Tootfinder

Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says the Microsoft deal "limited our ability" to reach clients on Bedrock and touts its Amazon deal (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/13/openai-touts-a…

OpenAI touts Amazon alliance in memo, says Microsoft has 'limited our ability' to reach clients
In an internal memo, OpenAI's new revenue chief pointed to the artificial intelligence company's ongoing effort to reduce its reliance on Microsoft.

Memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says Anthropic is "grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google" and overstating its "run rate by roughly $8B" (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

Read OpenAI’s latest internal memo about beating the competition — including Anthropic
OpenAI’s chief revenue officer, Denise Dresser, sent a four-page memo to employees about the company’s strategic direction and competition with Anthropic.

Officials downplay FBI memo on threats of Iranian attacks in California (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/officials-downplay-fbi-memo-on-threats-of-iranian-attacks-in-california/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p60#a260312p60

Internal memo: Microsoft's gaming chief Asha Sharma says "Game Pass has become too expensive for players" and that Microsoft needs "a better value equation" (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Xbox Game Pass ‘has become too expensive,’ says Microsoft’s new gaming chief in leaked memo
Microsoft’s new Xbox chief is getting ready to improve Game Pass pricing. A leaked memo suggests that a “better value equation” is coming soon.

Here’s the Memo Approving Gemini, ChatGPT, and Copilot for Use in the Senate https://www.404media.co/heres-the-memo-approving-gemini-chatgpt-and-copilot-for-use-in-the-senate/

Memo: The Banner in Maryland plans to expand sports staff to cover Washington, DC, teams, hiring beat reporters to cover the Nationals and Commanders, and more (Brendon Kleen/Awful Announcing)
https://awfulannouncing.com/newspapers/balt…

Baltimore Banner to cover Washington, D.C., sports after shuttering of WaPo sports desk
The Baltimore Banner will do daily coverage of the Commanders and Nats starting soon, seeking to fill the hole left by the Washington Post.

Of course it does
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.ht…

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.

How Young Men View Trump 2.0 After One Year (Lucas Holtz/Third Way)
https://www.thirdway.org/memo/how-young-men-view-trump-2-0-after-one-year
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p51#a260212p51

Memo: Tisches ask to move Giants stake to trusts https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48174929/tisch-family-looks-transfer-giants-stake-children-trusts

February investor memo: Cohere hit ~$240M in ARR in 2025, above its $200M target, with QoQ growth of 50% and average gross margins of ~70% throughout the year (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/13/ai-startup-cohere-revenue-ipo.html

Enterprise AI startup Cohere tops revenue target as momentum builds to IPO: Investor memo
Cohere's competitors OpenAI and Anthropic are also weighing potential IPOs and competition for enterprise customers is heating up.

A recently leaked DHS memo told immigration agents they have the authority to break into people's homes to conduct immigration operations,
The memo ignores parts of DHS training materials related to the Fourth Amendment,
according to David Kligerman,
the senior vice president and special counsel of Whistleblower Aid.
Kligerman discussed the memo with Adam Klasfeld on the "Legal AF" podcast on Sunday.
He said the "dangerous"
memo …

Leaked ICE memo reveals 'broader effort' of Trump's immigration regime: lawyer
A lawyer representing a group of whistleblowers who leaked a recent Department of Homeland Security memo said on Sunday that the document revealed the "broader effort" of President Donald Trump's immigration regime. Immigration has been the Trump administration's key issue during its second term. Th...

Steve Tisch, family planning to transfer Giants ownership stakes to children: Memo https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7108588/2026/03/11/steve-tisch-giants-ownership-stake-sell-children-epstein-files/

Memo lays out Trump's squeeze on Cuban doctor program (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/13/cuban-doctors-us-pressure-00827683
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p75#a260313p75

Memo: Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses in 2026, saying the political tumult in the US would distract critics from the feature's release (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/202…

Memo: George Cheeks says Nickelodeon Animation Studios will operate as a label within CBS Studios, similar to BET Studios, consolidating TV production units (Nellie Andreeva/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/04/nickelodeon-anima…

Nickelodeon Animation Studios To Become CBS Studios Label With Alec Botnick As President; Ashley Kaplan Segues To Consulting
Nickelodeon Animation Studios will become CBS Studios label with Alec Botnick as President; Ashley Kaplan will segue to consulting

