@Techmeme@techhub.socialMarc Benioff says it "would not shock" him if Salesforce changed its name to Agentforce; the company started using Agentforce for many of its offerings (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
TWEN:
🎵 Keep Your Company
#TWEN
https://twen.bandcamp.com/track/keep-your-company
https://open.spotify.com/track/3iZHOvB0OpSY86EplpSRTC
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNYT says a Trans News Network interview with ex-NYT editor Billie Jean Sweeney about NYT's gender identity coverage included "factually inaccurate criticisms" (The New York Times Company)
https://www.nytco.com/press/fact-checking-false…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Byron Cook, a VP at Amazon who is leading the company's effort to reduce AI hallucinations with a feature called Automated Reasoning Checks (John Pavlus/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91446331/amazo
@benb@osintua.euTurkish company whose oil tanker was damaged off Senegal says it will halt all Russia-related operations: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/turkish-company-whose-oil-tanker.html
@aral@mastodon.ar.alJust heard from someone who works at Wowburger that the company takes any gratuity you leave on the payment machines.
So, if this is true, it’s illegal in Ireland. Not to mention, a dick move regardless.
Anyone in Ireland know the Wowburger folks and/or where I can lodge a complaint about this?
#wowburger
@jacobgudiol@mastodonsweden.seNu händer det grejer 🙂
Weight loss drugs for cats? Company launches clinical trial of GLP-1 implants in cats https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Wellness/weight-loss-drugs-cats-company-launches-clinical-trial/story?id=128054236…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioDid you see that thing about the whistleblower engineer exposing how a food delivery company exploits its drivers? It turned out to be a hoax:
https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/
The thing is, I don’t doubt that companies •do• in fact do stuff like what the whistleblower described, if not in such cartoonish terms. But this story is apparently fake, and that matters.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defacebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 1429 nodes and 32876 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialIt's not "always" the AI's fault?
»Most Technical Problems Are Really People Problems«
🤷 https://blog.joeschrag.com/2023/11/most-technical-problems-are-really.html
@cdarwin@c.imAmazon dipped as one of the biggest drags to the benchmark S&P index
after the e-commerce company said it was in discussions with the U.S. Postal Service about their future relationship
and is considering its options before its contract expires next year
https://stocks.apple.com/AmuHAuFEeSi66
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaBOFH excuse #128:
Power Company having EMP problems with their reactor
@metacurity@infosec.exchange
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialAnthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code #ai
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social"Book publisher #HarperCollins said it will start translating romance novels under its famous Harlequin label in France using AI, reducing or eliminating the pay for the team of human contract translators who previously did this work."
@… …
@jake4480@c.imBusinesses should be required by law to send acceptance AND rejection letters for interviews, once a position is filled. Not even feedback, just yay or nay at a minimum. If a company can't fucking figure out how to auto-send an email with a binary decision, you shouldn't be allowed to hire employees to your business
@newsie@darktundra.xyzWedding Photo Booth Company Exposes Customers’ Drunken Photos https://www.404media.co/wedding-photo-booth-company-exposes-customers-drunken-photos/
@brian_gettler@mas.toAs an historian of the fur trade in Canada, I think it's sort of perfect that the Thomson and especially the Weston families get the charter. Nobody performed the proud Canadian tradition of corporate monopoly over the basic necessities of life and knowledge of the outside world better or longer than the HBC.
htt…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNBCU partners with RPA and Newton Research to connect buy-side and sell-side agentic AI, automating real-time cross-platform video ad deals starting in Q1 2026 (Wayne Friedman/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article…
@axbom@axbom.me
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI've been using Broadcom/VMware ESXI 8 U3 on a Gen 15 Intel Ultra 9 powered box.
Gack, you would think that a giant company like Broadcom/VMware would keep its software up to date.
But no. One has to jump through special configuration hoops (not documented except by third parties) to even get ESXI loaded.
And then if one wants to use USB-4/Thunderbolt based network interface devices one has to find and install a "FLING" patch.
