|
June 18, 2025, 3:15 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Financial Times: |
Sources: lobbyists for Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta back a campaign for a 10-year US state AI regulation ban, a move dividing the AI industry and the GOP — Call by Amazon, Google and Microsoft lobbyists for a ‘moratorium’ has split industry and the Republican party
More: AppleInsider, The Hill, and PYMNTS.com
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
More: Joint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models, Governor of California, Time, Industry Insider California, and Senator Scott Wiener
Bluesky: @haydenfield. X: @harrybooth59643, @scott_r_singer, @thomas_woodside, @senmcnerney, @stanfordhai, and @and_katelynn
Forums: r/technology, r/artificial, and Slashdot
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
At Cannes, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube will integrate Veo 3 into Shorts later this summer and that AI tech “will push the limits of human creativity” — The Veo 3 video generator is capable of creating both videos and sound based on text prompts, with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan saying the … | Vanessa Hand Orellana / CNET: |
An interview with Samsung SVP Dr. Hon Pak on the Galaxy Watch getting a first-ever blood analysis feature, AI health tools, and a potential monthly subscription — With a first-ever blood analysis feature and four new AI-powered health tools, the Galaxy Watch is shaping up to be a smarter ally …
More: PCMag, The Sun, 9to5Google, SammyGuru, Cult of Mac, Trusted Reviews, Tech Advisor, T3, Sam Lover, PhoneArena, Android Police, Android Authority, and SamMobile
| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
Hands-on with Apple's new Speech framework components in the macOS Tahoe beta: the APIs deliver transcription speeds significantly faster than OpenAI's Whisper — Late last Tuesday night, after watching F1: The Movie at the Steve Jobs Theater, I was driving back from dropping Federico off at his hotel when I got a text:
More: Apple Must, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, and MacDailyNews
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
The DOJ announces the seizure of $225.3M in crypto, the largest-ever US seizure of cryptocurrency linked to confidence schemes known as “pig butchering” — The Justice Department announced Wednesday the largest-ever U.S. seizure of cryptocurrency linked to so-called “pig butchering” … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo applied for a NYC permit to test its cars with safety drivers and plans to start collecting mapping data with manually driven cars in Manhattan in July — The company wants to change state law so it can operate vehicles without safety drivers. That will be a challenge.| Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: |
A cyberattack claimed by pro-Israel hacktivist group Predatory Sparrow has reportedly disrupted services at Iran's state-owned Bank Sepah, including its website — The attack introduces a clear cyber element with immediate consequences for the country's critical infrastructure amid a growing conflict between Israel and Iran.
More: Elliptic, TechCrunch, Reuters, Reuters, Wired, NBC News, Metacurity, Watcher Guru, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Cyber Express, Cyber Daily, Iran International, Haaretz, Jerusalem Post, Digital Watch Observatory, Axios, and The Record
Bluesky: @ericjgeller.com, @ericjgeller.com, and @cyberscoop
X: @nobitexmarket, @gonjeshkedarand, @zachxbt, @rgb_lights, @johnhultquist, @nobitexmarket, @gonjeshkedarand, @rgb_lights, @ryangrim, @hkashfi, @nobitexmarket, @0xprotonkid, @gonjeshkedarand, @talbeerysec, @thegrugq, @jewishwarrior13, @vodkapundit, @mayazi, @nobitexmarket, @mayazi, @craiu, and @osint613
| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out the ability to have back-and-forth voice conversations with AI Mode, available in the Google app by tapping the Live button — Google is rolling out the ability for users to have a back-and-forth voice conversation with AI Mode, its experimental Search feature that lets users ask complex, multi-part questions.| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
On a podcast, Sam Altman said Meta made “giant offers to a lot of people on our team ... like, $100M signing bonuses”, and “none of our best people” have accepted — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on something of a hiring spree lately, trying to staff up Meta's …
More: Uncapped with Jack Altman on YouTube, Bloomberg, Windows Central, CNBC, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, PCMag, CNN, Futurism, Research & Development World, Bloomberg, BBC, Quartz, The Economic Times, Taipei Times, New York Post, Proactive, The Algorithmic Bridge, TechSpot, Daily Sabah, Tom's Hardware, Digital Journal, Newser, The Times, BroBible, Nairametrics, PYMNTS.com, WinBuzzer, Tech Times, Capacity Media, CEO Today, Business Today, StrictlyVC, The Independent, Analytics India Magazine, ZeroHedge News, Financial Express, The Decoder, Business Standard, Digital Trends, Benzinga, Moneycontrol, Digit, Cryptopolitan, Reuters, Business Insider, and Yahoo Finance
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com and @prietschka
X: @jaltma, @typedfemale, @chan_akireddy, @basedjensen, @dylan522p, @kishorelive, @vitrupo, @jukanlosreve, @teknium1, @adrianweckler, @yuchenj_uw, @cristinacriddle, @chrisfralic, @ns123abc, @sama, and @signulll
Forums: r/csMajors and r/technology
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
The Midas Project and The Tech Oversight Project release The OpenAI Files, a 50+ page analysis of OpenAI's governance, leadership, and organizational culture — It has charts and data visualizations, including the authors' best guess at OpenAI's corporate structure.
