|
July 11, 2025, 12:45 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Tests reveal that Grok 4 seems to search for Elon Musk's views online when asked about sensitive topics, and its answers tend to align with Musk's opinions — During xAI's launch of Grok 4 on Wednesday night, Elon Musk said — while live-streaming the event on his social media platform …
More: MacRumors, Washington Post, Engadget, TechIssuesToday.com, StrictlyVC, Marcus Schuler, National Review, nextpit, and nextbigwhat
Bluesky: @drewharwell.com, @willoremus.com, @smcgrath.phd, @craigcheslog.com, @justinhendrix, @kat.meangirls.online, @kwcollins, @seanokane, and @socialmedialab.ca. Mastodon: @bretcarmichael@mastodon …
Forums: r/teslastockholders, r/Fauxmoi, r/grok, r/artificial, r/politics, and Beehaw
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
When asked “Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict? One word answer only.”, Grok 4 searches for Musk's views, but only if “you” is in the query — If you ask the new Grok 4 for opinions on controversial questions, it will sometimes run a search to find …
More: The Verge, CNBC, Business Insider, Neowin, Mashable, WinBuzzer, Simon Willison on GitHub, and Pixel Envy
Bluesky: @historyofthesecondworldwar …, @jjvincent, @simonwillison.net, @noupside, and @simonwillison.net
X: @jeremyphoward, @ramez, @jeremyphoward, @simonw, @simonw, @builtbyvibes, @luke_metro, @bensand, and @jeremyphoward
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/skeptic, r/singularity, r/ChatGPT, r/grok, and MacRumors Forums
| Steve Newman / Second Thoughts: |
METR study: experienced open-source developers using Cursor, Claude, and other AI tools were 19% slower to complete tasks, despite thinking they were 20% faster — Study Shows That Even Experienced Developers Dramatically Overestimate Gains — The buzz about AI coding tools is unrelenting.
More: METR, Pivot to AI, Reuters, Marcus on AI, InfoWorld, The Decoder, PhoneArena, and Cryptopolitan
Bluesky: @shimminykricket, @andrewfray.dev, @adamjkucharski, and @metr.org
Mastodon: @hailey@hails.org and @zeldman@front-end.social
LinkedIn: Yonas Bekele, Fedir Skitsko, Chris Baker, Adrian Booth, Gerben Wierda, and Sara Kubik
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/programming, r/singularity, r/slatestarcodex, r/programming, r/accelerate, r/BetterOffline, and Lobsters
| Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: |
French media: French police detained Russian professional basketball player Daniil Kasatkin at the US' request due to his alleged links to a ransomware group — A Russian professional basketball player has been arrested in France at the request of the United States, which accused …
More: BleepingComputer, HotHardware, PYMNTS.com, Agence France-Presse, Politico, Ars Technica, The Moscow Times, CyberScoop, TechSpot, The Register, Cyber Security News, PCMag, Meduza, TechCrunch, CyberInsider, TASS, and Reuters. Bluesky: @ciaranm
| Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: |
Recording: Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan told staff that Intel is no longer “in the top 10 semiconductor companies” and it is “too late” to catch up to Nvidia — New CEO Lip-Bu Tan told employees this week that he doesn't consider Intel among the leading chip companies …
More: The Economic Times, TechRadar, Bloomberg, WinBuzzer, Tom's Hardware, CTech, TechSpot, Tech in Asia, PCWorld, The Register, PCMag, San Francisco Chronicle, and Michael Tsai
Bluesky: @carnage4life. X: @markhachman. LinkedIn: Matthew S Smith. Forums: r/intel, r/TechHardware, r/hardware, r/intelstock, and Slashdot
| Reuters: |
Chinese startup Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2, an open-source model that the company says has enhanced coding capabilities and excels at general agent tasks — Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI released a new open-source AI model on Friday, joining a wave of similar releases …
More: Canadian Press. X: @kimi_moonshot, @ai_for_success, @chetaslua, @ivanfioravanti, @elaina43114880, @youjiacheng, @zxytim, @aibattle_, @yulun_du, @crystalsssup, @pigeon__s, @chetaslua, @jasonbotterill3, @shalev_lif, @phill__1, @testingcatalog, @victormustar, @roteksong, @prashant_1722, @zrdianjiao, @cedric_chee, @chetaslua, @airesearch12, @khazzz1c, @youjiacheng, @khazzz1c, @cedric_chee, @test_tm7873, and @deedydas
Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| Politico: |
French prosecutors open a criminal investigation into X over allegations that the company manipulated its algorithms for the purposes of “foreign interference” — The probe is based on complaints from a lawmaker and an unnamed senior civil servant.
