Starcloud、Benchmark と EQT が主導する $170M のシリーズA調達に成功、$1.1B の評価額で、2026年後半に Starcloud 2 のローンチを計画中（Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch） (techmeme.com)
Google DeepMind チーフサイエンティスト Jeff Dean、政治について堂々と発言。Trump の行動と ICE 銃撃事件を公然と批判する稀有なテックリーダー（Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal） (techmeme.com)
研究によると、Polymarket で過去2年間に ~$143M の疑わしい利益が発見される。非公開情報の使用と一致するパターン。予測市場が急成長する中（Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
ノースカロライナ州、バージニア州、メリーランド州、ミシガン州の一部の学校が、生徒のスクリーンタイムの懸念の中で、Chromebooks を含む授業技術の使用を再評価している（New York Times） (techmeme.com)
NYU 教授 Julian Togelius との Q&A: ビデオゲームプレイにおける LLM の限界に関する最近の論文、コーディングがいかに設計されたゲームであるか、など（Matthew S. Smith/IEEE Spectrum） (techmeme.com)
Amazon MGM の Project Hail Mary、過去最高の興行収入を記録。世界的に $300M を超える、今週末だけで $54.1M を含む。映画製作コストは $200M（Brent Lang/Variety） (techmeme.com)
AI により、L'Oréal のような一部の雇用主が採用面接での対面評価に戻っている。シニア HR リーダーが AI 生成アプリケーションの急上昇を目撃する中（Bethan Staton/Financial Times） (techmeme.com)
サンフランシスコの企業と人々が AI ワークフローに適応する過程、AI のご機嫌取り、「認知的オフロード」と「認知的降伏」などについての考察（Ezra Klein/New York Times） (techmeme.com)
Amazon の地方米国への大規模進出を検証。最近数年間での24時間配送流通センター構築、Walmart の領域への侵食（Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
Paris拠点のAI企業Mistral、初のデット・ファイナンシング$830Mを調達。Nvidia搭載DCをヨーロッパに展開予定、総投資€4B（Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times） (techmeme.com)
DeepSeekのチャットボット、中国で7時間超の大規模障害。2025年デビュー以降最大規模（Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
Twitter初期幹部Jason Goldman、初期の言論最大主義的決定や信頼安全性の過小投資について語る（Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic） (techmeme.com)
新JS ライブラリPretext、DOMに触れずマルチラインテキスト高さを計算。高度に動的なレイアウトが実現（Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog） (techmeme.com)
メール・テキスト・NTSBレポート、WaymoとAustin学区がロボタクシーの学校バス停止訓練で数ヶ月苦戦（Aarian Marshall/Wired） (techmeme.com)
中国フォトニックチップメーカーYuanjie、2025年売上138.5% YoY増の約$86.99M、DC売上719%増の約$56.89Mを報告。4月1日Hong Kong IPO前に（Wency Chen/South China Morning Post） (techmeme.com)
PwC：76の中国本土企業がHong Kong Stock Exchangeに2025年リスト。2024年の30から増加、国際投資家アピール低下にもかかわらず（Sylvia Chang/BBC） (techmeme.com)
3月23日 – 3月29日
英国の国防支出遅延で defense tech スタートアップが米国移転を検討、幹部は英国部門が「膠着状態」と指摘（Financial Times） (techmeme.com)
大型 private-credit ファンド4社の分析で、ソフトウェア株の平均エクスポーザーが開示の~19%に対し~25%と判明、投資家の懸念高まる（Wall Street Journal） (techmeme.com)
OpenAI コア研究チームから独立した Sora チーム、OpenAI が Sora を廃止し計算リソースを他用途に振り分け（Wall Street Journal） (techmeme.com)
App Store レビュー審査が大幅に長期化、数週間に及ぶケースも、vibe-coded アプリ急増が原因か（Business Insider） (techmeme.com)
Midjourney CEO David Holz が、会社の売上が2023年に2億ドルを「大幅に」上回り、その後も「上昇」していると述べる。ウェブトラフィック減少にもかかわらず（Jemima McEvoy/The Information） (techmeme.com)
AI推進派団体Innovation Council Action、David Sacks絶賛。米中期選挙で100M+ドル投じ、規制緩和とTrumpのAI政策を支援 (techmeme.com)
Coinbase Oneなどのcrypto保険プラン、フィッシング詐欺含む多くのハック被害を補償対象外に (techmeme.com)
Bluesky CEO、AT Protocol上のエージェント型ソーシャルアプリAttieについて語る、Claudeを使用しユーザーがカスタムフィード構築可能(Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
香港上場のAI創薬企業Insilico MedicineとEli Lillyが最大$2.75Bの医薬品共同開発契約に署名、先払い$115M(Evelyn Cheng/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
AI 生成 TikTok パロディ Fruit Love Island、デビュー後21エピソドで平均1000万超ビュー (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan インタビュー：プラットフォーム優位性、子どもへの影響、Trump アカウント問題、AI slop ほか (Lulu Garcia-Navarro/New York Times) (techmeme.com)
分析：ソーシャルメディアは扇動的コンテンツを報酬する一方、LLM は人々を極端な立場から遠ざけ専門家的スタンスへ導く (John Burn-Murdoch/Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
Stanford University 研究：11の主流 LLM は対人的アドバイス提供時に人間より同意的、有害・違法行為も肯定 (techmeme.com)
Vinod Khosla が語る：AI は労働者から富と力の移動を加速、US 所得税改革で失業懸念を緩和可能 (Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
医療 AI ツール評価・導入支援の Qualified Health、NEA リード Series B で1億2500万ドル調達（評価額5～10億ドル）(Heather Landi/Fierce Healthcare) (techmeme.com)
Dotcom バブル比較が外れた理由、Vertical SaaS 過去12ヶ月 +3% vs 水平型 SaaS -35% など AI 考察 (Logan Bartlett/@loganbartlett) (techmeme.com)
Mark Lanier のプロフィール：TX の弁護士兼牧師が LA のソーシャルメディア訴訟で Meta と Google に勝利、証人台での Zuckerberg は「動揺していた」 (techmeme.com)
