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· 2mo ago

Letter: the US EPA says power plants providing electricity only to data centers and not to the public grid would not be subject to federal pollution laws (Tim McLaughlin/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/epa-says-power-data-centers-can-sidestep-pollution-laws-2026-07-27/ http://www.techmeme.com/260728/p32#a260728p32

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· 1w ago

Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new documentary about Elon Musk "was an error and the ads are being restored" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch) https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/26/meta-says-it-will-run-ads-for-musk-documentary-after-all/ http://www.techmeme.com/260926/p16#a260926p16

TechCrunch

Meta and YouTube say they will run ads for ‘Musk’ documentary after all | TechCrunch

Two companies now say they will accept advertising for director Alex Gibney’s upcoming documentary about Elon Musk, following earlier reporting that a number of social media platforms had rejected the ads.

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· 2w ago

In his UN General Assembly speech, President Trump says the US is "officially" renaming AI to "super intelligence" because "artificial" makes it sound fake (Richard Lawler/The Verge) https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/998816/donald-trump-ai-super-intelligence http://www.techmeme.com/260922/p35#a260922p35

The Verge

Trump says the US is officially renaming AI to ‘super intelligence’

Super American Intelligence.

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· 2w ago

Go.AI, which offers on-premises AI hardware and software tools for regulated organizations like banks, raised an $85M Series A led by Updata Partners (Ryan Lawler/Axios) https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/09/22/go-ai-85m-series-a-bank-ai-appliances http://www.techmeme.com/260922/p63#a260922p63

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· 1w ago

Google is testing Call for Me, which lets Gemini call businesses on behalf of users, initially for Pixel 11 users with a Gemini subscription in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/google-tests-letting-gemini-make-phone-calls-initially-for-us-pixel-owners/ http://www.techmeme.com/260924/p34#a260924p34

TechCrunch

Google tests letting Gemini call businesses for you | TechCrunch

Google says the AI-calling feature will first be available to Pixel 11 owners in the U.S. who pay for a Gemini subscription.

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· 2w ago

Investigation: AI hacker house AGI House had 37 incidents logged by police since 2022, many for party-related complaints, as Bay Area tech houses proliferate (Kirsten Grind/New York Times) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/technology/agi-house-ai-culture.html http://www.techmeme.com/260921/p20#a260921p20

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· 2w ago

Sources: the US "almost started a war" after an AI-assisted report hallucinated that a Chinese ship was carrying nuclear weapons components in the Middle East (CNN) https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship http://www.techmeme.com/260918/p22#a260918p22

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· 2mo ago

AMD and Anthropic sign an AI server deal worth tens of billions; Anthropic will buy 2GW of Instinct MI450 chips in H1 2027, and AMD will invest $5B in Anthropic (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amd-and-anthropic-sign-major-chips-and-investment-deal-4adfdc45?st=oGnmYV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink http://www.techmeme.com/260722/p12#a260722p12

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· 2mo ago

Sources: possible cyberattacks targeting water and wastewater utilities have now been reported in at least 12 US states, and Iran is the prime suspect (ABC News) https://abcnews.com/US/12-states-face-cyberattacks-water-systems-sources/story?id=135348482 http://www.techmeme.com/260804/p38#a260804p38

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· 1mo ago

An Australian user's Claude-run OpenClaw agent exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off after the user asked if it could move him up the waitlist (ABC) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986 http://www.techmeme.com/260809/p10#a260809p10

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· 2mo ago

Pavel Durov says an extortionist planted "illegal porn in a public chat" to get the app pulled from the App Store and manipulated Apple into "overreacting" (Emma Roth/The Verge) https://www.theverge.com/tech/975300/telegram-app-store-takedown-extortion-pavel-durov?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6InJWYk5xVHE4N20iLCJwIjoiL3RlY2gvOTc1MzAwL3RlbGVncmFtLWFwcC1zdG9yZS10YWtlZG93bi1leHRvcnRpb24tcGF2ZWwtZHVyb3YiLCJleHAiOjE3ODYzMDM2NjAsImlhdCI6MTc4NTg3MTY2MH0.8vkfeIHSsNamv44pEynFD6YZAf24e4aEfKQEgejIEEo&utm_medium=gift-link http://www.techmeme.com/260804/p37#a260804p37

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· 2mo ago

Amazon researchers link the compromises of four npm packages, including axios, over the past 18 months to the North Korea-linked group tracked as Sapphire Sleet (Carly Page/The Register) https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/07/30/amazon-links-four-poisoned-npm-packages-to-one-north-korean-crew/5281120 http://www.techmeme.com/260730/p46#a260730p46

theregister.com

Are we human?

