Open Links In New Tab
Mobile Archives Advertise Site News
Techmeme
February 13, 2025, 10:45 AM
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter

Top News

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:
Alibaba Chair Joe Tsai says Apple will use the Chinese tech giant's AI tech on iPhones sold in China, speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai  —  “Apple has been very selective, they talked to a number of companies in China, and in the end they choose to do business with us …
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple resumes advertising on X for the first time since November 2023, when it halted ads due to Elon Musk's comments; @Apple is running a Safari privacy promo  —  Apple this month started advertising on X for the first time in more than a year.  The company had stopped advertising …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Sam Altman says GPT-5 will include o3, which is no longer set to ship as a standalone model, GPT-4.5 will be OpenAI's last non-chain-of-thought model, and more  —  OpenAI has effectively canceled the release of o3, which was slated to be the company's next major AI model …
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
OpenAI plans to give free ChatGPT users unlimited GPT-5 access at “the standard intelligence setting”; Plus and Pro users will get to run GPT-5 at higher levels
Kylie Robison / The Verge:
OpenAI expands its Model Spec for how its AI models should behave, from 10 to 63 pages, emphasizing “customizability, transparency, and intellectual freedom”
Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle:
Sony reports PlayStation 5 sales in Q3 were 9.5M, the best quarter since its launch, and hits 75M total PS5 sales; MAUs across its platform rose 43% YoY to 129M  —  PS5 SHIPMENTS ARE NOW NECK-AND-NECK WITH PS4  —  PlayStation 5 enjoyed its best-ever holiday period in 2024 …
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
PlayStation's State of Play event showed that Microsoft might publish more PS5 games in 2025 than Sony does, even as Xbox hardware sales continue to decline
Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg:
Filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's $97.4B bid contradicts his attacks in his lawsuit against OpenAI that its assets can't be “transferred away” for “private gain”  —  Elon Musk's all-cash bid to buy OpenAI debunks arguments he's making in court that the artificial …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Court filing: Elon Musk will withdraw his $97.4B bid if OpenAI's board of directors “preserve the charity's mission” and halt its conversion to a for-profit
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Recorded Future: Salt Typhoon breached five more telcos and ISPs, including two US telcos, and 12+ universities in December-January by exploiting Cisco routers  —  Despite high-profile attention and even US sanctions, the group hasn't stopped or even slowed its operation, including the breach of two more US telecoms.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google plans to begin testing an ML-based model in the US in 2025 that estimates whether a user is under 18 to help provide more “age-appropriate experiences”  —  Google says the technology will help it provide ‘age-appropriate experiences.’  —  Google says the technology …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: X agrees to pay ~$10M to settle Trump's 2021 lawsuit against Twitter and then-CEO Jack Dorsey over the ban on his accounts after the January 6 riot  —  Musk's platform becomes second social-media company to settle with Trump after Jan. 6, 2021 riot triggered bans
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases an Apple TV app for Android phones and tablets, limited to TV+, MLS Season Pass, and MLB Friday Night Baseball; the app doesn't support casting  —  The Apple TV app is finally making its way to Android users.  The app is now available in the Google Play Store for Android phones and tablets.
The Markup:
Investigation: Match Group, which runs 12+ dating apps, has known for years about abusive and violent users, but chooses to leave millions of people in the dark  —  The company behind more than a dozen dating apps, Match Group, has known for years about the abusive users on its platforms …
More: Engadget and Block Club Chicago
Bluesky: @stephrwolf.  Mastodon: @themarkup@mastodon ….  X: @aaron_glantz.  Forums: Beehaw
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Reddit reports Q4 revenue up 71% YoY to $428M, vs. $405M est., and daily active uniques up 39% YoY to 101.7M, vs. 103.1M est.; RDDT drops 5%+  —  Reddit shares fell more than 15% on Wednesday after the company reported weaker-than-expected user numbers in its fourth-quarter earnings.
CJ Haddad / CNBC:
AppLovin reports Q4 revenue up 44% YoY to $1.37B, vs. $1.26B est., net income up 248%, ad revenue up 73%, and Q1 guidance above est.; APP jumps 27%+  —  AppLovin shares soared almost 30% in extended trading on Wednesday after the company reported earnings and revenue that sailed past analysts' estimates …
Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
Elon Musk and right-wing influencers redefine “doxxing” to include reporting on government employees; free speech advocates say they aim to intimidate the press  —  Right-wing influencers are criticizing journalists who have published public information about government employees.
New York Times:
Sources: the Trump administration is releasing cybercriminal Alexander Vinnik to Russia in exchange for the US retrieving the American schoolteacher Marc Fogel  —  The release is part of a swap with the Kremlin that freed an American schoolteacher being held in a Russian prison.

Sponsor Posts

Clay:
Turn any GTM idea into reality  —  Clay helps GTM teams combine AI agents, enrichment, and intent data to move faster and turn insights into action.
Soxton:
AI-powered law for startups  —  Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better.  We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts.  Join the waitlist for early access!
Zoho:
Your website, your brand: A website building guide for tech partners  —  In a competitive market, trust is what makes businesses choose you and stay with you.  As a tech partner, you can take steps to build …
IDrive:
Geometric Grand Unification — Solving the Hubble Tension & Proton Mass  —  Physics solved?  AI verifies model unifying gravity & particles by deriving constants from vacuum geometry.  Identifies void-driven topology.
Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Lenny's Podcast:
 Getting paid to vibe code: Inside the new AI-era job | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder)
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Big Technology Podcast:
 Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon's Struggles
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Hard Fork:
 Elon Musk's Mega-Merger + We Test Google's Project Genie + What's Next for Moltbook Creator
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
 Jeff Bezos Used To Be In Love with The Washington Post. What Happened?
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Cheeky Pint:
 Elon Musk on Space GPUs, AI, Optimus, and his manufacturing method
Stripe cofounder John Collison interviews founders, builders, and leaders over a pint.
Subscribe to Cheeky Pint.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
 Special Edition: Key findings from the Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
Add your podcast here
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 10:45 AM ET, February 13, 2025.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.

From Mediagazer

New York Times:
Memos: Will Lewis has stepped down as WaPo publisher and CEO; former Tumblr CEO Jeff D'Onofrio, who joined WaPo last June as CFO, is acting publisher and CEO

C.J. Robinson / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the FOIA system, as right-wing media networks flood it with robo-requests, the number of FOIA agents stays flat, and states opt for higher fees

Hadas Gold / CNN:
Anthropic is running Super Bowl ads criticizing ads in chatbots, prompting a public response from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defending plans for ads in ChatGPT

More News

Hsiuwen Liu / Rest of World:
Experts say Southeast Asian students in Taiwan's work-study programs often end up as low-paid labor in the chip industry under the guise of “practical training”

Earlier Picks

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Cisco reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $13.99B, vs. $13.87B est., net income down 8% YoY to $2.43B, and FY 2025 guidance above est.; CSCO jumps 5%+
Paige Smith / Bloomberg:
Robinhood reports Q4 revenue up 115% YoY to $1.01B, vs. $940.8M est., crypto transaction revenue up 700%+ to $358M, above est.; HOOD jumps 15%+
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter