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Source: Thrive Holdings has landed $1B in commitments for a new fundraising deal and is considering raising at least another $1B after strong investor interest (Bloomberg)
2026-03-27 01:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A US judge grants Anthropic's request for a preliminary injunction in its suit against the Trump administration over the DOD's decision to blacklist the company (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
2026-03-27 00:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
In an interview, David Sacks says he has relinquished his role as AI and crypto czar after using up his time as a special government employee (Bloomberg)
2026-03-26 23:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Anthropic executives have discussed an IPO as soon as Q4, and bankers vying to take the company public expect it to raise more than $60B (The Information)
2026-03-26 23:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI has surpassed $100M in annualized revenue from ChatGPT ads, has expanded to 600+ advertisers, and plans to launch self-serve advertiser access in April (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
2026-03-26 22:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google releases new tools for its Gemini AI assistant that let users upload chat history and context from other AI apps, making it easier to switch from them (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
2026-03-26 22:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Apple discontinues the Mac Pro and says it has no plans to offer future Mac Pro hardware (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
2026-03-26 21:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Xona, which aims to build a commercial alternative to GPS by launching a low-Earth orbit satellite constellation, raised a $170M Series C (Sandra Erwin/SpaceNews)
2026-03-26 21:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Apple granted out-of-cycle bonuses worth several hundred thousand dollars to iPhone hardware designers, as OpenAI and others poach its engineers (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
2026-03-26 21:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
X limits X Pro access to subscribers of the $40/month Premium+ plan without notifying users in advance; it was previously available in the $8/month Premium plan (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
2026-03-26 21:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta plans to increase its investment in a data center in El Paso, Texas, to more than $10B, a significant rise from the initial $1.5B commitment (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
2026-03-26 20:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Netflix raises US prices following a January 2025 hike; standard with ads rises $1 to $8.99/month; standard with no ads and premium rise $2 to $19.99 and $26.99 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
2026-03-26 20:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: X let go of 20+ staffers in nontechnical roles ahead of a SpaceX IPO; X staff have been told to focus on growing revenue since xAI brought on a CRO (Wall Street Journal)
2026-03-26 20:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Italy-based Subbyx, which builds infrastructure that lets businesses offer access-based subscriptions, raised a €30M Series A (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
2026-03-26 19:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Fannie Mae will accept crypto-backed mortgages for the first time; Coinbase launches a mortgage product allowing buyers to pledge bitcoin or USDC as collateral (Wall Street Journal)
2026-03-26 19:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Apple plans to open up Siri to run any AI service via App Store apps in iOS 27, dropping ChatGPT as exclusive partner in Apple Intelligence and Siri (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
2026-03-26 19:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The China Computer Federation calls for a boycott of AI conference NeurIPS after organizers barred submissions from US-sanctioned companies like Huawei (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
2026-03-26 18:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta stock falls 6%+ to a 10-month low after juries in two US trials found the company failed to adequately warn or protect young users (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)
2026-03-26 17:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google expands Search Live, its AI conversational search feature previously limited to the US and India, to all languages and regions where AI Mode is available (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
2026-03-26 18:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Cohere launches Transcribe, its first voice model; the 2B-parameter, open-source speech recognition model handles tasks like notetaking and speech analysis (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
2026-03-26 17:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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