techmeme

Techmeme

948 events in storerole: thematic3d fetch windowcadence: dailyaccess: keyless

Extracts: headline · metadata or bounded excerpt

Retention: D1 event history with canonical source link and deduplication metadata.

Access basis: Public endpoint; no project credential required.

Last ingested: 2026-08-25 · run status: success with data

all historytoday

2026-07-01SpaceX cuts monthly Starlink prices in half in the Memphis area, as it endures blowback and legal challenges from opponents of its Colossus data centers (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260630/p44#a260630p44 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-30/spacex-drops-starlink-costs-in-memphis-amid-data-center-pushback"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260630/i44.jpg"
2026-06-30The UK CMA proposes requiring Apple and Google to relax UK developer payment "steering" rules, and Apple to open NFC; Google says it "already made the changes" (Sam Tabahriti/Reuters)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260630/p7#a260630p7 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/uk-regulator-proposes-easing-apple-google-app-store-payment-rules-2026-06-30/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260630/i7.jpg" vspace="4"
2026-06-30Hotels, tour operators, and travel agencies rush to launch proprietary online tools and loyalty schemes to fend off future competition from AI travel agents (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260630/p6#a260630p6 <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/befb7f34-9357-492b-a40b-2132d3256bcc"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260630/i6.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https://www.techmeme.com/
2026-06-30AI may help transform air traffic control by processing vast amounts of data, spotting collision risks early, and easing staff shortages as air travel grows (Peter Campbell/Financial Times)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260630/p5#a260630p5 <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/3ccefa95-b35c-4720-878a-94f370d3cf69"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260630/i5.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https://www.techmeme.com/
2026-06-30Dubai- and London-based 1001, which uses AI to improve aviation, port, and energy infrastructure efficiency in the Gulf, raised $30M led by Lux Capital (Matthew Martin/Semafor)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260630/p4#a260630p4 <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/06/30/2026/us-investors-lead-30m-funding-for-gulf-ai-startup-1001"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260630/i4.jpg" vspace="4" /></a>
2026-06-30US political campaign managers and consultants are using AI to analyze voter data, create campaign materials, and more; survey: 87% of campaigners use AI daily (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260630/p3#a260630p3 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/us/politics/political-campaigns-ai-tech.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t1A.0BIa.SrowQDfeMYAi&smid=bs-share"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.tec
2026-06-30Five Chinese tech and advanced manufacturing companies launch Hong Kong listings, seeking to raise up to $5.6B, led by Apple supplier Luxshare's $3.15B offering (Reuters)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260630/p2#a260630p2 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinas-luxshare-precision-industry-seeks-raise-up-31-billion-hk-share-sale-2026-06-29/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/2606
2026-06-30Sources: Chinese smartphone makers like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo told suppliers they will again cut 2026 shipment targets, with Xiaomi cutting 30% to ~95M units (Nikkei Asia)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260630/p1#a260630p1 <a href="https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/china-s-xiaomi-oppo-vivo-cut-2026-smartphone-targets-again-sources"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260630/i1.jpg" vspace="
2026-06-30Source: the Trump administration has talked with SpaceX about donating shares to Trump Accounts, which provide children with tax-advantaged savings accounts (Semafor)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p50#a260629p50 <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/06/29/2026/spacex-us-government-discuss-stock-donation-for-trump-accounts"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260629/i50.jpg" vspace="4"
2026-06-30Nebex, a fintech startup aiming to act as a broker platform connecting US space tech suppliers, foreign governments, and investors, raised a $30M seed led by GV (Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p49#a260629p49 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-29/google-ventures-backs-fintech-started-by-former-axiom-space-ceo"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260629/i49.jpg" v
2026-06-30Australia's ACCC sues Amazon for allegedly introducing ads to Prime Video under unfair contract terms and forcing existing subscribers to pay more to avoid them (Peter Vercoe/Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p48#a260629p48 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-29/amazon-sued-by-australian-consumer-watchdog-over-prime-video-ads"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260629/i48.jpg"
2026-06-30OpenAI teases a device it is launching in partnership with keyboard maker Work Louder on July 15, saying "Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p47#a260629p47 <a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/959174/openai-codex-hardware-work-louder"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260629/i47.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a
