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Blowback over posts about the death of Charlie Kirk has prompted companies to be more aggressive about monitoring employees' social media activity (Taylor Telford/Washington Post)
2025-12-13 18:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Internal message: SpaceX has authorized an insider share sale at $421/share, valuing the company at ~$800B, and said it's preparing for a possible IPO in 2026 (Loren Grush/Bloomberg)
2025-12-13 01:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Cisco's stock touched a new record high of $80.25 on December 10, surpassing its previous split-adjusted high of $80.06 on March 27, 2000; CSCO is up 31.64% YTD (Robin Wigglesworth/Financial Times)
2025-12-13 07:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI quietly adopted Anthropic's "skills" mechanism in ChatGPT and Codex; ChatGPT's skills include creating and modifying spreadsheets, docx files, and PDFs (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
2025-12-13 01:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Coastal Cloud, a Florida-based Salesforce consulting partner, for $700M, in a bid to boost its AI and US customer business (Mark Haranas/CRN)
2025-12-13 07:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: The Trump administration is drafting a new cyber strategy that would enlist private companies to mount offensive cyberattacks on foreign adversaries (Jamie Tarabay/Bloomberg)
2025-12-13 15:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Seagate and Western Digital, with stocks each up 200%+ in 2025, will join Nasdaq 100 before the December 22 market open; GlobalFoundries will leave the index (Isabelle Lee/Bloomberg)
2025-12-13 06:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Broadcom's shares fell 11% on December 12, their biggest single-day drop since January, after the company's AI sales outlook fell short of investor expectations (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
2025-12-13 07:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
In a letter to the Trump administration, the GOP Senatorial Committee Chair Sen. Tim Scott said the Netflix-WBD deal raises "significant antitrust problems" (Semafor)
2025-12-13 06:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube that depicted Disney characters, after Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter flagging the links (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
2025-12-13 03:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI hopes the Disney deal boosts Sora, which has high costs and limited traction; Sensor Tower: users average 13 minutes per day on Sora vs. 90 on TikTok (Financial Times)
2025-12-13 07:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft expands its bug bounty program so that any critical vulnerability, including in third-party code, impacting its online services is eligible for awards (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
2025-12-13 02:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of Nex, which makes the $249 Nex Playground motion-based gaming system targeted toward kids and projects more than $150M of sales this year (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-13 10:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: private capital giant Apollo Global has shorted loans and rapidly cut exposure to the enterprise software sector in 2025 amid concerns over AI threat (Financial Times)
2025-12-13 13:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Netflix House in Philadelphia, a new 100K sq. ft. location for in-person experiences, which resembles a Disneyland attraction and a Dave & Buster's (Sarah Holder/Bloomberg)
2025-12-13 17:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Singapore-based ChemLex raised a $45M funding round led by Granite Asia to build an AI-powered, automated chemistry lab to accelerate drug discovery (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
2025-12-13 00:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Intel is in advanced talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova for about $1.6B including debt; the deal could come together as soon as next month (Bloomberg)
2025-12-12 23:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Automated digital wealth management company Wealthfront's stock closed up 1.36% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing it at ~$2.7B, after raising $486M in its IPO (Andrew Welsch/Barron's Online)
2025-12-12 23:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Shares of data center real estate company Fermi closed down 34% after a tenant terminated a $150M agreement to help fund an AI campus in West Texas (Financial Times)
2025-12-12 23:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tether submits an all-cash offer to acquire a 65.4% stake in Italian soccer club Juventus, says it will invest €1B in the club if the acquisition is completed (Reuters)
2025-12-12 22:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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