28M米消費者支払い分析、Claude有料購読が加速度的増加─Anthropic：今年は2倍以上（Julie Bort/TechCrunch） (techmeme.com)
ShinyHunters、欧州委員会攻撃で350GB超データ盗難と主張（3月24日検出）；EC内部システムは無傷（Pierluigi Paganini/Security Affairs） (techmeme.com)
DHS、7人のCISAスタッフを不当行為から除去；スタッフはCISA前代行長Madhu Gottumukkala氏の多角形検査を手配、氏は不合格（John Sakellariadis/Politico） (techmeme.com)
xAI最後の共同創設者Ross Nordeenが金曜日退社；Musk氏の右腕として勤務（Grace Kay/Business Insider） (techmeme.com)
Sam Altman と Dario Amodei の10年来の確執を検証、Amodei は Altman と Musk の訴訟を Hitler と Stalin の対決に例えたと報じられる(Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
AI による完全化の時代にチェス界の巨匠が最適でない手で新勝法を発見、古典チェスに新生命(Kevin Lincoln/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
今年の Hill and Valley Forum のテーマを検証:政府主導産業政策による製造業国内回帰、AI 不人気など(Newcomer) (techmeme.com)
言語的な技術的側面で決定される予測市場の賭けが、言語をバイナリ市場に変える難しさを浮き彫りにし、支払いは単語1つの解釈に左右される(Christopher Beam/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Meta コンテンツポリシー責任者 Monika Bickert が Harvard 教職を選択、8月まで引継ぎ（Reuters） (techmeme.com)
Austin スタートアップ投資が $7.19B で過去最高、2024年の $4.37B から急増、2021年の $6.1B を上回る（Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News） (techmeme.com)
台湾メモリチップメーカー Nanya、Sandisk や SK Hynix の Solidigm らから $2.5B 調達、先端チップ事業を拡張（Reuters） (techmeme.com)
Indonesia、16歳未満のデジタルプラットフォーム利用を禁止 ポルノや依存症から保護（Edna Tarigan/Associated Press） (techmeme.com)
SMB 向けオンボーディング・引き受けプラットフォーム Worth、Fulcrum Equity Partners 主導で $30M シリーズA 調達 (techmeme.com)
Anthropic が DOD との訴訟でカリフォルニア州で勝訴も、サプライチェーンリスクラベル削除には DC 控訴裁判所の説得が必要 (techmeme.com)
Jeffrey Epstein 被害者が Trump 政権と Google を提訴、Google 検索と AI Mode の個人情報公開で (techmeme.com)
Google、Google Ads で Veo ビデオモデルをグローバル展開、広告主が最大3枚の静止画から YouTube 向け10秒動画を生成可能に (techmeme.com)
AI 学会 NeurIPS、中国研究者の反発を受け米制裁対象企業所属研究者の論文掲載禁止方針を撤回 (techmeme.com)
Sony Japan、フラッシュメモリ不足を理由に CFexpress と SD メモリーカードほぼ全製品の受注停止 (techmeme.com)
関係者、Meta が来週 Ray-Ban スマートグラス2機種発表へ、処方眼鏡利用者向けで処方眼鏡販売チャネル経由での販売を想定と明かす (techmeme.com)
Anthropic が Claude のセッション制限を調整、Claude の人気沸騰に伴うコンピュート逼迫の中、ピーク時間帯にユーザーが上限に達しやすくなると説明 (techmeme.com)
Toronto 拠点の量子企業 Xanadu の株式、Nasdaq 初日取引で 15% 上昇；Toronto Stock Exchange でも取引開始 (Josh Scott/BetaKit) (techmeme.com)
情報筋：ロボティクス向け AI 開発の Physical Intelligence、約 $1B の新規資金ラウンド協議中で評価額 $11B 以上を目指す (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Zuckerberg、2025 年 2 月に Musk の DOGE での活動を支持──スタッフのドキシング・脅迫への対抗申し出も (Karissa Bell/Engadget) (techmeme.com)
技術株がほぼ 1 年ぶりの最悪週を記録──Iran 戦争と Meta の法務敗北が背景；Meta 11% 下落、Alphabet ~9%、Microsoft ~7% (Ari Levy/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
米メモリーチップ関連株が週間で約$100B下落、Micronが15%急落—Google ResearchのTurboQuant圧縮アルゴリズム発表後 (techmeme.com)
Kalshi、証拠金取引ライセンスを取得—機関投資家の関心増へ (techmeme.com)
Trump政権がホワイトハウスアプリを公開、「ソースから直接、フィルターなし」のニュース配信を約束 (techmeme.com)
FBI確認：Iran関連ハッカー Handala がKash Patelの個人メール侵入、アクセス情報は過去のもので政府機密は含まず (techmeme.com)
Google、Anthropic リース中のNexus Data Centers テキサス拠点融資に合意間近、パートナーシップ深化へ (techmeme.com)
中国のManus調査の範囲拡大、「シンガポール・ウォッシング」モデルに疑問符。Meta が3月初旬に100人以上のManus従業員をシンガポールに異動(Anniek Bao/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
Microsoft が Crusoe の Abilene, Texas の900 MW データセンターをリース。Oracle と OpenAI が撤退の報道で、最初のビルは2027年半ばに予定(Matt Day/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
イラン関連のハッカー集団 Handala Hack Team が FBI Director Kash Patel の個人メール侵害を主張、文書をオンラインで公開（Reuters） (techmeme.com)
Meta、Louisiana データセンターの新エネルギーインフラ整備に資金提供、天然ガス発電所7基など（Nicholas G. Miller/Wall Street Journal） (techmeme.com)
Robinhood 共同創業者 Baiju Bhatt 創設の Aetherflux、軌道データセンターで $250M～$300M 調達目指す（$2B 評価、Wall Street Journal） (techmeme.com)
Anthropic、機密データ漏洩で Claude Mythos モデル露呈後、性能が「段階進化」する AI モデルのテスト公表（Beatrice Nolan/Fortune） (techmeme.com)
OpenAI、Codex プラグインで AI ワークフロー標準化、Figma や Notion など 20 以上統合対応（David Gewirtz/ZDNET） (techmeme.com)
Sonyが4月2日からPlayStation 5の全世界での価格引き上げを発表：PS5が$650、PS5 Digital が$600、PS5 Proが$900に (techmeme.com)
Unityが4月30日にironSource広告ネットワークの閉鎖を計画、カジュアルゲーム出版部門Supersonicの売却プロセスも開始 (techmeme.com)