Three Lessons From Hungary on How to Beat Competitive Authoritarianism (Gabriela Greilinger/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/three-lessons-from-hungary-on-how-to-beat-competitive-authoritarianism
http://www.memeorandum.com/260413/p68#a260413p68

In a memo to US lawmakers, OpenAI accused DeepSeek of using distillation techniques to train the next generation of R1 and "free-ride" on leading US AI models (Bloomberg)

Leaked DHS Memo Reveals ICE Claiming Expansive New Warrantless Arrest Powers | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-memo-warrantless-arrests

NFL reinstating front office, coaching accelerator https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48176095/nfl-bringing-back-front-office-coaching-accelerator-program

Meet the 'Cabal'-Hating 'Special Government Employee' Involved in the Fulton County FBI Raid (Hunter Walker/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-the-cabal-hating-special-government-employee-involved-in-the-fulton-county-fbi-raid
http://www.memeorandum.com/260211/p143#a260211p143

Latest from Howard Marks on #AI: https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/ai-hurtles-ahead
This guy continues to adapt with times. Over and over again.

AI Hurtles Ahead
In his latest memo, Howard Marks revisits the subject of AI, providing his observations on its essence and how it differs from previous technological innovations.

Staff At Minnesota Deportation Hub Received 'Obscene' Trump-Themed Challenge Coins Adorned With Skulls (Hunter Walker/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/staff-at-minnesota-deportation-hub-received-obscene-trump-themed-challenge-coins-adorned-with-skulls
http://www.memeorandum.com/260411/p50#a260411p50

Neue Xbox-Chefin verspricht „Rückkehr der Xbox“ ohne KI-Müll
In einem internen Memo stellt Asha Sharma nach dem Abgang von Phil Spencer ihre Strategie für Spiele und Hardware bei Microsoft vor.
https://www.

I find this . . . entertaining
Ref:
Forbes article on AI coding at Microsoft
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2025/07/08/microsoft-makes-ai-mandatory-for-employees-what-it-means-for-your-career/…

So, now ICE says that it can enter homes without a warrant.
The article below says "The change is almost certain to meet legal challenges and stiff criticism"
Gee, I would also expect "The change is almost certain to meet the barrel of a gun".
I fully anticipate that this is going to introduce ICE agents to the sensation of buckshot - or a bullet - at short range.
So yet another section of our Constitution dies at the hands of trump and his minions…

ICE officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, memo says
Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches.

Trump-Besuch trotz Gewalteskalation: Kritik an Apple-Chef Tim Cook kocht hoch
Ein Kinoabend bei den Trumps sorgt für massive Kritik an Tim Cook, auch intern. Ein Memo des Apple-Chefs versucht, die Wogen zu glätten.

Inside the DHS Campaign Against US Citizens (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/inside-the-dhs-campaign-against-u-s-citizens
http://www.memeorandum.com/260309/p83#a260309p83

More evidence that we are in an active civil war, started by the US federal government.
https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-trump-00d0ab0338e82341fd91b160758aeb2d?

Memo tells ICE officers they can enter homes without a warrant
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant. This change reverses previous guidance and raises concerns about constitutional protections against illegal searches. The memo, signed by ICE’s acting director, states that administrative warrants are sufficient for forced entry if there’s a final order of removal. This policy could face legal cha…

Memo: CNN CEO Mark Thompson names CNN's digital chief, Alex MacCallum, as COO, assuming responsibility for consumer strategy, performance tracking, and more (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/cnn-alex-maccallum-mark-thompson-succession-plan

CNN’s Heir Apparent
In a little-noticed move, CNN boss Mark Thompson elevated Alex MacCallum to COO—quietly signaling his preferred succession plan at the network, Status has learned. The move is likely unwelcome news for others at CNN jockeying for the top position.