2026-06-30Sources: AI video startup Higgsfield is in talks to raise $300M to $500M at a $5B pre-money valuation, more than 4x its valuation in a January 2026 round (The Information)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p46#a260629p46 <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-video-startup-talks-quadruple-valuation-5-billion"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260629/i46.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a
2026-06-30The UK FCA unveils the updated version of its crypto regulatory framework, after softening proposed rules that critics said risked holding the UK back (Financial Times)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p45#a260629p45 <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/c2ace628-7bd9-4f3b-b835-970d6dd930bb"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260629/i45.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https://www.techmeme.c
2026-06-30AI coding startup 8090 raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures; founder Chamath Palihapitiya announces that he will lead the company as CEO (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p44#a260629p44 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/chamath-palihapitiya-raises-135m-series-a-for-his-ai-coding-startup-takes-ceo-role/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260629/i44.jpg
2026-06-29The US DOD appoints Marc Andreessen to its Defense Policy Board, a committee that gives strategic advice to the US defense secretary and other top officials (Nick Wadhams/Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p43#a260629p43 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-29/trump-convert-marc-andreessen-gets-spot-on-pentagon-policy-board"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260629/i43.jpg"
2026-06-29Verizon and the UK's BT agree to create a joint venture for their international businesses with ~$4B in combined yearly revenue; Verizon will pay $625M to BT (Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p14#a260629p14 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-29/verizon-bt-are-said-to-near-jv-deal-for-international-business"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260629/i14.jpg" vs
2026-06-29How the UK is betting on IT and AI to combat slow economic and productivity growth, including moving beyond the Golden Triangle of London, Oxford, and Cambridge (Sam Fleming/Financial Times)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p13#a260629p13 <a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p13#a260629p13" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Sam
2026-06-29Sources: CXMT and Tencent sign a ~$3B, three-year DRAM supply agreement for servers ahead of CXMT's IPO; CXMT is in talks with other major Chinese companies (Reuters)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p12#a260629p12 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-cxmt-wins-3-billion-memory-supply-deal-with-tencent-sources-say-2026-06-29/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260629/i12.jp
2026-06-29An interview with Axon CEO Rick Smith, who transformed the Taser maker into a policing software company, as its revenue from AI policing tools rises 700%+ YoY (Victoria Albert/Wall Street Journal)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p11#a260629p11 <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/the-taser-ceo-who-says-ai-is-the-future-of-policing-4311d23c?st=JRQZYz"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260629/i11.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p
2026-06-29Academic papers and conference materials offer a deep dive into China's all-CPU LineShine, which pairs custom 304-core Arm CPUs with HBM to top the Top500 (Timothy Prickett Morgan/The Next Platform)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p10#a260629p10 <a href="https://www.nextplatform.com/hpc/2026/06/25/a-deep-dive-on-chinas-lineshine-all-cpu-exaflops-class-supercomputer/5262439"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260629/i10.
2026-06-29Sources: disconnected US military databases may have led to the February 28 strike on an Iranian school; some see AI as a fix, others fear it amplifies errors (Katrina Manson/Los Angeles Times)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p9#a260629p9 <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-06-28/u-s-analysts-missed-remark-surfaced-in-iran-school-strike"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260629/i9.jpg" vspace=
2026-06-29A look at security flaws, police misuse, and other concerns over the 100K+ AI-enabled automated license plate readers installed across the US, mostly from Flock (Max Miller/Engadget)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p8#a260629p8 <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2203000/flock-cameras-recording-license-plate/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260629/i8.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https://www.techm
2026-06-29AI is forcing consulting firms to shift from hourly billing to fixed-fee or outcome-based pricing, a transition proving slow and difficult for the industry (Mark Maurer/Wall Street Journal)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p7#a260629p7 <a href="https://www.wsj.com/cfo-journal/inside-consultants-messy-shift-from-hourly-billing-7bd9b802?st=CtWuNj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmem
2026-06-29South Korea, Samsung, and SK Hynix say they plan to invest ~$590B to build a new chip complex, including four chipmaking plants and a chip packaging cluster (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p6#a260629p6 <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/86013b7e-41da-445a-981c-075a701dccf6"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260629/i6.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https://www.techmeme.com/
2026-06-29South Korea unveils plans for new AI data centers backed by ~$357.5B from SK Group, GS Group, and Naver, targeting 8.4GW initially and 18.4GW by 2035 (Yi Whan-woo/The Korea Times)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p5#a260629p5 <a href="https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/politics/20260629/korea-to-invest-585-bil-to-build-semiconductor-complex-in-southwestern-region"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.co
2026-06-29Kuo: the memory supply-demand gap will widen through 2027, with an estimated 15%-20% of 2026 consumer electronics capacity shifting to data centers in 2027 (Ming-Chi Kuo)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p4#a260629p4 <a href="https://medium.com/@mingchikuo/the-memory-supply-demand-gap-will-keep-widening-through-2027-84ca2c2ed130"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260629/i4.jpg" vspace="4" /><
2026-06-29Dealogic: Japan saw 18 IPOs in H1 2026, the lowest since 2011, despite stock market surges, partly due to Japan's lack of AI, data center, and chip startups (David Keohane/Financial Times)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p3#a260629p3 <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/5e016bbc-b09e-4423-a6fb-588abda72cf7"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260629/i3.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https://www.techmeme.com/
2026-06-29Soaring memory costs are posing existential threats to small electronics makers, amid thin margins, low supply chain leverage, and little room for price hikes (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p2#a260629p2 <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/27/memory-crunch-shaking-apple-and-microsoft-existential-for-small-guys.html"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260629/i2.jpg" vspace="4" />
2026-06-29DeepSeek details DSpark, a speculative decoding framework for its V4 models, saying it speeds up AI inference by up to 85% and was tested on Gemma and Qwen (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260629/p1#a260629p1 <a href="https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3358647/faster-ai-lower-costs-dspark-eases-inference-bottlenecks-and-chip-strain-says-deepseek"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.
2026-06-29Shanghai-based Momenta, whose driver-assist tech is used by Toyota, Mercedes, and Audi in China, files for an IPO in Hong Kong, seeking to raise up to $751.1M (Reuters)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260628/p17#a260628p17 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chinas-momenta-seeks-up-751-million-hong-kong-ipo-boost-autonomous-driving-rd-2026-06-29/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.t
2026-06-28Brazil, which has struggled to standardize soccer talent scouting, is embracing AI-powered scouting apps that assess players by analyzing video clips and more (New York Times)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260628/p7#a260628p7 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/world/americas/brazil-soccer-ai-scout-fc-santos.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tlA.8oeR.JLXaav9U3I42&smid=url-share"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http:
2026-06-28A profile of Jacob Andreou, the 33-year-old former Snap exec leading Microsoft's consolidated Copilot team efforts to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic (Sebastian Herrera/Fortune)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260628/p6#a260628p6 <a href="https://fortune.com/2026/06/27/microsoft-copilot-boss-jacob-andreou-tapped-by-satya-nadella-to-save-ai-strategy/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260628/i6.jpg" vspace
2026-06-28Masayoshi Son questioned Musk's orbital AI data centers, noting electricity is just 7% of costs and the AI race will be won on Earth within a few years (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260628/p5#a260628p5 <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/why-one-of-techs-biggest-gamblers-is-betting-against-elon-musks-ai-vision-7529f5c2?st=JDyDwZ"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260628/i5.jpg" v
2026-06-28A look at a thriving underground economy for Claude access in China, including "transfer station" sites that buy API tokens abroad and distribute them to users (Wired)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260628/p4#a260628p4 <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/how-people-in-china-keep-outsmarting-anthropics-geolocation-restrictions/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260628/i4.jpg" vspace="4" /></a>
2026-06-28Apple's appeal to a London Court of Appeal ruling begins Monday at the UK Supreme Court; the ruling required it to pay $502M for using Optis' wireless patents (Alistair Gray/Financial Times)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260628/p3#a260628p3 <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/d6a0103a-7fca-4e66-b92f-45f6ff3de059"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260628/i3.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https://www.techmeme.com/
2026-06-28Researchers say Z.ai's GLM-5.2 matches latest US models at finding security bugs, as critics question the US' lax approach in restricting Chinese open models (Wall Street Journal)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260628/p2#a260628p2 <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chinese-ai-anthropic-mythos-cybersecurity-574b02c2?st=FRKgap&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260628/
