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Techmeme - 2026-03-16T06:30:46-04:00

How tech billionaires are turning on the Giving Pledge, promoted by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett; Peter Thiel says he privately told ~12 signers to undo it (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times) - 2026-03-16T06:30:12-04:00

Amsterdam-based Nebius says Meta plans to spend up to $27B over five years for access to AI infrastructure, starting with $12B of capacity in early 2027 (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-16T06:17:37-04:00

Foxconn reports Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$81B, net profit down 2% YoY to ~$1.4B, below ~$1.9B est., due to a higher tax expense, and a 5.9% gross profit margin (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal) - 2026-03-16T06:00:38-04:00

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: Privacy Display works well, meaningful camera upgrades, and sleeker than S25 Ultra, but still huge, expensive, and lacks Qi2 (Allison Johnson/The Verge) - 2026-03-16T05:45:00-04:00

Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Adobe, and Match sign a voluntary pledge to share threat intelligence on scammers abusing their services (Sam Sabin/Axios) - 2026-03-16T04:50:01-04:00

How competition between Brazilian delivery app iFood and Meituan's Keeta in Brazil has descended into accusations of corporate espionage and shady tactics (Financial Times) - 2026-03-16T04:35:06-04:00

As AI models commodify, Apple's plans to spend just $14B on 2026 capex, far below hyperscalers' combined $650B, or 90%+ of their cash flow, may be a genius move (Horace Dediu/Asymco) - 2026-03-16T03:55:00-04:00

Sources: Hua Hong is readying a 7nm process at its Shanghai fab with Huawei's collaboration, which would make it China's second chipmaker at the node after SMIC (Fanny Potkin/Reuters) - 2026-03-16T02:20:00-04:00

Sources: Alibaba may unveil a Qwen-based AI agent for enterprises as soon as this week, and plans to gradually integrate the agent into its services like Alipay (Luz Ding/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-16T02:00:00-04:00

Spotify announces Taste Profile editing in beta, the first time it lets users fine-tune the recommendation algorithm, starting with Premium users in New Zealand (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - 2026-03-16T01:35:02-04:00

Sources: Microsoft cut plans to add some Copilot AI features to Windows 11 and shipped some tools without the Copilot branding, to reduce AI bloat in the OS (Zac Bowden/Windows Central) - 2026-03-16T01:25:01-04:00

Reliz, which operates crypto lender BlockFills, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, reporting $50M to $100M in estimated assets and $100M to $500M in liabilities (Timmy Shen/The Block) - 2026-03-16T01:10:00-04:00

Google and Accel's joint AI startup accelerator Atoms picks five Indian startups from 4,000+ applications, saying ~70% of rejected applicants were AI "wrappers" (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) - 2026-03-16T00:40:01-04:00

President Trump accuses Iran of using AI as a "disinformation weapon" to make fake images of wartime successes against the US, saying "AI can be very dangerous" (Kenrick Cai/Reuters) - 2026-03-16T00:05:02-04:00

Micron completes the $1.8B acquisition of Powerchip's DRAM fab in Taiwan, and plans a second fab of similar scale with construction starting by the end of FY26 (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters) - 2026-03-15T23:40:01-04:00