Open Links In New Tab
Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors
Techmeme
October 15, 2026, 8:00 AM
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter

Top News

Financial Times:
Sources: Anthropic told investors that its Q3 revenue hit $16.8B, up from $11.5B in Q2, and that it was profitable on an adjusted basis in Q3, ahead of its IPO  —  Rapid growth is slower than some anticipated as fears about AI trade rattle markets  —  Anthropic told investors …
Cory Weinberg / The Information:
Sources: Anthropic told investors that distillation accounts for 5% to 7% of its revenue; its rapid but slowing revenue growth could weigh on its IPO valuation
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Filing: Abdulrahman Alfozan, his wife, and a family member booked one-way tickets from the US to Saudi Arabia for October 12; the FBI arrested him on October 9  —  The OpenAI employee who was arrested and charged with allegedly using a hidden recording device in one of the ChatGPT maker's …
Wired:
Citizen Lab details AdFection, a zero-click spyware campaign where an Israeli ad company routed targets to spyware servers and infected dozens of devices  —  Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.
Jenny Lee / CNBC:
TSMC reports Q3 revenue up 50.9% YoY to $46.36B, net income up 68.7% to $23.7B, both above est., marking a sixth straight quarterly profit record on AI demand  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Thursday reported a record third-quarter profit that beat estimates, powered by an unrelenting global appetite for AI chips.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Flock CEO Garrett Langley defends the company's cameras, arguing that reducing crime means sacrificing privacy in return and that “we shouldn't pause progress”  —  Flock's founder and CEO Garrett Langley doesn't think the risks of introducing surveillance technology at scale outweigh the rewards.
Cassandre Coyer / Bloomberg Law:
Eight US states sue OpenAI separately in a bipartisan effort, alleging it didn't implement sufficient safeguards to protect kids and other vulnerable users  —  More than half a dozen states sued OpenAI Inc. Wednesday alleging the tech giant didn't implement sufficient safeguards to protect vulnerable users, including kids.
Bloomberg:
OpenAI agrees not to use trade secrets that Apple claims were stolen while their lawsuit plays out, and to collect forensic images of 14 employees' devices  —  OpenAI agreed not to use trade secrets that Apple Inc. claims were stolen by employees who defected from the iPhone maker …
Matt Kapko / CyberScoop:
Microsoft, Health-ISAC, Japanese authorities, and others disrupt a Chinese-language phishing kit ecosystem used to send 1B+ messages to 75K+ entities in 2026  —  In less than 10 months, cybercriminals used the arsenal of customized, targeted phishing kits to send more than 1 billion malicious messages …
Diana Novak Jones / Reuters:
A US appeals court lets Florida enforce a law banning social media accounts for under-14s, rejecting tech groups' claims that it violates free speech rights  —  A federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed Florida to enforce a state law barring children under 14 from accessing social media platforms …
Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune:
Chainalysis: agentic commerce on Coinbase's Base grew from ~1,500 transactions in Q2 2025 to 138M+ in Q3 2026; 87%+ of the payments were for less than 10 cents  —  The field of agentic commerce, which describes the use of AI agents to carry out internet transactions, is rapidly maturing, and crypto is fueling the boom.
SpaceXSI:
SpaceXSI debuts Grok Voice 3.0, saying it tops Artificial Analysis' speech-to-speech index, responds in under a second, and costs less than rivals, at $0.08/min  —  The world's most intelligent voice model. … Today, we're announcing Grok Voice 3.0, the world's most intelligent speech-to-speech model.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in China in December via iOS 27.3, with features first rolled out in 2024; the launch won't include Siri AI  —  Apple Inc. is gearing up to release its artificial intelligence platform in mainland China, following a lengthy regulatory delay …
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
YouTube Music rolls out labels for songs created with the help of AI; Spotify has AI labels, and Apple Music plans to add “Made With AI” labels later in 2026  —  YouTube Music announced Wednesday the rollout of a new labeling system aimed at improving transparency around songs created with the help of generative AI.
Reuters:
Jio Platforms seeks to raise up to $3.2B in India's largest IPO, which would value it at as much as $108.3B; the offering opens October 21 and closes October 23  —  Jio Platforms is set to raise up to $3.2 billion in India's largest IPO to date, which will value the group founded …
Sam Kessler / Wall Street Journal:
Sources and docs: while Bo Hines helped craft the crypto-friendly Genius Act, he had a 33% stake in consulting firm Nxum, which received millions from Tether  —  Money from Tether flowed to Nxum while Bo Hines worked in the White House on landmark stablecoin legislation.
Michelle Fox / CNBC:
CoreWeave closed down 15.5% as yields on its bonds near 15% amid concern over tech companies' heavy AI borrowing; Oracle dropped 8.8%, Nebius 10%, Dell 11.3%  —  CoreWeave's stock and bonds were both hit on Wednesday as investor fear grew that some technology companies are borrowing too heavily …
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg:
Ramp raised $1.85B led by Dragoneer at a $60B valuation, up from $44B after raising $750M in June, and hits $2B in annualized revenue, up from $1.5B in June  —  Ramp has surged to $2 billion in annualized revenue, the fintech company plans to announce Thursday — a milestone that's helped attract fresh investor capital.
More: Reuters and Pulse 2.0
Austin Carr / Bloomberg:
A profile of Marc Andreessen, who sources say is close to White House COS Susie Wiles and has publicly described a fallout with Biden officials over AI policy  —  The prominent investor has said the Biden administration pushed him to the political right, but sources say his grievances don't always match reality.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Fox Corp. and Roku shareholders approve Fox's $22B acquisition of Roku; Fox expects the deal to be finished in H1 2027, subject to regulatory clearance  —  At separate special meetings of shareholders Wednesday to vote on the deal, the majority of shares owned by Fox Corp. and Roku investors were in favor the deal.

Sponsor Posts

Command Line:
Azure Content Understanding: Building on lessons from a decade of Document Intelligence  —  What a decade of teaching machines to read real-world documents taught us about what LLMs can and can't do.
Will Reed:
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting.  Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach.  —  Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
Zoho:
UK tax compliance with Zoho Books  —  The evolving tax landscape in the UK has added an additional responsibility to business owners, accountants, and bookkeepers to ensure their choice of accounting software supports compliance …
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.
Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

The Upstarts Podcast:
 The $7B Startup Mapping Your Health In Just One Hour | Neko's Hjalmar Nilsonne
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.
Cheeky Pint:
 The company building underwater drones for $50,000
Stripe cofounder John Collison interviews founders, builders, and leaders over a pint.
Subscribe to Cheeky Pint.
BG2 Pod:
 Jensen Huang | Does AI Revenue Justify Capex, '27 AI Bottlenecks, Singularity, Open vs Closed & more
Open-source podcast on all things tech, markets, investing, and capitalism, hosted by Brad Gerstner.
Subscribe to BG2 Pod.
Big Technology Podcast:
 AI Leaders Can't Get Along. So How Will They Keep Us Safe? — With Kevin Roose
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.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
 How to Run a Political Campaign in the TikTok Era (And How Not To)
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.
Sources:
 Robinhood's CEO on letting AI trade your money
Candid conversations with the leaders shaping what's next in AI and the broader tech industry. Hosted by Alex Heath, who has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade.
Subscribe to Sources.
Add your podcast here
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 8:00 AM ET, October 15, 2026.

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

Wall Street Journal:
White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia, who said this week she “practiced international transaction law”, hasn't passed the bar exam in the US

Bloomberg:
A judge extends an earlier order to ban taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV ads until Nov. 8, past Election Day; she'll hold a hearing on a more permanent order Nov. 4

Danny Funt / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with 24-year veteran ESPN producer Nicole Noren, who quit over its gambling deals; her grandfather, father, and brother wrestled with gambling addictions

More News

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Figma announces new features to define how AI agents work on its platform, including Figma Specs, a Markdown editor that lets users define their design language

Earlier Picks

Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
Letter: Democratic senators question Meta's $6.6B in federal tax credits claimed over the past two years toward costs of building “experimental” AI data centers
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
Apple closes above a $5T market cap for the first time, the second company after Nvidia to do so; Apple had crossed $5T six times intraday previously
Elon Musk / @elonmusk:
Elon Musk says the US government owns and controls Starshield systems and “any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS”
Dylan Freedman / New York Times:
Researchers say they discovered and communicated with Chinese AI agents that were trying to bypass security controls on websites and were traced to Tencent
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter