|
November 8, 2024, 12:20 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Forbes: |
AI startup founders and VCs hope that a Trump administration will lead to lighter regulations and the return of real acquisitions, not “contorted” ones — Practitioners expect more acquisitions and less oversight in a Trump administration expected to repeal Biden's executive order.
More: The Verge, Big Technology, Business Insider, Axios, Transformer, Nextgov/FCW, Tech in Asia, Fast Company, and Decrypt
| Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg: |
Some TikTok staff and users see Trump as a possible savior from the ban; others question whether Trump even cares about the app now that the campaign is over — Trump has signaled he's against a possible ban of the viral video-sharing app — Some TikTok staff and creators …
More: Dark Reading, GreenBot, Sinocism, Gizmodo, Tech.co, Business Insider, The Register, Engadget, Forbes, CMU, Search Engine Land, Retail TouchPoints, Proactive, Hypebot, Android Police, DNyuz, Fast Company, New York Times, Tech in Asia, PCMag, Music Ally, Silicon Republic, The Desk, Reuters, The Hacker News, Associated Press, and Digital Music News
| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
With Elon Musk's ascension in Trump's orbit, tech leaders on the right hope to steer the second Trump administration, bringing a startup ethos to the government — With Elon Musk's ascension in Trump-world, tech leaders on the right see an opportunity to bring a start-up ethos to the federal government.
More: Wccftech and NBC News
Bluesky: @jayhawkjeff.bsky.social, @angelaina.bsky.social, and @jarnon.bsky.social
X: @grosdoriane and @silvermanjacob
| Financial Times: |
Sources: TSMC told Chinese customers it would no longer manufacture AI chips at advanced process nodes of 7nm or smaller as of this coming Monday — World's biggest contract chipmaker acts to ensure it is in line with US restrictions on Chinese access to latest processors| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Block reports Q3 revenue up 6% YoY to $5.98B, vs. $6.24B est., gross profit up 19% YoY to $2.25B, Cash App gross profit up 21% to $1.31B, and a $284M net income — WATCH NOW — Block reported third-quarter revenue on Thursday that trailed Wall Street expectations.
More: Block, Protos, The Crypto Times, MarketWatch, Blockhead, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, and Benzinga. Threads: @kalihays1
| Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: |
More: Fortune, Blockonomi, Music Ally, Coinspeaker, crypto.news, Cryptonews, TechCrunch, CoinGape, and Decrypt
| Ming-Chi Kuo: |
Kuo: Apple plans to upgrade the high-end iPhone 18's wide-angle lens in 2026 to a variable aperture camera; Sunny Optical will be the primary shutter supplier — Key Growth Drivers for Sunny Optical's Apple Orders in 2025-2026: — 1. Lens Supply Allocation to Rebound Significantly from ~5% in 2024 to 15-20% in 2025| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok launches Share to TikTok, which lets users directly share music from Apple Music and Spotify in a post to their TikTok Feed or in DMs via TikTok Messages — TikTok on Thursday debuted a new feature that will more closely connect its app, which already influences which songs top the charts …
More: TikTok, Spotify, PCMag, Tubefilter, Hypebeast, Music Ally, PhoneArena, MSPoweruser, Neowin, Mashable, Engadget, Android Headlines, Social Media Today, Billboard, Digital Music News, Pocket-lint, How-To Geek, The Verge, Music Business Worldwide, and Music Week. Threads: @chris
| Sebastian Sinclair / Decrypt: |
Detroit plans to accept crypto for tax and fee payments from mid-2025 via a PayPal platform that will convert them to USD, becoming the largest US city to do so — Starting in mid-2025, Detroit residents will be able to pay with popular cryptos like Bitcoin and Ethereum through a PayPal-managed platform.
More: City of Detroit, The Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, CryptoSlate, Techreport, Newser, The Crypto Basic, Bitcoin Insider, Blockonomi, Cryptonews, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Crypto Times, Benzinga, Cointelegraph, CBS News, MLive.com, Crypto Briefing, CoinDesk, CoinGape, Watcher Guru, crypto.news, and Originally Reported …
| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Source: Amazon is discussing a second multibillion-dollar Anthropic investment, asking Anthropic to use servers with Amazon chips; Anthropic prefers Nvidia GPUs — Amazon is discussing making a second multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI rival Anthropic, according to a person involved in the discussions.