It seems to me that Broadc…
@nohillside@smnn.chLet me translate that: Musks boosts the value of xAI by integrating it into SpaceX and claiming that the future of AI is in space, in two years. That’s the same Musk who is flying to Mars „real soon now“.
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/musk-spacex-xai/
@ethanwhite@hachyderm.ioKid: Dad!?! The (no longer maintained) software that school wants me to use is throwing a "Code C" error on the video we took in class (on a brand new iPhone). Can you help?
Me: I don't know who suggested you use this software. I don't know why. If the software company is telling you to pay for an upgrade, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career (in scientific software)
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: SpaceX is planning a secondary share sale that would value the company at $800B, surpassing OpenAI to make it the most valuable US private company (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/spacex-in-talks-for-sh…
@mlawton@mstdn.socialFinished "The Memory Collectors" by Dete Meserve.
A company has developed technology to transport your consciousness into your past, but only for one hour and without any precision as to when. Some go to see a lost loved one. Others to briefly escape the pain of future traumas.
Four strangers find themselves marooned on the same day and begin to discover a connection.
Strong start but devolves into an all too neat saccharine finish.
3/5 ⭐⭐⭐
@cdamian@rls.social
@poppastring@dotnet.socialData regulators in Thailand said they are blocking the Sam Altman-founded company Tools for Humanity from collecting iris scans.
"The business model is based on the premise that it will become more difficult to tell humans apart from online AI avatars in the near future."
It sounds like we create a problem then found a business to solve the problem.
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialGrr and argh.
The people who make government websites generally tend to do a halfway decent job of meeting the spec, but they really really need to learn to push back when the spec is FUCKING STUPID.
Having just completed my "Annual Filing" with Companies House - and why is that even a thing, we're not posting fucking vellum to Victorian clerks who scurry up ladders to deposit the sacred paperwork in the appropriate filing cabinet any more - I got a new scary emai…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to#Biodrones: Russian company successfully tests remote-controlled pigeons with brain implants https://www.notebookcheck.net/Company-succes…
@lilmikesf@c.im#OTD in 1987 the historic #Leinenkugel's brewery in Chippewa Falls #Wisconsin was sold to Miller Brewing Company. In an eventual arrangement with Pabst, somehow
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizzaBoy this sentiment is really starting to pick up speed, lol. This random dude's vid has nearly 10k more views than he has subs already after just 13 hours. M$ doing the best Linux PR.
"Microsoft have lost their minds
A rant about Microsoft's product naming and does anyone know what their products are called at this point? From the company that killed Windows, now you can have Microsoft 365 Copilot app instead of Office... cause who doesn't want that?"
<…
@gwire@mastodon.socialIt was heavily implied that the power going out in Caracas shortly before the US raid was a cyber operation.
In the same way that the US fears Chinese equipment will be remotely commandeered for military or espionage uses, governments will probably be looking at where US company equipment sits in their critical infrastructure.
I imagine they'll be requesting software inspection and reproducible build chains, as the UK did for Huawei.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIn the first successful US prosecution of a spyware operator in 10 years, pcTattletale founder pleads guilty to promoting surveillance apps for unlawful uses (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/06/foun
@benb@osintua.eu'Happy Ukrainian Armed Forces Day' — hackers deface website of Russian company delivering military goods, HUR source claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/06/happy-ukrainian-armed-forces-day.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defacebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 320 nodes and 2369 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
@cdarwin@c.imCinemas, unions sound alarms over Netflix deal
For Netflix, having films launch on its platform allows the company to attract new users, as well as keep existing customers engaged.
But that stance has led to a testy relationship between Netflix and some exhibitors, which have pushed in general for more films to be released on the big screen.
