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Sources: Anthropic's revenue hit a pace of $4B/year, up almost 4x from the beginning of 2025; Cursor maker Anysphere has poached two of Claude Code's leaders (The Information)
2025-07-01 18:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Mark Zuckerberg has, on 10+ occasions, offered to pay AI research talent up to $300M over four years, with $100M+ in compensation for the first year (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
2025-07-01 19:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AT&T launches Account Lock to protect wireless users against SIM swapping attacks, following similar features from T-Mobile, Verizon, and Google Fi (Emma Roth/The Verge)
2025-07-01 17:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sam Altman said in a memo to staff, "missionaries will beat mercenaries" and "I believe there is much, much more upside to OpenAI stock than Meta stock" (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
2025-07-01 18:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta expands voice calls on WhatsApp to large businesses and explores AI-powered product recommendations for merchants' sites (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
2025-07-01 17:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Threads launches DMs for users aged 18 and older, without support for E2EE, and announces a "highlighter" feature to emphasize trending topics (Emma Roth/The Verge)
2025-07-01 16:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: data labeling company Surge AI aims to raise up to $1B, targeting a valuation of $15B; Surge AI had $1B+ in 2024 revenue, vs. Scale AI's reported $870M (Reuters)
2025-07-01 15:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
CoinMarketCap: bitcoin's share of crypto market value grew to 64% this year, highest since January 2021, and altcoins lost $300B+, as big investors flock to BTC (Bloomberg)
2025-07-01 15:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
American Bitcoin, a bitcoin mining and holding company backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. that is a subsidiary of publicly traded Hut 8, raised $220M (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
2025-07-01 15:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AI researcher salaries are steadily rising, with total pay packages of $500K to $2M at Big Tech for mid to senior level staffers, up from $400K to $900K in 2022 (Financial Times)
2025-07-01 14:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Grammarly acquires email startup Superhuman as part of a push to build an AI-powered productivity suite; Superhuman was last valued at $825M in 2021 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
2025-07-01 13:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Trump says "We might have to put DOGE on Elon", "DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon", and "We'll have to take a look" at deporting Musk (Avery Lotz/Axios)
2025-07-01 14:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Genesis AI, which generates its own synthetic data for training an AI model for robots, emerges from stealth with a $105M seed co-led by Eclipse and Khosla (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
2025-07-01 13:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filing: Apple sues Di Liu, a former senior product designer who worked on the Vision Pro, for allegedly stealing trade secrets and taking them to Snap (Ethan Baron/SiliconValley.com)
2025-07-01 12:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Cloudflare launches Pay per Crawl, a marketplace letting sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites set up with Cloudflare will block AI crawlers by default (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
2025-07-01 10:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Huawei open sources its 7B and 72B Pangu AI models, and some of its model reasoning tech, to incentivize the use of Huawei products like its Ascend AI chips (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
2025-07-01 11:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google warns that the DMA is hampering innovation for EU users, asks regulators for more detailed guidance and critics to provide evidence to prove their case (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
2025-07-01 09:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Morgan Stanley says xAI raised $5B of equity in addition to $5B in debt; the company raised $6B in December from a16z and others (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
2025-07-01 09:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An interview with Claude AI product lead Scott White on Claude Code writing 90% of its own code, MCP, coding being accessible to non-technical workers, and more (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
2025-07-01 06:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The Senate votes 99-1 to remove a Trump tax bill provision that would have barred states from regulating AI if they got funding from a $500M broadband program (Bloomberg)
2025-07-01 09:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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