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Alphabet offers to spend $500M+ over ten years to rebuild its global compliance structure, in a settlement proposal for an antitrust lawsuit from shareholders (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
2025-06-02 18:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A UK government trial with 20K+ civil servants using Microsoft's Copilot AI for three months found a 26 minute average daily time saving, or two weeks per year (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
2025-06-02 13:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
X aims to roll out an "XChat" messaging feature "with encryption, vanishing messages and the ability to send any kind of file" to all users this week (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2025-06-02 16:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Paradromics implanted and removed its Connexus brain implant in a patient for ~10 minutes during epilepsy surgery on May 14, a first for the Neuralink rival (Emily Mullin/Wired)
2025-06-02 12:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Germany's Federal Cartel Office warns Amazon that its price controls for marketplace retailers likely violate national and EU laws, in preliminary findings (Karin Matussek/Bloomberg)
2025-06-02 12:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filing: neobank Chime plans to sell 26M shares in its IPO at $24 to $26, giving it a valuation between $10.3B and $11.1B; its two co-founders own 4% to 5% each (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
2025-06-02 13:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The EU Commission fines European takeaway groups Delivery Hero and Glovo €329M for taking part in an "online food delivery cartel", closing a July 2024 probe (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
2025-06-02 11:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Wall Street giants like Blackstone, KKR, and BlackRock are pouring hundreds of billions into AI data centers, creating concerns of "oversupply" and a bubble (Maureen Farrell/New York Times)
2025-06-02 11:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
SoftBank and Intel form Saimemory, a new company to develop stacked DRAM memory chips for AI that consume ~50% of the power of current HBM in the next two years (Nikkei Asia)
2025-06-02 11:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An interview with Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech's next chapter, meeting in 1997, Steve Jobs, Apple, Powell Jobs' io investment in 2019, AI, and more (Matthew Garrahan/Financial Times)
2025-06-02 11:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Paris' public prosecutor says it charged 25 people, including six minors, over a spate of kidnappings and attempted abductions targeting crypto executives (Le Monde)
2025-06-02 10:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
UK neobank Monzo reports FY 2025 revenue up 48% YoY to £1.2B, a £60.5M pre-tax profit, up from £13.9M in FY 2024, deposits up 48% YoY to £16.6B, and 12M+ users (Yadarisa Shabong/Reuters)
2025-06-02 10:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Apple says it is appealing the EU's iOS interoperability order under the DMA that creates "a process that is unreasonable, costly, and stifles innovation" (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)
2025-06-02 10:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Meta aims to help brands fully create and target ads using AI by the end of 2026, including images and budgetary goals, building on its current tools (Wall Street Journal)
2025-06-02 10:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Russian GRU Unit 29155's hacking department, which started out in 2012, and its involvement in cyber warfare and disinformation campaigns (The Insider)
2025-06-02 08:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Elad Gil, backer of Perplexity, Character.AI, Airbnb, Coinbase, and Stripe, invested in Enam Co., which aims to transform businesses with AI via PE roll-ups (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
2025-06-02 04:34 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A deep dive into Apple TV's privacy features shows that Apple's streaming device is more private than the vast majority of alternatives, save for dumb TVs (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
2025-06-02 06:34 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of prediction market Kalshi, which is using its federal financial license to open up sports gambling across the US, even in states where it is illegal (Justina Lee/Bloomberg)
2025-06-01 21:33 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Samsung and Perplexity in talks about an investment, preloading Perplexity's app on Samsung devices, adding its search to Samsung's browser, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
2025-06-02 00:34 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: UMG, Warner Music, and Sony Music are in talks to license their work to AI music services Udio and Suno and settle copyright infringement lawsuits (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
2025-06-01 18:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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