Open Links In New Tab
Mobile Archives Advertise Site News
Techmeme
July 30, 2025, 3:15 PM
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter

Top News

Mark Zuckerberg / Meta:
Zuckerberg says superintelligence is in sight, and when personal superintelligence arrives, context-aware devices like glasses will become our primary computers  —  Over the last few months we have begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving themselves.  The improvement is slow for now, but undeniable.
Bloomberg:
Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire CyberArk Software in a cash-and-stock deal valuing the Israeli cybersecurity company at ~$25B, implying a 26% stock premium  —  Palo Alto Networks Inc. agreed to buy CyberArk Software Ltd. in a cash-and-stock deal valuing the Israeli cybersecurity company at about $25 billion.
Alice Hancock / Financial Times:
Google says it will sign the EU's AI Code of Practice, in a boost to the EU's efforts to regulate AI in the face of Meta's refusal to sign and heavy US pressure  —  Move set to boost efforts to regulate artificial intelligence in face of opposition from Meta and pressure from US
Elvira Pollina / Reuters:
Italy opens an investigation into Meta, saying it may have violated EU competition rules by integrating its Meta AI assistant into WhatsApp without user consent  —  Italy's antitrust authority said on Wednesday it had launched an investigation into Meta Platforms (META.O) …
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Ramp raised a $500M Series E-2 led by Iconiq Growth at a $22.5B valuation, and says it has 40K+ businesses as clients, with $700M in annualized revenue in March  —  Startup raises $500 million to further develop AI-based agents, CEO says  —  Ramp, a startup that uses artificial intelligence …
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon's multiyear deal to use NYT content for its platforms and AI models is $20M to $25M per year, which is nearly 1% of the NYT's total 2024 revenue  —  The multiyear deal lets Amazon use content from the Times's news and cooking sections and the Athletic
Paige Smith / Bloomberg:
JPMorgan Chase and Coinbase signed a deal to directly link customers' bank accounts to their cryptocurrency wallets, with the feature expected to launch in 2026  —  JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Coinbase Global Inc. signed an agreement to directly link customers' bank accounts to their cryptocurrency wallets …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Sources: the US intelligence community persuaded the DOJ that allowing the HPE-Juniper merger was essential to US national security and competing with Huawei  —  - The official said blocking the deal would have “hindered American companies and empowered” Chinese competitors.
Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Showrunner, an Amazon-backed AI streaming service, launches Thursday, letting users paying $10-$40/mo. to create their own animated shows or build on others' IP  —  - Fable Studio has gotten funding from Amazon for its AI streaming platform, Showrunner.  — It shared a deck that explains …
Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
In a report, Trump's Working Group on Digital Asset Markets urges regulators to clarify digital asset trading rules and ease adoption of new financial products  —  A group charged by President Donald Trump with recommending policies on crypto markets called on federal regulators to use …
Taylor Lorenz / User Mag:
Substack apologizes after sending a push alert encouraging some users to subscribe to NatSocToday, a Nazi newsletter advocating for a “White homeland”  —  The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the “white nationalist community.”
Jay Peters / The Verge:
YouTube will now allow videos with strong profanity in the first seven seconds to be fully monetized, reversing previous restrictions that limited ad revenue  —  Videos that use the F-word in the first seven seconds are now eligible for full ad revenue.
Richard Speed / The Register:
Dropbox says it will discontinue Dropbox Passwords, launched in 2020, on October 28 to focus on its core product, and recommends 1Password as a replacement  —  Dropbox has given users of its password manager until the end of October to extract their data before pulling the plug on the service.
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple responds to the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit from March 2024, saying it sets “a dangerous precedent” and “threatens the very principles that set iPhone apart”  —  The US Department of Justice formally sued Apple in March 2024, accusing the company of having a “smartphone monopoly.”
Zixu Wang / New York Times:
How Meituan used Hong Kong as a trial market for global food delivery expansion, with its Keeta service driving out Deliveroo before moving to Saudi Arabia  —  Meituan, the Chinese food delivery giant, tested its global expansion in Hong Kong, where its Keeta service displaced a rival before moving to other markets.
Stefanno Sulaiman / Reuters:
Indonesia raises taxes on crypto sellers, from 0.1% to 0.21% in domestic exchanges, and from 0.2% to 1% in overseas exchanges, but removes VAT on buyers  —  Indonesia will raise taxes on cryptocurrency transactions, with a higher rate on trades hosted by overseas bourses, starting from August 1 …
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the US Commerce Department is discussing charging patent holders 1%-5% of their patent value, a radical move likely to spark pushback from businesses  —  Commerce Department officials discuss new fee based on patent value, which could fuel backlash from businesses
Renju Jose / Reuters:
Australia says it will include YouTube in its ban on social media for children under 16 years of age, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the platform  —  Australia said on Wednesday it will include Alphabet-owned (GOOGL.O) YouTube in its world-first ban on social media for teenagers …