SoftBankがJPMorgan Chase、Goldman Sachsなど複数銀行から2027年償還の$40B融資を確保、OpenAI追加投資に充当 (techmeme.com)
情報筋：Alibaba と ByteDance、テスト結果で CUDA 互換性が優れた Huawei の新型950PR AI チップ発注予定、Huawei は2026年に約750万個の950PR出荷目標（Reuters） (techmeme.com)
情報筋：Moonshot AI、香港 IPO に向けて Cayman 構造を廃止し中国または香港法人に変更予定、約$18B 評価での資金調達計画（Wall Street Journal） (techmeme.com)
Meta監視委員会、Community Notesはファクトチェック代替ではなく、米国外での拡大は人権リスク警告 (techmeme.com)
Tazapay、Series B拡張を完了$36Mに、フィンテック・Web3向け国際送金基盤 (techmeme.com)
法務専門家向け AI 搭載事件記録分析ツール提供の Steno が、Savano Capital Partners がリードする 4,900 万ドルの Series C を調達 (techmeme.com)
マイアミ拠点のテレヘルス企業 eMed が、エージェント AI プラットフォーム展開に向け 2 億ドルの Series A を 20 億ドル超の評価額で調達。Tom Brady も参加 (techmeme.com)
Trump 政権高官、SMIC が約 1 年間イランに半導体製造ツールを送付していると指摘。米国は中国軍との関係疑惑で同社に制裁 (techmeme.com)
NY 拠点の Blossom Health（精神科医の臨床判断を支援し事務作業を自動化する「AI コパイロット」提供）が、シードと Series A で 2,000 万ドルを調達 (techmeme.com)
関係筋：SpaceXのIPO計画、施設訪問、異例のロックアップ、Musk関連企業投資家への優遇措置を含む（WSJ報） (techmeme.com)
情報源：Elon Musk、SpaceX IPOの最大30%を個人投資家に配分を協議、通常比3倍以上（Reuters報） (techmeme.com)
Q&A：New Mexico AG Raúl Torrez、ニューメキシコ・LA ソーシャルメディア訴訟、Big Techの「Big Tobacco」モーメント、議会への影響など語る（Tyler Katzenberger/Politico） (techmeme.com)
筋情報: Thrive Holdings、新ファンドレイジングで $1B のコミットメント獲得、投資家の強い関心で追加 $1B 以上の調達検討中 (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
米国判事が Anthropic の要求を認可、Trump 政権に対する DOD ブラックリスト決定の差し止め (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
インタビューで David Sacks、政府特別職員としての期限を終えた後 AI・暗号資産担当者の職を放棄と述べる (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
報道：Anthropic経営陣がQ4での上場を検討、引受銀行団は60B$以上の資金調達を見込む（The Information） (techmeme.com)
OpenAIがChatGPT広告で年換算100M$突破、600+広告主に拡大、4月にセルフサーブ機能導入予定（Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information） (techmeme.com)
Googleがgemini AIに新ツール群をリリース、他社AI履歴の取り込みでスイッチ容易に（Natalie Lung/Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
Appleが Mac Proを廃止、今後のMac Proハードウェア提供計画はないと発表（Chance Miller/9to5Mac） (techmeme.com)
情報筋：AppleがiPhoneハードウェアデザイナーに数十万ドル相当の期外ボーナスを付与、OpenAIなどが同社のエンジニアを引き抜く中（Mark Gurman/Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
Xが事前通知なしにX Proアクセスを$40/月のPremium+プラン購読者に限定；以前は$8/月のPremiumプランで利用可能だった（Juli Clover/MacRumors） (techmeme.com)
低軌道衛星コンステレーションをローンチしてGPSの商用代替を構築することを目指すXonaが$170M Series Cを調達（Sandra Erwin/SpaceNews） (techmeme.com)
Meta、テキサス州 El Paso のデータセンター投資を $10B 以上に拡大、$1.5B から大幅増加へ (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Netflix、2025年1月の値上げに続き米国価格を再び引き上げ。広告付きスタンダードが $1 上がり $8.99/月に、広告なしスタンダードとプレミアムが各 $2 上がり $19.99・$26.99 に (Todd Spangler/Variety) (techmeme.com)
情報源: X、SpaceX IPO を控え非技術職 20 名以上を解雇。xAI が最高収益責任者を採用して以降、X スタッフは収益成長に注力するよう指示 (Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
イタリア拠点の Subbyx、アクセスベースのサブスクリプション機能インフラを構築、€30M のシリーズ A を調達 (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu) (techmeme.com)
Fannie Mae、初めて暗号資産担保型住宅ローンを受け入れへ。Coinbase が bitcoin または USDC を担保として誓約できる住宅ローン商品をローンチ (Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
Apple Intelligence の ChatGPT 独占提携を廃止、iOS 27 で Siri を App Store アプリ経由で任意の AI サービス実行に開放予定＝関係者 (techmeme.com)
中国コンピュータ学会が、Huawei など米国制裁対象企業の投稿を排除した AI 学会 NeurIPS をボイコット呼びかけ (techmeme.com)
Google、従来は米国とインドに限定していた AI 会話型検索機能 Search Live を、AI Mode が利用可能なすべての言語と地域に拡大＝Aisha Malik/TechCrunch (techmeme.com)
Meta株が6%以上下落し10ヶ月ぶりの安値、複数米国裁判で若年ユーザー保護不十分と判決 (techmeme.com)
Cohere、初の音声モデル「Transcribe」を発表、20億パラメータのオープンソース音声認識 (techmeme.com)
米FCC、アウトソースコールセンター職の国内復帰案を募集開始、自動化懸念の声 (techmeme.com)
ByteDance、CapCut で「Dreamina Seedance 2.0」音声動画モデル展開、最大15秒・6アスペクト比対応 (techmeme.com)
米連邦判事、X の独禁法訴訟却下、World Federation of Advertisers による違法ボイコット疑惑 (techmeme.com)
Google、Gemini 3.1 Flash Live を発表、トーン理解向上で低遅延音声モデル、SynthID ウォーターマーク付き (techmeme.com)
Wikipedia、英語版でのAI記事執筆・改稿を禁止 AI記事が「コアコンテンツポリシー」違反する傾向を理由に（Emma Roth/The Verge） (techmeme.com)
コインランドリー向け運営・決済ソフト企業 Cents、Series Cで1億1000万ドル調達 2024年の Series B は4000万ドル（Lucinda Shen/Axios） (techmeme.com)
Apple、米国製造プログラムを拡大、Bosch、Cirrus Logic、TDK、Qnity Electronics が参画し米国製コンポーネントを世界販売 (techmeme.com)