Theater owner trade group Cinema United has voiced staunch opposition to the deal, saying it represented an “unprecedented threat to…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeArizona attorney general sues Chinese online retailer Temu over data theft claims
https://apnews.com/article/arizona-temu-lawsuit-14615cec4bb7927493a7208f9d23431b
@axbom@axbom.meMy message to Gaggle Mail:
I just want to let you know that I decided not to continue evaluating your service after I noticed that you have a setting to use ChatGPT from OpenAI turned on by default.
Among many other things, OpenAI is Trump's biggest donor and used by ICE.
It is one of the most morally corrupt companies in operation today and it was hugely disappointing to me to see a company that embraced the classic listserv platform (yay!) also integrating the w…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deboard_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
@cdarwin@c.imWaymo “self-driving” may be due for some extra scrutiny.
During a Congressional hearing on Wednesday, Waymo’s chief safety officer,
Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company’s use of Chinese-made vehicles
and reliance on overseas workers, as Business Insider reports.
The stakes and public safety implications are considerable.
The news comes roughly a week after a Waymo robotaxi struck and injured a child near a Santa Monica, California, elementary school…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialGrupo Televisa's co-CEOs acquire $106M worth of the company's shares in a swap with ex-chairman Emilio Azcarraga, who upped his stake in sports spinoff Ollamani (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCES 2026: self-driving truck company Kodiak partners with Bosch to develop a hardware and software system to turn standard semi-trucks into autonomous vehicles (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/kodiak-taps-bosch-to-scale-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThomson Reuters' CEO says AI cannot easily replace the company's legal-research expertise, after its stock fell following the release of Claude legal work tools (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imAs Bitcoin prices continue to plummet and electricity costs climb,
it’s become tough out there for a crypto miner.
The hash price index, which is used to determine how much revenue miners can make by mining crypto,
reached its lowest point on record this week, according to mining services company Luxor Technology.
According to Coindesk, the average cost to mine one Bitcoin is currently around $87,000
— far higher than its current going rate,
making it an e…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeWe're halfway through the post-Thanksgiving week, and the cyber news machine is cranking back up again, so check out today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Indian government retreats from spy app mandate,
--US DOJ seizes Myanmar scam center website,
--Coupang execs sold company stock before breach was announced,
--Coupang is reviewing compensation for breach victims,
--Korea's Gmarket hit by string of una…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNetflix's WBD bid marks a striking strategy shift for a company long known for pivots, especially after years of avoiding full commitment to theatrical releases (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/business/media/ne…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNetflix's WBD bid marks a striking strategy shift for a company long known for pivots, especially after years of avoiding full commitment to theatrical releases (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/business/media/ne…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6, which it says can scrutinize company data, regulatory filings, and market info; Anthropic now has 300K business users (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deboard_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNewsGuard sues the FTC, alleging censorship after the FTC barred Omnicom from working with NewsGuard as a condition of the ad agency's Interpublic acquisition (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/news-g…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeituan agrees to buy Dingdong, a Chinese fresh grocery e-commerce company, for $717M in cash; Dingdong had 7M monthly transacting users as of September 2025 (Cao Li/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3342
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Nvidia has struggled to monetize its Omniverse software and the company shuttered the Omniverse Cloud service in August 2025 due to lack of demand (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidias-big-ambitions…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialLionsgate hires Kathleen Grace, previously chief strategy officer at AI company Vermillio, as its first-ever chief AI officer to lead AI strategy and execution (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/lionsgate-hires-chief-ai-officer-12366537…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA live blog of Nvidia's keynote with CEO Jensen Huang at CES 2026, where the company is showcasing AI, robotics, simulation, gaming, and more (Katie Teague/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/computing/watch-t
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMarty Baron says "I firmly believe" Jeff Bezos prioritizes his other interests over WaPo; Jim VandeHei says "I have no clue what their strategy was or is" (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/05/mass-layoffs-wash…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialVancouver-based quantum computing startup Photonic raised CA$180M led by Planet First Partners, bringing its total funding to CA$375M (Madison McLauchlan/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/photonic-says-its-ready-to-commercialize-quantum-with-180-mi…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAd tech company Consumable acquires Radio.com and Mark Cuban's Fireside platform and plans to develop a streaming platform to help creators deepen audience ties (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/streaming/news/radio-com…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic says Opus 4.6 found 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with little to no prompting during its testing (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/05/anthropic-claude-opus-46-software-hunting