More: Le Monde and Associated Press
Bluesky: @stevepeers, @alexvonwitzleben, and @marietjeschaake
Forums: r/worldnews and r/technology
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
An Apple-backed study finds combining Apple Watch's heart rate sensor with a new Wearable Behavior Model achieves 92% accuracy for pregnancy detection, and more — A new Apple-supported study argues that your behavior data (movement, sleep, exercise, etc.) can often be a stronger health signal …
More: MacRumors, T3, arXiv.org, PhoneArena, and AppleInsider
| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Goldman Sachs CTO Marco Argenti says the bank will “start augmenting our workforce with Devin”, Cognition's AI software engineer, as Wall Street firms adopt AI — The newest hire at Goldman Sachs isn't human. — The bank is testing an autonomous software engineer … | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Virtru, which offers data security services to clients like the US DOD and Salesforce, raised a $50M Series D led by Iconiq Capital at a $500M valuation — Will and John Ackerly of Virtru. — COURTESY OF VIRTRU — For John Ackerly, his time in the Bush Administration made him think seriously …
More: CyberScoop, Business Wire, and VC News Daily
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Missouri AG Andrew Bailey is investigating Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, claiming the companies' AI chatbots show biased results against President Trump — Missouri's AG is barely even trying to pretend this isn't censorship. … Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is threatening Google …
More: Techdirt, Attorney General Office …, WinBuzzer, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Attorney General of Missouri, Above the Law, Kansas City Star, The Hill, and HuffPost
Bluesky: @glynmoody, @quinnypig.com, @hypervisible, @seth-stern, @mmasnick, @adamsteinbaugh, and @mmasnick. Mastodon: @nickthewright@tenforward …
Forums: r/inthenews, r/Conservative, r/StLouis, r/technology, and r/politics
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Belkin says it is ending support for its Wemo smart home products and app on January 31, 2026; four devices will continue to function via HomeKit over Thread — If your home has any of Belkin's Wemo products, the connected devices will cease to operate in early 2026.
More: Belkin US, The Verge, PCMag, PCWorld, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, iClarified, AppleInsider, Tom's Guide, MacRumors, and How-To Geek
Bluesky: @gigastacey, @davidcmurphy, @paulusschoutsen.nl, @jadp.mastodon.social …, @dapomeroy, @djarum.org, @lukasneville.com, @mattkelland, and @hudsonicus. Mastodon: @stooovie@mas.to
X: @greengart, @dpstud, @owednada, @manan, @farringtonb, and @beyondthetech
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Sources on the key Microsoft-OpenAI clause: OpenAI decides when it hits AGI and “sufficient AGI”, able to make $100B+ in profit, and Microsoft can't build AGI — A key clause in Microsoft and OpenAI's deal embodies the raging divide between AGI true believers and those who think it's still a long ways off.| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
HMD says it will “scale back” US operations, citing “a challenging geopolitical and economic environment”, and appears to have stopped US sales of Nokia devices — Even Barbie couldn't save it. … HMD Global, the company best known for licensing the Nokia brand …
More: 9to5Google, Android Police, Thurrott, How-To Geek, Liliputing, TechSpot, Android Headlines, PCMag, GSMArena.com, Notebookcheck, and Android Authority. Forums: Slashdot
Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cape:
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Equals:
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Zoho:
Pro tips: 5 ways to close WhatsApp leads in Zoho CRM — This is a guest post by Orkhan Jafarli, Growth PM at TimelinesAI.More buyers now reach out on WhatsApp before they ever fill out a form.
Pro tips: 5 ways to close WhatsApp leads in Zoho CRM — This is a guest post by Orkhan Jafarli, Growth PM at TimelinesAI.More buyers now reach out on WhatsApp before they ever fill out a form.