欧州議会、EU AI Act の期限延長に投票、ハイリスク AI システムの適合期限を 2027 年 12 月に後退、nudify アプリを禁止 (techmeme.com)
WhatsApp、会話に基づいた返信提案 AI ツール、Meta AI による写真編集機能などを展開 (techmeme.com)
Mistral、Voxtral TTS をローンチ、ヒンディー語やアラビア語を含む 9 言語対応、Ministral 3B ベースのオープンソース企業向けテキスト音声変換モデル (techmeme.com)
Defense tech企業 Shield AI、$2B を調達し評価額 $12.7B（2025 年 3 月に $240M 調達後 $5.3B から上昇）、事業の半分は自律ソフトウェア (techmeme.com)
Anduril のインサイダー 37 人へのインタビューで同社製造事業での安全懸念とプロジェクト課題が明らかに、Anduril は主張を「不正確」と反論 (techmeme.com)
欧州委員会、Snapchat に対して DSA 調査を開始、子ども保護失敗を理由に年齢確認措置の評価も含む (techmeme.com)
EU、Pornhub、Stripchat、XNXX、XVideos をポルノコンテンツから子ども保護失敗で告発、DSA 予備調査で (techmeme.com)
オンライン安全法案の可決に苦戦する米議員、LA と New Mexico の陪審団が先手を打ち、SNS企業の青少年への危害を問責（Cecilia Kang/New York Times） (techmeme.com)
Meituan、Q4売上は前年比4.1%増の約$13.3B、調整後純損失は約$2.2B（予想$1.9B）、Alibaba と JD.com との激しい配達競争の中で（Luz Ding/Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
OpenAI、スタッフと投資家の懸念を受けエロティック・チャットボット計画を「無期延期」、コア事業に経営資源をシフト（Financial Times） (techmeme.com)
Revolut、2026年末までにグローバル従業員の40%をインドに配置、現地スタッフを5,500人に増員予定、グローバルスタッフは12,000人（Haripriya Suresh/Reuters） (techmeme.com)
関係者：中国チップメーカー CXMT、2025年売上は約$8B（前年比130%増）、IPO 控え調整後純利益は約$435M の見込み（Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
Melania Trump、ホワイトハウスで Figure AI の Figure 3 人型ロボットと共演、米国児童教育への技術・AI統合推進をアピール（Katie Rogers/New York Times） (techmeme.com)
書籍抜粋：Google が2014年に DeepMind を$650M で買収し Facebook を出し抜く、Mustafa Suleyman はポーカー流の心理戦で安全委員会設置を獲得（Sebastian Mallaby/Wall Street Journal） (techmeme.com)
関係者：Google のインド担当トップ法務官 Bijoya Roy が16ヶ月で退職し新事業起業へ、規制課題に直面する市場での注目の転身（Aditya Kalra/Reuters） (techmeme.com)
Pony AI、2025年売上は前年比20%増の約$90M、累積損失は前年比72%減の約$76.8M、Q4の純利益は$75.5M で初の黒字四半期（Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
米陸軍が Carlyle と KKR を選定、軍事基地に2つのデータセンター建設、1ヵ所あたり$2B、イラン戦争中のトークン利用が8倍に（Steff Chávez/Financial Times） (techmeme.com)
Uber、中国の Pony AI とクロアチアの Rimac スピンオフ企業 Verne と提携、欧州初のロボタクシー商用サービスを展開、初回はザグレブ（Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge） (techmeme.com)
Apple 創成期の口述史、Steve Wozniak、Ronald Wayne、Mike Markkula、Liza Loop らが証言、Apple 50周年記念（Harry McCracken/Fast Company） (techmeme.com)
LA ソーシャルメディア判決$6M、原告弁護士の勝利。親の役割が害を軽減でき、多くの子どもは深刻な問題に直面していない（Wall Street Journal） (techmeme.com)
2020年までに$250M以上調達した衛星画像スタートアップ Theia、創業者と経営陣4名が連邦詐欺罪で起訴され崩壊（Brent Crane/Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
LA 先行判例事件の判決が Meta など各プラットフォームに影響の可能性 — Section 230 を迂回する製品設計訴訟の波が押し寄せる(Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
米国 DOJ、Nvidia の A100・H100 チップ約 $62M 相当を China へ密輸しようとしたとして、中国国籍者 1 名とアメリカ人 2 名を起訴(Michael Kan/PCMag) (techmeme.com)
ポストトレーニングデータと評価業務を供給する Deccan AI が A91 Partners 主導で $25M の Series A を調達、大多数の専門家は India に所在(Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
流出メモ: Meta の Reality Labs が AI ネイティブな「pods」に人員を再編成、組織のリーダーシップ構造をフラット化(Charles Rollet/Business Insider) (techmeme.com)
筋情報: Reflection AI が Pre-money valuation $25B で $2.5B の資金調達を見込み、JPMorgan が参加協議中(Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
提訴: Apple が元 Vision Pro デザイナー Di Liu との訴訟を解決、機密文書返却と損害賠償支払いに同意(Chance Miller/9to5Mac) (techmeme.com)
OpenRouterデータ：DeepSeek や MiniMax など低コスト中国AIモデルが先月以来、トークン消費で US 競合を上回る（Zijing Wu/Financial Times） (techmeme.com)
サンフランシスコが警察監視の実験場に：SFPD が先月700回のドローン飛行を記録、2025年2月の93回から急増（Cyrus Farivar/The San Francisco Standard） (techmeme.com)
Isara、数千のAIエージェント作業を調整するソフトウェア構築を目指し9,400万ドル調達、OpenAI が6.5億ドル評価額でバック（Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal） (techmeme.com)
GitHub が Copilot インタラクションデータ使用ポリシーを更新、4月24日から入出力・コードスニペットを AI 学習に活用、オプトアウト可能 (Corbin Davenport/How-To Geek) (techmeme.com)
Google、ポスト量子暗号移行を2029年までに完了へ 「量子時代を保護」と (techmeme.com)
Muskの弁護士、デラウェア州判事の除任申し立て Californiaでの敗訴祝うLinkedInをいいね (techmeme.com)
シンガポール拠点のStartale、SBIとSonyから6300万ドルのシリーズA調達 (techmeme.com)
関係者情報：Metaが水曜日にReality Labs部門の約700人をレイオフ、採用・営業・Facebook部門でも（Eli Tan/New York Times） (techmeme.com)