Internal memo: Meta is pulling top engineers into its new Applied AI Engineering division, as part of a push to improve its models and "compete in the AI race" (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclus…

Exclusive: Meta Reassigns Engineers to Improve AI Models
Meta Platforms is pulling top engineers from across the company into its new Applied AI Engineering division—whether they like it or not—as part of its aggressive push to step up its competitiveness in the AI model arms race. In an internal memo sent to employees on Wednesday and seen by The Information, Maher Saba, the Meta vice president who leads the new AAI organization, said the company

Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to ❌forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant,
according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press,
⚠️ marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches.
The memo authorizes ICE officers to use force to enter a residence based solely on a narrow administrative warrant to arrest someone
with…

Memo tells ICE officers they can enter homes without a warrant
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant. This change reverses previous guidance and raises concerns about constitutional protections against illegal searches. The memo, signed by ICE’s acting director, states that administrative warrants are sufficient for forced entry if there’s a final order of removal. This policy could face legal cha…

The Raiders cut him and voided $35 million but the NFL didn’t get the memo https://raiderramble.com/2026/03/21/the-raiders-cut-him-and-voided-35-million-but-the-nfl-didnt-get-the-memo/

Jack Dorsey's Memo Could Signal a New Era of White-Collar Layoffs - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-block-memo-new-era-white-collar-layoffs-2026-2

ICE officers are being told they can enter homes to make arrests without a judge's warrant | AP News https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-trump-00d0ab0338e82341fd91b160758aeb2d

Memo tells ICE officers they can enter homes without a warrant
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant. This change reverses previous guidance and raises concerns about constitutional protections against illegal searches. The memo, signed by ICE’s acting director, states that administrative warrants are sufficient for forced entry if there’s a final order of removal. This policy could face legal cha…

Memo: Alibaba Cloud CTO Jingren Zhou will step down as CTO to focus on leading AI models in the new role of chief AI architect; executive Feifei Li becomes CTO (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/alibaba-streamlines…

Alibaba Streamlines Responsibilities for AI Executive
Alibaba Group senior executive Jingren Zhou, who is in charge of AI model development, will stop serving as Alibaba Cloud’s chief technology officer and concentrate on his AI role, according to an internal memo. In the latest reorganization, Alibaba also appointed Zhou the chief AI architect of its newly created technology committee chaired by CEO Eddie Wu, according to the memo, which Wu sent

Leaked memo: a top Senate administrator gave aides the green light to use ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot for official Senate work, including preparing briefings (Catie Edmondson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/politics/us-senate-chatgpt-a…

ChatGPT, Other Chatbots Approved for Official Use in the Senate
New guidelines said Senate aides could use A.I. tools for official work, including research, drafting and editing documents, and preparing briefings and talking points for lawmakers.

"ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants"
(I can't read the rest - paywall - but.. Seriously?!? Ugh)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/politics/ice-expands-power-agents-warrants.html

ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants
An internal memo changed the standard from whether people are unlikely to show up for hearings to whether they could leave the scene.

Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Chew hailed the establishment of the TikTok USDS JV as "great news", and said the app is used by 200M US users and 7.5M US businesses (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/read-tiktok-ceo-memo-cl…

Read the memo TikTok's CEO sent staff after closing a deal to avoid a US ban
TikTok CEO Shou Chew sent a memo to staff celebrating the "good news" that the company had finalized a deal to keep its business operating in the US.

Trump: 'A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight' ... Maybe (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/trump-a-whole-civilization-will-die-tonight-maybe
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p97#a260407p97

Internal memos: Meta said Avocado is its "most capable pre-trained base model" and achieves 10x compute efficiency "wins" on text tasks vs. Llama 4 Maverick (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-memo-new…

Meta Memo: New Avocado Model ‘Most Capable’ to Date
Meta Platforms is sounding an increasingly bullish note about the first major AI model expected to emerge from its new AI group. The company recently told some staffers in the group, known as Meta Superintelligence Labs, that its next generation large language model, codenamed Avocado, is “now ...

Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times.
The change expands the ability of lower-level ICE agents to carry out sweeps rounding up people they encounter and suspect are undocumented immigrants,
rather than targeted enforcement operations in which they set out, warrant in hand, to arrest a specific person.
A week before t…

ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants
An internal memo changed the standard from whether people are unlikely to show up for hearings to whether they could leave the scene.

Memo: Bloomberg Media now has 707,000 paying subscribers, reports revenue up 6% YoY, subscriptions revenue up 10%, and advertising and sponsorship revenue up 5% (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/bloomberg-media-700000-subscribers-2025/
…

Bloomberg Media Tops 700,000 Subscribers as Revenue Rises 6% in 2025
According to a memo obtained by ADWEEK, the publisher posted gains across subscriptions, advertising, and live events.

