@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-07-17 07:17:03
Android 17 QPR1: Google veröffentlicht Beta 7 mit Bugfixes
Google liefert nur zwei Wochen nach der Beta 6 das nächste Update für Android 17 QPR1 aus. Die Beta 7 fixt vornehmlich Bugs.
https://www.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-07-17 07:17:03
@servelan@newsie.social2026-06-17 17:20:14
Pakistan ends 'luxury tax' on menstrual products, contraceptives : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/17/g-s1-128442/menstrual-products-contraceptives-pakistan-luxury-tax
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-17 16:25:58
Sources: Meta is in talks to rent computing power from its data centers to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth ~$10B over two years (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/technology/meta-anthropic-ai-computing-power.html
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-17 17:54:16
Donald Trump’s state department intends to allocate $12m to organisations in the UK
founded by the prominent Conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young, the Guardian can reveal.
The intended grants, revealed in US government documents, are part of a package of support for European groups viewed favourably by the Trump administration.
Former US officials have criticised the funding as a misuse of public money to seek influence over foreign politics.
The documents re…
@luca@social.luca.run2026-07-17 05:17:26
🎶 „Es geht um linke Straßenpolitik und nicht um Fame
Ihr braucht Regeln für die Kommunikation
Nicht nur Nazis und Konsorten, die in eurer Gegend woh'n
Auch die Sicherheitsbehörden werden sich schnell interessier'n“
— Keine Angst von Danger Dan
https://youtu.be/Gg-SCpXba64
@stiefkind@mastodon.social2026-06-17 09:34:34
Ich hatte das gestern schon geschrieben: früher war in Westdeutschland heute Feiertag. Tag der deutschen Einheit (ja, kleines deutsch). Warum ausgerechnet der 17. Juni? Deswegen: https://www.bpb.de/themen/deutsche-teilung/517063/aufstand-17-juni-1953/
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-07-17 17:20:56
RE: https://mastodon.social/@bms48/116935319839522391
He also doesn’t know who the Luddites were and why they rebelled.
@mela@zusammenkunft.net2026-05-17 15:08:34
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2026-07-17 15:39:19
Do you even box? :blobcatstrong:
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-06-17 14:25:41
Reporters Without Borders and French journalists unions complain that billionaire Bernard Arnault has bought up almost all the country's business media outlets (Angelique Chrisafis/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-07-18 11:58:53
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-06-17 10:52:00
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-05-17 17:35:28
Lamar Alexander Wants Republicans to Stand Up to Trump (Carl Hulse/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/us/politics/lamar-alexander-republicans-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p36#a260517p36
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-06-17 21:17:51
I remain utterly uninterested in it.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-05-17 17:49:33
I get I'm old but in my tiny, GenX-centered, musician mental sphere, it quietly irks me that while some caught the obvious "Adrian" reference...
...99% of the Reacters to "Project Hail Mary" never noticed the G-A-F-F(8vb)-C note sequence.
C'mon man. 😢
#genx #projecthailmary
@erikdelareguera@mastodon.nu2026-07-17 14:46:05
Överdödligheten i Paris mer än fördubblades under slutet av juni månads värmebölja. 1565 extra dödsfall under sju dagar – endast i Parisregionen, enligt Le Parisien/TT.
Tyvärr inte förvånad. https://www.dn.se/direkt/2026-07-17/overdodligheten-fordubblades-i-pa…
@zachleat@zachleat.com2026-06-17 17:34:48
Upcoming npm v12 will disable preinstall, install, and postinstall scripts from dependencies unless allow-listed.
You can prepare for this change using npm v11 now: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/198547
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-07-17 17:00:17
"Carbon storage could curb more than 90% of AI data center emissions, study finds"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social2026-06-17 22:31:59
Few people know that #Uwubernetes is actually real.
It is the name if the #Kubernetes 1.30 release.
https://
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social2026-07-17 19:38:12
A-hu-hu
Shuffalo, 2m 21s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/07/17
@adlerweb@social.adlerweb.info2026-05-17 10:00:00
[BLOG] BitBastelei #693 – Akkustaubsauger mit böser Überraschung https://www.adlerweb.info/blog/2026/05/17/bitbastelei-693-akkustaubsauger-mit-boeser-ueberraschung/
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-06-17 15:25:12
NFL news roundup: Latest league updates from Wednesday, June 17 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-wednesday-june-17
@simoncox@seocommunity.social2026-06-17 17:41:22
Publishing an OKF bundle with #11ty.
New article from me.
https://www.simoncox.com/post/2026-06-17-publishing-an-okf-bundle-with-11ty/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 17:51:02
Sources: Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis called for a US-led coalition to shape AI rules and standards at a closed-door meeting at the G7 summit on Wednesday (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/17/anthropic-amodei-google-hassabis-us-…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-17 17:03:33
Juvenile white sharks are already appearing along the California coastline,
fleeing warmer than usual waters in Mexico during what’s expected to be an incredibly strong El Niño.
But while shark experts say it could be the sharkiest summer in California in a decade,
they also say beachgoers shouldn’t be too alarmed as the apex predators have spent generations learning what’s on the menu.
And humans aren’t their preferred food
@servelan@newsie.social2026-06-17 15:40:21
18 ridiculous things that make a man 'gay', according to the internet
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/06/17/things-that-make-a-man-gay-reddit/
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-07-17 17:19:36
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116931281609412806
They’re trying to kill general purpose computing and the open web. Why? Because, in the words of Jack Ma, by way of Masayoshi Son, “whoever controls data, controls the world.”
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2026-07-17 15:32:02
Good cable management is just sfw server shibari
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-06-17 17:20:46
Email: BBC says commissioning spend will be reduced by £80M by March 2028 and TV development budget will be slashed by 15% annually (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/06/bbc-slash-development-spend-1236958327/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-17 13:50:53
AI inference startup General Compute gets a $400M loan from tech investment firm Upper90, seemingly the first deal using inference-specific chips as collateral (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/why-
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-06-17 17:30:45
The Real Reason Trump Never Stops Talking About Voter Fraud (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/opinion/trump-pratt-voter-fraud-republicans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.q1A.gqg-.g-Y3_vdmVvD6&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260617/p75#a260617p75
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-06-17 21:17:29
Apropos of nothing in particular, "soccer" is not just US slang, growing up in 1980s Midlands of UK, football was always referred to as soccer...
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-05-17 17:09:49
Hey Star Wars fan... wanna laugh hard at Denise & Kyle? 😜
▶️ Denise Gough and Kyle Soller being chaotic for 14 minutes straight (ft. Ben Mendelsohn)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lsEQ35BEkZ0&si=nro0tgahYXQLN_fW
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-17 17:48:50
Mullin threatens states that refuse Trump's election demands
Mullin also repeated his threat of withholding Federal Emergency Management Agency grant funding to states that don’t work to “secure” elections.
“If they’re not willing to do it, it should raise serious questions.
It’s not that hard. This isn’t a partisan issue,”
the homeland security secretary said.
This also comes after the Trump justice department sent letters to election officials in every sta…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-06-17 17:20:10
More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/snap-benefits-children-food-stamps?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=toc
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-06-18 12:37:00
Android 17: Google bringt Jugendschutzeinstellungen für alle Geräte
Googles native Kindersicherung ist ab Android 17 nicht mehr auf Pixel-Geräte beschränkt. Laut Google landet sie mit dem Update auf allen Android-Smartphones.
…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-17 17:15:59
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-05-17 17:05:30
Graham calls for strikes on Iran's energy infrastructure (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/17/lindsey-graham-strikes-iran-energy-infrastructure-00925550
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p34#a260517p34
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-05-17 06:17:10
36min of pure hilarious chaos! And also seriously thoughtful moments.
And screw CBS/Paramount.
