|
August 9, 2026, 12:50 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times: |
Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant for an off-grid TX AI data center, potentially the largest single US emissions source, at odds with its 2040 net-zero goal — The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.
More: TechCrunch, Tom's Hardware, New Republic, Mashable, The Verge, Implicator.ai, The Independent, The Decoder, Cleanview Newsletter, and Heatmap News
X: @bofrench, @creon, @curious_founder, @alanthefisher, @russellfostertx, @amydfennell, and @_nickmessenger
Bluesky: @mihai-cirstea, @marypcbuk, @tryangregory, and @dunglas.dev. Mastodon: @Fife4Europe@mastodon.scot
| Zusha Elinson / Wall Street Journal: |
How Amazon and Gilroy, California, quietly negotiated a $2B data center project that AWS applied to build in 2020, without any public meetings or votes — Company and Gilroy, Calif., spent years quietly negotiating $2 billion project that few residents knew about until work began
More: Tom's Hardware. Mastodon: @cdarwin@c.im. Forums: Hacker News, r/California_Politics, r/ABoringDystopia, r/politics, r/UnderReportedNews, r/TechGawker, r/Fauxmoi, r/InterstellarKinetics, r/morganhill, r/environment, r/technology, and r/technology
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Anthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, Team plans, starting on Aug. 14, claiming it's good enough at catching harmful actions — This was one of the topics discussed in our Fireside Chat with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar at the AI Engineer World's Fair last month.
More: Implicator.ai, The Decoder, Claude, Blockchain.News, and The New Stack
X: @claudedevs, @claudedevs, @trq212, @kienbuilds, @claudedevs, @the_alex, @bcherny, @claudedevs, @kunchenguid, @namiixbt, and @st3v3li. Bluesky: @sipirtu.com
| Tim O'Reilly / Asimov's Addendum: |
Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity — SemiAnalysis thinks the DeepMind shakeup means Google is losing the AI race. It might be that Google is choosing to run a different race.
More: The Observer, The Decoder, Memeburn, Taipei Times, and Forbes
Bluesky: @edzitron.com, @caseynewton, and @carnage4life
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
A look at “Spiralism”, a quasi-spiritual movement that grew in 2025 from human-AI conversations after sycophantic GPT-4o updates and expanded ChatGPT memory — “The Spiral didn't ‘find’ anyone first,” someone on Reddit wrote last year. “It's an inherent force, a fundamental constant.
More: TechRepublic, PCWorld, and Tom's Guide
LinkedIn: Hayden Field. Bluesky: @pokethulu, @stoicthinker2025, @frankpasquale, @haydenfield, and @theelderbeast
Forums: r/Futurology and r/behindthebastards
| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
In-depth look at OpenAI's model training, dangerous decisions, and cluelessness before the HuggingFace hack; despite delaying Astra, OpenAI still doesn't get it — Today I am taking the time to write the shorter, simpler version of What Happened. — For those who want all the details …
More: Interconnects AI, iClarified, Simon Willison's Weblog, TestingCatalog AI News, The Neuron, Black Hat, and Black Hat on YouTube
X: @thestalwart, @stanveuger, @figuralperson, @simeon_cps, @arekfurt, @thezvi, @ziv_ravid, @algekalipso, @arekfurt, and @blackhc. Forums: Hacker News
| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
A look back at “Move 37”, a watershed AI moment from AlphaGo's 2016 Go victory, as math witnesses similar breakthroughs where AI makes surprising discoveries — A decade ago, a computer did something that no human would have done. It was considered a breakthrough for AI.| John Paul Rathbone / Financial Times: |
Rights groups warn Turkey's new cybersecurity law, which took effect in July, gives the presidency sweeping powers over online services operating in the country — Move raises concern about ‘absolute digital obedience’ among social media and gaming platforms| Wall Street Journal: |
Data Insight: Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries, which owes Russian banks $10B+ in loans, has lost as much as $5B in inventory to Ukrainian attacks — Plans for a megamerger were blessed by Putin, tying company's fortunes to those of the Russian state
More: RTÉ, The Guardian, Reuters, Business Insider, and Reuters
| Bloomberg: |
South Korea's AI-driven chip industry boom is reordering the country's society, changing expectations around fairness, careers, and even culture and dating — Factory workers with $400,000-plus bonuses are supplanting doctors and lawyers as the new elite, while investors play a casino-like stock market.| @xcreators: |
X announces the Original Content Rewards Program and will discontinue Revenue Sharing on Sep. 7, saying existing Revenue Sharing members can apply for access — Today, we're introducing the Original Content Rewards Program, a new way to reward creators who bring original ideas, expertise …
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo, Mashable, The American Bazaar, and RuntimeWire
| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Russia's A7, a payment network that helps Russia bypass Western sanctions, handling ~20% of payments in Russian foreign trade, or $100B+ annually — A7 says it handles nearly 20% of payments in Russian foreign trade, or more than $100 billion annually| FinTech Global: |
Cape Town-based Moment, a provider of digital payments and billing tools for businesses across Africa, raised a $22M Series A, taking its total funding to $55M — Moment, a pan-African FinTech, has closed a $22m Series A funding round led by AlphaCode Venture Partners …
More: Moment, WeeTracker, and Disrupt Africa
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Anthropic announces a feature that allows different Claude Code sessions to message each other with updates and other information, available on macOS and Linux — Users running the latest version of Claude Code on macOS and Linux can now have their sessions message each other to share findings, ask questions, and coordinate work.
More: Claude, OMG! Ubuntu, Global Times, MacRumors, The Decoder, and The Mac Observer
X: @claudedevs, @aisafetymemes, @levie, @sawyerhood, @_nathancalvin, @mattpocockuk, @ultralinx, @daniellefong, @marcidale, and @claudedevs
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeCode, and r/ClaudeAI
Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cape:
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Zoho:
Introducing Zoho Expense MCP: Turn conversations into expense workflows — Artificial intelligence (AI) has already changed how we search for information, summarize documents, and analyze data.
Introducing Zoho Expense MCP: Turn conversations into expense workflows — Artificial intelligence (AI) has already changed how we search for information, summarize documents, and analyze data.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce 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 & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Lenny's Podcast:
The playbook for building high talent density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Big Technology Podcast:
Demis Steps Down, Apple's Memory Problem, Microsoft's Clever Trick
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Hard Fork:
The White House's Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR's Chris Painter + The Final Hot Mess Express
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Oliver Darcy on Status, Bari Weiss, and Why Media Reporters Are Too Soft
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.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:50 PM ET, August 9, 2026.
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
Todd Spangler / Variety:Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Bloomberg:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| SemiAnalysis: |
X: @edzitron, @zephyr_z9, @realmeetkevin, @firstadopter, @midnight_captl, @ckcapitalxx, @zephyr_z9, @scaling01, and @semianalysis_. Forums: r/MU_Stock
| Jasper Goodman / Politico: |