techmeme

Techmeme

918 events in storerole: thematic3d historyaccess: keyless

Keeps: headline

all historytoday

2026-08-13Taiwan says it detected AI-assisted cyberattack campaign from overseas targeting government agencies last month, but affected agencies successfully "handled" it (Reuters)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260813/p8#a260813p8 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/taiwan-says-it-was-targeted-last-month-ai-driven-hacking-campaign-2026-08-13/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260813/i8.jpg" vspac
2026-08-13Wealth managers are cutting fees and hiring staff in Silicon Valley to win over OpenAI and Anthropic workers before IPOs mint a new class of millionaires (Financial Times)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260813/p7#a260813p7 <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/aa0ca006-5af4-4f94-9789-3e56f9f53e1d"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260813/i7.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https://www.techmeme.com/
2026-08-13Rapidly advancing AI tools have created investor uncertainty and fear around the SaaS business model and the private equity and credit built on top of it (Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260813/p6#a260813p6 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-ai-private-equity-software/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NjU5NTQ3NCwiZXhwIjoxNzg3MjAw
2026-08-13Research: over 53M people in China worked as food delivery or ridesharing drivers as of 2025, up 10M in two years, amid accelerating automation in manufacturing (Financial Times)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260813/p5#a260813p5 <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/a3803e70-cb4d-444f-a31e-05be2f2c44f6?accessToken=zwAAAZ_5xcXzkdOjgD5wy01ET9OjHgW-LyxE9g.MEUCIQCWTIny3JTJV8e-PGyK0XL2tg5g_7Ay-rpKkwGZCpp1-AIgbMgJQPlqWgqAsX4s1k4gYaC4b8k0JveZOs35OJ
2026-08-13London- and Boston-based Mindgard, which offers automated AI security and red-teaming tools to help organizations secure AI systems, raised a $30M Series A (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260813/p4#a260813p4 <a href="https://www.securityweek.com/mindgard-raises-30-million-to-protect-ai-systems/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260813/i4.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https://ww
2026-08-13Foreign investment in Japan's chip industry has reached ~$37B, as government subsidies attract companies working on logic and memory chips and image sensors (Shuhei Ochiai/Nikkei Asia)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260813/p3#a260813p3 <a href="https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/semiconductors/sony-tsmc-deal-brings-overseas-investment-in-japan-chipmaking-to-37bn"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260813/i3.j
2026-08-13President Trump signs a memo letting the US government partner with private firms to conduct cyberattacks abroad against criminal groups targeting Americans (Patrick Howell O'Neill/Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260813/p2#a260813p2 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-13/trump-enlists-private-sector-to-boost-cyber-offensive-arsenal"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260813/i2.jpg" vspace
2026-08-13Sources: legal AI startup Legora is in early talks to raise funds at a $10B+ valuation, up from $5.6B four months ago; its ARR rose 50% QoQ to $150M in Q2 (Financial Times)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260813/p1#a260813p1 <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/8202960d-ec90-4709-96e0-ab9cbddb5258"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260813/i1.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https://www.techmeme.com/
2026-08-13Yuno, a payments infrastructure provider for processing transactions globally, raised a $45M Series B led by Global PayTech with a16z and others participating (Maria Clara Cobo/Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260812/p57#a260812p57 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-12/andreessen-horowitz-tiger-global-back-yuno-s-45-million-round"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260812/i57.jpg" vsp
2026-08-13Sources: Anthropic is in talks to buy Decart, which offers real-time generative video and GPU optimization tech, for about $6B (Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260812/p56#a260812p56 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-13/anthropic-said-in-talks-to-buy-ai-startup-decart-for-6-billion"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260812/i56.jpg" vs
2026-08-13Sources: former Google exec Jeff Dean is in talks for $1B in funding at a ~$10B valuation for his new science and engineering-focused AI startup, Discovery Loop (Business Insider)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260812/p55#a260812p55 <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/former-google-exec-jeff-dean-valuation-for-new-ai-startup-2026-8"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260812/i55.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <
2026-08-12Some health and fitness obsessives are using AI for hyperpersonalized training, building custom dashboards and tools to analyze their sleep, workouts, and diet (Wall Street Journal)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260812/p6#a260812p6 <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-datamaxxers-feeding-their-every-health-move-to-ai-df0af9b5?st=hqiG7z&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme
