Techmeme

xAI publishes system prompts for Grok on GitHub, including telling Grok to be "extremely skeptical" and not to "blindly defer to mainstream authority or media" (Emma Roth/The Verge)

xAI publishes system prompts for Grok on GitHub, includ...

May 16, 2025 0

Emma Roth / The Verge: xAI publishes system prompts for Grok on GitHub, includ...

Klarna CEO says its AI agent now handles two-thirds of customer service chats, an equivalent of 800 jobs, but Klarna is hiring workers for higher-end chats (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

Klarna CEO says its AI agent now handles two-thirds of ...

May 16, 2025 0

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: Klarna CEO says its AI agent now handles two...

The FCC approves Verizon's $9.6B acquisition of Frontier Communications after Verizon agreed to pare back what Brendan Carr called "invidious" DEI practices (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)

The FCC approves Verizon's $9.6B acquisition of Frontie...

May 16, 2025 0

Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: The FCC approves Verizon's $9.6B acquisition of Fr...

Apple denies removing Fortnite from alternative marketplaces in the EU and says it asked Epic Sweden to resubmit the app update excluding the US App Store (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Apple denies removing Fortnite from alternative marketp...

May 16, 2025 0

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple denies removing Fortnite from alternative marke...

Anthropic received a $2.5B, five-year revolving credit line, and says annualized revenue reached $2B in Q1 2025, up from $1B in Q1 2024 (Hayden Field/CNBC)

Anthropic received a $2.5B, five-year revolving credit ...

May 16, 2025 0

Hayden Field / CNBC: Anthropic received a $2.5B, five-year revolving credit li...

SEC filing: Los Angeles-based Moonvalley, which is developing AI tools for video creation, raised $53M, bringing its total funding to about $124M, per PitchBook (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

SEC filing: Los Angeles-based Moonvalley, which is deve...

May 16, 2025 0

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: SEC filing: Los Angeles-based Moonvalley, which is ...

US immigration attorneys: since January 2025, USCIS has significantly increased requests for more evidence on tech-related visa petitions, like H-1Bs and O-1s (Lauren Goode/Wired)

US immigration attorneys: since January 2025, USCIS has...

May 16, 2025 0

Lauren Goode / Wired: US immigration attorneys: since January 2025, USCIS has ...

Sources: President Trump's Middle East AI deals open a rift with China hawks in his administration over concerns that US chips sent to the Gulf end up in China (Bloomberg)

Sources: President Trump's Middle East AI deals open a ...

May 16, 2025 0

Bloomberg: Sources: President Trump's Middle East AI deals open a rift with Ch...

Charter says it will acquire Cox Communications for $21.9B, valuing Cox at $34.5B including debt and uniting two of the biggest US cable and broadband operators (Reuters)

Charter says it will acquire Cox Communications for $21...

May 16, 2025 0

Reuters: Charter says it will acquire Cox Communications for $21.9B, valuing C...

Sources: ByteDance expects 2025 revenue to grow ~20% YoY to ~$186B, vs. 29% in 2024, driven by TikTok's global expansion; ByteDance has 4B+ MAUs across its apps (Bloomberg)

Sources: ByteDance expects 2025 revenue to grow ~20% Yo...

May 16, 2025 0

Bloomberg: Sources: ByteDance expects 2025 revenue to grow ~20% YoY to ~$186B,...

Taiwanese silicon wafer supplier GlobalWafers plans to invest $4B more in the US as it seeks to boost local supply, more than doubling its investment to $7.5B (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)

Taiwanese silicon wafer supplier GlobalWafers plans to ...

May 16, 2025 0

Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal: Taiwanese silicon wafer supplier GlobalWa...

OpenAI rolls out Codex, an AI coding agent powered by codex-1, a version of o3 optimized for software engineering, for ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Team users (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

OpenAI rolls out Codex, an AI coding agent powered by c...

May 16, 2025 0

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: OpenAI rolls out Codex, an AI coding agent powered ...

Japan enacts the Active Cyberdefense Law, which permits the country's authorities to preemptively engage with adversaries through offensive cyber operations (Alexander Martin/The Record)

Japan enacts the Active Cyberdefense Law, which permits...

May 16, 2025 0

Alexander Martin / The Record: Japan enacts the Active Cyberdefense Law, which...

Q&A with Wired's Steven Levy on the evolving relationship between the tech industry and the press, media outlets' licensing deals with AI companies, and more (Camille Bromley/Columbia Journalism ...)

Q&A with Wired's Steven Levy on the evolving relationsh...

May 16, 2025 0

Camille Bromley / Columbia Journalism Review: Q&A with Wired's Steven Levy on ...

Microsoft says internal and external reviews found no evidence the Israeli military used its tech to harm civilians in Gaza, after months of employee protests (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Microsoft says internal and external reviews found no e...

May 16, 2025 0

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft says internal and external reviews found no ...

Spotify adjusts its "plays" metric for podcasts to only appear on episodes with at least 50K plays, updating at specific milestones, like 100K or 1M plays (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

Spotify adjusts its "plays" metric for podcasts to only...

May 16, 2025 0

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Spotify adjusts its “plays” metric for podcast...

Nvidia says it won't send GPU designs to China to be modified to comply with export controls, after a report said it is planning a research center in Shanghai (CNBC)

Nvidia says it won't send GPU designs to China to be mo...

May 16, 2025 0

CNBC: Nvidia says it won't send GPU designs to China to be modified to comply w...

Sony's Haven Studios founder Jade Raymond leaves the company; sources: some developers were worried about its first game's external test reception and progress (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Sony's Haven Studios founder Jade Raymond leaves the co...

May 16, 2025 0

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: Sony's Haven Studios founder Jade Raymond leaves t...

After Grok's "white genocide in South Africa" X replies, xAI says "an unauthorized modification was made to Grok response bot's prompt" at 3:15 AM PST on May 14 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

After Grok's "white genocide in South Africa" X replies...

May 16, 2025 0

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: After Grok's “white genocide in South Africa” X rep...

Microsoft says reviews found no evidence its tech was used by the Israeli military to harm civilians in Gaza, following months of protests by Microsoft staffers (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Microsoft says reviews found no evidence its tech was u...

May 16, 2025 0

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft says reviews found no evidence its tech was ...

Analysis: since January, 36+ staff and associates of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Palmer Luckey got federal roles that oversee their companies (Wall Street Journal)

Analysis: since January, 36+ staff and associates of El...

May 16, 2025 0

Wall Street Journal: Analysis: since January, 36+ staff and associates of Elon...

Epic Games says that Apple rejected its latest Fortnite submission to the US App Store and the game on iOS will be "offline worldwide until Apple unblocks it" (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

Epic Games says that Apple rejected its latest Fortnite...

May 16, 2025 0

Dominic Preston / The Verge: Epic Games says that Apple rejected its latest Fo...

Meta says Facebook and Instagram face "an epidemic of scams"; current and former staff say Meta is reluctant to impede its ad business, which grew 22% in 2024 (Wall Street Journal)

Meta says Facebook and Instagram face "an epidemic of s...

May 16, 2025 0

Wall Street Journal: Meta says Facebook and Instagram face “an epidemic of sca...

Taiwanese silicon wafer maker GlobalWafers plans an additional $4B investment in the US, more than doubling its existing investment to $7.5B (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)

Taiwanese silicon wafer maker GlobalWafers plans an add...

May 16, 2025 0

Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal: Taiwanese silicon wafer maker GlobalWafer...

24
25
26
27
28

This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies.