TechMeme - Inxa.inSearch.cc

TechMeme

Microsoft announces a Windows 11 search overhaul that prioritizes local results, removes promotional web content, and more, rolling out to Windows Insiders (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

Microsoft announces a Windows 11 search overhaul t...

4 weeks ago 7 Add to circle

Q&A with Xinzhou Wu, head of automotive at Nvidia, on Nvidia's chips and AI models for autonomous driving, lidar's usefulness for Level 4 autonomy, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with Xinzhou Wu, head of automotive at Nvidia,...

4 weeks ago 5 Add to circle

Doc: DHS analysts twice dismissed signs of intruders inside the DHS' network, first detected in May, as harmless activity before confirming a breach in June (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)

Doc: DHS analysts twice dismissed signs of intrude...

4 weeks ago 7 Add to circle

A coalition of 12 states led by California files an antitrust lawsuit to block Paramount's WBD merger, alleging it lessens competition in three markets (Gene Maddaus/Variety)

A coalition of 12 states led by California files a...

4 weeks ago 9 Add to circle

London-based Valarian, which allows companies to use US cloud providers for AI workloads but retain control of their data, raised a $50M Series A led by NEA (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

London-based Valarian, which allows companies to u...

4 weeks ago 8 Add to circle

Seattle-based Augmodo, whose AI-powered "Smartbadges" worn by employees track shelf inventory, raised $21M led by TQ Ventures at a $350M valuation (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)

Seattle-based Augmodo, whose AI-powered "Smartbadg...

4 weeks ago 7 Add to circle

Gauntlet, which helps institutions and crypto companies allocate their digital assets, raised a $125M Series C from Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Gauntlet, which helps institutions and crypto comp...

4 weeks ago 9 Add to circle

Global smartphone shipments fell 11% YoY in Q2 to the lowest Q2 levels since 2013 amid the DRAM and NAND shortage; Samsung returns to #1 with a 24% market share (Shilpi Jain/Counterpoint Research)

Global smartphone shipments fell 11% YoY in Q2 to ...

4 weeks ago 5 Add to circle

Apple's stock is up 15% since June 25, adding nearly $600B in market value and pushing shares back to record territory, as investors flee an AI stock selloff (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)

Apple's stock is up 15% since June 25, adding near...

4 weeks ago 9 Add to circle

Sources: US officials estimate unauthorized distillation costs US AI labs up to $6B/year; Silicon Valley told the Trump admin it could be an existential threat (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

Sources: US officials estimate unauthorized distil...

4 weeks ago 8 Add to circle

Source: OpenAI still believes it is on track to unveil its first device in 2026 and release it in 2027; Apple's lawsuit may complicate hiring and supply chains (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Source: OpenAI still believes it is on track to un...

4 weeks ago 12 Add to circle

Anthropic hires Tom Blomfield, a Monzo co-founder and one of the biggest names in UK tech, to join its compute team; he is taking a leave of absence from YC (Robert Scammell/Business Insider)

Anthropic hires Tom Blomfield, a Monzo co-founder ...

4 weeks ago 9 Add to circle

Intel plans to invest €5B to expand chip manufacturing at its Leixlip facility in Ireland; in 2025, Intel canceled a planned €30B factory in Magdeburg, Germany (Financial Times)

Intel plans to invest €5B to expand chip manufactu...

4 weeks ago 10 Add to circle

Nearly 200 economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and Anthropic's Jack Clark, sign a letter titled We Must Act Now, warning of rapid AI-led job displacement (Ben Casselman/New York Times)

Nearly 200 economists, including 15 Nobel laureate...

4 weeks ago 15 Add to circle

Samsung says it now aims to begin operations at its first chipmaking plant in South Korea's Yongin by 2029, bringing the timeline forward from 2030 or 2031 (Henry Siu/The Information)

Samsung says it now aims to begin operations at it...

4 weeks ago 7 Add to circle

Meta says it will spend an extra $40B on its 4,000-acre data center campus in Louisiana, aiming for 5GW+ of computing power, pushing the total cost beyond $250B (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)

Meta says it will spend an extra $40B on its 4,000...

4 weeks ago 9 Add to circle

The EU blacklists Russian intelligence group members it says were responsible for spying on and hacking targets across the EU and Ukraine from as early as 2010 (Politico)

The EU blacklists Russian intelligence group membe...

4 weeks ago 8 Add to circle

China says President Xi will deliver a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the three-day World AI Conference in Shanghai on Friday, his first appearance (Bloomberg)

China says President Xi will deliver a keynote spe...

4 weeks ago 6 Add to circle