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  1. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Source: Kraken cut ~150 staff after AI tools improved efficiency and its IPO may be delayed until late 2026 or early 2027 due to a drop in digital-asset prices (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

    bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
    techmeme.com/260515/p22#a26051

  2. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    OpenAI's disavowal of a liability shield in Illinois SB 3444 bill and endorsement of a stronger SB 315 suggest it is open to meaningful AI safety legislation (Transformer)

    transformernews.ai/p/is-openai
    techmeme.com/260515/p21#a26051

  3. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have "incontrovertible evidence" of AI-generated work (Samantha Cole/404 Media)

    404media.co/new-arxiv-rules-ai
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  4. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    OpenAI memo: Greg Brockman says he will lead product strategy as part of a reorg, folding ChatGPT, Codex, and developer-facing API into one core product team (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

    wired.com/story/openai-reorg-g
    techmeme.com/260515/p19#a26051

  5. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Replit says it has "worked things out with Apple", which has approved a Replit update after four months, following a reported dispute over vibe coding apps (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

    9to5mac.com/2026/05/15/iphone-
    techmeme.com/260515/p18#a26051

  6. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    OpenAI launches personal finance tools for US ChatGPT Pro users, letting them connect to 12K+ financial institutions to analyze spending, plan finances, more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

    techcrunch.com/2026/05/15/open
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  7. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    A profile of AI video generation startup Runway, which is training models directly on observational data, is now valued at $5.3B, and added $40M in ARR in Q2 (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

    techcrunch.com/2026/05/15/runw
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  8. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Meta rolls out new features for Ray-Ban Display glasses, including neural handwriting support for all users, and opens up the device to third-party developers (Jay Peters/The Verge)

    theverge.com/tech/930941/meta-
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  9. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Akamai acquires Israeli cybersecurity startup LayerX Security, which develops a browser-based platform to secure employee use of AI tools, for ~$205M in cash (Meir Orbach/CTech)

    calcalistech.com/ctechnews/art
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  10. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Sources: HSG, formerly Sequoia China, has set up a $3B continuation fund anchored by its ByteDance stake, offering entry into the company valued at $370B (Bloomberg)

    bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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  11. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Bill Ackman says his fund has taken a new stake in Microsoft after the company's recent share price decline; Ackman says investors have underestimated Microsoft (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)

    bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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  12. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Kioxia reports record Q4 earnings of ~$3.8B, forecasts Q1 operating profit of ~$8.2B, and says it is planning a US listing; Kioxia shares are up 300% YTD (Bloomberg)

    bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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  13. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    A profile of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who is killing projects, cutting staff, and pleasing Wall Street, while steering the company toward an AI-focused era (Bloomberg)

    bloomberg.com/features/2026-an
    techmeme.com/260515/p2#a260515

  14. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    London-based edtech startup Multiverse raised $70M at a $2.1B valuation from Index and others as it pushes into AI training; it acquired StackFuel in January (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)

    ft.com/content/ec5764f0-b783-4
    techmeme.com/260515/p1#a260515

  15. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    UK-based Iceotope, which develops data center liquid cooling tech, raised a $26M Series B co-led by Two Seas Capital and Barclays Climate Ventures (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

    siliconangle.com/2026/05/14/da
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  16. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Alphabet sold $3.6B of bonds in its debut yen-denominated bond sale, the largest by a non-Japanese company, as AI-driven capital spending accelerates (Atsuko Fukase/Bloomberg)

    bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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  17. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    In a policy paper, Anthropic urges the US and allies to enforce export controls, curb distillation attacks, and export US AI to hold the lead over China by 2028 (Anthropic)

    anthropic.com/research/2028-ai
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  18. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Security research firm Calif says it used Mythos to help build a macOS kernel memory corruption exploit circumventing Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement tech (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

    wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-myth
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  19. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Sources: Anthropic has agreed to the terms of a $30B fundraising at a $900B valuation, with Sequoia, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Altimeter co-leading the round (George Hammond/Financial Times)

    ft.com/content/9deae3c6-716d-4
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  20. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Sources: xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin plans to raise up to $1B at an up to $5B valuation for a new AI research startup, with General Catalyst possibly leading (Forbes)

    forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast
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  21. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Musk v. Altman: in closing arguments, Musk's attorney doubled down on claims of Altman's untrustworthiness, while OpenAI's lawyer said Musk has no evidence (Associated Press)

    apnews.com/article/musk-sam-al
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  22. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes a new 7.25% tax on web-based software sales, targeting $1.1B in state and local tax revenue in the upcoming budget year (Bloomberg)

    bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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  23. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Gemini reports Q1 revenue up 42% YoY to $50.3M, vs. $47.9M est., announces a $100M capital injection from Winklevoss Capital Fund; GEMI jumps 22%+ after hours (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)

    cnbc.com/2026/05/14/gemini-sur
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  24. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Cerebras co-founders CEO Andrew Feldman and CTO Sean Lie own stakes worth $3.2B and $1.7B, respectively, representing about 5.5% and 3% of the company (CJ Haddad/CNBC)

    cnbc.com/2026/05/14/cerebras-i
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  25. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Cerebras shares closed up 68% at $311.07 in the company's Nasdaq debut after it raised $5.5B in the year's largest IPO, giving it a market value of $67B (Bloomberg)

    bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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  26. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    OpenAI adds remote access to Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app, letting users control Codex sessions running on a connected computer directly from a phone (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

    9to5mac.com/2026/05/14/openai-
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  27. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Figma reports Q1 revenue up 46% YoY to $333.4M, vs. $313.2M est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates, citing AI monetization; FIG jumps 8%+ after hours (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

    reuters.com/technology/figma-r
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  28. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Sources: Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital told its stakeholders that it has invested ~$100M in Shopify, framed as a bet on how AI could lead to gains in commerce (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)

    bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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  29. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Sources: Microsoft plans to remove most of its Claude Code licenses and push its developers toward GitHub Copilot CLI, after previously pushing Claude Code (Tom Warren/The Verge)

    theverge.com/tech/930447/micro
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  30. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    The Senate Banking Committee advances the Clarity Act, which would make CFTC the primary regulator for most digital assets while SEC oversees digital securities (Bloomberg)

    bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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  31. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Sources: 50+ researchers and engineers have left xAI since the SpaceX acquisition via layoffs, firings, and voluntary departures; many have joined Meta and TML (Theo Wayt/The Information)

    theinformation.com/articles/sp
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  32. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Sources: Intel has begun testing production of "low-end/legacy iPhone, iPad, and Mac processors"; Apple thinks TSMC's resources will continue tilting toward AI (@mingchikuo)

    x.com/mingchikuo/status/205498
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  33. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Ford stock jumped as much as 25% in two days after the launch of Ford Energy, a new subsidiary providing battery storage capacity to AI data centers (Christian Davies/Financial Times)

    ft.com/content/3788778f-ea93-4
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  34. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    A look at GameStop's takeover bid for eBay, a bizarre way to force eBay's board and shareholders to consider GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen's desire to run eBay (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)

    bloomberg.com/opinion/newslett
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  35. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Cerebras opens at $350, valuing the chipmaker at $100B+, after raising $5.5B by selling 30M shares at $185, the largest US tech IPO since Uber's debut in 2019 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

    cnbc.com/2026/05/14/cerebras-c
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  36. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Sources: OpenAI is weighing legal action against Apple after expectations that ChatGPT's Siri integration would generate billions in revenue fell short (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

    bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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  37. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    OpenAI says two employee devices were impacted via a supply chain attack on TanStack but no user data or production systems were compromised (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

    techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/open
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  38. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Ian Crosby's Synthetic, which is building an AI bookkeeper, raised a $10M seed led by Khosla; Crosby founded Bench, which raised $100M+ and imploded in 2024 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

    techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/khos
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  39. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Razer updates the Blade 18 with an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus chip, starting at $4000 with an Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti, up $500 from the comparable 2025 model (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

    theverge.com/gadgets/930343/ra
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  40. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Wirestock, which says it provides multi-modal data to six of the largest foundation AI labs, raised a $23M Series A, bringing its total funding to $26M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

    techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/wire
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  41. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon sign an "agreement in principle" to form a joint venture aiming to end wireless dead zones in the US, without giving many details (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

    theverge.com/tech/930336/att-t
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  42. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Motorola Razr Fold review: good performance and screen, great battery life, sharp camera, and native stylus support, but heavier than Z Fold 7 and lackluster AI (Sam Rutherford/Engadget)

    engadget.com/2172439/motorola-
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  43. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Gallup: 70% of Americans oppose local data center construction, citing water and electricity issues, with opposition higher among Democrats than Republicans (Tim Craig/Washington Post)

    washingtonpost.com/nation/2026
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  44. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Klarna reports Q1 revenue up 44% YoY to $1.01B, above est., GMV up 33% to $33.7B, active customers up 20% to 119M, and a $1M profit, up from a $99M loss YoY (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)

    wsj.com/business/earnings/klar
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  45. Techmeme @Techmeme ·

    Spotify says it will adopt Apple's HTTP Live Streaming tech for video podcasts later in 2026, helping creators distribute podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

    9to5mac.com/2026/05/14/spotify
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