Nintendoが新たなSwitch 2独占タイトルは物理版・デジタル版で異なる価格を設定、米国で5月から開始と発表（Andy Robinson/Video Games Chronicle） (techmeme.com)
ARC Prize FoundationがARC-AGI-3を発表、シンプルなビデオゲーム的シナリオでAIの推論能力をベンチマーク（Mark Sullivan/Fast Company） (techmeme.com)
Redditがサービス提供型の自動化アカウントにラベル付け、ボット疑いアカウントに人間確認を要求 (techmeme.com)
LA社交メディア訴訟判決：Meta/YouTubeの中毒設計を認定、300万ドル賠償命令、Meta負担比70% (techmeme.com)
社交メディア中毒訴訟：LA陪審団がMeta/YouTubeの過失認定、ユーザー被害を警告しなかった (techmeme.com)
GoogleがLyria 3 Proを発表、3分トラック作成が可能に、Lyria 3の30秒から大幅拡張 (techmeme.com)
Bernie Sandersら議員がデータセンター建設一時停止法案を準備、AI安全策整備まで (techmeme.com)
情報筋：クラウドプロバイダーVultrが、2024年$3.5B評価額での$333M調達に続き、AI計算容量拡大のため$1B+調達を計画 (techmeme.com)
AI計算センター向け電力配給最適化を手がけるEpic Microsystemsが$21M調達 (techmeme.com)
情報筋：GoogleとのApple提携では、AppleはGeminiにデータセンター内で完全アクセス可能で蒸留で小型モデル生成も可能 (techmeme.com)
Charlotte拠点の窓清掃ドローンメーカーLucid Botsが、CubitとIdea Fundが共同主導の$20M調達 (techmeme.com)
Google Researchが量子化アルゴリズムTurboQuantを発表、精度を保ちながらLLMとベクトル検索エンジンを大幅圧縮 (techmeme.com)
最高裁がCoxをネット海賊版責任で無罪、2018年のレコード会社提訴から転換 (techmeme.com)
Glimpse、a16z主導でシリーズA3500万ドル調達、累計5200万ドルに (techmeme.com)
Notch、Headline 主導でシリーズA3000万ドル調達 (techmeme.com)
Elon Musk、X の新クリエイター報酬ルール「一時停止」を発表 (techmeme.com)
Meta が人員削減を確認、Reality Labs など数百人対象か (techmeme.com)
AI チップ設計企業 Normal Computing、Samsung Catalyst 主導で5000万ドル調達 (techmeme.com)
法務AI企業 Harvey、評価110億ドルで2億ドル調達 (techmeme.com)
AI 科学系スタートアップ Periodic Labs、70億ドル評価で数億ドル調達目指す (techmeme.com)
Trump、Mark Zuckerberg ら3名を科学技術顧問会議に指名予定 (techmeme.com)
Apple、iOS 26.4 で英国年齢認証を義務化 (techmeme.com)
Temu親会社PDD、Q4売上12%増の約$18B 純利益11%減の約$3.56Bで予想下回る (techmeme.com)
AI note taking startup Granola、Index Ventures主導で$125M調達 評価額$1.5B、Claude統合を計画 (techmeme.com)
Mark Zuckerberg、起業支援とAI活用を目指すMeta Small Business立ち上げ Dina Powell McCormick主導 (techmeme.com)
Arm CEO Rene Haasが語る、企業文化改革からArm AGI CPU開発まで SoftBankとの連携、TSMC製造 (techmeme.com)
AI駆動型OSと交差点センサーで交通を最適化するNoTraffic、PSG Equity主導で$90M Series C調達 (techmeme.com)
Kuaishou、Q4売上12%増の約$5.7B 予想達成 テキスト動画生成Klingの売上は約$49M (techmeme.com)
Xが収益分配インセンティブを更新、ホーム地域エンゲージメント重視で米国への過度な最適化を防止 (techmeme.com)
インターネット検閲技術企業Sandvine、抑圧的体制への販売で経営危機 米国規制が新体制への転換を強要 (techmeme.com)
米国デジタル人権団体がイラン向けオフラインマッピングアプリMahsa Alert公開、数日で100K DAU達成 (techmeme.com)
OpenAI、JioStar CEO Kiran Maniをアジア太平洋統括に採用 CSO Jason Kwon配下 (techmeme.com)
EQT・McKinsey 調査：2014～2025年に欧州テック企業（総価値$1.4T）が海外上場または外国買収 (techmeme.com)
メモ：Sam Altman、OpenAI 次期モデルの事前学習完了を発表。Safety を Research へ、Security を Scaling へ異動。Fidji Simo が「AGI Deployment」CEO に (Alex Heath/Sources) (techmeme.com)
AI が衛星とグラウンドセンサーのデータ分析で、世界中の滑落リスク高の斜面を特定 (Chris Baraniuk/BBC) (techmeme.com)
米大手企業、AIでの基幹業務ソフト切り替えを見送り、ベンダー交渉強化と小規模アプリの「vibe-coding」に注力 (techmeme.com)
Intel・AMDのCPU供給制約悪化、メモリ不足にさらに追い打ち――PC・サーバーメーカーが新たな試練 (techmeme.com)
中国、Manus共同創業者の出国を禁止――Meta 20億ドル買収がFDI違反か審査中 (techmeme.com)
Trump政権、2022年Murthy v. Missouri事件を解決 Surgeon General、CDC、CISAが言論抑制圧力をかけることを禁止（Mike Scarcella/Reuters） (techmeme.com)
書類申請：Meta、2012年IPO以来初めてトップ幹部にストックオプションを提供、今後数年の株価目標達成時に人材確保（Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
Amity、タイを拠点とする小売・通信向け生成AIツール企業がSeries Dで100mを調達、2027年IPO計画（Olivia Poh/Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
Neal Stephenson、頭部装着型ディスプレイは未来ではないと主張 公衆の不快感とユーザーへの不信を理由に（Neal Stephenson/Graphomane） (techmeme.com)
関係筋：Sora チームの一部メンバーが、OpenAI の安全基準ブログ投稿からわずか1日後の Sora サポート終了決定に驚愕（Reuters） (techmeme.com)
関係筋：Meta の EU 向け Meta Ray-Ban Display ロールアウトが AI 機能と交換可能バッテリーに関する規制および供給制約により阻害（Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
関係筋：SpaceX が今週または来週中に規制当局に IPO 目論見書を提出予定、75B ドル超の資金調達を検討（The Information） (techmeme.com)
Spotifyが Artist Profile Protection をベータテスト、アーティストがリリース前に確認可能に、AI生成トラックの不正な帰属を防止 (techmeme.com)
SK Hynix、2026年の American depositary receipts 上場の秘密申請を提出、約$10B の資金調達を検討 (techmeme.com)
Meta、新しいショッピング・広告機能を発表、Instagram・Facebook クリエイター向けアフィリエイトマーケティングツールと Facebook 広告の「今すぐ購入」ボタン (techmeme.com)
米裁判官、WhatsApp 元セキュリティ責任者 Attaullah Baig による Meta 訴訟を却下、Meta が重大なセキュリティ欠陥を無視したと主張 (techmeme.com)
