2+ mon, 2+ week ago (70+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: On Techmeme's 20th birthday, its founder explains what's behind the site's consistency, debunks some supposed media trends, and outlines future directions" " Please clap for Techmeme" " Techmeme turns 20 freaking years old today." This is our self-congratulatory post marking the occasion. This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 2:05 PM ET, September 12, 2025....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago (82+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Fred Vogelstein / Crazy Stupid Tech: A profile of Techmeme, which turns 20 this week yet oddly works and looks as it did in 2005, as its executive-heavy readership expands amid the AI boom" " Every morning nearly 100,000 geeks world wide, including some of the richest tech barons in the universe, fire up one of the most dated " This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 5:10 AM ET, September 9, 2025....

9+ mon, 3+ week ago (386+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Emma Roth / The Verge: Google has edited Gemini's response in a Super Bowl commercial after it was found to contain false information about Gouda cheese" " Gemini's response no longer says that Gouda makes up '50 to 60 percent of the world's cheese consumption.'" " Gemini's response no longer says that Gouda makes " - Sponsor Post Termina: AI Powered Diligence at Scale " VCs and founders deploy Termina AI Scans on >12% of all known series A+ deals to uncover hidden risks and opportunities. Explore how you too can invest and build better companies with AI. - Sponsor Post SBS Comms: Expect Better: SBS Comms " The media landscape is changing fast, so don't be slow " out with the old, in with the new. SBS helps tech companies like GitHub, Cloudflare, Flexport, Ramp and more modernize comms and secure impactful results. - Sponsor Post Zoho: How to manage…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago (384+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google Photos starts adding its SynthID watermarks to photos that have been edited using Magic Editor, but says some changes may be too small to detect" " But Google admits that some generative AI adjustments may be "too small" for SynthID to detect." " But Google admits " - Sponsor Post Termina: AI Powered Diligence at Scale " VCs and founders deploy Termina AI Scans on >12% of all known series A+ deals to uncover hidden risks and opportunities. Explore how you too can invest and build better companies with AI. - Sponsor Post SBS Comms: Expect Better: SBS Comms " The media landscape is changing fast, so don't be slow " out with the old, in with the new. SBS helps tech companies like GitHub, Cloudflare, Flexport, Ramp and more modernize comms and secure impactful results. - Sponsor Post Zoho: How to manage…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago (384+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Cerebras says it worked with Mistral to help its Le Chat app respond to user questions with 1,000 words per second, making it the world's fastest AI assistant" " Cerebras Systems, an artificial intelligence chip firm backed by UAE tech conglomerate G42, said on Thursday it has partnered " - Sponsor Post Termina: AI Powered Diligence at Scale " VCs and founders deploy Termina AI Scans on >12% of all known series A+ deals to uncover hidden risks and opportunities. Explore how you too can invest and build better companies with AI. - Sponsor Post SBS Comms: Expect Better: SBS Comms " The media landscape is changing fast, so don't be slow " out with the old, in with the new. SBS helps tech companies like GitHub, Cloudflare, Flexport, Ramp and more modernize comms and secure impactful results. - Sponsor Post Zoho: How to manage AI…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago (380+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Sharon Goldman / Fortune: Sources: OpenAI co-founder John Schulman is joining former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's stealth startup; he left Anthropic after joining the startup in August 2024" " OpenAI cofounder John Schulman is joining former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's stealth startup after departing Anthropic just five months " - Sponsor Post Termina: AI Powered Diligence at Scale " VCs and founders deploy Termina AI Scans on >12% of all known series A+ deals to uncover hidden risks and opportunities. Explore how you too can invest and build better companies with AI. - Sponsor Post SBS Comms: Expect Better: SBS Comms " The media landscape is changing fast, so don't be slow " out with the old, in with the new. SBS helps tech companies like GitHub, Cloudflare, Flexport, Ramp and more modernize comms and secure impactful results. - Sponsor Post Zoho: How to manage AI in employee experience…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago (173+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Richard MacManus / Cybercultural: A look back at GeoCities, launched in 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet, which allowed people who had no technical knowledge of HTML to build web pages" " GeoCities, known throughout most of 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, was one of the first commercial internet services to make it easy " - Sponsor Post 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. - Sponsor Post Termina: AI Powered Diligence at Scale " VCs and founders deploy Termina AI Scans on >12% of all known series A+ deals to uncover hidden risks and opportunities. Explore how you too can invest and build better companies with AI. - Sponsor Post Zoho: Women's Day Special: Practical Lessons from Zoho's Women Leaders on…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago (76+ words) [Techmeme permalink] CNN: How Mode to Code, a nonprofit founded by a teenager, is teaching Bay Area seniors to use AI and avoid scams through free coding and tech literacy classes" " Jacob Shaul is the kind of rising high school student who spends Saturdays playing chess and devours books by Malcom Gladwell and Angela Duckworth. This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 10:40 AM ET, September 28, 2025....

7+ mon, 4+ week ago (178+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Similarweb: Gemini's web app had 10.9M average daily visits in March, up 7.4% MoM; Sensor Tower: Claude and Gemini saw activity jump after flagship model debuts" " OpenAI's ChatGPT may be the world's most popular chatbot app." But rival services are gaining, according to data from analytics firms Similarweb and Sensor Tower. - Sponsor Post TELUS Digital: See how your customer experience priorities compare " TELUS Digital surveyed leaders about the tech they're investing in, the KPIs they're tracking and their plans for outsourcing. Get the results. No form fill required! - Sponsor Post Zoho: Back your gut feeling with behavioral assessments " Imagine someone gives you a mystery box. What's the first thing you'd do? You'd likely assess the box and try to predict what is inside. Now imagine someone presents you with a few mystery boxes " - Sponsor Post IDrive: Protecting…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago (220+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Thomas Germain / BBC: An Adalytics report shows how ad systems run by Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others inadvertently placed ads on a website that hosts CSAM" " Some of the biggest tech companies in the world served ads on a website featuring images of child abuse, helping to fund its operations. - Sponsor Post Zoho: How does live chat work? " If you're an online business operating through websites or instant messaging/social media platforms, regardless of your industry, you need a way to connect with your visitors. This is where live chat comes in. - Sponsor Post Techmeme Leaderboards: Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more " We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics. Download reports immediately for just $100. No sub needed! - Sponsor Post Termina: AI Powered Diligence at…...