Memo: Amazon SVP Dave Treadwell says junior and mid-level engineers now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted code changes, after outages (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f771de

A new memo from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, challenges the
Presidential Records Act
It appears intended to give Donald Trump the legal leeway to destroy White House records from his current term.
It also gives him legal backing to refuse to hand over any remaining records to the National Archives and Records Administration when he leaves office in 2029.
However, Archives personnel rely on the records law daily to review, redact and make public …

RNC pushed Bovino’s false claims as talking points hours before his removal - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/rnc-bovino-ice-talking-points-memo-00751117

Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Chew hailed the establishment of the TikTok USDS JV as "great news", and said the app is used by 200M US users and 7.5M US businesses (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/read-tiktok-ceo-memo-cl…

Read the memo TikTok's CEO sent staff after closing a deal to avoid a US ban
TikTok CEO Shou Chew sent a memo to staff celebrating the "good news" that the company had finalized a deal to keep its business operating in the US.

On the day of Abrego's indictment,
the district's criminal division chief Ben Schrader resigned.
We just learned he wrote a memo explaining why he thought Abrego shouldn't have been charged.
He wanted the memo forwarded to "D.C."
It never was, per testimony.
https://www…

Abrego enters court a free man for vindictive prosecution hearing
For the first time, Abrego wasn't in criminal or immigration custody when entering a federal court in Nashville.

Internal memo: Sam Altman tells staff that ChatGPT is "back to exceeding 10% monthly growth", and OpenAI plans to release "an updated Chat model" this week (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/09/sam-altman-touts-cha…

Sam Altman touts ChatGPT's reaccelerating growth to employees as OpenAI closes in on $100 billion funding
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees that ChatGPT's monthly growth is back above 10%, as competition ramps up in generative AI.

Q&A with TPM founder Josh Marshall on the rise of independent journalism, early blogging vs. newsletters, and feeling bullish about the media ecosystem (Thor Benson/Long Lead Presents)
https://depthperception.longlead.com/p/tpm-josh…

TPM’s Josh Marshall on blogs, newsletters, and independent journalism's resurgence
Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall says independent journalists’ success is the "sustainable" solution to traditional media’s woes.

ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door.
It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge.
No wonder ICE hid this memo!
https://

Leaked Friday memo: Dario Amodei called OpenAI's DOD deal "safety theater", said DOD dislikes Anthropic in part for not giving "dictator-style praise to Trump" (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/an

Anthropic CEO Memo: Trump Disliked Company For Not Giving ‘Dictator-Style Praise’
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that a deal OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman struck to provide AI to the Department of Defense was “safety theater,” adding that the Trump Administration didn’t like Anthropic in part because the company hadn’t “given dictator-style praise to ...

Memo: Philo CEO Andrew McCollum is stepping down and will be replaced by COO Mike Keyserling; source: McCollum will become executive chairman of Philo (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/03/philo-ceo-andrew-mccollum-resigns-mike-keyserling/

SCOOP: Philo CEO Andrew McCollum steps down; COO Mike Keyserling to succeed as CEO
Philo CEO Andrew McCollum is leaving the company after more than a decade; COO Mike Keyserling is succeed him in the role.

Leaked Memo Exposes How DHS Is Building a Database on Protesters (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/205779/leaked-memo-department-homeland-security-database-protesters
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p149#a260127p149

Internal memo: Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft's developer division, will resign after 34 years and move to an "advisory role" at the end of June (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/908793/microsoft-devdiv-julia-liuson-resignation…

Microsoft’s executive shake-up continues as developer division chief resigns
Microsoft executive Julia Liuson is leaving the company after 34 years. Liuson is the head of Microsoft’s developer division.

New polling memo urges Senate Dems to 'play hardball' on ICE (Adam Wren/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/28/ice-polling-memo-searchlight-00751569
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p59#a260128p59

Internal memo: CBS Mornings top producer Shawna Thomas will leave her role; a source says CBS News executives are eager to find a way to keep working with her (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/cbs-mornings-top-produce…

'CBS Mornings' Top Producer Shawna Thomas to Exit
"CBS Mornings" executive producer Shawna Thomas will exit as the show focuses more on some of the frillier elements of A.M. TV it used to avoid

Donald Trump showed a classified map he retained from his first term in office to passengers on a 2022 private plane flight
and retained another record so sensitive that only six high-ranking government officials had access to it,
according to a prosecution memo released to Congress this week.

The Justice Department shared those findings, detailed in a January 2023 briefing document written by then-special counsel Jack Smith’s team,
with lawmakers as they conduct a …

Trump showed classified map to passengers on his plane in 2022, memo says
The document offers a snapshot of an early moment in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation and adds new shading to the public understanding of Smith’s probes.

Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma says she is committed to "the return of Xbox" and that the company won't "flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop" (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/games/882326/read-microsoft…

Read Microsoft gaming CEO Asha Sharma’s first memo on the future of Xbox
Asha Sharma, formerly head of development for Microsoft’s AI enterprise teams, will lead Microsoft Xbox and gaming. Here’s her first full memo.

Jack Smith memo includes 'damning evidence' about Trump's handling of classified documents, top Democrat says (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/jack-smith-memo-trump-classified-documents-cannon-congress-doj-rcna265060
http://www.memeorandum.com/260325/p143#a260325p143

Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro details priorities in a staff memo: maintaining creative excellence, leveraging technology, and operating as "One Disney" to align teams (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/busi

Incoming Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro Outlines Priorities in Note to Staff: 'We Will Operate as One Disney'
The entertainment giant's new chief says "great storytelling" and "creative excellence" will remain the company's north star

DOJ says it erroneously relied on ICE memo to justify immigration courthouse arrests (Chloe Atkins/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/doj-says-erroneously-relied-ice-memo-justify-immigration-courthouse-ar-rcna265206
http://www.memeorandum.com/260325/p153#a260325p153

Dario Amodei says Anthropic has been "having productive conversations" with the DOD and apologizes for a leaked memo that criticized Trump and Sam Altman (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war

Where things stand with the Department of War
A statement from Dario Amodei

There's Another Big Reason Trump Is Stuck in the Gulf (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/theres-another-big-reason-trump-is-stuck-in-the-gulf
http://www.memeorandum.com/260405/p42#a260405p42

Staff memo: Alibaba says it is setting up a new task force to accelerate foundation AI model development, after the resignation of Qwen AI head Lin Junyang (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/alibaba-ceo-confirms-de…

Report: Joint Federal and State Probe Into Pretti Shooting to be Announced (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/report-joint-federal-and-state-probe
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p88#a260206p88

In January 2023, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti announced in a memo to staffthat the company was making a hard pivot to AI — years before the word “slop” was added to the public lexicon.
In the memo, which was published roughly two months after OpenAI unveiled its groundbreaking ChatGPT chatbot, Peretti said BuzzFeed would be using the software to enhance the company’s infamous quizzes by generating personalized responses.
The company’s stock price jumped aggressively, from around $3 …

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI
Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

Memo: Business Insider says it will give a new "quarterly AI Award" for the best staff AI use, like solving a frustrating problem, with the winner getting $400 (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/2039345510683709715

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) on X
In a note to staff this morning shared with me, Business Insider said it is giving out a new quarterly AI Award for best use of AI at the company. Winner gets $400…

US Judge Rules ICE Raids Require Judicial Warrants, Contradicting Secret ICE Memo (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/us-judge-rules-ice-raids-require-judicial-warrants-contradicting-secret-ice-memo/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p111#a260123p111

The recruitment drive for new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers
is putting strain on the vetting process,
Reuters reported, citing an internal email from the agency that was sent on Monday.
ICE leaders have now put in place a process to handle allegations of
historic misconduct against new recruits, the report said.
The email was sent to supervisors with ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations division, Reuters reported.
It cited…

Leaked ICE Memo Reveals Problems Vetting New Recruits—Report
The Trump administration has sought to rapidly hire new ICE officers to see through its aggressive deportation targets.

Internal memo: Iranian strikes have rendered two AWS zones "hard down" in Dubai and Bahrain and Amazon expects them to be "unavailable for an extended period" (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/iran-strikes-leave-amazon…

Iran Strikes Leave Amazon Availability Zones “Hard Down” in Bahrain and Dubai, Per Internal AWS Communication
Amazon tells its employees to deprioritize these regions as the Iran war deals meaningful damage to its infrastructure in the Gulf.

Memo shows White House directing DHS to hunt for voter fraud by naturalized citizens (MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/memo-shows-white-house-directing-dhs-to-hunt-for-voter-fraud-by-naturalized-citizens
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p104#a260218p104

Memo: another CBS News producer leaves, after 46 years, and says, "We've been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum" (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/27/cbs-news-…

The State Department is considering 🔥withholding lifesaving assistance to people with H.I.V. in Zambia as a negotiating tactic ⚠️ to force the government of the southern African country to sign a deal giving the United States more access to the country’s critical minerals.
“We will only secure our priorities by demonstrating willingness to publicly take support away from Zambia on a massive scale,”
a draft of a memo prepared for Secretary of State Marco Rubio by the department’s …

No H.I.V. Aid Without More Access to Minerals: U.S. Ponders ‘Sticks’ Against Zambia
A draft State Department memo outlines ways the Trump administration may ratchet up pressure on the African country by ending health support “on a massive scale.”

Refugees in the U.S. could be arrested under a new immigration memo (Ximena Bustillo/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/19/g-s1-110721/trump-administration-refugees-memo-arrest
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p44#a260219p44

In a memo to employees, xAI said both companies will maintain their separate branding and the joint venture is continuing to prepare for a possible IPO in 2026 (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-sends-staff-q-and-a-on-spacex-merge…

XAI shares Q&A with staff on what they can expect from the SpaceX merger
XAI and SpaceX branding will stay separate and collaboration will be limited, the company told staff.

New DHS memo outlines plan to detain refugees for further vetting (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/02/18/trump-immigrants-refugees-minnesota-memo/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzcxMzkwODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzcyNzczMTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NzEzOTA4MDAsImp0aSI6IjhkOWM3Yzk3LTNjODctNDk4Mi1hNDYxLWUyNzk2MWMzZmQxNSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9pbW1pZ3JhdGlvbi8yMDI2LzAyLzE4L3RydW1wLWltbWlncmFudHMtcmVmdWdlZXMtbWlubmVzb3RhLW1lbW8vIn0.TKuhED-g8Ss5kOwF03kAjxce9B_AbtzDB-pZDSnIdCk&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p36#a260219p36

Interviews with Codex lead Alexander Embiricos, OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger, and others about OpenAI's upcoming superapp that combines ChatGPT with Codex (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/openai-super-app-plan-codex

Inside OpenAI's super app plan
Why Codex is becoming the foundation for everything at OpenAI. Also: Fidji Simo's internal memo about taking a leave of absence.

Memo: CNN CEO Mark Thompson urged employees to avoid jumping to conclusions after Netflix pulled out of the WBD deal and to focus on serving CNN's audience (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/cnn-paramount-warner-bros-merger-1236738177/

With Paramount As A Potential New Owner, CNN CEO Mark Thompson Urges Employees, “Don’t Jump To Conclusions About The Future”
Mark Thompson urged employees to focus on their work after Paramount won the bidding for CNN parent company Warner Bros Discovery.

Donald Trump Became President By Appealing to Conspiracy Theorists -- Now He's Driving Them Away (Mike Rothschild/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/donald-trump-became-president-by-appealing-to-conspiracy-theorists-now-hes-driving-them-away
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p62#a260205p62

Memo: Notus plans to "dramatically expand" its coverage of national politics with a "new version of NOTUS under a new name" and will double staff from 50 to 100 (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/2033566211083014208

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) on X
As we first reported in last night's @semafor media newsletter, NOTUS is rebranding/dramatically expanding. In a memo to staff this morning, the organization said it plans to "launch this new version of NOTUS under a new name" and double staff from 50 to 100.

Sam Altman says rushing the DOD deal was wrong as "the issues are super complex, and demand clear communication" but we were "trying to de-escalate things" (Katherine Li/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-ame

Sam Altman says OpenAI will tweak its Pentagon deal after surveillance backlash
Sam Altman posted an internal memo that OpenAI is working with the Pentagon to "make some additions" to their agreement.

