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The Ethereum Foundation cuts 20% of its workforce (x.com)
The reorg signals a shift from bloat to execution at one of Ethereum's core institutions
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SpaceX Signs a $6.3B Compute Deal With Reflection AI (x.com)
A single deal makes frontier compute capacity look more like industrial supply than software spend
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Groq Raises $650M
Groq’s raise shows how much capital still chases low-latency inference infrastructure
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OpenAI reportedly spent $34B in 2025
Audited figures reportedly put OpenAI’s 2025 spending at $34B, including $19B on R&D and nearly $6B on sales and marketing
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DeepSeek reportedly raised $7.4B at a $50B valuation
DeepSeek’s first external round reportedly required investors to put capital into an LP run by CEO Liang Wenfeng, an unusual structure for a frontier AI company
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Microsoft is reportedly adding AWS capacity to GitHub after AI-driven infra strain (x.com)
GitHub’s AI-driven growth reportedly strained Microsoft infrastructure enough that the company is adding AWS capacity to stabilize reliability
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University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a "worm" powered by open source AI that exploits known … (x.com)
University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a "worm" powered by open source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors attacks for each computer ( @cademetz / New York Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full conte
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Strava adds an $11.99 monthly fee for developer API access (x.com)
Strava is putting developer APIs and more public data behind paywalls and authentication as AI scraping changes the cost-benefit equation for open APIs
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Hackers say they used Meta's AI support chatbot to change emails tied to Instagram accounts amid a wave of high-p… (x.com)
Hackers say they used Meta's AI support chatbot to change emails tied to Instagram accounts amid a wave of high-profile account takeovers; Meta fixed the issue ( @jason_koebler / 404 Media) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full co
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Palo Alto Networks says Mythos found 24+ critical bugs, burning $1M+ of tokens, subsidized by Anthropic; some com… (x.com)
Palo Alto Networks says Mythos found 24+ critical bugs, burning $1M+ of tokens, subsidized by Anthropic; some companies say they plan to boost Mythos spending ( @aaronpholmes / The Information) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and ful
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Anthropic cuts its list of unauthorized secondary market sellers from eight to four after the initial notice caus… (x.com)
Anthropic cuts its list of unauthorized secondary market sellers from eight to four after the initial notice caused panic and pushback from investors ( @yazhous / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
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Kuaishou reports Q1 revenue up 3.4% YoY to ~$5B and Kling AI revenue up 300%+ YoY to ~$96M; Kling reached a ~$500… (x.com)
Kuaishou reports Q1 revenue up 3.4% YoY to ~$5B and Kling AI revenue up 300%+ YoY to ~$96M; Kling reached a ~$500M annualized revenue run rate in March 2026 ( @cocof1026 / South China Morning Post) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and
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ByteDance reportedly discussing up to $70B in 2026 AI capex
ByteDance is considering an AI infrastructure buildout financed by tens of billions in annual profit, putting private capex on hyperscaler scale
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Robinhood lets users link AI agents to dedicated trading accounts (x.com)
A mainstream brokerage is allowing tools like Claude and Cursor to connect to segregated accounts and place autonomous stock trades