TechSnif Archive
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Major Bradley Olson / Wall Street Journal
Executives at Uber, Meta, Microsoft, and other companies are trying to rein in "tokenmaxxing" by employees, which led to ballooning AI use costs
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Major Nathan Bomey / Axios
Kalshi to offer perpetual futures contracts in prediction market expansion
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Major Lakshmi Varanasi / Business Insider
X says it is cracking down on large accounts that have been gaming its revenue-sharing program by "programmatically reuploading content from smaller accounts"
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Major Joann S. Lublin / Wall Street Journal
A growing number of execs are creating AI digital twins to manage tasks; Reid Hoffman says "Reid AI" has delivered 75+ addresses and presentations since 2024
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Major Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal
A profile of Meta CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, a top lieutenant of Mark Zuckerberg who is leading the gargantuan effort to transform Meta into an AI-first company
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Major Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal
Hands-on with a pre-release build of Google Docs Live, an AI-powered voice tool for drafting documents, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers
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Major Alexandra Alter / New York Times
For publishers, pirated audiobooks made with AI on YouTube are a growing issue: removal is cumbersome, and some are hiring tech companies to take them down
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Major Logan Hitchcock / Decrypt
Crypto exchange Blockchain.com confidentially files for a US IPO; the UK-based company founded in 2011 was once valued at $14B
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Major Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer
GitHub confirms ~3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension; TeamPCP claims responsibility
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Top Story Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog
Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.50 per 1M input tokens and $9 per 1M output tokens, 3x the price of Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 6x the price of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
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Major Chance Miller / 9to5Mac
Plex says the price for the Lifetime tier of its Plex Pass plan will increase from $249.99 to $749.99 in July
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Major Lauren Edmonds / Business Insider
Eric Schmidt faced loud boos during his University of Arizona commencement speech while discussing "rational" fears over the impact of AI and automation on jobs
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Major Kwanwoo Jun / Wall Street Journal
South Korea's Hana Bank agrees to acquire a 6.55% stake in Dunamu, which runs South Korea's largest crypto exchange Upbit, for $672.5M from Kakao
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Major Akshay Gangwar / Android Authority
Google confirms a new storage policy test, after some users reported that new Gmail accounts get 5GB, not 15GB, of free storage if they don't add a phone number
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Top Story Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal
Security research firm Calif says it used Mythos to help build a macOS kernel memory corruption exploit circumventing Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement tech
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Top Story Jordan Novet / CNBC
Cerebras pops 68% in Nasdaq debut, pushing the AI chipmaker's market cap to $95 billion
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Major Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal
AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M+ in January; Recon Analytics: Grok's paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2
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Major Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal
Executives at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition from frontier AI labs stiffens
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Major Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI
Impressions of China's AI ecosystem after visiting many leading AI labs there, and the similarities and differences in working on LLMs in China and the West
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Major Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog
While Anthropic will use the Colossus 1 data center, which has a really bad environmental record, xAI retains the larger Colossus 2 for its own AI training
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Major Simon Sharwood / The Register
Datacenter to become Arm's biggest business 'soon'
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Major Carly Nairn / Courthouse News Service
Musk v. Altman: Shivon Zilis testifies her relationship with Musk didn't influence her duties as an OpenAI board member; she left in 2023 after Musk started xAI
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Major Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack
Anthropic updates Claude Managed Agents with "dreaming", a scheduled process that reviews recent work and updates memory, available in research preview
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Major Nicholas G. Miller / Wall Street Journal
Nvidia invests $500M in Corning, which will grow its US optical connectivity capacity by 10x and expand its US fiber production capacity by 50%+; GLW jumps 15%+
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Major Peter Loftus / Wall Street Journal
How AI is transforming the pharma industry, with most gains so far from back-office streamlining and faster manufacturing rather than breakthrough drug research
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Major Michael Acton / Financial Times
Apple's handling of vibe coding apps draws complaints from startups like Replit and Anything, which say Apple is applying App Store rules erratically
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Major Joe Rossignol / MacRumors
Apple has stopped offering a 256GB storage option for the Mac mini globally; Mac mini now starts at 512GB for $799 in the US
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Major Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs
The FBI warns of rising cyber cargo theft, where attackers hack freight brokers' accounts and dupe carriers; 2025 cargo theft losses in N. America rose 60% YoY
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