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Book excerpt: how Google acquired DeepMind for $650M in 2014, beating Facebook to the deal; Mustafa Suleyman used poker-style bluffing to secure a safety board (Sebastian Mallaby/Wall Street Journal)
2026-03-26 11:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Pony AI reports 2025 revenue up 20% YoY to ~$90M, total annual losses down 72% YoY to ~$76.8M, and a $75.5M net income in Q4, its first profitable quarter ever (Bloomberg)
2026-03-26 10:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Google's top India counsel Bijoya Roy resigned after 16 months to start a new venture, a high-profile exit in a market where it faces regulatory issues (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)
2026-03-26 11:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US Army selects Carlyle and KKR to build two data centers on military bases, set to cost $2B each, as its token usage rises 8x during the US' war in Iran (Steff Chávez/Financial Times)
2026-03-26 10:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Uber partners with China's Pony AI and Croatia-based, Rimac-spinoff Verne to launch Europe's first commercial robotaxi service, initially debuting in Zagreb (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
2026-03-26 10:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How Theia, a satellite imaging startup that raised $250M+ by 2020, collapsed after the founder and four other execs were indicted on federal fraud charges (Brent Crane/Bloomberg)
2026-03-26 07:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Back-to-back jury verdicts against Meta could spur a flood of litigation against social media companies and threaten to undermine Section 230 protections (Wall Street Journal)
2026-03-26 06:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Deccan AI, which supplies post-training data and evaluation work, raised a $25M Series A led by A91 Partners; most of its workforce of experts is based in India (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
2026-03-26 03:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US DOJ charged a Chinese national and two Americans for allegedly trying to smuggle ~$62M worth of export-controlled A100 and H100 Nvidia chips into China (Michael Kan/PCMag)
2026-03-26 03:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The $6M LA social media verdict is a win for the plaintiffs bar, not kids or society; parenting helps limit such harms, and most kids don't face severe issues (Wall Street Journal)
2026-03-26 09:05 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An oral history of Apple's earliest days told by people who lived it, including Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne, Mike Markkula, and Liza Loop, as Apple turns 50 (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)
2026-03-26 09:05 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2.5B at a pre-money valuation of $25B; JPMorgan is in talks to participate (Wall Street Journal)
2026-03-26 03:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Leaked memo: Meta's Reality Labs is reorganizing staff into AI-native "pods" focused on specific outcomes, flattening the organization's leadership structure (Charles Rollet/Business Insider)
2026-03-26 03:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenRouter data: lower-cost Chinese AI models by groups such as DeepSeek and MiniMax have surpassed US rivals in token consumption since last month (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
2026-03-26 02:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
San Francisco has become a laboratory for police surveillance after early resistance; SFPD recorded 700 drone flights last month, up from 93 in February 2025 (Cyrus Farivar/The San Francisco Standard)
2026-03-26 01:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Isara, which aims to build software that can coordinate the work of thousands of AI agents, raised $94M and says OpenAI backed the startup at a $650M valuation (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
2026-03-26 00:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filing: Apple settled its lawsuit against former Vision Pro designer Di Liu, who agreed to return confidential documents to Apple and pay monetary damages (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
2026-03-26 02:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Musk's lawyers ask a Delaware judge to step back from cases involving him, after her account "liked" a LinkedIn post celebrating his defeat in a California case (Sujeet Indap/Financial Times)
2026-03-25 21:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
GitHub says it will use Copilot interaction data, including inputs, outputs, and code snippets, to train its AI models starting April 24, unless users opt out (Corbin Davenport/How-To Geek)
2026-03-25 23:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google sets a 2029 deadline for its post-quantum cryptography migration, aiming to "secure the quantum era" as "frontiers may be closer than they appear" (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
2026-03-25 23:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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