RNC pushed Bovino's false claims as talking points hours before his removal (Alec Hernandez/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/rnc-bovino-ice-talking-points-memo-00751117
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p161#a260127p161

Small Businesses Are Being Left Out of Tariff Refund Process, CBP Data Suggests (Layla A. Jones/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/small-businesses-are-being-left-out-of-tariff-refund-process-cbp-data-suggests
http://www.memeorandum.com/260403/p118#a260403p118

Block is a poster child for the lack of operational discipline common among mid-tier public tech companies that lived on the largesse of cloud, mobile, and ZIRP (Om Malik/On my Om)
https://om.co/2026/02/28/block-tackle-job-cuts-the-ai-narrative/

Block & Tackle: Job Cuts & the AI Narrative
Jack Dorsey, CEO of Block (the company formerly known as Square), went on X (the company formerly known as Twitter, which he co-founded) and shared a lower-case employee memo, candidly outlining hi…

Always Stuck in the 1950s, Trump Courts His Own Suez (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/always-stuck-in-the-1950s-trump-courts-his-own-suez
http://www.memeorandum.com/260402/p158#a260402p158

Memo to Kathy Hochul and Gavin Newsom: Why taxing the rich makes enormous sense (Robert Reich)
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/memo-to-kathy-hochul-and-gavin-newsom
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p124#a260218p124

Memo: Tim Cook told employees that he is "heartbroken" over the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol in Minneapolis and calls for a "deescalation" (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

New ICE policy allows officers to enter homes without a judge's warrant. Here's what experts say (Michael Williams/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/01/22/politics/ice-memo-warrantless-entry-what-we-know
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p80#a260123p80

Justices Express Skepticism Over Birthright Citizenship Case They Never Should Have Taken in the First Place (Kate Riga/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-oral-argument-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p72#a260401p72

Leaked memo: Meta's Reality Labs is reorganizing staff into AI-native "pods" focused on specific outcomes, flattening the organization's leadership structure (Charles Rollet/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/metas-real

Inside Meta's push to turn employees into "AI builders" and reorganize teams around small pods
Meta Reality Labs is reorganizing to be 'AI-native,' forming pods of 'AI builders.' The change aims to boost productivity at Meta.

Internal memo: Lightricks, creator of photo editing app Facetune, is splitting its consumer app unit from its GenAI unit LTX to better capture the growth in AI (Echo Wang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/facetune-

Prerogative Powers and Presidential Self Care (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prerogative-powers-and-presidential-self-care
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p48#a260228p48

Memo: Sam Altman says OpenAI's next model finished pretraining, and moves Safety to Research and Security to Scaling; Fidji Simo becomes CEO of "AGI Deployment" (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/why-openai-killed-sora

Why OpenAI killed Sora
It's about GPUs. Also: CPUs are back, Meta's big stock awards, a CEO actually not blaming AI for layoffs, and more.

Memo: Mark Zuckerberg launches Meta Small Business, a company-wide priority to support entrepreneurship and drive AI use, led by Dina Powell McCormick and more (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/25/exclusive-zuckerberg-launches-meta-small-business…

Exclusive: Zuckerberg launches Meta Small Business
The plan taps Meta's biggest edge in the AI wars.

Memo: Xbox President Sarah Bond, long thought to be Phil Spencer's heir, is leaving; Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty is promoted to Chief Content Officer (Ryan McCaffrey/IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/phil-spencer…

Phil Spencer Retiring, Sarah Bond Out, Matt Booty Promoted as Microsoft AI Exec Asha Sharma Named New Xbox Boss – EXCLUSIVE - IGN
Big changes are being made at the top of Microsoft's gaming division.

Where Trump stands on the border and immigration (Byron York/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/4440096/where-trump-stands-border-immigration/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p160#a260129p160

Internal memo: Meta names CTO Andrew Bosworth to oversee its AI For Work initiative, previously led by Guy Rosen, seeking to compete with AI native startups (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/…

Memo: Meta hires the founders and team behind Dreamer, which lets users create AI agents; co-founder Hugo Barra is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-23…

Memo: Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI last week, will lead OpenAI's enterprise push, as part of a broader reorganization (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-names-former…

OpenAI Names Former TML Staffer Zoph to Oversee Enterprise Push
Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI in a swirl of controversy last week, will lead the company’s push to sell AI products to businesses, as part of a broader reorganization across the company, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications Fidji Simo told staff on Wednesday. Brad ...