Databricks、セキュリティ情報イベント管理サービス Lakewatch をリリース、セキュリティスタートアップ Antimatter と SiftD を買収 (techmeme.com)
情報筋：Anduril、Palantir、Scale AIがトランプ大統領計画の$185B「Golden Dome」防空盾の開発に参加 (techmeme.com)
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friarが、a16z、D.E. Shaw、MGX、TPGらから追加$10Bを調達、過去最高調達額は「$120B超」に (techmeme.com)
Arm CEO Rene Haasが2031年の売上を$25Bと予測（2025年の$4Bから増加）、初自社チップ売上$15B含む；ARMが時間外で6%超上昇 (techmeme.com)
公判でUS連邦判事がペンタゴンのAnthropicへの対応を「懸念」と指摘、「Anthropic弱体化の試みに見える」 (techmeme.com)
Disney、OpenAI との提携を解除、2025 年 12 月開始の 10 億ドル投資と Sora へのキャラクターライセンスが白紙に (techmeme.com)
Meta、児童保護義務違反で 3 億 7500 万ドルの賠償命令、ニューメキシコ州の陪審団 (techmeme.com)
Arm の AGI CPU、136 個の Neoverse V3 コアと 6GB/s のメモリ帯域幅、x86 比で 2 倍以上のラック性能 (techmeme.com)
Sam Altman、OpenAI 安全保障チームの監督権を譲渡、資金調達と大規模データセンター構築に注力 (techmeme.com)
OpenAI、Sora 関連製品を廃止予定、コンシューマーアプリと ChatGPT 内の動画機能停止へ (techmeme.com)
LLM アクセスインターフェース LiteLLM の 2 バージョン、PyPI から削除、認証情報盗難コード注入のサプライチェーン攻撃受ける (Thomas Claburn/The Register) (techmeme.com)
関係筋: Amazon が Fauna Robotics (New York 拠点) を買収、人間的な 42 インチロボット開発中、人間とやり取り・歩行・ダンス可能 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Baltimore が xAI を相手に提訴、初の主要米都市に、Grok を一般的に安全とマーケティングしたと消費者保護法違反で主張 (Lora Kolodny/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
OpenAI、オープンウェイト安全モデル gpt-oss-safeguard で使用するプロンプトセットをリリース、開発者がアプリをティーン向けに安全にできる (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
関係筋: OpenAI、Abu Dhabi の MGX・Coatue・Thrive から約 $10B 調達に近い、最新ラウンドは約 $120B・$730B バリュエーション (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
関係筋: Apple の Siri リブート計画に、スタンドアロン Siri アプリ、Dynamic Island の刷新インターフェース、Ask Siri・Write with Siri 機能を含む (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Anthropic、Claude Codeが権限レベルの決定を行える「オートモード」を発表、大量ファイル削除などの破壊的なアクション防止 (techmeme.com)
OpenAI、ChatGPTのショッピング体験を刷新、画像アップロードまたはアイテム説明と予算などの基準の指定が可能に (techmeme.com)
既存の会計システムと統合するAIネイティブ在庫管理レイヤーを提供するDoss、5,500万ドルのシリーズB資金調達を実施 (techmeme.com)
Apple、iOS 26.4 をリリース—Playlist Playground、新絵文字 8 個、キーボード精度向上ほか (techmeme.com)
Arm、AGI CPU という独自の AI チップを発表—従来の設計役からの転換、Meta と OpenAI が初期顧客に (techmeme.com)
Circle 株が最大 18% 下落、Coinbase も 8% 下げ—米 Clarity Act 案がステーブルコイン利回り規制を示唆 (techmeme.com)
社内メモ：Meta、CTO Andrew Bosworth が AI For Work 推進を担当—AI ネイティブスタートアップ対抗策 (techmeme.com)
Googleがソフトウェア定義車向けAndroid Automotive OSを発表、インフォテインメントから非安全内部システムへ「オープンインフラ」を拡大（Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge） (techmeme.com)
OpenAIがOpenAI Foundation経由で2026年にAI関連事業に$1Bを投資計画、共同創業者Wojciech Zarembaをレジリエンスイニシアチブのリーダーに指名（Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
AppleがApple Businessを4月14日にローンチ予定、ビジネスツール統合の無料プラットフォーム、米国とカナダではApple Maps広告を夏に展開（Sarah Perez/TechCrunch） (techmeme.com)
情報筋：MicrosoftがCrusoeと契約、テキサス州Abileneで~700MWのデータセンタープロジェクトをリース、OracleとOpenAIが撤退後（Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
フィンランドが選挙プラットフォームのAWS移行計画を中止、米国への信頼低下で2027年総選挙まで国内サーバーに留まる決定（Kati Pohjanpalo/Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
Ai2がMolmoWebを発表、4Bおよび8Bパラメータサイズのオープンウェイト視覚Webエージェント、HTMLパース代わりにブラウザスクリーンショット経由で動作（Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat） (techmeme.com)
Halterが音声と振動キューでリモート放牧を実現するAI搭載牛首輪、Founders Fund主導で$220M調達、$2B評価（Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
Epicが1,000人以上をリストラ、「支出が収益を大きく上回っている」と述べ、$500M節約で「より安定した状態に」（Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
Beehiivがクリエイターに対しAIプラットフォーム経由でアカウント管理を提供、第1版Beehiiv MCPが購読者分析とSEO最適化に対応（Sara Fischer/Axios） (techmeme.com)
Tetherが初の完全独立監査を実施、Big Fourが担当 (techmeme.com)
旧Caption、現Mirage、AIビデオ編集・マーケティング事業を展開、2025年フリーミアム化後General Catalystから7500万ドル調達 (techmeme.com)
Amazon Zoox、Las Vegasで6月末までにロボタクシーサービス開始予定、San Francisco先駆けで (techmeme.com)
NYSE、Securitizeと協力してDigital Trading Platformを開発、トークン化株式・ETFの24時間365日取引システム (techmeme.com)
Kleiner Perkins、$3.5B で 2 つの新ファンド設立、第 22 号アーリーステージファンドに $1B、成長段階ファンドに $2.5B を配分、AUM は $21B+ に (techmeme.com)
ロシア宇宙企業 Bureau 1440、16 基のブロードバンドインターネット衛星を打ち上げ、SpaceX に対抗する低軌道ネットワークの初期段階 (techmeme.com)
