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On Techmeme's 20th birthday, its founder explains what's behind the site's consistency, debunks some supposed media trends, and outlines future directions (Gabe Rivera/Techmeme News)
https://news.techmeme.com/250912/20-years

Explaining, at some length, Techmeme's 20 years of consistency

On Techmeme's 20th birthday, its founder explains what's behind the site's consistency, debunks some supposed media trends, and outlines future directions (Gabe Rivera/Techmeme News)
https://news.techmeme.com/250912/20-years

Explaining, at some length, Techmeme's 20 years of consistency

Despite hype and optimistic projections, the humanoid robot industry faces hurdles, from battery life and design to limited demand for large-scale deployments (Evan Ackerman/IEEE Spectrum)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-robot-scaling

Humanoid Robots: The Scaling Challenge
​It takes more than building a humanoid robot to build a humanoid robot product.

OpenAI's failed Windsurf deal signals broader M&A challenges for OpenAI until it renegotiates its deal with Microsoft (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/openai-windsurf-google/

An OpenAI Acquisition Turns Into a Google 'Hackqusition'...
A rough few weeks may signal some real talent trouble for OpenAI – at the worst possible time

Meta says Threads has 400M monthly active users, up from 350M MAUs in April (Emily Price/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91384230/meta-threads-just-achieved-its-biggest-milestone-yet

Threads just achieved its biggest milestone yet
Meta’s social upstart Threads just hit 400 million users. It's within striking distance of X on mobile engagement.

In response to Elon Musk's claims that the App Store favors the ChatGPT app, Apple says the App Store "is designed to be fair and free of bias" (Mark Gurman/@markgurman)
https://x.com/markgurman/status/1955383759853007198

Mark Gurman (@markgurman) on X
Apple on @elonmusk’s claims: "The App Store is designed to be fair and free of bias. We feature thousands of apps through charts, algorithmic recommendations, and curated lists selected by experts using objective criteria.” https://t.co/w4NFINOF9x

AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised a $50M Series A led by GFT Ventures (Amit Chowdhry/Pulse 2.0)
https://pulse2.com/higgsfield-50-million-series-a-raised-to-transform-ai-video-creation/

Higgsfield: $50 Million Series A Raised To Transform AI Video Creation
Higgsfield.ai, a rapidly growing company specializing in AI for video creation, has announced the successful close of its $50 million Series A funding round. The investment was led by GFT Ventures and joined by a group of firms, including BroadLight Capital, NextEquity Partners, AI Capital Partners, Menlo Ventures, Alpha Square Group, and other strategic backers. 

Perplexity's unsolicited $34.5B bid for Chrome with claimed VC backing is clearly a marketing stunt and strategic signaling amid Google's antitrust uncertainty (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/i-offer-to-buy-jupiter/

Perplexity's Perplexing and Positively PR Offer to Buy Chrome
Why not offer a quadrillion dollars?

Atolio, which is making a private AI-powered search tool for enterprises, raised a $24M Series A led by Translink Capital (FinSMEs)
https://www.finsmes.com/2025/09/atolio-raises-24m-in-total-funding.html

Nintendo Switch 2 review: great build quality, better haptics, and improved performance for Switch 1 games, but weak battery life and only a few launch titles (The Shortcut)
https://www.theshortcut.com/p/nintendo-switch-2-review

Nintendo Switch 2 review: bigger, faster, and the best handheld since Game Boy
Our full review and 30+ photos of The Shortcut team testing the Nintendo Switch 2 for a week