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe owner of the Entrepreneur magazine sues Meta in California federal court, alleging the company used "at least hundreds" of its works to train AI models (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/e
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic details how it used 16 parallel Claude Opus 4.6 agents to build a Rust-based 100,000-line C compiler, incurring ~$20K in API costs over 2,000 sessions (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA civil subpoena shows the US DOJ is investigating Netflix for potential anticompetitive tactics as DOJ probes the company's proposed acquisition of WBD (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/justice
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIn recent months, several companies like Airtable, Handshake, and Opendoor have announced that they are "refounding", as they scramble to add new AI features (Lora Kelley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/business/refounding-startups-ai.html…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNews Corp reports $242M in Q2 net income, down 21% YoY, rev. up 6% YoY to $2.36B vs. $2.30B est., digital-only WSJ subs up 13% to 4.3M, HarperCollins rev. up 6% (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/news-corp-q2-2026-earnin…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAfrican fintech Flutterwave acquires Nigerian open banking startup Mono, sources say in an all-stock deal valued at $25M to $40M; Mono raised $17.5M since 2020 (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/flutterwave-buys-nige…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialExcelsior Sciences, which aims to use AI and robots for small-molecule drug discovery and development, raised a $70M Series A from Khosla Ventures and others (Aayushi Pratap/Chemical & Engineering News)
https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialOutside Interactive, formerly Outside Media, which pivoted from ads to a recurring revenue model, reports 2025 revenue up 23% YoY to $125M and its first profit (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/outside-interactive-profit-transformation/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAt the Cisco AI Summit, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the company plans to build GPUs and has already hired a chief GPU architect (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/intel-ceo-says-company-will-make-gpus-has-hired-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLondon-based Lawhive, whose lawyers and AI tools help individuals and SMBs automate legal tasks, raised a $60M Series B, after a $40M Series A in December 2024 (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/05/lawhive-ai-law-firm-startup-series-b-ventu…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMatt Murray saying that WaPo will no longer write for "one slice of the audience" demonizes the strategy of fiercely reporting on Trump that made it successful (Derek Thompson/@dkthomp)
https://x.com/dkthomp/status/2019351378603155700
@Techmeme@techhub.socialReddit reports Q4 revenue up 70% YoY to $726M, vs. $665M est., DAUq up 19% to 121.4M, above est., forecasts Q1 revenue above est., announces a $1B share buyback (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/reddit-rddt-q4-2025.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialLionsgate reports a Q3 net loss of $46.2M, vs. a $21.9M loss a year earlier, $724.3M in revenue, vs. $705.9M est., motion picture revenue up 35% YoY to $421.2M (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Nvidia's Level 2 driving system, set to roll out to more carmakers in 2026, after a ~40-minute drive around San Francisco in a Mercedes-Benz CLA sedan (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/852880/nvidia-autonomous-driving-demo…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAmazon reports Q4 ad revenue up 23% YoY to $21.32B, slightly above expectations, and subscription services revenue up 14% to $13.12B (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/amazon-q4-2025-earnings-capex-advertising-sales…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon reports Q4 ad revenue up 23% YoY to $21.32B, slightly above expectations, and subscription services revenue up 14% to $13.12B (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/amazon-q4-2025-earnings-capex-advertising-sales…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCongressional Democrats and Republicans criticize the Netflix-WBD deal, saying it would raise streaming subscription prices and lessen workers' pay and control (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/n
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: the White House has told others in the government it won't allow Nvidia to sell its scaled-down AI chip B30A to China, despite Trump's hints he might (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/u-s-block-nvid…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHarperCollins France says it is testing using AI-assisted translation, citing declining sales and following in the footsteps of Taylor & Francis and others (Eva Baron/Publishers Weekly)