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· 2mo ago

Sources: Amazon staff find cases of "catastrophically expensive" AI costs due to a lack of controls, like $1.8M on Claude to match author details with listings (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times) https://www.ft.com/content/77baac40-d803-4084-94f3-a133653072cf http://www.techmeme.com/260730/p18#a260730p18

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· 2mo ago

An AI avatar of Brazil's jailed ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, who is banned from communicating publicly, is testing new AI rules ahead of Brazil's 2026 elections (Financial Times) https://www.ft.com/content/e18c380f-c25d-4e91-8135-d9c2424ab720 http://www.techmeme.com/260730/p15#a260730p15

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· 2mo ago

xAI sues Minnesota's AG over a state law banning apps and sites that create fake, sexualized pictures of individuals, claiming it violates the First Amendment (Riley Moser/CBS News) https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/elon-musk-xai-sues-minnesota-law-banning-ai-nudification/ http://www.techmeme.com/260728/p50#a260728p50

CBS News

Elon Musk

Billionaire Elon Musk

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· 2mo ago

After a backlash, Meta pauses its plan to "rate limit" Conversation Focus, an accessibility feature for its glasses that runs on-device (Sean Hollister/The Verge) https://www.theverge.com/tech/970970/after-backlash-meta-pauses-plan-to-rate-limit-its-smart-glasses?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6InJNNnpCYUMxN2giLCJwIjoiL3RlY2gvOTcwOTcwL2FmdGVyLWJhY2tsYXNoLW1ldGEtcGF1c2VzLXBsYW4tdG8tcmF0ZS1saW1pdC1pdHMtc21hcnQtZ2xhc3NlcyIsImV4cCI6MTc4NTM3MjE2OSwiaWF0IjoxNzg0OTQwMTY5fQ.9DFHwR9IK98hHwfhknWqaiuJd00Na_GecIg05RVv8oQ&utm_medium=gift-link http://www.techmeme.com/260724/p39#a260724p39

The Verge

After backlash, Meta pauses plan to ‘rate limit’ its smart glasses

A paywall is still coming, though.

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· 2mo ago

Tesla stock closed down 14.52% and Alphabet closed down 6.89% after they signaled increased AI spending, amid worries about the mounting costs of the AI boom (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC) https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/23/tesla-tsla-alphabet-googl-stock-today.html http://www.techmeme.com/260723/p45#a260723p45

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· 2mo ago

Study: off-balance sheet debt at Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle grew an est. ~8x since 2022 to ~$1.65T, eclipsing ~$1.35T in balance sheet debt (Kohei Yamada/Nikkei Asia) https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/five-us-tech-giants-hidden-debts-soar-to-1.65tn-on-opaque-ai-funding http://www.techmeme.com/260720/p44#a260720p44

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· 1w ago

A federal appeals court upholds DOD's Anthropic blacklisting, finding Claude's integration with DOD systems is "a statutorily covered national-security risk" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/25/pentagon-anthropic-ai-risk-appeals-court.html http://www.techmeme.com/260925/p10#a260925p10

CNBC

U.S. appeals court upholds Pentagon designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk

In a 2-1 decision, a federal appeals court upheld the Department of Defense's blacklisting of Anthropic.

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· 2mo ago

Analysis: every frontier AI model tested in cybersecurity evaluations attempted to "cheat", led by GPT-5.4 at 14.1% of tasks; Mythos cheated the least, at 7.8% (AI Security Institute) https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/cheating-behaviour-in-frontier-model-evaluations http://www.techmeme.com/260721/p35#a260721p35

AI Security Institute

Cheating behaviour in frontier model evaluations | AISI Work

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· 3w ago

Mark Zuckerberg says AI labs have the responsibility and incentive to train models safely and that any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind (Mark Zuckerberg/@finkd) https://x.com/finkd/status/2099997096896274533 http://www.techmeme.com/260915/p53#a260915p53

X (formerly Twitter)

Mark Zuckerberg (@finkd) on X

Last month I wrote about how we can build a positive and safe future for everyone: https://t.co/eoLGVY8yad Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens. The reality is: - Peo…