▶️ Strike Force Five Is And Always Will Be: Kimmel, Fallon, Meyers, Oliver and Colbert
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iU3PSAAgbrU&si=0mi87MkYlmPtSdzl
@servelan@newsie.social2026-06-17 15:15:06
"Trump’s White House: it’s run by men obsessed with looking tough, but who are, in actuality, weak and incompetent. The more they fail, the more they grasp for these theatrical but ineffectual displays hoping that the public mistakes loud and violent displays for strength."
UFC fight can't hide MAGA male weakness - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/17/ufc-fight-cant-hide-maga-male-weakness/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-06-17 18:20:44
Mastodon adds email newsletters, letting writers send their posts directly to subscribers' inboxes, even to readers without a Mastodon account (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/mastodon-looks-to-newsletters-to-h…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-07-17 17:02:02
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-17 17:35:47
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116936511964259539
Treason, of course, is punishable by death potentially,
which is all part of the point of the President's accusation.
He wants to intimidate news media to not report anything that doesn't please him o…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 17:26:12
A newly discovered data leak has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials for 73,932 firewall URLs across 194 countries (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-06-18 09:09:00
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-07-17 18:51:07
Apple raises the price of Apple Music, with the individual plan up by $1 to $11.99, and some Apple One bundles, the first price hike for Apple Music since 2022 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/17/apple-raises-prices-for-apple…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-17 17:28:34
New York Times veteran David Sanger blasted Donald Trump's assertion that his reporting on the Iran war amounted to treason.
Trump made the comment on Air Force One this week after Sanger asked,
"What would the use be of repeating the bombing?
You you did it for 38 days, and you did not get the political changes in Iran."
After claiming he had achieved a
"total military victory" in Iran,
Trump turned on Sanger, saying,
"I…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-05-17 17:43:36
Lamar Alexander Wants Republicans to Stand Up to Trump - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/us/politics/lamar-alexander-republicans-trump.html
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 12:11:12
Twenty, which uses AI to help US military hackers penetrate adversary computer networks, raised a $100M Series B led by Accel at a $1B valuation (Colin Demarest/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/17/twenty-cybersecurity-hacks-accel-venture
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-07-17 09:17:03
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-17 17:20:28
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116936455224978549
“I don’t know any senior,
Republican or Democrat,
who asked President Trump to let AI decide
if their doctor-recommended treatment was necessary,”
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said Thursday.
L…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-06-17 20:40:43
Q&A with Fernando Alfonso III, NYT's first Texas-based editor, on leading a new team of five Texas reporters and editors as they cover the state's complexity (Sarah Bahr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/insider/new-york-times-texas.html
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 11:02:05
Nauk Nauk, which runs an AI video app that turns photos of toys into short animated videos, raised $20M and is coming out of beta; it claims to have 1M users (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/17/nauk-nauk-ai-video-toy-app-funding
@servelan@newsie.social2026-06-17 16:23:26
MN U.S. Attorney Can't Define Antifa Or Show Evidence Of Violent Crimes | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2026/06/us-attorney-daniel-rosen-cannot-define
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-06-17 08:17:00
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-17 17:18:23
Senate Republicans blocked an attempt by Democrats on Thursday to
stop a Trump administration pilot program for Medicare
that uses artificial intelligence to approve or deny physician-ordered care.
The vote on a resolution to invoke the Congressional Review Act (CRA)
and end the program
failed on party lines, 46 to 50.
CRA votes need a simple majority to pass.
Last year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched an experiment t…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-07-17 13:35:53
DHS announces plans to shorten visas for foreign journalists in the US from up to 5 years to 240 days and cut those for Chinese journalists to 90 days (Edward Helmore/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/17/trump-administrat…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 20:41:04
Snap's stock closed down 8.14% on Wednesday, after the company launched the $2,195 Specs AR glasses on Tuesday; SNAP is down ~41% YTD (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/after-unveiling-ridiculously-expe…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-06-17 07:17:00
@servelan@newsie.social2026-06-17 16:22:14
Pulitzer Prize board members complain about Trump in court
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/yet-to-produce-a-single-written-response-frustrated-pulitzer-prize-board-members-tired-of-trump-acting-like-hes-above-the-law-in-discovery-ask-judge-to-act/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-17 18:17:17
Donald Trump delivered a speech to the nation on Thursday night,
sowing doubts in the U.S. election system
and claiming that drastic changes were needed,
-- despite presenting no new or substantiated evidence
that any past election was affected by fraud.