More: TechCrunch and The OpenAI Files
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the Catholic Church's decadelong dialogue with Silicon Valley on AI, as Pope Leo prepares to make AI's potential threat to humanity a signature issue — The new pope is making the potential threat of artificial intelligence to humanity a signature issue—but Silicon Valley is trying to win him over
More: TechCrunch, New York Post, PCWorld, and PR Daily
Forums: r/technews, r/technology, and r/singularity
| CNN: |
President Trump plans to sign an executive order this week to grant TikTok a 90-day extension in enforcement of the sale-or-ban law, marking his third extension — New York CNN — — TikTok just got another lifeline from the White House, with President Donald Trump set to delay enforcement …
More: New York Times, Investor's Business Daily, DatacenterDynamics, NBC News, CNBC, The Information, The Register, Adweek, Tom's Guide, MSNBC, Newser, TechCrunch, NPR, Politico, Phone Scoop, Blavity News & Entertainment, TipRanks Financial, Axios, Security Boulevard, Proactive, UPI, CBS News, Silicon Republic, GSMArena.com, Mashable, PCMag, theJasmineBRAND, CNET, Ukrainian National News, Thurrott, Financial Times, Variety, Baller Alert, Digital Music News, Business Standard, Agence France-Presse, SiliconANGLE, The Economic Times, Reuters, USA Today, BBC, Business Insider, SFist, Engadget, MacRumors, Yahoo Finance, Forbes, 9to5Mac, Raw Story, ZeroHedge News, KEYE, Forexlive, Above the Law, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, and The Hill
Bluesky: @knibbs, @mindchangeframe, @courtneymilan.com, @topherbrennan, @manikowsky32, @normative, and @mattcameron
X: @therecount, @byuapologist, and @danprimack
Forums: r/technology and r/TheBusinessMix
| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Observability and site reliability engineering startup Traversal emerges from stealth with $48M in seed and Series A funding led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins — Left to right: Traversal's Raaz Dwivedi, Anish Agarwal, Ahmed Lone, and Raj Agrawal. — Traversal
More: SiliconANGLE, Traversal, Sequoia Capital, and Kleiner Perkins
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says it's phasing out its work with Scale AI, into which Meta invested $14.3B, and that Scale AI accounted for a small fraction of its overall data needs — OpenAI is phasing out the work it does with data-labeling startup Scale AI, cutting ties with the company days …
More: TechCrunch, The Information, CNBC, and nextbigwhat
| Kristina Partsinevelos / CNBC: |
AWS says Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 launched on its Trainium2 GPUs, and Project Rainier, AWS' supercomputer built for Anthropic, uses 500K+ Trainium2 chips — Amazon Web Services is set to announce an update to its Graviton4 chip that includes 600 gigabits per second of network bandwidth …
More: Benzinga, TipRanks Financial, Semiconductor Engineering, and Cryptopolitan
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com and @sungkim
X: @ns123abc, @rohanpaul_ai, and @kristinaparts
| Financial Times: |
Netflix signs a landmark deal with France's TF1 to show linear TV for the first time; TF1 will broadcast all five of its channels, showing live sports and more — Deal will be closely watched by broadcasters, who are losing millions of viewers to streaming giants — Daniel Thomas and Hannah Murphy in Cannes
More: The Verge, Ars Technica, How-To Geek, About Netflix, New York Times, Kidscreen, The Wrap, The A.V. Club, The Hollywood Reporter, Thurrott, Agence France-Presse, Bloomberg, Advanced Television, The Desk, The Hollywood Reporter, Broadband TV News, Spyglass, Variety, Barron's Online, Telegraph, Screen, Deadline, TVBEurope, TVNewsCheck, Media Play News, WORLD SCREEN, and Semafor
| Lisa Stiffler / GeekWire: |
TerraPower, which develops small modular nuclear reactors, raised $650M from investors including Nvidia's NVentures and TerraPower co-founder Bill Gates — Sustainability: News about the rapidly growing climate tech sector and other areas of innovation to protect our planet.