Sponsor Posts

Google:
Try Gemini 3 Pro  —  Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Shopify:
Transform ML Experimentation with Tangle  —  Save months of compute time with Tangle, built by Shopify.  Try this open-source platform to simplify ML workflows, ensure reproducibility, and seamlessly share with collaborators.
Zoho:
Zoho Billing Enterprise Edition: A platform for strategic revenue operations  —  Today's enterprises are adopting more flexible pricing models, charging customers based on actual consumption.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data  —  Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Channels with Peter Kafka:
 Lachlan Cartwright Started in Tabloids. Now He's a Must-Read Media Gossip.
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.
Invest Like the Best:
 Gavin Baker - Nvidia v. Google, Scaling Laws, and the Economics of AI
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
 Pat Grady & Alfred Lin from Sequoia
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
Big Technology Podcast:
 AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
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.
Decoder with Nilay Patel:
 Square's product chief on the death of the penny and the future of money
A show from the Verge about big ideas - and other problems.
Subscribe to Decoder with Nilay Patel.
The Social Radars:
 Blake Scholl, Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic
Come be a fly on the wall as Y Combinator's Jessica Livingston and Carolynn Levy talk to some of the most successful founders in Silicon Valley about how they did it.
Subscribe to The Social Radars.
Add your podcast here
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 3:15 PM ET, July 30, 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

Tim Wu / New York Times:
WBD merging with either Netflix or Paramount should be challenged by US antitrust authorities and would be bad for US streaming market competition

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney nominates former Apple COO Jeff Williams to its board; he retired from Apple in November after overseeing the design team, supply chain work, and more

Wall Street Journal:
Chernin Group agrees to take a minority stake in Entangled Publishing, a publisher of romance-fantasy books; sources say the deal values Entangled at ~$400M

More News

Varsha Bansal / Rest of World:
An inside look at ex-unicorn Builder.ai's demise, which oversold its AI platform's abilities and frustrated customers with delivery delays and buggy products

Earlier Picks

Bloomberg:
A profile of Luke Farritor, a 23-year-old Thiel Fellow who gained recognition for using AI to help decipher the Herculaneum papyri and later joined DOGE
Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
Gov. Tim Walz activates the Minnesota National Guard to help St. Paul address a cyberattack detected Friday that led the city to shut down many of its systems
Catherine Perloff / The Information:
Daniel Ek says Spotify's ad business has “been moving too slowly”; Spotify ad chief Lee Brown left on July 28 to join DoorDash as its chief revenue officer
André Beganski / Decrypt:
The US SEC approves in-kind creations and redemptions for crypto ETFs, allowing institutional investors to exchange ETF shares for the underlying BTC or ETH
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google rolls out new AI Mode features: Search Live with video input, Canvas for planning, image and PDF uploading, and AI Mode in Google Lens in desktop Chrome
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter