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Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sundar Pichai are exploring future lunar and orbital AI data centers which could offer steady solar power with fewer regulations (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)
2025-11-17 02:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tokyo-based Sakana AI becomes Japan's most valuable unicorn at a ~$2.6B valuation, following a ~$130M raise from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial and US VC firms (Nikkei Asia)
2025-11-16 21:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Flighty, a flight-tracking app that often beats airline updates; downloads went up 3x when the FAA cut air traffic during the US government shutdown (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
2025-11-16 19:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Samsung, SK Group, and others announce billions in domestic investment after US-South Korea trade deal; Samsung plans to invest $310B and SK Group pledged $88B (Kim Tong-Hyung/Associated Press)
2025-11-16 17:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Forecasters at the US National Hurricane Center are increasingly leaning on Google's new DeepMind prediction model, though questions about its methods remain (Eric Holthaus/The Guardian)
2025-11-16 23:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Demis Hassabis pursued a Nobel as a DeepMind goal and favored high-minded work over short-term revenue or a stronger AI race position for Alphabet (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
2025-11-16 14:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Vinted is exploring a share sale that could value the company at ~€8B; Vinted says it expects 2025 revenue to cross €1B+, up from €813M in 2024 (Financial Times)
2025-11-16 06:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Apple to launch 3 high-end iPhones next fall, with lower-end iPhones and likely new Air in Q2 2027; Mac Pro gets deprioritized; Jeff Williams retires (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
2025-11-16 16:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Dealogic: 51 US tech IPOs raised $16.8B in 2025, driven by AI and crypto, above the past three-year average but far below 2021's 127 IPOs raising $74.4B (Valida Pau/The Information)
2025-11-16 04:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A cat's killing by a Waymo robotaxi sparked outrage in San Francisco, as some questioned why deaths caused by human drivers don't get the same level of concern (Heather Knight/New York Times)
2025-11-16 02:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Some experts question Anthropic's claims of cyberattack breakthroughs using its tools, noting that white-hat hackers report modest gains from AI-aided hacking (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
2025-11-15 22:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The current AI strategies of China and the US are complementary, as unlike the US, China isn't "AGI-pilled" yet, focusing on embodied AI and open source models (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)
2025-11-15 20:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Apple will now require app developers to disclose and obtain users' permission before sharing personal data with third-party AI providers and companies (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2025-11-15 17:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Political fixer Bradley Tusk's nonprofit releases VoteSecure, an open-source cryptographic protocol for mobile voting, amid skepticism from cryptographers (Steven Levy/Wired)
2025-11-15 16:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the global AI data center buildout, its limits, and ROI concerns; in 2025, US capacity that is built, underway, planned, or stalled has topped 80 GW (Wall Street Journal)
2025-11-15 14:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A California federal jury says Apple must pay Masimo $634M for infringing a blood-oxygen patent used in Watch workout and heart-rate alerts; Apple will appeal (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
2025-11-15 11:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun, reportedly leaving after being sidelined, who says LLMs are a dead end for AGI and backs world models instead (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
2025-11-15 06:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Apple is intensifying CEO succession planning as Tim Cook, now 65, may step down as early as next year, with John Ternus seen as the likely successor (Financial Times)
2025-11-15 03:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Data Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025 (Molly Taft/Wired)
2025-11-15 03:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Apptronik, a humanoid robot maker backed by Google, is in the process of raising at least $400M led by B Capital at a $5B pre-money valuation (The Information)
2025-11-15 01:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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