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Techmeme - 2026-03-13T19:06:14-04:00

$TRUMP memecoin surged as much as 60% after its promoters said it would host a gala luncheon at Mar-a-Lago with Trump; the WH hasn't confirmed his attendance (Bloomberg) - 2026-03-13T19:05:01-04:00

Amazon wins its appeal against a €746M GDPR fine imposed by Luxembourg's privacy watchdog after a court finds the watchdog had not properly done its analysis (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters) - 2026-03-13T18:35:03-04:00

Sources: the Trump administration is set to receive a ~$10B fee from investors in TikTok's US business for the government's role in brokering the TikTok US deal (Wall Street Journal) - 2026-03-13T18:12:53-04:00

Digg announces a "hard reset" and shuts down operations two months after it was relaunched by Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, citing the scale of AI bot spam (Richard Lawler/The Verge) - 2026-03-13T17:35:01-04:00

Facebook launches new tools to help creators detect and report impersonation, and updates guidelines to better define what it considers to be "original content" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - 2026-03-13T17:15:04-04:00

Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to develop AI models for scientific research, is in talks to raise $175M at a $1B valuation (The Information) - 2026-03-13T17:00:14-04:00

Didi reports Q4 revenue up 10.5% YoY to $8.46B, international revenue up 47% YoY to $638M, and a net loss of $43.48M amid an overseas expansion push (Reuters) - 2026-03-13T16:40:01-04:00

MacBook Neo teardown: most repairable MacBook in ~14 years, with no parts pairing issues, a screwed-down battery, and relatively easy keyboard replacement (Elizabeth Chamberlain/iFixit News) - 2026-03-13T16:10:15-04:00

Travis Kalanick renames CloudKitchens' parent company as Atoms, focused on creating "gainfully employed robots" for the food, mining, and transport industries (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-13T15:45:01-04:00

Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 now offer a 1M context window at standard pricing; it is the default for Claude Code Max, Team, and Enterprise users on Opus 4.6 (Anthropic) - 2026-03-13T15:30:01-04:00

Meta says Instagram will no longer support end-to-end encrypted messages starting May 8, saying "very few people" were using E2EE in their DMs (Karandeep Singh Oberoi/Android Police) - 2026-03-13T14:05:01-04:00

Sources: Travis Kalanick prepares to launch a self-driving car company with backing from Uber and has been discussing acquiring Anthony Levandowski's Pronto.ai (Jessica E. Lessin/The Information) - 2026-03-13T13:50:01-04:00

Elon Musk says xAI "was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up" (Fred Lambert/Electrek) - 2026-03-13T13:05:02-04:00

AWS plans to deploy Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine chip for AI inference functions; AWS will still offer slower, cheaper computing using its Trainium processors (Wall Street Journal) - 2026-03-13T12:55:01-04:00

Amazon Prime Video plans to raise the price of its ad-free plan, Ultra, to $4.99 per month, and add support for up to five simultaneous streams, from April 10 (Emma Roth/The Verge) - 2026-03-13T12:35:01-04:00