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-to…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLMArena, which runs a leaderboard ranking AI models based on their performance, raised $150M at a $1.7B post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $250M (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-evaluation-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUniversal Music India acquires a 30% equity stake in Mumbai-based Excel Entertainment in a deal valuing the Indian production house at $290M (Patrick Brzeski/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMelania Trump launches Muse Films, her new production company, ahead of the release of an Amazon MGM Studios feature documentary about her in January (Patrick Hipes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/melania-trump-production-company-documentary-12366…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialStripe agrees to acquire Metronome, which offers APIs to help SaaS companies charge customers based on usage and has raised $128M in total funding (Scott Woody/Metronome)
https://metronome.com/blog/important-company-update
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAdobe plans to discontinue its 2D animation software Animate on March 1; enterprise customers can receive support until March 2029, and others until March 2027 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/adobe-animate-is-shutting-down…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSalesforce's Tableau chief, Ryan Aytay, leaves after 19 years at the company, just two months after Slack CEO Denise Dresser left for OpenAI (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/sales…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFrance's CNIL fines Condé Nast €750K because vanityfair.fr placed cookies on user devices without proper consent, following a December 2019 complaint (CNIL)
https://www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-placed-without-consent-company-publi…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAn interview with Disney's incoming CEO Josh D'Amaro and Bob Iger on the CEO transition, the company's future, including streaming and embracing AI (Mason Leib/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/abc-news-exclusive-disn…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTechCreate's shares surged ~1,995% in the past week; the payment software company says it is not aware of any info that would account for the trading activity (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/techcreate-keeps-going-pa…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSK Hynix announces a new US-based "AI Company" from a restructuring of its California-based subsidiary Solidigm, and commits at least $10B to the new entity (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/sk-hynix-ai-company-us.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCybersecurity company Varonis agrees to acquire AllTrue, which develops specialized tools for AI trust, risk, and security management, for $125M in cash (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/varonis-to-acquire-alltrue-a…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSamsung co-CEO TM Roh says the company has rolled out Gemini-powered AI features to ~400M mobile devices by 2025, and aims to boost the figure to 800M in 2026 (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/samsun
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTexas Instruments plans to buy US chip company Silicon Labs in a $7.5B deal, paying $231/share in cash, closing in H1 2027; Silicon Labs has a $4.5B market cap (Nick Turner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of AI hearing aid startup Fortell, which has raised $150M so far and is targeting affluent clients in NYC with a $6,800 device that uses a custom chip (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/hearing-aid-startup-ai-fortell/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Cisco is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity company Axonius for $2B; Axonius has raised ~$700M and was valued at $2.6B during earlier rounds (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bjxge1de11l
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHands-on with Xreal's Neo, a $99 battery pack and mini-dock that acts as a passthrough converter so the company's glasses can work with the Nintendo Switch (Scott Stein/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/xreals-latest-gl…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon plans to release its new $630 Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and $500 Kindle Scribe on December 10; the company announced the devices in September (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/838282/amazon-kindle-scribe-colorsoft-release-date
@Techmeme@techhub.socialVista Equity-backed infrastructure software company LogicMonitor acquires Catchpoint, which monitors user experiences across the internet, for $250M in cash (Liana Baker/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe SpaceX-xAI merger further intermingles Musk's companies, creates the most valuable private company in the world, and provides a financial lifeline to xAI (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/technology/spacex-xai-deal.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMalaysian authorities are using drones, power sensors, and tips to hunt Bitcoin miners over power theft, which cost a state energy company $1.1B over five years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOfcom fines AVS Group, which runs 18 adult sites, £1M under the OSA, the largest penalty so far, and threatens action against a "major social media company" (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/abe78aa2-6e62-419b-925c-9818e86e7179
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTBPN signs a partnership with the NYSE, giving the video podcast the same on-floor access enjoyed by major financial networks such as CNBC (Sam Becker/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91452867/insid