More: Bloomberg, Business Wire, Washington Examiner, Axios, Venture Capital Journal, and Financial Times. X: @terrapower
| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Xreal One Pro review: the impressive $649 AR glasses resemble normal spectacles from a distance and excel as a virtual, HD external display for PCs and phones — Review: The company's latest augmented-reality glasses excel as an external display for phones, PCs and gaming devices.| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
A look at embedded and immersion chip-cooling tech; industry sources indicate Nvidia is mulling 6,000W to 9,000W TDP for its next-gen GPUs, up from ~1,200W now — It is going to get hot. — The power consumption of AI GPUs has steadily increased in recent years and is expected … | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI details why “emergent misalignment”, where training on wrong answers in one area can lead to misalignment in others, happens and how it can be mitigated — OpenAI researchers say they've discovered hidden features inside AI models that correspond to misaligned “personas …
More: MIT Technology Review, OpenAI, and NDTV Profit
X: @neelnanda5, @tejalpatwardhan, @karinanguyen_, @mileskwang, and @openai
| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
NYC-based Tennr, which uses AI document parsing and workflow automation to cut patient waiting times, raised a $101M Series C led by IVP at a $605M valuation — Tennr founders from left: Trey Holterman (co-founder/CEO), Tyler Johnson (co-founder/CTO), Diego Baugh (co-founder/Chief Product Officer)
More: FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, HIT Consultant, Pulse 2.0, and IVP Perspectives
| Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times: |
The NAACP plans to sue xAI over a lack of permits for its Memphis data center's gas turbines, which it claims pollute nearby predominantly Black neighborhoods — The company, xAI, has installed several dozen turbines in Memphis without proper permits, the group said, polluting a nearby community.
More: TechCrunch, DatacenterDynamics, Prism, The Hill, [your]NEWS, TESLARATI, Politico, Associated Press, NBC News, Associated Press, and DeSmog
| Bloomberg: |
More: Gizmodo, eWeek, The Information, Sherwood News, The Decoder, Proactive, Analytics India Magazine, TESLARATI, The Daily Upside, Business Standard, and Financial Times
Bluesky: @drewharwell.com, @oldcoleminer, @prietschka, @glinden, and @edzitron.com. Threads: @drewharwell
Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
Zoho:
How EWS deprecation affects Zoho Calendar Interoperability — Understanding the impactMicrosoft began blocking Exchange Web Services (EWS) requests in Exchange Online (Microsoft 365) as of October 1, 2026.
How EWS deprecation affects Zoho Calendar Interoperability — Understanding the impactMicrosoft began blocking Exchange Web Services (EWS) requests in Exchange Online (Microsoft 365) as of October 1, 2026.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
WebBrain:
WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.
WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.Featured Podcasts
Lenny's Podcast:
Why PMs are suddenly valuable again | Tulsee Doshi (Head of Product, Gemini)
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:
AI Stockpocalypse, Anthropic Nears RSI?, Prediction Markets vs. Pollsters
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.
Machine Gods:
The Purple Tsunami Against Data Centers
The official podcast of the singularity, from Casey Newton and Kevin Roose. Twice-weekly news, analysis, and interviews with the people who are building the future.
Subscribe to Machine Gods.
Invest Like the Best:
Ramtin Naimi - The State of Venture
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
The Upstarts Podcast:
How Ramp Built A $60B AI Product Factory Off A Corporate Card | Co-CEO Eric Glyman
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.
Great Chat:
Would you let a robot do it?
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 3:15 PM ET, June 18, 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
CNN:Washington Post:
Julia Alexander / Puck:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Sylvia Pfeifer / Financial Times: |
| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
More: European Commission, Reuters, The Guardian, Financial Times, Politico, Le Monde, Türkiye Today, Neowin, Reuters, and Euractiv
Earlier Picks
| Michelle Kim / Rest of World: |
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
More: Decrypt, Bank Automation News, NBC News, CoinDesk, CoinDesk, United States Committee …, The Lever, Cointelegraph, Benzinga, CryptoNinjas, Blockonomi, ZyCrypto, The Paypers, Cryptopolitan, Proactive, The Crypto Basic, Bitcoinist.com, CoinGape, Coinspeaker, Coinpedia Fintech News, Yahoo Finance, CoinJournal, PYMNTS.com, Politico, NOTUS, Axios, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, and HuffPost
Bluesky: @carnage4life, @kingrat.us, @nkb121, @jessemackinnon.com, @daverino, @fartingfascists, @lexi6toes, @lizzyvoice, @robertscotthorton, and @molly.wiki. Mastodon: @KimPerales@toad.social
X: @secscottbessent, @paoloardoino, @milesjennings, @brookingsecon, @vishalkgupta, @bohines, @senatorhagerty, @repbryansteil, @davetroy, @rbreich, @nic__carter, @brian_armstrong, @senlummis, @senatorhagerty, @senpeterwelch, @senatorslotkin, @senatordurbin, and @cdixon. LinkedIn: Matt Blumenfeld
Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/politics
| Marc Vartabedian / Wall Street Journal: |
More: FinTech Global, Salesforce Ventures, and Pano AI