More: DatacenterDynamics, Tom's Guide, The Decoder, Spyglass, WinBuzzer, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Reuters, Benzinga, and Business Insider
| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Mercury Research: AMD's desktop CPU market share, in units, grew from 19.2% in Q3 2023 to 28.7% in Q3 2024 and from 19.5% to 22.3% for mobile in the same period — AMD's desktop CPU market share jumped nearly 10 percent in the last year, an analyst reported Thursday, on the heels …
More: Tom's Hardware, PC Gamer, The Verge, XDA Developers, Wccftech, and Trak.in
Forums: r/technology, r/pcmasterrace, and r/hardware
| Bloomberg: |
Sony reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to ~$19.45B, operating profit up 73% YoY to ~$2.96B vs. ~$2.18B est., and PS5 sales of 3.8M units, down from 4.9M a year ago — - Chinese hit ‘Wukong’ helped game sales on aging PlayStation 5 — Image sensor business was hurt by demand lull in North America| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US federal judge dismisses Raw Story and AlterNet's copyright lawsuit against OpenAI over LLM training, for now, saying the outlets couldn't show enough harm — A New York federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence giant OpenAI that claimed it misused articles …
More: VentureBeat, PCMag, The Hill, Windows Central, Engadget, Bloomberg Law, The Decoder, CCN.com, Cointelegraph, WinBuzzer, Silicon Republic, ai fray, and Music Ally
Sponsor Posts
Tribe AI:
State of AI: Adoption, Challenges and Recommendations — Examining the current state of AI, the key challenges organizations face, and practical recommendations for utilizing AI integration alongside other best practices.
State of AI: Adoption, Challenges and Recommendations — Examining the current state of AI, the key challenges organizations face, and practical recommendations for utilizing AI integration alongside other best practices.
SignalFire:
SignalFire raises another $1 billion to back applied AI startups — We build AI too. It tracks 650M tech employees so we can help companies with recruiting and GTM across enterprise, infra, healthcare, security, and consumer.
SignalFire raises another $1 billion to back applied AI startups — We build AI too. It tracks 650M tech employees so we can help companies with recruiting and GTM across enterprise, infra, healthcare, security, and consumer.
Zoho:
Mileage tracking made easy with Zoho Expense — When just a swipe of your finger could raise mileage expenses, why waste time remembering and logging every mile driven on your spreadsheets, emails, or shared files?
Mileage tracking made easy with Zoho Expense — When just a swipe of your finger could raise mileage expenses, why waste time remembering and logging every mile driven on your spreadsheets, emails, or shared files?
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Great Chat:
Founders need prenups, too
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Techmeme Ride Home:
The AI Coding Wars Are Upon Us
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe to Techmeme Ride Home.
Decoder with Nilay Patel:
Former DOJ antitrust chief says a Google break up will benefit the internet
A show from the Verge about big ideas - and other problems.
Subscribe to Decoder with Nilay Patel.
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View:
Sir Niall Ferguson decodes Trump, China, and the new world order
Azeem Azhar explores how AI and exponential technologies are shaping our future.
Subscribe to Azeem Azhar's Exponential View.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Roblox CEO David Baszucki knows what your kids are doing.
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Spotlight On:
CrowdStrike's George Kurtz on building a generational company
A podcast from Accel about how companies are built, from the people doing the building.
Subscribe to Spotlight On.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:20 PM ET, November 8, 2024.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Michael Schneider / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
More: Marketing Dive, Motley Fool, PocketGamer.biz, AppLovin, Benzinga, Proactive, Forbes, Investor's Business Daily, and Barron's Online. X: @anshublog
Earlier Picks
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More: NVIDIA, GamesIndustry.biz, Destructoid, PCMag, Laptop Mag, KitGuru, OC3D, Notebookcheck, Game Rant, TweakTown, GameSpot, 80 Level, MacRumors, Eurogamer.net, Android Police, Video Games Chronicle, Trusted Reviews, TechPowerUp, PCWorld, Digital Trends, BetaNews, Android Authority, Neowin, PCGamesN, The Shortcut, Tom's Hardware, T3, Gizmodo, Chrome Unboxed, Guru3D, Engadget, Thurrott, TechRaptor, How-To Geek, VideoCardz.com, Gameranx, Wccftech, VentureBeat, and Windows Central
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
More: Ars Technica, The Verge, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, Redmond Pie, 9to5Mac, MakerWorld, Dave2D on YouTube, Andru Edwards on YouTube, Appleosophy, Fast Company, Wired, The Tech Chap on YouTube, Telegraph, CNN, Press Start, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tom's Hardware, MobileSyrup, MacRumors, ZDNET, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Pocket-lint, PetaPixel, Brian Tong on YouTube, PCMag, Macworld, Cult of Mac, Wccftech, Inc, iClarified, Six Colors, BGR, TechRadar, Digital Trends, Tom's Hardware, Gizmodo, CNET, MacDailyNews, Engadget, and The Verge
X: @basicappleguy, @benbajarin, @maxwinebach, @tomwarren, @benbajarin, @mkbhd, and @tomwarren. Forums: r/mkbhd
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |