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Source: Meta on Wednesday laid off around 700 employees in the Reality Labs unit, as well as some in recruiting, sales, and Facebook (Eli Tan/New York Times)
2026-03-25 20:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Singapore-based Startale, developer of the Strium blockchain for tokenized securities and JPYSC and USDSC stablecoins, raised a $63M Series A from SBI and Sony (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
2026-03-25 21:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nintendo says new first-party games exclusive to Switch 2 will have different prices for physical and digital versions in the US, beginning in May (Andy Robinson/Video Games Chronicle)
2026-03-25 19:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
ARC Prize Foundation unveils ARC-AGI-3, an AI benchmark with simple video-game-like scenarios designed to measure on-the-fly reasoning rather than memory recall (Mark Sullivan/Fast Company)
2026-03-25 19:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Social media addiction trial: a Los Angeles jury finds Meta and YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users about the dangers of using their platforms (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
2026-03-25 17:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Reddit says it will label automated accounts that provide a service to users and will require accounts suspected of being bots to verify they are human (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2026-03-25 18:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The jury in LA's social media trial finds Meta and YouTube harmed a young user via addictive design features and orders them to pay her $3M; Meta will pay 70% (New York Times)
2026-03-25 17:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model, with better creative control and allowing users to create three-minute tracks, up from Lyria 3's 30 seconds (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
2026-03-25 17:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez plan to introduce legislation to pause new data center construction until AI safeguards are in place (Maria Curi/Axios)
2026-03-25 16:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: cloud provider Vultr is seeking to raise $1B+ to expand its AI computing capacity, after raising $333M at a $3.5B valuation in 2024 (The Information)
2026-03-25 16:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Epic Microsystems, which designs power delivery architecture for better thermal and efficiency management of AI data centers, raised a $21M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
2026-03-25 16:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: as part of its Google deal, Apple has full access to the Gemini model in its own data centers and can use distillation to produce smaller models (The Information)
2026-03-25 16:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google Research details TurboQuant, a quantization algorithm to enable massive compression of LLMs and vector search engines without sacrificing accuracy (Google Research)
2026-03-25 15:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Charlotte-based Lucid Bots, which manufactures autonomous drones for cleaning windows, raised a $20M Series B co-led by Cubit and Idea Fund (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
2026-03-25 15:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
SCOTUS rules unanimously that Cox could not be held liable for the piracy of thousands of songs online, after music labels sued the internet provider in 2018 (Ann E. Marimow/New York Times)
2026-03-25 14:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Glimpse, which uses AI agents to let 200+ brands automate financial deduction processes, raised a $35M Series A led by a16z, bringing its total raised to $52M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
2026-03-25 14:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Notch, which is developing an OS designed for high-compliance sectors, raised a $30M Series A led by Headline, after pivoting from being a specialty insurer (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
2026-03-25 14:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta confirms plans to lay off staff; sources say the cuts impact a few hundred people; a source says across Reality Labs, social media, recruiting, and sales (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
2026-03-25 14:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Elon Musk says X will "pause" new creator monetization rules that would base payouts on engagement from a user's local audience, after criticism from creators (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
2026-03-25 14:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Normal Computing, which uses AI to help chip companies design chips more efficiently, raised $50M led by Samsung Catalyst and says it has 5+ top chip clients (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
2026-03-25 13:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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