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Techmeme - 2025-11-24T14:30:40-05:00

Anthropic says Claude can now keep a chat going indefinitely, automatically summarizing earlier context when it hits its context window (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch) - 2025-11-24T14:30:01-05:00

How the US' annualized 1.6% GDP growth in H1 was heavily dependent on AI-related investments, which might have accounted for as much as 50% of the growth (Konrad Putzier/Wall Street Journal) - 2025-11-24T14:25:01-05:00

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5, which the company says is "the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use" (Anthropic) - 2025-11-24T14:01:44-05:00

Grindr ends talks on a $3.46B take-private deal by shareholders Ray Zage and James Lu, who own 60%+ of Grindr, citing uncertainty over the deal's financing (Kritika Lamba/Reuters) - 2025-11-24T13:50:02-05:00

Microsoft unveils Fara-7B, its first agentic SLM designed for computer use, available as an experimental release on Hugging Face and Microsoft Foundry (Ben Dickson/VentureBeat) - 2025-11-24T13:35:01-05:00

The US DOD and the intelligence community awarded Enabled Intelligence a seven-year, up to $708M data labeling contract in September, beating out Scale AI (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg) - 2025-11-24T13:25:01-05:00

OpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer's guide, powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET) - 2025-11-24T13:15:01-05:00

Sources: Shopify salespeople engaged in a sales fraud scheme inflating deal values for over a year, leading to internal investigations in mid-2024 and firings (Aleksandra Sagan/The Logic) - 2025-11-24T11:55:02-05:00

Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €430M from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and others, after raising €355M in January 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu) - 2025-11-24T11:45:04-05:00

AWS announces a commitment to invest up to $50B to build AI and HPC infrastructure for the US government, starting in 2026 and adding nearly 1.3 GW of capacity (Eric Revell/Fox Business) - 2025-11-24T11:20:02-05:00

Sam Altman and Jony Ive say they have settled on a design for OpenAI's device, speaking to Laurene Powell Jobs; Ive says it could debut in "less than" two years (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge) - 2025-11-24T11:00:14-05:00

Amazon begins previewing its Amazon Leo satellite internet system for a select group of customers, ahead of a wider public rollout planned for 2026 (Loren Grush/Bloomberg) - 2025-11-24T10:40:01-05:00

Amazon unveils its Autonomous Threat Analysis system, born from a 2024 internal hackathon, to use AI agents competing in teams to identify vulnerabilities (Lily Hay Newman/Wired) - 2025-11-24T09:40:00-05:00

NYC-based Opti, an enterprise identity security service that uses AI to analyze user, system, and access relationships, raised a $20M seed led by YL Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios) - 2025-11-24T08:50:00-05:00

Revolut reaches a $75B valuation in its latest share sale led by Coatue, Greenoaks, and others, up from $45B in 2024, making it Europe's most valuable startup (Jennifer Surane/Bloomberg) - 2025-11-24T08:35:00-05:00