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Wall Street Journal : An interview with Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis on plans to use in-house chips, Trainium and Inferentia, to develop AI models more cheaply, and more   —  Amazon's new artificial intelligence czar, Peter DeSantis, is a larger-than-life figure within the company where he has worked since its early days from Techmeme https://ift.tt/zTf0m3R via IFTTT

Dominic Preston / The Verge : Xiaomi launches the €999 Xiaomi 17, the €1,499 17 Ultra, and the €1,999 Leica-branded Leitzphone, all featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, in Europe   —  It's just launched in Europe, joined by the larger, more photography-focused Xiaomi 17 Ultra. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/Z3vlwrJ via IFTTT

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Xiaomi launches the €15 Xiaomi tag, an AirTag-like device that works with both Apple Find My and Android Find Hub, and the €300 Xiaomi Watch 5, in Europe   —  Xiaomi today launched a slew of gadgets ahead of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona including a camera-focused flagship smartphone … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/qmKnype via IFTTT

The Atlantic : Court docs from a New Mexico trial reveal internal divisions at Meta as Instagram teen safety initiatives conflicted with growth and engagement goals   —  Not so long ago, Mark Zuckerberg was working in overdrive to convince the world that his company was doing everything it could to protect children. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/KunoSgF via IFTTT

Kristin Robinson / Billboard : Suno CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman says the AI music company hit 2M paid subscribers and $300M ARR; pitch deck: it had 1M paid subscribers in November 2025   —  The AI startup reports rapid growth, strong retention rates and rising engagement. … On Wednesday, Suno CEO … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/jM6Yyeh via IFTTT

Brendan Bordelon / Politico : Some AI policymakers and lawyers warn that DOD's threats to Anthropic are contradictory and could chill partnerships between the government and Silicon Valley   —  Dean Ball, a former AI adviser in the Trump administration, said the Pentagon is contradicting itself by forcing Anthropic … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/aPdMc1V via IFTTT

Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal : Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity is partnering with brands like Gap, Visa, and Tinder to market its World ID human verification product   —  Tools for Humanity aims to promote World ID beyond the tech and crypto sets via partnerships with household names  —  Sam Altman's project … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/6OAbVfF via IFTTT

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET : Apple says iPhone and iPad on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 have become the first consumer devices NATO approved for use up to the “restricted” level of classified data   —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — iPhone and iPad are approved to handle NATO ‘restricted’ classified data. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/xOr2AJw via IFTTT

John Higgins / The Verge : Samsung launches the $179 Galaxy Buds 4 and $249 Buds 4 Pro, keeping the AirPods-esque design, with better battery life and noise canceling, available March 11   —  Same AirPods-esque design as the Buds 3 and Buds 3 Pro, now with improved battery life and better noise canceling. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/X7DrQoU via IFTTT

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : YouTube updates its $7.99 per month Premium Lite subscription to let users download videos for offline access and play videos in the background   —  YouTube is expanding its more affordable, $7.99 per month Premium Lite subscription service with new features, including the ability to download videos … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/lecitz8 via IFTTT

Axios : Sources: DoD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, if not given unfettered Claude access by Friday   —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei until Friday evening to give the military unfettered access … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/viZaM7s via IFTTT

Annie Palmer / CNBC : Software stocks rebound as Anthropic announces partnerships integrating its AI tools with enterprise apps, including Slack, Intuit, Docusign, and FactSet   —  Software stocks made a comeback on Tuesday after Anthropic hosted its enterprise agents event, where it revealed new partnerships … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/4ML8vbI via IFTTT

Katie Fehrenbacher / Axios : Ubicquia, which provides software to utilities, cities, and companies to manage energy infrastructure like transformers, raised a $106M Series D   —  Ubicquia, which deploys digital tech for infrastructure, raised a $106 million Series D, CEO Ian Aaron tells Axios Pro exclusively. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/BYVzcMk via IFTTT

Echo Wang / Reuters : 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   —  The creator of the Facetune photo editing app, Lightricks, is splitting its consumer app business from its generative AI video platform LTX … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/L9emt4s via IFTTT

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here . Want to lose weight? Get shredded? Stay mentally sharp? A wellness influencer might tell you to take peptides, the latest cure-all in the alternative medicine arsenal. People inject them. They snort them. They combine them into concoctions with superhero names, like the Wolverine stack.   Matt Kaeberlein, a longevity researcher, first started hearing about peptides a few years ago. “At that point it was mostly functional medicine doctors that were using peptides,” he says, referring to physicians who embrace alternative medicine and supplements. “In the last six months, it’s kind of gone crazy.” Peptides have gone mainstream. At the health-technology startup Superpower in Los Angeles, employees can get free peptide shots on Fridays. At a health food store in Phoenix, a sidewalk sign reads, “We ha...