2026-08-12Briter: Africa-focused startups raised $3.3B in H1 2026, up 73% YoY, driven by Zipline's $950M raise; US- and UAE-incorporated entities raised half the capital (Nduka Orjinmo/Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260812/p5#a260812p5 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-11/healthcare-ev-startups-steer-africa-toward-record-funding-year"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260812/i5.jpg" vspac
2026-08-12Bengaluru-based Yulu, which gets ~95% of its revenue from renting e-bikes to gig workers, raised a $93M Series C, sources say at a ~$170M post-money valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260812/p4#a260812p4 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/indias-yulu-raises-93m-as-quick-commerce-boom-fuels-e-bike-demand/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260812/i4.jpg" vspace="4" /></a>
2026-08-12Sources: Singapore-based data center operator DayOne confidentially files for a US IPO, aims to list as soon as next quarter, and is considering raising ~$5B (Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260812/p3#a260812p3 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-11/dayone-data-centers-said-to-confidentially-file-for-5-billion-ipo-us"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260812/i3.jpg"
2026-08-12Researchers say suspected Chinese hackers used open-source AI agents to build an autonomous hacking tool that compromised Taiwanese government websites in July (Tom Wilson/Financial Times)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260812/p2#a260812p2 <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/7d2ab3e0-9085-48f6-b38a-d90260d58795"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260812/i2.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https://www.techmeme.com/
2026-08-12OpenAI VP of Global Policy Ann O'Leary says AI policy in the US is anchored in the states and informed by California's AI transparency law passed last year (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260812/p1#a260812p1 <a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260812/p1#a260812p1" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Chase D
2026-08-12A look at Candy Crush's continued popularity 15 years after its launch, with an estimated 81.5M MAUs and in-app revenue of $876.5M in fiscal year 2025 (Alanna Okun/Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260811/p43#a260811p43 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-11/how-candy-crush-became-one-of-the-most-successful-mobile-games-of-all-time?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVy
2026-08-11A profile of Suno, which has been used by more than 100M people since 2023 and has 2M+ paid subscribers, as it faces copyright lawsuits from UMG and Sony Music (Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260811/p42#a260811p42 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-11/suno-stares-down-universal-and-sony-to-reshape-the-future-of-music?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVk
2026-08-11OpenAI launches a ChatGPT desktop app for Linux in preview, supporting ChatGPT Work, Codex, and more; Computer Use outside the in-app browser is not available (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260811/p41#a260811p41 <a href="https://thenewstack.io/openais-chatgpt-desktop-linux/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260811/i41.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260811/
2026-08-11The CFTC uses its "emergency authority" to order Kalshi to continue operating in New York after the state filed a lawsuit in July seeking to shutter Kalshi (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260811/p40#a260811p40 <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/08/11/cftc-orders-kalshi-to-continue-offering-prediction-markets-in-new-york-after-state-lawsuit"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.co
2026-08-11Source: Kalshi's annualized revenue topped $4B in July, up from $2B+ two months earlier, and its operating expenses totaled $300M in June (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260811/p39#a260811p39 <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/kalshi-tops-4-billion-annualized-revenue-seeks-40-billion-valuation"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260811/i39.jpg" vspace="
2026-08-11Accel raised $3.5B in funds for early-stage investments, including a $1.35B global expansion fund for larger early-stage rounds and rapid follow-on investments (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260811/p38#a260811p38 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-11/accel-raises-3-5-billion-to-invest-in-emerging-global-ai-startups"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260811/i38.jpg"
2026-08-11Researchers find that feeding a frontier model's encrypted reasoning traces to a weaker model from the same provider can make it output the traces in plaintext (Will Knight/Wired)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260811/p37#a260811p37 <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-trick-reveals-ai-models-inner-thoughts/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260811/i37.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https://www.