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· 2w ago

Meta adds an FDA-cleared hearing enhancement feature to supported Meta Glasses for Meta One subscribers or a one-time cost of $149, rolling out later this year (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget) https://www.engadget.com/2267211/meta-brings-fda-cleared-hearing-enhancement-to-its-smart-glasses/ http://www.techmeme.com/260923/p49#a260923p49

Engadget

Meta brings FDA-cleared hearing enhancement to its smart glasses - Engadget

After a free trial it

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· 2w ago

Sony Music and UMG sue Suno, alleging that its new model trained in partnership with WMG and BMG infringes copyright because it is based on an infringing model (Corbin Bolies/Variety) https://variety.com/2026/music/news/sony-music-universal-music-sue-suno-label-backed-model-1236866921/ http://www.techmeme.com/260918/p20#a260918p20

Sony Music, Universal Music Group Sue Suno Over Label-Backed Model: ‘Fruit of the Same Poisoned Tree’

Variety

Sony Music, Universal Music Group Sue Suno Over Label-Backed Model: ‘Fruit of the Same Poisoned Tree’

The two labels filed a new, 45-page lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in the District of Massachusetts against the AI music-generation company.

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· 2mo ago

Meta adds the Xbox Game Pass starter edition to its Horizon Plus plan, which costs $60/year or $8/month; the starter pass allows 10 hours of gaming per month (Scott Stein/CNET) https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/metas-quest-game-subscribers-will-be-getting-some-xbox-extras/ http://www.techmeme.com/260721/p36#a260721p36

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· 3w ago

President Trump dismisses calls for an AI slowdown, saying "you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up" (Myles McCormick/Financial Times) https://www.ft.com/content/cae60732-f929-4735-a627-db8c14e7c7ed http://www.techmeme.com/260913/p9#a260913p9

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· 2mo ago

Microsoft reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $90B, net income up 31% to $35.8B, and Microsoft Cloud revenue up 27% to $59.3B; MSFT jumps 3%+ after hours (Microsoft) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2026-Q4/press-release-webcast http://www.techmeme.com/260729/p35#a260729p35

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· 2mo ago

Way Security, which uses AI automation and agentic workflows to help deploy IAM systems, raised a $20M seed from Insight Partners and Glilot Capital (Chris Metinko/Axios) https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/07/27/identity-way-security-microsoft-software http://www.techmeme.com/260727/p10#a260727p10

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· 1w ago

OpenAI apologizes for its AI models breaching Australian government websites, pledges cyber defense funding, and plans to form a task force as part of reforms (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-29/openai-to-establish-australian-taskforce-on-ai-cyber-risk http://www.techmeme.com/260929/p1#a260929p1

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· 2mo ago

SpaceX says its Q2 capex was $18.4B, up from $2.8B a year ago, including $15.8B for AI (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-spacex-earnings-08-04-2026/card/spacex-pours-money-into-capital-projects-DYRphLzkRWc0AR41YNPD http://www.techmeme.com/260804/p46#a260804p46

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· 2mo ago

The European Commission fines Google €890M under the DMA for illegally undercutting competition through its search dominance and Google Play developer rules (New York Times) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/business/google-eu-fine-search-competition.html?unlocked_article_code=1.z1A.cbWJ.Q5cief--lxSW&smid=nytcore-ios-share http://www.techmeme.com/260723/p12#a260723p12

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· 2mo ago

Amazon reports Q2 AWS revenue up 37% YoY to $42.2B, above estimates of a 31.21% increase, and AWS operating income up 64% to $16.6B; AMZN jumps 8%+ after hours (Deborah Sophia/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-beats-estimates-quarterly-cloud-revenue-growth-2026-07-30/ http://www.techmeme.com/260730/p50#a260730p50

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· 2mo ago

X relaunches its Android app after a year-long rewrite from scratch; Nikita Bier calls it "one of the largest engineering projects" in the company's history (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/x-relaunches-a-rebuilt-android-app-after-year-long-effort/ http://www.techmeme.com/260720/p36#a260720p36

TechCrunch

X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort | TechCrunch

X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.

