Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

The US DOJ says at least two DOGE employees accessed Social Security data that was off-limits under a court ruling and shared agency data on third-party servers (April Rubin/Axios)

Techmeme

The US FTC files a notice to appeal a November 2025 ruling that found Meta did not hold an illegal monopoly by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp (Jody Godoy/Reuters)

Techmeme

OpenAI rolls out age prediction on ChatGPT globally to identify users under 18 and apply automatic content protections as it prepares to introduce adult content (Juby Babu/Reuters)

Techmeme

Filings from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit detail Microsoft's decade-long OpenAI relationship, like establishing a new subsidiary for Sam Altman while he was fired (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Techmeme

xAI co-founder Greg Yang says he is stepping back from the startup into an informal advisory role to focus on his health after being diagnosed with Lyme disease (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Sources: AI inference startup Baseten raised $300M led by IVP and CapitalG at a $5B valuation, more than doubling its previous valuation; Nvidia invested $150M (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

Techmeme

OpenAI and ServiceNow sign a three-year deal to integrate OpenAI's models into ServiceNow's business software, including using OpenAI's AI agents for IT tasks (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

Techmeme

World Economic Forum panel: Palantir CEO Alex Karp says AI-driven job displacement will "make it hard to imagine why we should have large-scale immigration" (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Netflix adds a real-time voting feature with the premiere of its Star Search reboot, available on mobile, smart TVs, and streaming devices, but not in a browser (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

Demis Hassabis says Chinese AI companies are about six months behind leading western labs and the response to DeepSeek's R1 in 2025 was a "massive overreaction" (Bloomberg)

Techmeme

The World Economic Forum in Davos is now dominated by tech giants, whose interests shunt aside topics like climate change, as Trump and AI take center stage (Peter S. Goodman/New York Times)

Techmeme

Setapp Mobile, one of the first alt iOS app stores launched in 2024 after the EU's DMA, plans to shut down, blaming "still-evolving and complex business terms" (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)

Techmeme

Ethernovia, which builds automotive ethernet chips and software, raised a $90M+ Series B led by Maverick Silicon (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Techmeme

Substack challenger Beehiiv expects to nearly double its annual revenue to $50M in 2026; it now has over 40,000 MAUs, including nearly 15,000 paying subscribers (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

Techmeme

Ukraine says it plans to share nearly four years of combat data, including millions of hours of drone footage, with allies to help train AI models (Max Hunder/Reuters)

Techmeme

Filings: Michael Saylor's Strategy has bought more than $3B in Bitcoin since January 5, marking its biggest two-week purchase since December 2024 (Melos Ambaye/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Legal AI startup Ivo, which aims to reduce hallucinations by breaking legal reviews into 400+ tasks, raised a $55M Series B, a source says at a $355M valuation (Aditya Soni/Reuters)

Techmeme

Nielsen: Christmas Day 2025 set a record for US streaming usage with 55.1B minutes, or 54% of all TV viewing for the day, up by 3.9B minutes on Christmas 2024 (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)

Techmeme

Portugal orders Polymarket to stop operations and blocks it in the country after heavy activity tied to its recent presidential election, with €110M+ in volume (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

Techmeme

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI chips to China is like "selling nuclear weapons to North Korea" and has "incredible national security implications" (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

Techmeme