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iOS 26 beta 4 adds more "liquid" back to Liquid Glass design, after dialing it back in beta 3 (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
2025-07-22 20:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
SAP reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to €9.03B, vs. €9.05B est., cloud revenue up 24% to €5.13B, vs. €5.15B est., operating profit up 32% to €2.57B, vs. €2.43B est. (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)
2025-07-22 21:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: dozens of xAI staff voiced concerns over a program granting xAI "perpetual" access to data like their "likeness" for training; several did not consent (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
2025-07-22 19:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The UK plans to ban public sector and key infrastructure orgs from paying ransoms to ransomware attackers, require others to notify the UK if they plan to pay (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
2025-07-22 20:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Survey of 900 US Google users: of ~69K searches, 18% gave AI Overviews; on those searches users clicked a result link 8% of the time, vs. 15% with no AI summary (Pew Research Center)
2025-07-22 19:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Amazon is acquiring Bee, which sells a $50 device that resembles a Fitbit, is always listening, transcribes conversations, and serves up daily AI summaries (Emma Roth/The Verge)
2025-07-22 19:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: OpenAI's $40B round announced in March is reopening on July 28; SoftBank's commitment could be cut to $10B if OpenAI does not restructure by end of 2025 (Lauren Goode/Wired)
2025-07-22 18:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nvidia rival Hailo announced the general availability of its second-generation AI accelerator chip, the Hailo-10H, with HP among its early adopters (Dylan Martin/CRN)
2025-07-22 17:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Poseidon, an AI-focused decentralized data layer built on the Story protocol, raised a $15M seed led by a16z (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
2025-07-22 18:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Microsoft has poached 24+ employees from Google DeepMind in the past six months; Gemini engineering head Amar Subramanya confirms the move to Microsoft (Financial Times)
2025-07-22 16:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filing: the FBI drops its probe of Kraken founder Jesse Powell and returns dozens of devices, after raiding his home in 2023 over seemingly banal allegations (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
2025-07-22 16:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: after raising $10B, xAI is now working with a trusted financier to secure up to $12B to buy Nvidia chips, led by Elon Musk-linked Valor Equity Partners (Wall Street Journal)
2025-07-22 16:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: the EU is set to approve Apple's App Store rule and fee changes, unveiled last month, in the coming weeks, staving off a potentially hefty daily fine (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
2025-07-22 16:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Telegram expands access to its TON crypto wallet, integrated into the Telegram app, for its 87M users in the US (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
2025-07-22 14:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AI compliance startup Delve raised a $32M Series A at a $300M valuation led by Insight Partners with participation from CISOs at Fortune 500 companies (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
2025-07-22 15:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Apple's AI model team wanted to release several models as open source but Craig Federighi disagreed, largely concerned about public perception issues (The Information)
2025-07-22 15:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft says it "has observed two named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon exploiting" the SharePoint zero-day vulnerabilities (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
2025-07-22 13:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Philadelphia-based Asylon, which modifies Boston Dynamics' robot dog Spot into DroneDog, raised a $26M Series B led by Insight, taking its total funding to $45M (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
2025-07-22 12:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Lumotive, whose optical chip tech can "steer" laser light and is an alternative to lidar, extends its Series B from $45M to $59M, including from Amazon's IIF (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
2025-07-22 12:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Miaan Group: a number of Iranians received spyware threat alerts from Apple in H1 2025 in the months prior to the Iran-Israel war, the first such cases in Iran (Patrick Howell O'Neill/Bloomberg)
2025-07-22 12:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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