Techmeme

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Writes about AI and Revenue. 69% of posts open with an observation. A typical post reaches 252 likes.

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Posts: 32
Likes: 11K
Typical: 252
Best: 1.3K

What they write about

AI: 81%
Revenue: 22%

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observation: 69%
number: 31%

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Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks (@rafeuddin_ / Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Kirkland & Ellis, the world's highest-grossing law firm, is setting aside $500M to build its own AI platform rather than rely on tools available to its rivals (Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Source: Cursor, which is prepping for an expected acquisition by SpaceX, passed $4B in annualized revenue in the last week, up from $3B in April and $2B in Feb. (@richardjnieva / Forbes) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Sources: Cursor told staff Thursday that SpaceX could complete its $60B acquisition as soon as next week and the Cursor brand name will likely be phased out (@graceihle / The Information) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Internal documents: Meta earned $18B+ in annual ad sales from China in 2024, making up 10%+ of its global revenue, with $3B+ linked to fraudulent ads like scams (Reuters) t.co t.co 📥 Send tips! t.co

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Source: Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire New York-based Stainless, which helps developers generate SDKs from APIs, for at least $300M (The Information) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Z․ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new iteration of its GLM series and says it will release the weights for it tonight; Ox Alpha topped OpenRouter's leaderboard (@luzdingyu / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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AI inference chip startup Etched raised $700M led by its new server rack customer Jane Street at a $21B valuation, up from $10.3B after raising $300M in July (@rwhelanwsj / Wall Street Journal) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Thrive Holdings, a spinoff of Thrive Capital, commits $1B to acquire local accounting firms through its subsidiary, Current, and use AI to automate them (@annatonger / Forbes) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Sources: Google has created strike team to improve its coding models; Sergey Brin told DeepMind staffers that they must aggressively pivot to catch up on agents (@erinkwoo / The Information) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Sources: the Trump administration has been happier talking to Anthropic lately after Dario Amodei was replaced by cofounder Tom Brown in meetings about Fable 5 (@hugolowell / Wired) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Sources: AI inference chip startup Etched is raising funds at a ~$20B valuation and is raising capital at a $10B valuation in a separate round led by Sequoia (Wall Street Journal) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Sources: Starbucks shut down an AI program for automating inventory counts, nine months after deploying it, after it frequently miscounted and mislabeled items (@waylon_wc / Reuters) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Sources: Cognition is generating ~$900M in annualized revenue, up more than 3x since the start of the year, and executives project it will end 2026 with $1.5B+ (The Information) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Dario Amodei has just one direct report, his COS Avital Balwit; Anthropic's executive team reports to Daniela Amodei, who handles much of day-to-day operations (Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Sources: Poolside struck a non-exclusive $6B licensing deal with Nvidia, plus a $1B investment at a $12B pre-money valuation; 109 staffers get Nvidia job offers (Newcomer) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Sources: OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is leaving the company to launch an AI drug discovery startup, and is in talks to raise $200M at a $2B valuation (@mtemkin / TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Sources: Nous Research, the startup behind Hermes, an open-source agent and OpenClaw rival, is raising $75M+ at a $1.5B valuation led by Robot Ventures (TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Investigation: Meta explored slashing many teams by ~60% to become "AI native", but pulled back after staff revolted and data showed AI agents were ineffective (@katielpaul / Reuters) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Sources: OpenAI has 200+ people working on AI devices, including a smart speaker priced between $200 and $300, possibly smart glasses and a smart lamp (The Information) t.co t.co 📥 Send tips! t.co

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Sources: xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin plans to raise up to $1B at an up to $5B valuation for a new AI research startup, with General Catalyst possibly leading (Forbes) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Sources: Google DeepMind has reached a ~$100M deal to hire 20+ researchers from Contextual AI, including CEO Douwe Kiela, and license its technology (Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Sources: Google AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both viewed internally as key contributors to Gemini, are planning to leave for Anthropic (Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Sources: Cursor is building a general-purpose AI agent codenamed Sand, aimed at non-developers, that handles emails, texts, and documents to rival Claude Cowork (@graceihle / The Information) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Sources: OpenAI bought tens of thousands of Macs for RL, Anthropic rents them, Nvidia sees Apple as its main local AI rival as Macs gain traction with AI devs (@aatilley / The Information) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Sources: Anthropic has agreed to the terms of a $30B fundraising at a $900B valuation, with Sequoia, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Altimeter co-leading the round (@georgenhammond / Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Sources: Hadrian, which is building AI-powered factories to produce space and defense parts, is in talks to raise ~$1B at a ~$7.5B post-money valuation (Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets (Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Microsoft is moving Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing and is considering a Microsoft-hosted version of DeepSeek as a cheaper option (@inafried / Axios) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Sources: Fireworks AI, which helps companies run AI models, is in talks to raise funding at a $15B valuation after being valued at $4B in October 2025 (@rebeccatorrenc5 / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Sources: AI coding firm Cognition is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a $25B valuation, up from $10.2B announced in September 2025 (Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Apple claims OpenAI recruited 400+ ex-Apple employees, including an iPhone engineer who allegedly downloaded confidential hardware files before joining OpenAI (@markgurman / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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