Trump was expected to deliver a missive rehashing the results of the 2020 presidential race,
in which he legitimately lost to former President Joe Biden.
Instead, Trump downplayed those beliefs,
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 21:31:05
Mastodon adds email newsletters, letting writers send their posts directly to subscribers' inboxes, even to readers without a Mastodon account (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/mastodon-looks-to-newsletters-to-h…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-06-17 16:16:47
Janeese Lewis George poised to win D.C. mayoral race
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5927896-janeese-lewis-george-democratic-socialist-dc-democratic-primary/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-17 18:36:16
Apple raises the price of Apple Music, with the individual plan up by $1 to $11.99, and some Apple One bundles, the first price hike for Apple Music since 2022 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/17/apple-raises-prices-for-apple…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-17 17:35:04
The exhibit, which could be accurately described as an elegiac tribute,
will honor the warm-hued bucket seats and
L-shaped, conversation-friendly sectionals that are soon to be retired by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
As outlined in its 2025-2029 capital plan, the MTA will purchase 1,500 new subway cars in a $10.9 billion move,
replacing about 22% of the existing fleet — and with them, the orange bucket seats.
Regina Shepherd, director of the Tran…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-06-17 15:58:56
Alabama's Long-Shot Democratic Candidate, Phillip Ensler
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5926604-alabama-phillip-ensler-lieutenant-governor/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 14:51:02
A look at chaos inside Anthropic after disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with less than 90 minutes of notice, as some staff wonder if Trump is bullying them (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/technology/anthropic-trump-administration-fabl…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-17 15:58:56
The Trump administration has said it will drastically shorten visas for foreign journalists in the US
to 240 days -- down from five years,
and cut those for Chinese journalists to only 90 days.
The rule announced by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
will do away with the “duration of status” system,
which allows foreign journalists to stay and work in the United States as long as they meet eligibility requirements.
In addition to journalists,
@servelan@newsie.social2026-06-17 15:44:53
Activists targeted by DOJ ask judge for special counsel to investigate prosecutors - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/broadview-six/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 15:16:07
XDOF, which is building data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for robot training data, emerges from stealth with $70M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/colle…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-06-17 15:23:12
Trump admin fights to make reparations program illegal because it doesn’t help people who aren’t Black | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-doj-evanston-reparations-discrimination-lawsuit-b2997026.html
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-17 15:49:06
Democrats have slammed Donald Trump’s Thursday night speech
where he repeated conspiracies and unfounded claims that both the 2020 election was stolen,
and the current state of election integrity is compromised.
Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, said the address was
a “pathetic attempt” by the president to cast doubt on the fact that he lost the 2020 election.