Aarian Marshall / Wired : Documents submitted by Waymo and Tesla to the US government reveal new info about the remote assistance programs for their robotaxis, staffed by human operators   —  Self-driving vehicle companies are revealing new details about their safety-critical “remote assistance” programs—but questions remain. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/h1PZbp6 via IFTTT

Financial Times : The EU's DSA probe into Shein is just the latest of the company's problems, which are stacking up in many of its big markets as it seeks to push through an IPO   —  Regulatory probes and the ending of customs loopholes pose big challenges, but its business model is highly resilient from Techmeme https://ift.tt/KmfXC56 via IFTTT

Wall Street Journal : A profile of Neil Shen of HSG, formerly Sequoia China, which raised $9B from US investors before US restrictions and has funded Manus and other Chinese startups   —  Neil Shen has long bridged both countries, from working at Sequoia after Yale to his own firm from Techmeme https://ift.tt/i8VDgpE via IFTTT

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : Sam Altman says discussions about AI's energy usage are “unfair”, as it takes “20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time” to train a human   —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed concerns about AI's environmental impact this week while speaking at an event hosted by The Indian Express. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/nTLtDSI via IFTTT

AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo : Sam Altman says there is some “AI washing”, where companies blame AI for layoffs that they would otherwise do, alongside “real displacement by AI” of some jobs   —  Hold up, let him cook.  —  Sam Altman is starting to get the sneaking suspicion that companies might … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/BET8Ieg via IFTTT

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch : Projects with open codebases like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of submissions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry   —  A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/nX6kWdg via IFTTT

David Nield / Wired : Google is ending Gmailify and POP access in Gmail; new users will lose access in Q1 2026, and existing users will keep both features until later in 2026   —  If you have multiple email accounts, your Gmail setup may soon need some reorganizing.  —  Google giveth, and Google taketh away. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/A0PRJIw via IFTTT

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica : English-language Wikipedia bans Archive.today after editors discover it was used to direct a DDoS attack and tampered with snapshots; 695K+ links to be removed   —  The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/eauZY2k via IFTTT

Lauren Goode / Wired : Code Metal, which uses AI to let engineers translate legacy code into modern languages, raised a $125M Series B led by Salesforce Ventures at a $1.25B valuation   —  The Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors, arguing modernization can't come at the cost of new bugs. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/8NeO4lY via IFTTT

Fred Lambert / Electrek : A US judge rejects Tesla's bid to overturn a $243M jury verdict over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash, a blow for Tesla as it faces a growing wave of lawsuits   —  A federal judge has rejected Tesla's bid to overturn a $243 million jury verdict over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash in Florida … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/bK96yYs via IFTTT

2025 was a year of reckoning, including how the heads of the top AI companies made promises they couldn’t keep. In this exclusive subscriber-only eBook, you’ll learn more about why we may need to readjust our expectations. This story is part of the Hype Correction package . by Will Douglas Heaven December 15, 2025 ACCESS EBOOK Table of Contents : LLMs are not everything AI is not a quick fix to all your problems Are we in a bubble? (If so, what kind of bubble?) ChatGPT was not the beginning, and it won’t be the end Related Stories: The great AI hype correction of 2025 An MIT Technology Review series: Hype Correction Access all subscriber-only eBooks : ACCESS ALL EBOOKS from MIT Technology Review https://ift.tt/e5o8Ftv via IFTTT

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : Reddit is testing an AI search feature that takes community recommendations and shows matching products from its advertisers in the results   —  Reddit announced on Thursday that it's testing a new AI search tool that takes community recommendations and matches them with products … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/zFv8KcB via IFTTT

Chris Metinko / Axios : Cleveland-based Eagle Wireless, which makes cellular modules used in IoT devices, raised a $30M Series B as the US seeks to reduce its reliance on China   —  Eagle Wireless, a cellular module manufacturer, raised a $30 million Series B from Asymmetric Capital Partners and The O.H.I.O. Fund … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/GezkUQZ via IFTTT