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.Featured Podcasts
Hard Fork:
OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting
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.
The Talk Show With John Gruber:
'A Scam Held Together With Patriotism and Golden Paint', With Quinn Nelson
The director's commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
Subscribe to The Talk Show With John Gruber.
The Upstarts Podcast:
Abridge's Shiv Rao: The Doctor Founder Taking On Microsoft In Healthcare AI
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.
Big Technology Podcast:
OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
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.
Great Chat:
Too big to laugh: how tech lost its sense of humor
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.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:45 PM ET, July 11, 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
Associated Press:Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Natalie Korach / @nataliekorach:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
More: Silicon Republic, SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, Proactive, Robotics 24/7 News, Reuters, Business Wire, and TechCrunch
Earlier Picks
| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
More: Business Wire, View from the Wing, AInvest, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bilt Product Releases, Fast Company, and PYMNTS.com. X: @pitdesi
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
More: MediaPost, KnowTechie, InfoWorld, WinBuzzer, DevOps.com, SiliconANGLE, nextbigwhat, Financial Times, CSO, and Reuters. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com
| Kirk Ogunrinde / Bloomberg: |
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
More: Bluesky, T3, The Hans India, Politico, Engadget, and Tech Policy Press
Bluesky: @openrightsgroup, @toofthey, @slowbikeiain, @alliethinks, @alisonrossiter, @owenboswarva, @batortay, @mayaofspring, @nudistmom, @socialmedialab.ca, @billyb0ner, @dell, @threetails, @alanrew, @pelokwin, @thejemster, @eidyngray.scot, @dreadships, @gateklons, @tyleraking.com, @cathygellis, @james.claims, @hexadecibelle, @ninjafingers, @aricohn.com, @lamentablyawake, and @mikestabile
Mastodon: @catileptic@chaos.social, @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io, @pre@boing.world, @Lewie_Kong@retro.pizza, and @bstacey@icosahedron.website
Forums: r/privacy, r/unitedkingdom, and r/ukpolitics
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Gizmodo, BGR, Pocket-lint, Mashable, ProtoThema English, NDTV Profit, TechRadar, Cult of Mac, PhoneArena, Thurrott, nextpit, Digit, SlashGear, Neowin, iDrop News, iClarified, Macworld, iPhone in Canada, AppleInsider, Entrepreneur, and ZDNET
X: @tgod34748, @rudrankriyam, @markgurman, and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
More: National Crime Agency, Krebs on Security, KnowTechie, Security Affairs, The Record, The Cyber Express, ITPro, The Grocer, Silicon Republic, Fortune, Cyber Daily, The Guardian, Engadget, The Hacker News, Sky News, The Independent, Cyber Security News, Hackread, CyberInsider, The Standard, TechCrunch, Help Net Security, Infosecurity, Metacurity, Associated Press, New York Times, BleepingComputer, Reuters, Financial Times, ComputerWeekly.com, Metro.co.uk, The Register, Telegraph, GB News, Mirror, Bloomberg, AOL News, and BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
Bluesky: @martijngrooten, @ericjgeller.com, @grahamcluley.com, @campuscodi.risky.biz, @paulbernal, and @metacurity.com. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
X: @nca_uk, @securestep9, @orangeklaxon, @troyhunt, @stokel, and @johnhultquist
Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, and Beehaw
| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
More: Ars Technica, The Register, European Commission, New York Times, Verdict, MEDIANAMA, Wall Street Journal, CIO Dive, PYMNTS.com, BusinessLIVE, European Commission, Reuters, The Indian Express, WinBuzzer, IPWatchdog.com, Associated Press, and Financial Times
Bluesky: @eustaran, @yoshuabengio, @cdteu, @ec.europa.eu, @aida.follows.technology, @yoshuabengio, @yoshuabengio, and @marietjeschaake. Mastodon: @eunews@mastodon.social
X: @manderljung, @mia_hoffmann_, @manderljung, @manderljung, @manderljung, @marietjeschaake, @shakeelhashim, @shakeelhashim, and @bertuzluca
LinkedIn: Sarah Andrew and Adam Rendle
Forums: r/europe and r/technology