2026-06-28Sources: Google told Meta around March it couldn't offer all the Gemini capacity Meta wanted to buy, disrupting and delaying some of Meta's internal AI projects (Financial Times)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260628/p1#a260628p1 <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/c5d52f72-71ef-40bc-bad3-61afdba8b378"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260628/i1.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https://www.techmeme.com/
2026-06-28Sources: Salesforce staff worry Anthropic's Claude Tag could cannibalize Slackbot and give the AI firm more leverage over the enterprise software industry (Laura Bratton/The Information)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260627/p17#a260627p17 <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/salesforce-employees-worry-anthropics-invasion-slack"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260627/i17.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a
2026-06-28Netflix has been gradually requiring each profile under a Netflix subscription to use a unique email address; the rule doesn't apply to children's profiles (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260627/p16#a260627p16 <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/netflix-now-requires-every-user-profile-to-be-tied-to-unique-email-address/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260627/i16.jpg"
2026-06-28How AI is shaping the 2026 US midterms, as public anger grows against data center expansion and the AI industry emerges as one of the biggest financial backers (Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260627/p15#a260627p15 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-06-26/silicon-valley-money-drives-ai-s-growing-role-in-2026-us-elections?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVk
2026-06-27LSEG: tech companies have raised $3.1B from mainland China stock market listings YTD, up 5x+ from a year earlier, as AI and chip companies drive onshore IPOs (Reuters)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260627/p14#a260627p14 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/chinese-ai-chip-firms-are-driving-an-onshore-ipo-rebound-2026-06-26/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260627/i14.jpg" vsp
2026-06-27The rapid pace of AI progress has created a pervasive fear of missing out across Silicon Valley, fueling anxiety among founders, executives, employees, and VCs (Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260627/p13#a260627p13 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-26/ai-anxiety-is-fueling-burnout-across-silicon-valley-s-tech-workers?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVk
2026-06-27Sports clips' rise on platforms like YouTube has left broadcasters debating whether to use them to attract younger viewers or protect their subscription revenue (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260627/p12#a260627p12 <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/25/tiktok-youtube-sports-viewership.html"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260627/i12.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https://www.tech
2026-06-27Tokyo-based Sakana AI's Fugu and China-based 360's cybersecurity model Tulongfeng claim to rival Anthropic's banned Mythos and Fable 5 amid the US export ban (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260627/p11#a260627p11 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/asian-ai-startups-launch-mythos-like-models-as-anthropics-export-ban-drags-on/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260627/i11.jpg" vsp
2026-06-27AI executives and lobbyists say they are seeking regulatory clarity from the Trump administration but are wary of pressing for answers, fearing retaliation (Politico)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260627/p10#a260627p10 <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/27/tech-trump-ai-silicon-valley-00978862"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260627/i10.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https:/
2026-06-07Q&A with Google DeepMind's Director of AGI Economics Alex Imas and Epoch AI's Phil Trammell on what remains scarce after AGI, redistributing AI wealth, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260607/p5#a260607p5 <a href="https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/alex-imas-phil-trammell"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260607/i5.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260607/p5#a26
2026-06-07ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet applauds the EU's tech sovereignty plans but says substantial EU involvement in steering "strategic projects" is a cause for concern (Toby Sterling/Reuters)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260607/p4#a260607p4 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/asml-ceo-says-eu-commission-should-not-try-direct-strategic-projects-2026-06-05/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260607/i4.jpg" vspac
2026-06-07Industry data: India's six largest IT companies grew combined revenue from $95.9B in FY23 to $103.1B in FY26, while headcount remained broadly steady at ~1.9M (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260607/p3#a260607p3 <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/information-tech/jobless-growth-in-it-revenue-grows-headcount-stagnates/articleshow/131512337.cms"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmem
2026-06-07French carriers Bouygues Telecom, Orange, and Free-iliad sign an MOU with Altice France to acquire SFR for €20.35B, including debt, expected to close in H2 2027 (Reuters)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260607/p2#a260607p2 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/bouygues-led-consortium-signs-2344-billion-deal-buy-sfr-altice-france-2026-06-06/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/26060