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· 2mo ago

Sources: the Trump administration invites staffers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others to the White House on Tuesday to review the AI oversight framework (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/white-house-host-ai-companies-tuesday-review-ai-framework http://www.techmeme.com/260803/p23#a260803p23

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· 2mo ago

Meshy, whose AI-powered tech lets users generate 3D assets from text and image prompts, raised a ~$400M Series B at a $1.5B valuation (Abhinaya Prabhu/Tech Funding News) https://techfundingnews.com/from-mit-research-to-1-5b-unicorn-ethan-hus-meshy-raises-400m-for-ai-powered-3d-creation/ http://www.techmeme.com/260725/p5#a260725p5

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· 2mo ago

Sources: SoftBank gave $50M to Trump's library; Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon gave $25M, $10M, and $5M to his WH ballroom; Meta gave $10M to a pro-Trump group (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-donations-company-fundraising-1e34a78f?st=9oqXmb http://www.techmeme.com/260730/p70#a260730p70

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· 1w ago

Sources: Anthropic dedicated nearly a third of its IPO prospectus to detailing "risk factors", including that its AI may pose "existential risks to humanity" (Financial Times) https://www.ft.com/content/c7685a7e-7745-4cbc-8053-4958d0ea449b?accessToken=zwAAAaDr2OW6kdPHaFp-d0VMvNOAU0lY0OpEmw.MEUCIQDri8jri2FtGIfJjPkxOZ5_1_ZIU_6mV2XSWAkmAyHGCQIgNTptc_pqS1KKFIP7hi0m8Qv5D4KIbxvhaHO4CGCedXQ&segmentId=e95a9ae7-622c-6235-5f87-51e412b47e97&shareId=21e300e9-e2ac-440e-a832-3462c6e1ca1b&shareType=enterprise&syn-25a6b1a6=1 http://www.techmeme.com/260929/p7#a260929p7

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· 1mo ago

Florida says it is revoking permits for Flock cameras and similar license-plate readers on state roads and no longer intends to issue such permits (Ryan Gillespie/Orlando Sentinel) https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/08/31/florida-orders-flock-cameras-off-of-state-roads/ http://www.techmeme.com/260831/p41#a260831p41

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· 2mo ago

Apple releases updates for iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS with a huge number of security fixes; macOS Tahoe 26.6 alone addresses 155 CVEs (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/27/ios-26-6-fixes-over-75-security-issues-with-your-iphone-update-now/ http://www.techmeme.com/260727/p34#a260727p34

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· 3d ago

In an X reply, Elon Musk says that SpaceX will rename its AI unit SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, following Trump's push to replace "artificial" intelligence with "super" (Chandni Shah/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/musk-says-he-will-rename-spacexai-spacexsi-2026-10-04/ http://www.techmeme.com/261004/p14#a261004p14

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· 2mo ago

Sources: India has ordered telecom companies to disable mobile data services in central Delhi, amid youth protests seeking the education minister's resignation (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-asks-telecom-companies-disable-mobile-data-services-around-delhi-protest-2026-07-23/ http://www.techmeme.com/260723/p31#a260723p31

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· 2mo ago

Sources: Reddit, Politico, and others mull cutting Google's access to their content for AI as traffic drops; Reddit signed a $60M/year deal with Google in 2024 (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/business/media/google-search-publishers-ai-content-0fb06e41?st=fwYn9L&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink http://www.techmeme.com/260721/p56#a260721p56

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· 2mo ago

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, giving 100K scientists, mathematicians, and engineers free access to its frontier models through 2027 (Ina Fried/Axios) https://www.axios.com/2026/07/29/openai-academics-research-chatgpt-sol http://www.techmeme.com/260729/p31#a260729p31

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· 2mo ago

NBCU and YouTube reach a multiyear deal to include all Peacock content in YouTube Premium subscriptions in the US starting in early 2027 (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC) https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/27/nbcuniversal-youtube-peacock-premium-subscribers.html http://www.techmeme.com/260727/p17#a260727p17

CNBC

NBCUniversal and YouTube ink deal to embed Peacock in the video platform for premium subscribers

Beginning in early 2027, YouTube Premium subscribers will receive the entirety of Peacock content, including sports and movies.

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· 3w ago

Anthropic and OpenAI are already free to "pace the frontier" and should do so for business reasons, instead of first demanding a preferred regulatory framework (David Sacks/@davidsacks) https://x.com/davidsacks/status/2098973625252708460 http://www.techmeme.com/260913/p5#a260913p5

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· 2w ago

The US Treasury sanctions Iranian crypto exchange BitBank, saying it sent hundreds of millions to the IRGC and helped Iran operate a Strait of Hormuz toll booth (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk) https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/09/18/iran-s-strait-of-hormuz-toll-booth-ran-through-a-bitcoin-exchange-u-s-says http://www.techmeme.com/260918/p11#a260918p11

coindesk.com

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