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A look at the decadelong feud between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei; sources say Amodei likened Altman's legal fight with Musk to Hitler's fight with Stalin (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)
2026-03-28 14:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Ross Nordeen, the last remaining cofounder at xAI, left the company on Friday; Nordeen reported directly to Elon Musk as his right-hand operator (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
2026-03-28 15:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at why Dotcom Bubble comparisons to the AI boom are off, vertical SaaS is up +3% last 12 months vs. horizontal SaaS down 35%, and other reflections on AI (Logan Bartlett/@loganbartlett)
2026-03-29 02:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of Mark Lanier, a TX lawyer and part-time pastor who beat Meta and Google in the LA social media case and said Zuckerberg was "rattled" on the stand (Wall Street Journal)
2026-03-28 23:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Qualified Health, which helps health systems evaluate and adopt AI tools, raised a $125M Series B led by NEA at a valuation of between $500M and $1B (Heather Landi/Fierce Healthcare)
2026-03-29 03:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Report analyzing payments of 28M US consumers shows Claude adding paid subs at a steadily increasing pace; Anthropic: paid subs have more than doubled this year (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
2026-03-28 19:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
ShinyHunters says it stole 350GB+ of data in a cyberattack on the European Commission, detected on March 24; the EC says its internal systems were not affected (Pierluigi Paganini/Security Affairs)
2026-03-28 18:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: DHS clears seven CISA staffers of wrongdoing; the staffers arranged a polygraph for CISA's former acting director Madhu Gottumukkala that he failed (John Sakellariadis/Politico)
2026-03-28 16:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chess grandmasters find new ways to win by making less optimal moves after AI pushed classical chess toward perfect play, breathing new life into the game (Kevin Lincoln/Bloomberg)
2026-03-28 14:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Vinod Khosla says AI is accelerating a shift of wealth and power away from workers, and an income tax overhaul in the US could offset voter fears about job loss (Financial Times)
2026-03-29 04:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on the platform's dominance, its impact on kids, the suspension and reinstatement of Trump's YouTube account, AI slop, and more (Lulu Garcia-Navarro/New York Times)
2026-03-29 06:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A study of 11 leading LLMs finds the models more agreeable than humans when giving interpersonal advice, affirming users' behavior even when harmful or illegal (Stanford University)
2026-03-29 05:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An AI-generated TikTok parody of reality series Love Island, called Fruit Love Island, averaged 10M+ views across its first 21 episodes after debuting last week (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
2026-03-29 10:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Analysis: while social media rewards sensationalism and inflammatory content, LLMs guide people away from extreme positions and towards expert-aligned stances (John Burn-Murdoch/Financial Times)
2026-03-29 05:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Hong Kong-listed AI drug discovery company Insilico Medicine and Eli Lilly sign a drug co-development deal worth up to $2.75B, with $115M in upfront payments (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
2026-03-29 14:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at some themes at this year's Hill and Valley Forum: embracing government-led industrial policy to onshore manufacturing, AI's unpopularity, and more (Newcomer)
2026-03-28 10:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Prediction market bets decided on linguistic technicalities expose how hard it is to turn language into a binary market, with payouts hinging on a single word (Christopher Beam/Bloomberg)
2026-03-28 06:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta's longtime content policy chief Monika Bickert is leaving the company to teach at Harvard; she will stay at Meta until August to work on a transition plan (Reuters)
2026-03-28 06:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Investment in Austin-based startups grew to a record high of $7.19B in 2025, up from $4.37B in 2024 and topping a pandemic peak of $6.1B in 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
2026-03-28 06:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Taiwanese memory chipmaker Nanya raised $2.5B in a private placement from Sandisk, SK Hynix's Solidigm, Cisco, and Kioxia to expand advanced chip production (Reuters)
2026-03-28 05:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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