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Amazon says over 1M people now have access to Alexa+, up from "hundreds of thousands" in May, and plans to "make it even more broadly available over the summer" (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
2025-06-10 22:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
London-based Maze, which uses AI agents to stop cloud security breaches, launches with $31M in total funding, including a $25M Series A led by Theory Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)
2025-06-10 22:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI debuts o3-pro for ChatGPT Pro and Team users and in the API, costing $20/1M input and $80/1M output tokens; Enterprise and Edu will get access next week (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-06-10 21:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Twenty-seven states and DC sue 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent (Rylee Kirk/New York Times)
2025-06-10 21:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google rolls out Android 16 to Pixels with live lock screen notifications, and debuts features, including more AI-editing in Google Photos, in a broader update (Nelson Aguilar/CNET)
2025-06-10 20:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Memo: Google offers voluntary buyouts to US staff in the knowledge and information organization, which includes core search and much of the ads organization (The Information)
2025-06-10 20:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on Apple's struggles to ship AI features, demoed in 2024, with the "V1 Siri architecture" and work on a V2 model (Lance Ulanoff/TechRadar)
2025-06-10 18:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI announces an 80% price drop for its o3 model and a "flex" mode for synchronous processing that charges $5 for input and $20 for output per million tokens (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
2025-06-10 19:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google rolls out Android 16 to Pixel phones, adding group chat to RCS, AI-powered edit suggestions to Google Photos, live notifications on lock screen, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
2025-06-10 18:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Snap aims to ship lightweight, consumer AR glasses called Specs in 2026, lighter than its Spectacles 5 glasses for devs, but with many of the same capabilities (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
2025-06-10 18:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Apple's WWDC 2025 marked a strategic retreat from its overambitious AI promises; SVP Craig Federighi openly admitted Siri's AI features need more time (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
2025-06-10 17:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads users will soon be able to send direct messages to each other without having to leave the platform, adding a separate inbox for DMs (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
2025-06-10 16:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Israel-based Hypernative, which offers real-time threat prevention for crypto companies, raised a $40M Series B, taking its total funding to $67M (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
2025-06-10 16:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Meta agrees to take a 49% stake in Scale AI for $14.8B, in a deal that gives cash to Scale's shareholders and makes Alexandr Wang a top Meta executive (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
2025-06-10 16:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Mistral launches its first reasoning models: Magistral Small, on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license, and Magistral Medium, in preview on Mistral's Le Chat (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-06-10 15:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Generative AI enterprise search startup Glean raised a $150M Series F led by Wellington, taking its valuation to $7.2B, up from $4.6B in September 2024 (Afshan Musani/CNBC)
2025-06-10 16:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Linear, which makes software development and project planning tools that rival Atlassian's Jira, raised an $82M Series C led by Accel, valuing it at $1.25B (Anna Tong/Reuters)
2025-06-10 14:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Cisco unveils updated networking and security products, including a new generation of switches with 10x performance, to boost AI networks and cut bottlenecks (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
2025-06-10 14:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: OpenAI plans to add Google Cloud to meet its growing needs for computing capacity, a surprising collaboration; source: the deal was finalized in May (Reuters)
2025-06-10 14:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Investigation: Russian network engineer Viktor Vedeneev controls thousands of Telegram IP addresses and maintains its servers; his companies have FSB links (Roman Anin/OCCRP)
2025-06-10 13:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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