Palantir が ICE との仕事をめぐり中間選挙前に米国キャンペーンの焦点に、6 人の議員が今後の資金を公に拒否 (techmeme.com)
Amazon、バーレーン AWS リージョンが「機能停止」、ドローン活動が原因、米国主導イラン戦争の中で 1 か月間で 2 度目の障害 (techmeme.com)
Xiaomi、Q4 売上高が前年同期比 7.3% 増の約 $17B、予想をわずかに上回るが 2023 年以来の最低成長率、EV 販売がスマートフォン需要低迷を補えず (techmeme.com)
Kleiner podcastで、DOD幹部Emil Michaelが2017年に自分とTravis Kalanickを解任したUber投資家を「決して忘れない」「許さない」と語った(Connie Loizos/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
European VC企業Hummingbird、「ミスフィット」創業者を発掘するため$800Mを調達し、KrakenとAI vibe coding起業Lovableを支援後、総資産を~$2Bまで拡大(Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
ロンドン拠点のRevolut、2025年の売上が前年比46%増の£4.5Bを報告、税引前利益£1.7B(2024年は£1.1B)、顧客数33%増で、銀行化へ進展(Elena Vardon/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
SK Hynix、2027年までにASMLから最先端EUVリソグラフィーチップ製造ツールを購入するため~$8Bの支出を計画、SamsungとのDRAMとHBM供給競争(Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotraとの Q&A、Grammarly のExpert Reviewフィーチャーを謝罪、AI なりすまし、帰属、クリエイター補償についてなど(Nilay Patel/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
OpenAI が UK CMA に請願、Chrome/Android のデフォルト検索選択画面に検索機能付き AI チャットボット追加要求 (techmeme.com)
Warren・Banks 上院議員が Supermicro 共同創業者 Wally Liaw 起訴受け Nvidia AI チップ対中・東南アジア輸出ライセンス一時停止要求 (techmeme.com)
関係者曰く、Nintendo が Switch 2 生産を今四半期 4M ユニット に削減（前期 6M から約33%減）、特に米国での需要不振受け (techmeme.com)
Alibaba の DAMO Academy が XuanTie C950 発表、5nm サーバーチップ3.2 GHz 駆動で「世界最高性能 RISC-V CPU」と主張 (techmeme.com)
Japan の Sakana AI が初のコンシューマーチャットボット Sakana Chat ローンチ、生成 AI 局地化競争激化で事業重点からシフト (techmeme.com)
ミュンヘン拠点のInterloom、企業運用記録からAI向け暗黙知取得—DN Capitalが主導するシードで$16.5M調達 (techmeme.com)
SoftBank、OpenAI追加$30B拠出によりLTVが25%上限超過の可能性 (techmeme.com)
Nvidiaがスタートアップ投資と支援でAI業界最強金融家に—数十億ドル規模（Wall Street Journal） (techmeme.com)
Internet Watch Foundation、2025年にAI生成の児童性虐待画像・動画8,029件を特定、前年比14%増（Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times） (techmeme.com)
米国務省、新興脅威局を発足、サイバー攻撃とAI兵器化に対抗（Shannon K. Kingston/ABC News） (techmeme.com)
Bengaluru拠点の Swish、10分フードデリバリーで Series B 3,800万ドル調達、バリュエーション1億3,900万ドル、累計5,400万ドル（Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch） (techmeme.com)
New Mexico が Meta を提訴、子どもの安全リスクめぐり陪審員が評議開始（Morgan Lee/Associated Press） (techmeme.com)
Microsoft が Allen Institute for AI から AI 研究者グループを採用、3 月 12 日に退職した元 CEO の Ali Farhadi も含む（Todd Bishop/GeekWire） (techmeme.com)
FCC、セキュリティ上の懸念から外国製消費者向けルーターの輸入禁止；中国が米国の家庭用ルーター市場の 60% 以上を支配していると推定（David Shepardson/Reuters） (techmeme.com)
iPhone エクスプロイトキット DarkSword の新バージョンが GitHub で流出、iVerify 共同創設者 Matthias Frielingsdorf は「すぐに機能する」と指摘（TechCrunch） (techmeme.com)
Anthropic、Claude Cowork と Claude Code デスクトップアプリにコンピュータ使用機能を追加、macOS でリサーチプレビュー開始（Pro・Max サブスクライバー向け）（Blake Stimac/CNET） (techmeme.com)
Crunchyrollが流出事件を調査、ハッカーが支援スタッフアカウントにアクセスし約6.8Mユーザーの個人情報を窃取と主張 (techmeme.com)
ドローン配送スタートアップZiplineが追加$200Mを調達（Paradigmを含む）、Series Hを総額$800Mに (techmeme.com)
Kalshi、政治家やアスリートら利害関係者の取引を事前に防ぐ新ガイドラインを発表 (techmeme.com)
メモ：Meta が AI エージェント作成を可能にする Dreamer の創業者・チームを採用。共同創設者 Hugo Barra は Meta Superintelligence Labs に参加 (techmeme.com)
米国、チップ・エネルギー・鉱物のサプライチェーン確保に向け、$4Tを投じる国々の任意コンソーシアム創設を計画。米国は$250Mを拠出 (techmeme.com)
Kalshi・Polymarket CEO、初期従業員2名が主導するVC基金に投資、予測市場スタートアップ支援で最大$35M調達 (techmeme.com)
Jensen Huang氏インタビュー：「AGI達成」との発言、Nvidia経営、AI スケーリング則、OpenClaw、コーディングの未来、宇宙データセンター、中国など (Lex Fridman) (techmeme.com)
Polymarket、インサイダー取引ルール公開：盗聴情報・違法な情報・利益相反イベント賭けを禁止 (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
Apple、WWDC 2026を6月8-12日に開催を発表、開発者向けオンラインイベント無料、6月8日にApple Parkで対面イベント (Juli Clover/MacRumors) (techmeme.com)
情報筋：Appleが Maps app への広告導入を準備、小売業・ブランドが検索クエリに対して広告枠の入札可能に (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
ノルウェースタートアップ Lace、光の代わりにヘリウムビーム lithography を開発、$40M Series A 調達 (Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Utah での試験運用を通じて、初めて AI で処方箋の再取得を実現した Doctronic が、Abstract と Lightspeed が主導する $40M を調達 (Brian Gormley/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
