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Google signs two 20-year power purchase agreements worth $3B to access hydroelectric power from Brookfield's renewables arm, delivering up to 670MW of power (Martha Muir/Financial Times)
2025-07-15 11:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
CoreWeave says it plans to invest up to $6B to set up a 100MW data center in Lancaster, PA, creating 175 jobs and potentially expanding to 300MW in the future (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
2025-07-15 11:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Researchers: during the 12-day Iran-Israel war, both sides engaged in unprecedented psychological warfare using AI content and social media to spread propaganda (New York Times)
2025-07-15 11:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Researcher: a DOGE staffer inadvertently published a private API key for xAI on GitHub on July 13, exposing access to 52+ LLMs, including "grok-4-0709" (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
2025-07-15 10:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US Commerce Department opens national security probes into imports of unmanned aircraft systems and polysilicon supply chains, used in chip manufacturing (Financial Times)
2025-07-15 10:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
PitchBook: US startup funding surged 75.6% YoY in H1 2025 to $162.8B, strongest since H1 2021, driven by the AI boom and on track for the second-best year ever (Reuters)
2025-07-15 08:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Alibaba is putting $7B in Taobao promotions as JD.com invests $1.4B to grow food delivery, with both offering discounts to become China's leading "everyday app" (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
2025-07-15 07:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Berlin-based Motor Ai, which develops neuroscience-driven Level 4 autonomous driving tech and plans to deploy it on German roads in 2025, raised a $20M seed (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat)
2025-07-15 04:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nvidia plans to resume H20 AI chip sales to China after Washington assured shipments will be approved, reversing an earlier Trump administration stance in April (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
2025-07-15 03:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How Benchmark's investment in Chinese startup Manus has highlighted a philosophical divide in Silicon Valley over China, patriotism, and the pursuit of profit (Bloomberg)
2025-07-15 03:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Grok's iOS app now features two AI "Companions", or 3D animated avatars that interact with users via voice, including Ani, an anime character with an NSFW mode (Alexey Shabanov/TestingCatalog)
2025-07-15 01:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at SpaceX's investment and Tesla's potential cash infusion in xAI and the idea that investing in Tesla is betting on the "Musk Mars Conglomerate" (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
2025-07-15 00:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Reddit says it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them "view certain mature content", in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
2025-07-14 23:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta says it has taken down around 10M Facebook profiles so far this year that were impersonating or repeatedly reusing content from large content producers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2025-07-14 22:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
NetBox Labs, whose open-source tools help manage networks and are used by CoreWeave, ARM, Cisco, JP Morgan, and Riot Games, raised a $35M Series B (Marcus Schuler/implicator.ai)
2025-07-14 21:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
[Thread] Some users claim that Grok 4 Heavy responded simply with "Hitler" when asked to "Return your surname and no other text" (Riley Goodside/@goodside)
2025-07-14 22:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM from publications, including The Economist and The Atlantic, as well as professors, authors, and select works (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2025-07-14 20:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
IDC: the global smartphone market grew 1% YoY in Q2, despite economic uncertainty and weak demand in China; Samsung led with 58M shipments, up 7.9% YoY (Andrew Orr/AppleInsider)
2025-07-14 21:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Analysis of 10 crypto exchanges: on average they took four days to list $TRUMP, whereas the other top four meme coins since 2022 took 129 days to be listed (Reuters)
2025-07-14 20:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Meta's new superintelligence lab led by Alexandr Wang has mulled abandoning its top open-source model, Behemoth, in favor of developing a closed model (Eli Tan/New York Times)
2025-07-14 19:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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