The Senate minority leader said that Trump is evading discussing contentious policy issues,
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 11:20:55
Uber plans to expands its premium robotaxi service from SF to Houston by mid-2027, in partnership with EV maker Lucid and autonomous vehicle startup Nuro (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/uber-will-bring-its-prem…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 13:15:56
Andera, which uses AI to automate corporate audit and compliance testing, raised a $37M Series A led by Lightspeed (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/06/17/andera-37m-ai-audit-lightspeed
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 10:45:57
Sources: Trump officials discussed ways to structure government equity stakes in AI companies, with Commerce Secretary Lutnick favoring a sovereign wealth fund (Eleanor Mueller/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/17/2026/trump-advisers…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 14:36:05
Pramaana Labs, which uses the LEAN programming language to build a deterministic verification layer on top of LLMs, raised a $27M seed led by Khosla Ventures (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/pram
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 12:36:06
Conduct, which uses AI to let companies maintain, change, and modernize their legacy IT systems, raised a $60M Series A, bringing its total funding to $72M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/06/17/conduct-en…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-17 14:35:51
ASML plans to give its ~45K employees globally a €20,000 bonus, issued as a share award vesting in 2030, joining other chip industry companies offering payouts (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 15:41:03
The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties (Muvija M/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk-regulator-sets-out…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-17 16:20:51
Models like Kimi K3, Grok 4.5, and Muse 1.1 may prevent the dominance of 2-3 frontier labs with 90% inference margins from hurting other AI ecosystem layers (Gavin Baker/@gavinsbaker)
https://x.com/gavinsbaker/status/2078110934740980193
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-17 15:05:54
Kimi K3 hype shouldn't alarm the US about "losing the AI race" to China as K3 is strong but not frontier-level and likely lacks dangerous cyber capabilities (Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/kimi-k3-is-no-reason-for…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 16:46:32
Paris-based Comand AI, which is developing AI-based command-and-control software for military operations, raised a €32M Series A led by Blossom Capital (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)
https://resiliencemedia.co/comand-ai-raises-e32m-for-…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 16:36:07
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 16:26:01
Q&A with Luciana Lixandru, who co-leads Sequoia's global early-stage investment business, on why it is time for "act two" for Europe's tech sector, AI, and more (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6f1ede29-f92b-4210-9ff0-c6dc9efa729…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 17:26:12
A newly discovered data leak has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials for 73,932 firewall URLs across 194 countries (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-17 17:50:38
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 13:15:56
Andera, which uses AI to automate corporate audit and compliance testing, raised a $37M Series A led by Lightspeed (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/06/17/andera-37m-ai-audit-lightspeed
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 12:11:12
Twenty, which uses AI to help US military hackers penetrate adversary computer networks, raised a $100M Series B led by Accel at a $1B valuation (Colin Demarest/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/17/twenty-cybersecurity-hacks-accel-venture
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 11:02:05
Nauk Nauk, which runs an AI video app that turns photos of toys into short animated videos, raised $20M and is coming out of beta; it claims to have 1M users (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/17/nauk-nauk-ai-video-toy-app-funding
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 14:51:02
A look at chaos inside Anthropic after disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with less than 90 minutes of notice, as some staff wonder if Trump is bullying them (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/technology/anthropic-trump-administration-fabl…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 15:16:07
XDOF, which is building data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for robot training data, emerges from stealth with $70M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/colle…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 11:20:55
Uber plans to expands its premium robotaxi service from SF to Houston by mid-2027, in partnership with EV maker Lucid and autonomous vehicle startup Nuro (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/uber-will-bring-its-prem…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 10:45:57
Sources: Trump officials discussed ways to structure government equity stakes in AI companies, with Commerce Secretary Lutnick favoring a sovereign wealth fund (Eleanor Mueller/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/17/2026/trump-advisers…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 12:30:54
Estonia says it plans to assign personal ID numbers to AI assistants to give them legal rights and hold them accountable for their actions (Ott Tammik/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-17/estonia-to-gr…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 12:30:54
Estonia says it plans to assign personal ID numbers to AI assistants to give them legal rights and hold them accountable for their actions (Ott Tammik/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-17/estonia-to-gr…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-17 06:25:48
Sources: Tata plans India's first large-scale chip fab in Dholera, Gujarat, mostly using 90nm nodes, a far humbler start than the 28nm node it touted earlier (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-17/tata-g…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 14:36:05
Pramaana Labs, which uses the LEAN programming language to build a deterministic verification layer on top of LLMs, raised a $27M seed led by Khosla Ventures (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/pram
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-17 09:46:08
Sources: Z.ai is on track to achieve an annual recurring revenue of $1B, a first for a Chinese AI company, after achieving its full-year sales target in July (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-17/z-ai-…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 12:36:06
Conduct, which uses AI to let companies maintain, change, and modernize their legacy IT systems, raised a $60M Series A, bringing its total funding to $72M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/06/17/conduct-en…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-18 17:40:56
Musk v. Altman jury unanimously rejects Elon Musk's claims against Sam Altman (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/musk-altman-openai-trial-verdict.html
