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Techmeme - 2026-02-04T13:41:18-05:00

Google teases the Pixel 10a in a new video, revealing a completely flat rear camera, and says pre-orders begin on February 18 (Abner Li/9to5Google) - 2026-02-04T13:40:23-05:00

GitHub integrates Claude and Codex AI coding agents directly into GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio Code, for Copilot Pro Plus and Enterprise users (Tom Warren/The Verge) - 2026-02-04T13:00:47-05:00

Microsoft says cybersecurity head Charlie Bell will move into a position focused on engineering quality; Hayete Gallot will return from Google to run security (Jordan Novet/CNBC) - 2026-02-04T12:50:20-05:00

Roblox launches a 4D creation feature in open beta, allowing creators to generate interactive objects with individual moving parts rather than static 3D models (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-04T12:40:22-05:00

EnFi, which makes AI agents that analyze and make decisions on credit applications, raised a $15M Series A led by Fintop, bringing its total funding to $22.5M (Tatiana Bautzer/Reuters) - 2026-02-04T12:10:16-05:00

AI chipmaker Cerebras raised a ~$1B Series H led by Tiger Global at a $23B valuation, up from $8.1B in September 2025; Benchmark, Fidelity, and AMD invested too (Ian King/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-04T12:00:55-05:00

Uber promotes Balaji Krishnamurthy, its former VP of strategic finance and investor relations, to be its CFO, replacing Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-04T11:30:00-05:00

Mistral debuts Voxtral Transcribe 2, a family of speech-to-text models with speaker diarization and ultra-low latency, under the Apache 2.0 open-weight license (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View) - 2026-02-04T10:10:12-05:00

Adobe ramped up its ads in 2025, spending $1.4B amid AI competition and Wall Street skepticism, a significantly higher share of sales than other tech companies (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-04T09:30:05-05:00

Sources: Amazon and OpenAI are discussing a deal that could require OpenAI to dedicate its researchers and engineers to developing customized models for Amazon (The Information) - 2026-02-04T09:15:01-05:00

AI voice startup ElevenLabs raised a $500M Series D led by Sequoia at an $11B valuation, taking its total funding to nearly $800M, and reports $330M in 2025 ARR (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal) - 2026-02-04T09:10:09-05:00

Amazon rolls out Alexa+ to all Prime members in the US via any Alexa-enabled device, Alexa.com, and the Alexa app, and launches a free tier for non-Prime users (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge) - 2026-02-04T09:05:01-05:00

Bedrock, which aims to automate heavy construction equipment like excavators, raised $270M led by CapitalG and the Valor Atreides AI Fund at a $1.75B valuation (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times) - 2026-02-04T08:30:02-05:00

Anthropic says "Claude will remain ad-free", its users "won't see 'sponsored' links adjacent to" conversations, and responses won't be influenced by advertisers (Anthropic) - 2026-02-04T08:15:07-05:00

Resolve AI, which offers AI agents to monitor source code, databases, and infrastructure to address outages, raised $125M led by Lightspeed at a $1B valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-04T08:10:00-05:00