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Techmeme - 2026-03-12T00:26:01-04:00

SEC filing: Oracle sets aside an additional $500M for restructuring, bringing FY total to $2.1B, as it prepares to cut jobs and hails efficiencies from AI tools (Financial Times) - 2026-03-12T00:25:01-04:00

Uber partners with Nissan and Wayve to offer robotaxi services in Tokyo, its first autonomous-vehicle partnership in Japan, with a pilot planned for late 2026 (Kosaku Narioka/Wall Street Journal) - 2026-03-12T00:05:14-04:00

Source: Anthropic is in talks with Blackstone and other PE firms to form a JV selling consulting services for integrating Claude into portfolio companies (The Information) - 2026-03-11T23:20:03-04:00

Google spins off GFiber, formerly Google Fiber, forming an independent provider with investment firm Stonepeak's Astound; Google will retain a minority stake (Ari Levy/CNBC) - 2026-03-11T23:15:02-04:00

Binance.US named Stephen Gregory as CEO, replacing Norman Reed; Gregory was previously CEO of Currency.com and held compliance roles at Gemini and CEX.IO (CoinDesk) - 2026-03-11T23:05:00-04:00

Valve says 5,863 games made $100K+ on Steam in 2025, up from ~3,000 titles that reached that mark in 2020, and Steam passed 42M peak concurrent users last month (Chris Kerr/Game Developer) - 2026-03-11T22:50:00-04:00

Chicago-based restaurant software startup Chowbus raised an $81M Series E led by Prysm Capital and Left Lane Capital; it focuses primarily on Asian restaurants (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios) - 2026-03-11T22:15:01-04:00

The UK ICO and Ofcom asked social media platforms to implement "highly effective age checks" to bar under-13 accounts, similar to tools required for adult sites (Laura Cress/BBC) - 2026-03-11T21:50:02-04:00

Replit raised a $400M Series D led by Georgian Partners at a $9B valuation and says it's on track to hit annual recurring revenue of $1B by the end of the year (Richard Nieva/Forbes) - 2026-03-11T21:35:02-04:00

Atlassian is cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~1,600 jobs, to fund investment in AI and enterprise sales; filing: the cuts will incur $225M-$236M in charges (CNBC) - 2026-03-11T21:05:02-04:00

Sources: Cursor is in early talks to raise billions in a new funding round at a post-money valuation of up to $60B; one source puts the round size at $5B (Tom Dotan/Newcomer) - 2026-03-11T20:55:01-04:00

Sources: investors demanded steep concessions in Salesforce's $25B bond deal to fund a share buyback; it sold debt at a significant premium in borrowing costs (Michelle Chan/Financial Times) - 2026-03-11T20:25:01-04:00

Nuro says it has begun testing its self-driving tech on public roads in Tokyo, marking the US-based company's first international autonomous deployment (Akash Sriram/Reuters) - 2026-03-11T20:05:01-04:00

Superhuman faces a proposed class action lawsuit from Julia Angwin, founder of The Markup, alleging Grammarly's Expert Review tool involved "misappropriation" (Miles Klee/Wired) - 2026-03-11T19:25:07-04:00

Source: Microsoft is in advanced talks to lease hundreds of MWs of data center capacity in Abilene, TX, after Oracle abandoned its expansion plans at the site (The Information) - 2026-03-11T18:35:05-04:00