TechMeme - Inxa.inSearch.cc

TechMeme

An analysis based on current valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic suggests ~$370B of philanthropic assets tied to the two AI companies are poised to become liquid (Nan Ransohoff/Nan's Substack)

An analysis based on current valuations of OpenAI ...

2 months ago 15 Add to circle

Q&A with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg on launching the legal AI startup in 2022, how AI could shake up law firm business models, legal AI competition, and more (George Hammond/Financial Times)

Q&A with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg on launching ...

2 months ago 22 Add to circle

Two research papers describe how Google's Co-Scientist and nonprofit FutureHouse's AI tools can succeed at drug-retargeting tasks by forming hypotheses (John Timmer/Ars Technica)

Two research papers describe how Google's Co-Scien...

2 months ago 14 Add to circle

Three precedent-setting court rulings in China have said that employers replacing workers with AI is voluntary cost-cutting that does not justify mass layoffs (Catie Edmondson/New York Times)

Three precedent-setting court rulings in China hav...

2 months ago 16 Add to circle

Sources: Nvidia's business development group, not its VC arm NVentures, has led much of its ~$90B dealmaking push across 145+ companies over the past 16 months (Financial Times)

Sources: Nvidia's business development group, not ...

2 months ago 15 Add to circle

Sources: an attack exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Huawei router software caused a three-hour nationwide telecoms outage in Luxembourg in 2025 (Alexander Martin/The Record)

Sources: an attack exploiting a previously unknown...

2 months ago 16 Add to circle

Vietnam introduces Decree 142 to implement its AI law, requiring companies to classify AI models by risk level, label deepfakes, and disclose chatbot use (Lien Hoang/Nikkei Asia)

Vietnam introduces Decree 142 to implement its AI ...

2 months ago 20 Add to circle

Filing and sources: PE firm Hg has spun out €500M worth of assets from its €19B software group Visma, whose London IPO remains shelved amid the "SaaSpocalypse" (Alexandra Heal/Financial Times)

Filing and sources: PE firm Hg has spun out €500M ...

2 months ago 15 Add to circle

SkyeChip becomes the first Malaysian chip design company to IPO on the Bursa Malaysia exchange, surging 300%+; the company was valued at ~$397M at its IPO price (Nikkei Asia)

SkyeChip becomes the first Malaysian chip design c...

2 months ago 16 Add to circle

Alibaba's T-Head unveils the Zhenwu M890 AI chip for training and inference, saying it is particularly suited for agentic tasks, and plans annual upgrades (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

Alibaba's T-Head unveils the Zhenwu M890 AI chip f...

2 months ago 15 Add to circle

Singapore announces a National AI Partnership with Google and an MoU with OpenAI, which will set up an AI lab and commit $234M+ to the city-state's AI ecosystem (Dylan Butts/CNBC)

Singapore announces a National AI Partnership with...

2 months ago 17 Add to circle

Samsung Electronics rejects a labor union-accepted mediation proposal, raising the prospect of a workers' strike; a general work stoppage will proceed on May 21 (Bloomberg)

Samsung Electronics rejects a labor union-accepted...

2 months ago 15 Add to circle

Berlin-based bunch, an AI-native platform for managers and institutional investors to manage the entire fund lifecycle, raised a €30.1M Series B led by Portage (Rahul Raj/EU-Startups)

Berlin-based bunch, an AI-native platform for mana...

2 months ago 22 Add to circle

GitHub says it's investigating "unauthorized access" to its internal repositories, and there's no proof of customer data outside its repositories being impacted (@github)

GitHub says it's investigating "unauthorized acces...

2 months ago 24 Add to circle

Q&A with Google SVP James Manyika on AI's ability to automate tasks versus occupations, his optimism about the labor market despite AI-driven layoffs, and more (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Q&A with Google SVP James Manyika on AI's ability ...

2 months ago 17 Add to circle

Sources: a draft White House EO would create a "voluntary framework" for AI companies to give government agencies early access to models before public release (Ashley Gold/Axios)

Sources: a draft White House EO would create a "vo...

2 months ago 22 Add to circle

The Take It Down Act, a law requiring social networks to remove nonconsensual intimate images within 48 hours of reporting or face fines, took effect on May 19 (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

The Take It Down Act, a law requiring social netwo...

2 months ago 21 Add to circle

Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.50 per 1M input tokens and $9 per 1M output tokens, 3x the price of Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 6x the price of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.50 per 1M input tokens a...

2 months ago 17 Add to circle