Category Archives: Tech News

The UK CMA says it has provisionally found Google meets the legal tests to designate it with "strategic market status" in general search and search advertising (Financial Times)

Financial Times: The UK CMA says it has provisionally found Google meets the legal tests [...]

24
Jun
Sources: Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky could get a multibillion-dollar payout if he drives the fintech's valuation to ~$150B, under an Elon Musk-style pay deal (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky could get a multibillion-dollar payout if he drives [...]

23
Jun
An interview with LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky on how AI is affecting the jobs market, AI agents, dealing with fake AI-generated accounts, and more (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Featured Podcasts BG2 Pod: Coatue Pt2. Open AI’s Kevin Weil Dives into All Things ChatGPT [...]

22
Jun
A profile of Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang, whose ties to influential people in the AI industry and the GOP could give Meta leverage over its competitors (Ellen Huet/Bloomberg)

Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: A profile of Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang, whose ties to [...]

21
Jun
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said Google's ratio of pages crawled per visitor sent to a publisher fell from 2:1 10 years ago to 6:1 six months ago to 18:1 now (Christine Wang/Axios)

Christine Wang / Axios: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said Google’s ratio of pages crawled per [...]

20
Jun
A look at the lack of consensus in the tech industry on what AGI is, whether LLMs are the best path to it, and what AGI might look like if or when it arrives (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: A look at the lack of consensus in the tech [...]

19
Jun
A look at embedded and immersion chip-cooling tech; industry sources indicate Nvidia is mulling 6,000W to 9,000W TDP for its next-gen GPUs, up from ~1,200W now (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

Anton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware: A look at embedded and immersion chip-cooling tech; industry sources [...]

18
Jun
German defense tech startup Helsing raised €600M led by Daniel Ek's Prima Materia, sources say at a €12B valuation, bringing its total funding to €1.37B (Financial Times)

Financial Times: German defense tech startup Helsing raised €600M led by Daniel Ek’s Prima Materia, [...]

17
Jun
Aspora, which makes financial tools like remittance services for the Indian diaspora, raised a $50M Series B co-led by Sequoia and Greylock at a $500M valuation (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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16
Jun
Researchers find Llama 3.1 recalls large parts of popular copyrighted books, possibly weakening AI industry claims that such memorization is fringe behavior (Timothy B. Lee/Understanding AI)

Featured Podcasts Techmeme Ride Home: Omnibus 06/09 The day’s tech news, every day at 5pm [...]

15
Jun