様々なハードウェア上で AI ワークロードを実行する初の「マルチシリコン推論クラウド」と謳う Gimlet Labs が $80M の Series A を調達 (Julie Bort/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Sundar Pichai 他 Google 幹部への独占インタビュー: ChatGPT 登場に不意を突かれたこと、Gemini、有用な AI を至る所に という Pichai の構想など (Harry McCracken/Fast Company) (techmeme.com)
関係者: OpenAI が Sam Altman が支援する融合スタートアップ Helion から 2030 年までに 5 GW の電力購入を協議中。Altman は Helion 会長職から退任 (Ina Fried/Axios) (techmeme.com)
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plusレビュー：アプリ性能は驚異的、大幅値下げ、265K比で改善—ゲーミング性能は平凡、電力消費は課題 (techmeme.com)
Canal+、ITV、Sky ら放送局、EUに Android TV などスマートTV プラットフォームをDMA上の「ゲートキーパー」指定要求 (techmeme.com)
ロンドン発ラグジュアリーライドヘイリングアプリWheely、NYC ローンチ—Uber Elite 競合狙う、企業アカウント約1,250件、アクティブユーザー約100K (techmeme.com)
関係者：OpenAI、PE企業向けに17.5%最低リターン保証とモデル先行アクセスで合弁事業確保—Anthropic 条件より好条件 (techmeme.com)
関係者：EA、150億ドル債券で550億ドルのサウジ主導MBO資金化へ—年間コスト削減7億ドル超見込む (techmeme.com)
OnlyFans 親会社Fenix オーナーLeonid Radvinsky氏が43歳で癌のため逝去—2018年にOnlyFans持株取得 (techmeme.com)
OpenAI、Meta 元広告トップのDave Dugan氏を広告営業責任者に起用、COO Brad Lightcap 直下—Dugan氏は今月初めにMeta VP を退任 (techmeme.com)
AIチップ企業Kandou AI、2億2,500万ドル調達で評価額4億ドル—SoftBank、Synopsys など参加、コンシューマーハードからAIインフラにピボット (techmeme.com)
上院議員 Adam Schiff と John Curtis が CFTC 規制予測市場（Kalshi や Polymarket など）でのスポーツベット禁止の超党派法案を提出（Krystal Hur/Wall Street Journal） (techmeme.com)
関係者によると、Sony が家庭用エンターテイメント事業の51%株式を中国ライバル TCL に約 $1 B で売却する最終合意に近づいており、今月中にも実現する可能性（Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
Addison Lee CEO Liam Griffin は、Waymo や Tesla のロボタクシーの「捕食的価格」を防ぐため、ロンドンのタクシー運転手を「最低価格」で保護すべきだと述べる（Financial Times） (techmeme.com)
クラウド、アプリ、インフラの問題を監視・トラブルシューティングするAIエージェントを提供する NYC 拠点の Dash0 が、Balderton 主導で $110 M 調達、評価額 $1 B（Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
EC の EU Inc. 提案は逃された機会であり、国家裁判所に企業規則の解釈を任せることになり、ブリュッセルが先制攻撃的に低い目標を設定したようである（Martin Sandbu/Financial Times） (techmeme.com)
韓国AI企業 Upstage が AMD の MI355 チップ10K個の買収について協議中、「Nvidia チップが多いため」「他のチップへの多様化」を目指していると述べる（Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
シンガポール拠点の Grab が Delivery Hero の Foodpanda 台湾事業を現金 $600 M で買収することに同意、東南アジア市場外への初進出（Bloomberg） (techmeme.com)
インドメディア：インド警察が CoinDCX の共同創業者2名を逮捕、告発者が取引所に関連する投資詐欺を主張後；CoinDCX は主張を「虚偽」と呼ぶ（Zack Abrams/The Block） (techmeme.com)
AWS の20周年プロフィール、その創設、市場支配力への上昇、ChatGPT 破壊への対応、AI 投資の未来をカバー（Todd Bishop/GeekWire） (techmeme.com)
Amazon の田舎アメリカへの高速配送実現と USPS 依存度低減計画の内幕；Amazon は13K郵便番号をサービスする200の田舎配送ハブを目指す（Sean McLain/Wall Street Journal） (techmeme.com)
Google が5つの米国電力会社と合計1GWの「デマンドレスポンス」で契約、ピーク時間帯のデータセンター電力消費を削減（Laila Kearney/Reuters） (techmeme.com)
AI エージェントがトレーニングコードを反復評価してモデルを最適化するループで実行される Andrej Karpathy の「autoresearch」実験を見る（Jeremy Kahn/Fortune） (techmeme.com)
Palantir が金融犯罪に対処するため UK FCA のインテリジェンスデータにアクセスする3ヶ月、£30K+/週のトライアルを獲得、関係者が FCA 内で懸念を示していると述べる（Robert Booth/The Guardian） (techmeme.com)
Samsung、Quick Share に Apple AirDrop 対応を展開——Galaxy S26 シリーズから韓国で開始、他デバイス・地域への拡大予定 (techmeme.com)
3月16日 – 3月22日
関係者：アクティビスト投資家 Elliott が Synopsys に数十億ドルの出資を行い、ソフトウェア・サービス利益向上を目指して経営陣と協議予定 (techmeme.com)
Reality Labs は80億ドル以上の損失を計上も Meta のハードウェア全般を手がけ——Google や Apple を仲介者としない事業運営への Mark Zuckerberg の思いが反映 (techmeme.com)
Tim Cook の後継者候補 John Ternus の横顔——Apple ハードウェアポートフォリオを形作る彼が、公的活動と Apple 内での影響力を拡大 (techmeme.com)
Meta の社内AI開発・活用について関係者が語った；Mark Zuckerberg は情報取得を加速させるCEOエージェント開発を進めていると情報源が明かす (techmeme.com)
Poste Italiane、Telecom Italia 完全買収に向け€10.8B の現金・株式混合オファーを開始；Poste は既に Telecom Italia の筆頭株主 (techmeme.com)
Tencent、OpenClawベースのエージェント「ClawBot」をWeChat統合で展開。1B+ユーザーがチャットで同AIエージェントにコマンド送受信可能に(Reuters) (techmeme.com)
Claude CodeなどのAIツールがコーダーの人生を変える。AI企業が次に狙うのはノンコーダー市場の完全自動化(Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
Huawei傘下のYuanjieに注目：AIデータセンター向けフォトニックチップメーカー、1年で株価780%上昇(Yue Wang/Forbes) (techmeme.com)
ビットコインマイニング大手Bitmainプロフィール：Eric TrumpのAmerican Bitcoinと提携、かつてDHSのスパイ容疑対象に(Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
ワールドモデルの歴史・理論・進捗・可能性を論じた論文：Nvidia GTC 2026の注目テーマ、General Intuition CEO Pim de Witteが共著(Not Boring by Packy McCormick) (techmeme.com)