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Sources: WBD begins exclusive talks with Netflix to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max; Netflix is offering a $5B breakup fee if the deal isn't approved (Bloomberg)
2025-12-05 09:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AWS unveils its 192-core Graviton5 processor, with an up to 25% performance boost over Graviton4, and says Graviton makes up 50%+ of AWS' new CPU capacity (About Amazon)
2025-12-05 11:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Japan faces bottlenecks in data center construction due to labor shortages and more; DC Byte says Japan's capacity has tripled to 6.8 GW in the past five years (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)
2025-12-05 11:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Microsoft Excel's evolution, as it remains the most widely used spreadsheet software with 500M paying users despite competition from Google and others (Bloomberg)
2025-12-05 08:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, who said his 2025 re:Invent keynote was his last to make room for other voices and warned devs about "verification debt" (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)
2025-12-05 08:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Researchers claim that prompts framed as riddle-like poems could skirt AI chatbots' safety features designed to block production of explicit or harmful content (Robert Hart/The Verge)
2025-12-05 07:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look back at five years of Meta's Oversight Board, whose rulings on the relatively small number of cases it hears have generally had limited impact (Casey Newton/Platformer)
2025-12-05 07:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google debuts Titans, an architecture combining RNN speed with transformer performance for real-time learning, able to scale effectively to a 2M+ context window (Google Research)
2025-12-05 05:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Similarweb: generative AI platforms were averaging ~7B monthly web visits as of September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
2025-12-05 07:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A review of LinkedIn profiles shows dozens of Apple staffers with expertise in audio, watch design, robotics, and more have joined OpenAI in recent months (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-05 06:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
CEO Matthew Prince says Cloudflare has blocked 416B AI bot requests for its customers since July 1, and that Google can see 3.2x more internet pages than OpenAI (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
2025-12-05 06:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The NHTSA asks Waymo about its self-driving vehicles illegally passing school buses, including 19 times in Texas this year, as part of a probe opened in October (David Shepardson/Reuters)
2025-12-05 05:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Masayoshi Son plans with the White House to build "Trump Industrial Parks" in the US to produce AI infrastructure parts, funded by Japan's trade deal (Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-05 05:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Pine, which offers an AI agent to automate digital chores, like making calls, handling emails, and operating software to complete tasks, raised a $25M Series A (FinSMEs)
2025-12-05 03:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities (A.J. Vicens/Reuters)
2025-12-05 04:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Docusign reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to $818.4M, vs. $807.1M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates; DOCU drops 6%+ after hours (Arvelisse Bonilla Ramos/Bloomberg)
2025-12-05 02:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Physicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5 (Steve Hsu/@hsu_steve)
2025-12-05 02:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads raised ~$1.13B in the year's second-largest onshore IPO, valuing it at ~$7.6B, with the retail portion oversubscribed 2,750x (Bloomberg)
2025-12-05 01:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A Polymarket trader netted $1M+ in 24 hours, mostly by placing suspiciously accurate bets on Google's 2025 Year in Search rankings (Boaz Sobrado/Forbes)
2025-12-05 01:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Micro1, which helps AI labs find experts for data annotation, says it has crossed $100M in annualized revenue and fielded investment offers at a $2.5B valuation (Anna Tong/Forbes)
2025-12-05 00:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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