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Anthropic received a $2.5B, five-year revolving credit line, and says annualized revenue reached $2B in Q1 2025, up from $1B in Q1 2024 (Hayden Field/CNBC)
2025-05-16 17:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
xAI publishes system prompts for Grok on GitHub, including telling Grok to be "extremely skeptical" and not to "blindly defer to mainstream authority or media" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
2025-05-16 17:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Klarna CEO says its AI agent now handles two-thirds of customer service chats, an equivalent of 800 jobs, but Klarna is hiring workers for higher-end chats (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
2025-05-16 16:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Spotify adjusts its "plays" metric for podcasts to only appear on episodes with at least 50K plays, updating at specific milestones, like 100K or 1M plays (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
2025-05-16 16:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nvidia says it won't send GPU designs to China to be modified to comply with export controls, after a report said it is planning a research center in Shanghai (CNBC)
2025-05-16 15:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI rolls out Codex, an AI coding agent powered by codex-1, a version of o3 optimized for software engineering, for ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Team users (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
2025-05-16 15:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with Wired's Steven Levy on the evolving relationship between the tech industry and the press, media outlets' licensing deals with AI companies, and more (Camille Bromley/Columbia Journalism ...)
2025-05-16 14:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Japan enacts the Active Cyberdefense Law, which permits the country's authorities to preemptively engage with adversaries through offensive cyber operations (Alexander Martin/The Record)
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Microsoft says reviews found no evidence its tech was used by the Israeli military to harm civilians in Gaza, following months of protests by Microsoft staffers (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
2025-05-16 13:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Charter announces plans to merge with Cox Communications in a deal that values Cox at $34.5B including debt and unites two of the biggest US cable providers (Reuters)
2025-05-16 11:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Analysis: since January, 36+ staff and associates of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Palmer Luckey got federal roles that oversee their companies (Wall Street Journal)
2025-05-16 12:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: ByteDance expects 2025 revenue to grow 20% YoY to $186B vs. 29% growth in 2024, driven by TikTok's global expansion; ByteDance has 4B MAUs across apps (Bloomberg)
2025-05-16 11:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Charter Is in Talks to Combine with Rival Cox Communications (Michelle F Davis/Bloomberg)
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Taiwanese silicon wafer maker GlobalWafers Chair Doris Hsu announces $4B additional investment in the US, more than doubling its earlier pledge to reach $7.5B (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)
2025-05-16 10:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: President Trump's Middle East AI deals open rifts with China hawks in his administration over concerns AI chips shipped to the Gulf end up in China (Bloomberg)
2025-05-16 05:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Epic Games says Fortnite on iOS will be offline worldwide "until Apple unblocks it" after Apple rejected its latest submission to the US App Store (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
2025-05-16 10:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
US immigration attorneys: since January 2025, USCIS has significantly increased requests for evidence on tech-related visa petitions, including H-1B and O-1 (Lauren Goode/Wired)
2025-05-16 09:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Facebook and Instagram face scam ad surge from Asia and Meta is reluctant to add hurdles for ad buyers; Meta says it's tackling an "epidemic of scams" (Wall Street Journal)
2025-05-16 05:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sony's Haven Studios head Jade Raymond leaves the company she founded in 2021; sources say some developers worried over its first game's reception and progress (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
2025-05-16 04:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
MoviePass secures a $100M capital investment from Global Emerging Markets to accelerate the development of Mogul, a fantasy gaming service launched this month (Brent Lang/Variety)
2025-05-16 03:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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