2026-08-11Sources: former OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil is aiming to raise $150M for a new AI science startup, seeking a valuation of at least $750M (Business Insider)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260811/p36#a260811p36 <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/weil-valuation-750-million-for-ai-science-startup-2026-8"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260811/i36.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a hre
2026-08-11CoreWeave reports Q2 revenue up 112% YoY to $2.58B, vs. $2.56B est., and a $104B revenue backlog, with 1.5 GW of contracted power; CRWV jumps 9%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260811/p35#a260811p35 <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/11/coreweave-crwv-q2-earnings-report-2026.html"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260811/i35.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https://ww
2026-08-11Singapore raises its 2026 GDP growth forecast to 4.5%-5.5% from 2%-4%, citing stronger-than-expected global AI investment and improved external demand (Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260811/p3#a260811p3 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-11/ai-boom-set-to-drive-singapore-growth-as-high-as-5-5-this-year"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260811/i3.jpg" vspac
2026-08-11Anthropic says Claude models in the EU will now add invisible watermarks to generated text and C2PA metadata to generated files, to comply with the EU AI Act (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260811/p2#a260811p2 <a href="https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/11/anthropic-pledges-to-embed-watermarks-to-help-discern-ai-slop-in-sop-to-eu/5285792"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/26
2026-08-11Sources: Anthropic is courting investors for what could be the biggest IPO ever, touting rapid growth and plans to address mounting public backlash against AI (Wall Street Journal)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260811/p1#a260811p1 <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-tries-to-shore-up-investor-confidence-ahead-of-blockbuster-ipo-0ff736ad?st=whk1xw"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260811/i1.jpg"
2026-08-11Sources: investor interest in Situational Awareness surged after it nearly blew up on leveraged positions; the fund says it's not accepting new capital for now (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260810/p49#a260810p49 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-08-10/the-situation-is-fine"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260810/i49.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https:/
2026-08-11Sources: Anthropic agreed to a 20-year, $9.1B compute deal with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of capacity at a Rockdale, TX campus; RIOT jumps ~25% after hours (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260810/p48#a260810p48 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-11/anthropic-strikes-9-billion-deal-with-cloud-computing-firm-riot"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260810/i48.jpg" v
2026-08-11How a clause in Elon Musk's Tesla pay package, worth up to ~$1T, could provide him a shortcut around lofty performance targets if Tesla merged with SpaceX (Wall Street Journal)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260810/p47#a260810p47 <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/see-how-a-tesla-spacex-merger-gives-musk-a-shortcut-to-his-1-trillion-payday-327bc491?st=BXtV5H"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260810/
2026-08-11Sources: Apple remains on track for a glass-centric design overhaul of iPhone Pro's line for 2027, countering rumors that led Jefferies to downgrade AAPL (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260810/p46#a260810p46 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-11/apple-s-glass-centric-20th-anniversary-iphone-remains-on-track-for-2027?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2l
2026-08-11Trump Media reports a Q2 net loss of $238.1M, vs. a net loss of $20M in Q2 2025, and says 10+ clients are paying up to $100K per month for its Truth API (Steve Kopack/NBC News)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260810/p45#a260810p45 <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/corporations/trump-media-doubles-down-selling-faster-access-truth-social-posts-rcna591834"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260810/i4
2026-08-11SpaceX's earnings show X's Q2 ad revenue at $367M, down from $1.08B at Twitter in Q2 2022; Musk once said he would take its annual ad revenue to $12B in 2027 (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260810/p44#a260810p44 <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/10/spacexs-earnings-show-elon-wiped-out-two-thirds-of-twitters-ad-business/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260810/i44.jpg" vspace=
2026-08-10Source: OpenAI head of ethics Chloé Bakalar departs after less than a year, following exits by the head of safety systems and a former head of mission alignment (Financial Times)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260810/p43#a260810p43 <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/e49dfb75-f841-4466-a577-f7aaff8779a0?accessToken=zwAAAZ_uOfhQkdPknft1-EFEZtOld_eq_4d5oA.MEUCIHgqM8KPxOu1Uu1bT3eGYYsxG_YmCltQIRvgORkZ9zW2AiEA5Kk-QGzgfQHbIoX2lI4UQc4H5Qu3GbWt14uY
2026-08-10Anthropic makes Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent at $2/1M input tokens and $10/1M output tokens, canceling a planned September 1 increase (Claude/@claudeai)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260810/p42#a260810p42 <a href="https://x.com/claudeai/status/2086891169217122586"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260810/i42.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260810/p42#
2026-08-10With his long essay, Zuckerberg returns to his "open" AI arguments at an opportune time, as Chinese open models narrow the performance gap at much lower cost (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260810/p41#a260810p41 <a href="https://spyglass.org/meta-open-ai-muse-glimmer/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260810/i41.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260810/p41#a2
2026-08-10Sources: OpenAI bought back ~$7B in shares from current and former employees in a tender offer valuing it at $852B, unchanged from its most recent funding round (Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260810/p40#a260810p40 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-10/openai-buys-back-7-billion-of-employee-shares-in-tender-offer"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260810/i40.jpg" vsp
2026-08-10Source: Applied Compute, which helps companies customize models with their data, is in talks to raise "hundreds of millions" led by Elad Gil at a ~$3B valuation (The Information)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260810/p39#a260810p39 <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/applied-compute-talks-double-valuation-3-billion-open-source-demand"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260810/i39.jpg" vspace="
2026-08-10Filing: Sergey Brin donated an additional $20M to Building a Better California, which fights California's wealth tax, bringing his total contributions to $102M (Alicia Clanton/Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260810/p38#a260810p38 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-10/sergey-brin-crosses-100-million-in-spending-to-fight-wealth-tax"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260810/i38.jpg" v
2026-08-10A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind moved in in 2016, now home to OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and others (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260810/p2#a260810p2 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/this-former-notorious-red-light-district-is-now-one-of-the-worlds-top-ai-hubs/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260810/i2.jpg" vspace
2026-08-10Chinese AI labs account for nine of Artificial Analysis' top 10 text-to-video models, gaining global adoption and potentially an edge in building world models (Catherine Thorbecke/Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260810/p1#a260810p1 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-08-09/chinese-ai-video-is-coming-for-more-than-hollywood"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260810/i1.jpg" vspace="4" /><
2026-08-10Sources: the UK Royal Navy removed internet connectivity from its drones' cameras, after finding they sent "heartbeat communications" to an IP address in China (Richard Holmes/Telegraph)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260809/p16#a260809p16 <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/09/spy-cameras-on-navy-drones-secretly-sent-data-to-china/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260809/i16.jpg" vspace="4" /></a
2026-08-10Sources: Sony and TSMC plan a $6.3B JV, owned ~60% by Sony and ~40% by TSMC, to mass produce next-gen image sensor chips in Japan's Kumamoto as early as 2029 (Nikkei Asia)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260809/p15#a260809p15 <a href="https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/semiconductors/sony-tsmc-to-invest-6.3bn-in-advanced-image-sensor-plant-in-kumamoto"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260809/i15
2026-08-10Sources: as Spotify tests a skip ahead button that lets some Premium users skip publisher-sold podcast ads and filler content, audio networks raise concerns (Max Tani/Semafor)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260809/p14#a260809p14 <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/08/09/2026/spotifys-new-skip-button-could-end-the-podcast-business-as-we-know-it"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260809/i14.jpg" vsp
2026-08-10Sources: Chinese regulators have told banks to back tech companies, but lenders still prefer stable cash flows and profitability over loss-making tech startups (Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260809/p13#a260809p13 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-09/china-bets-on-ai-stocks-as-it-races-against-us-for-chip-tech-dominance"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260809/i13
2026-08-10Moore Threads reports H1 revenue up 147% YoY to ~$258M, a net loss of $1.72M, says it plans a Hong Kong listing, after its stock surged 420%+ since Shanghai IPO (Bloomberg)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260809/p12#a260809p12 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-09/china-ai-chip-designer-moore-threads-plans-hong-kong-listing"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260809/i12.jpg" vspa
2026-08-10Tel Aviv-based QuantHealth, a provider of AI clinical trial simulation software, raised a $45M Series B led by Qumra Capital, taking its total funding to ~$70M (Cailey Gleeson/Fierce Healthcare)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260809/p11#a260809p11 <a href="https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/finance/quanthealth-raises-45m-series-b-accelerate-ai-driven-clinical-trial-simulations"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260809/i11.
2026-08-10An Australian user's OpenClaw agent running Claude exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off, after the user asked it to move him up the waitlist (ABC)
Techmeme permalink: https://www.techmeme.com/260809/p10#a260809p10 <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260809/i10.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <