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Google Cloud has competed well against AWS in AI, attracting business from The Browser Company, Safe Superintelligence, Thinking Machines Lab, and OpenAI (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
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Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying Windsurf employees will have vesting cliffs waived and receive fully accelerated vesting for their work to date (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
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Sources: ByteDance is working on a lightweight MR device that resembles goggles, tethered to a compute puck, and has a team working on the device's custom chips (The Information)
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The European Commission says France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, and Greece will test an age verification app meant to protect kids online (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
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Anthropic now uses Canva's MCP server, letting Canva users manage designs via Claude's UI, following similar integrations with Figma, Notion, Stripe, and Prisma (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
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The US DOD announces OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have each won contracts with a $200M ceiling, aimed at enabling agentic AI national security workflows (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
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Adobe Analytics: Prime Day's four-day event drove over $24B in US e-commerce sales, up 30.3% YoY; traffic from generative AI sources was up 3,300% YoY (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building multi-gigawatt datacenter "clusters", starting with a massive datacenter called Prometheus that will come online in 2026 (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
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Amazon launches Kiro, an IDE that aims to bridge the gap between rapidly vibe-coded prototypes and production-ready systems (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
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Crypto asset manager Grayscale confidentially files draft IPO paperwork with the US SEC, offering few details; the DCG subsidiary manages $30B+ (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
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CSET researchers: China's SMEE has only a 4% market share in older-generation chip lithography, far below ASML and Nikon, a "chokepoint" for China's chip plans (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
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Moonvalley, which is developing "ethical" AI video models trained on licensed content, raised $84M led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to $154M (Todd Spangler/Variety)
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Discord launches Orbs, a virtual reward system that incentivizes users to interact with ads by completing Quests to earn digital items, after a seven week beta (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
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Tesla is set to face a Florida federal jury to defend allegations that Autopilot was at fault in a fatal 2019 crash, as it tests autonomous robotaxis in Austin (Trisha Thadani/Washington Post)
2025-07-14 12:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An Indicator analysis of 85 AI "nudify" websites: the sites averaged 18.5M monthly visitors, may generate up to $36M annually, and rely on Big Tech services (Matt Burgess/Wired)
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A four-day US military drone exercise in Alaska exposed significant technological and operational gaps compared to Chinese and Russian drone capabilities (Farah Stockman/New York Times)
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An interview with Google President of Android Ecosystem Sameer Samat, who says Google is going to combine "ChromeOS and Android into a single platform" (Lance Ulanoff/TechRadar)
2025-07-14 11:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Malaysia says individuals and companies must get a permit 30+ days before exporting AI chips, effective now, signaling it is clamping down on China chip exports (Bloomberg)
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China approves Synopsys' acquisition of simulation software company Ansys, after the US lifted restrictions on chip design software sales to China (Reuters)
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Jensen Huang says Chinese military is unlikely to use Nvidia's AI chips, citing the risk of the chips being "limited at any time" due to US export restrictions (Ian King/Bloomberg)
2025-07-14 09:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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