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💌 newsletter y weekend editor at @techmeme.com + chocale.mx based in la Ciudad de México. ¡se habla español! jose and/or tips at techmeme.com
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· Jan 18
meet Antonio, my cat. i’m sure you’re aware of @techmeme.com’s newsletter, which i edit, but somehow he noticed *you* haven’t subscribed yet. he says you can sign up for it right here: techmeme.com/newsletter
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So I wrote a thing on the occasion of @techmeme.com's 20th birthday, and I couldn't help but drag Bluesky into it (don't dogpile me please). news.techmeme.com/250912/20-ye...
September 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
So I wrote a thing on the occasion of @techmeme.com's 20th birthday, and I couldn't help but drag Bluesky into it (don't dogpile me please). news.techmeme.com/250912/20-ye...
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A profile of Techmeme, which turns 20 this week yet oddly works and looks as it did in 2005, as its executive-heavy readership expands amid the AI boom (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)
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September 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
A profile of Techmeme, which turns 20 this week yet oddly works and looks as it did in 2005, as its executive-heavy readership expands amid the AI boom (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)
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I pivoted to tech journalism in 2005, as a freshman from Chile with @techmeme.com as my compass. Five years ago, I joined the team with the honor (and daily challenge!) of editing its newsletter. Twenty years ago, Gabe set the standard for curation; today, my fellow editors make it thrive. 🫡
On Techmeme's 20th birthday, its founder explains what's behind the site's consistency, debunks some supposed media trends, and outlines future directions (Gabe Rivera/Techmeme News)
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September 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I pivoted to tech journalism in 2005, as a freshman from Chile with @techmeme.com as my compass. Five years ago, I joined the team with the honor (and daily challenge!) of editing its newsletter. Twenty years ago, Gabe set the standard for curation; today, my fellow editors make it thrive. 🫡
[email protected] pide que paguemos USD$1 por leer "periodismo de calidad". el "periodismo de calidad":
September 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
[email protected] pide que paguemos USD$1 por leer "periodismo de calidad". el "periodismo de calidad":
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SCOOP: Leaked memo from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei outlines the startup's plans to seek investment from the United Arab Emirates + Qatar.
“Unfortunately, I think ‘no bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on.” www.wired.com/story/anthro...
“Unfortunately, I think ‘no bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on.” www.wired.com/story/anthro...
Leaked Memo: Anthropic CEO Says the Company Will Pursue Gulf State Investments After All
“Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on,” wrote Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in a note to staff obtained by WIRE...
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July 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
SCOOP: Leaked memo from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei outlines the startup's plans to seek investment from the United Arab Emirates + Qatar.
“Unfortunately, I think ‘no bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on.” www.wired.com/story/anthro...
“Unfortunately, I think ‘no bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on.” www.wired.com/story/anthro...
ay mijito, es que tu también…
"This has become my new signature cocktail this summer." https://trib.al/jz47N3G
July 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
ay mijito, es que tu también…
en google están apagando tele:
Sources: Google reduces the budget for Google TV and Android TV by 10% and cuts Android TV and Google TV's ~300 employees by 25%, as it focuses on YouTube (Sahil Patel/The Information)
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June 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
en google están apagando tele:
buen día
The Browser Company launches Dia, a macOS browser in beta for Arc users based around an AI chat sidebar that can access tabs, history, and logged-in sites (David Pierce/The Verge)
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June 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
buen día
An Xbox handheld? in this Switch 2 economy?
June 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
An Xbox handheld? in this Switch 2 economy?
what a day to curate and build a newsletter…
June 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
what a day to curate and build a newsletter…
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every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
OpenAI is buying io, Jony Ive's secretive AI startup, for ~$6.5B in stock; Ive and LoveFrom will remain independent but take over design for all of OpenAI (Bloomberg)
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May 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
por si les sigue llamando el EX30, como a uno. pero he leído últimamente que tiene muchos bugs y los updates OTA son _muy_ escasos para un auto de MXN$700K/CLP$33 millones…
Volvo expands its Google partnership to integrate Gemini across its model lineup, the first automaker to do so, hoping to ease a driver's "cognitive load" (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
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May 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
por si les sigue llamando el EX30, como a uno. pero he leído últimamente que tiene muchos bugs y los updates OTA son _muy_ escasos para un auto de MXN$700K/CLP$33 millones…
chao, gracias, ah
VEO 3
Prompt: Generate a TV news anchor with a British accent, the anchor says "in shocking news, Jake Kaye Rowe ling's yacht sank with her on board after being attacked by orcas off the coast of turkey" include the announcement in the dialogue.
This took one prompt and 2 minutes to generate.
Prompt: Generate a TV news anchor with a British accent, the anchor says "in shocking news, Jake Kaye Rowe ling's yacht sank with her on board after being attacked by orcas off the coast of turkey" include the announcement in the dialogue.
This took one prompt and 2 minutes to generate.
May 21, 2025 at 6:10 AM
chao, gracias, ah
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trying to imagine what reasonable person would see this lawsuit and blame porn sites, not the mom who threw a laptop in the closet, kept it charged, didn't put a password on it, but also still cares this much if her teenager looks at porn www.404media.co/kansas-lawsu...
Kansas Mom Sues Porn Sites Because Her Son Visited Chaturbate 30 Times
The 14 year old's mother left an old laptop in a closet and now alleges it's adult sites' problem that he watched porn.
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May 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
trying to imagine what reasonable person would see this lawsuit and blame porn sites, not the mom who threw a laptop in the closet, kept it charged, didn't put a password on it, but also still cares this much if her teenager looks at porn www.404media.co/kansas-lawsu...
qué pasa Paramount, ¿tenés miedo?
CBS News pulled a 60 Minutes segment on IRS job losses hours before airing, learning the IRS reversed the firings, and plans to broadcast it later with new info (Matthew Keys/The Desk)
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May 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
qué pasa Paramount, ¿tenés miedo?
hello moto
Verizon halts its launch of the Moto Razr 2025 foldable with some in-progress shipments reversed, amid rumors of fire hazards and quarantines of in-store stock (Chris Thomas/Android Police)
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May 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
hello moto
🤷
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals says it will acquire all of 23andMe's assets, including its Personal Genome Service, for $256M in a bankruptcy auction, closing in Q3 (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)
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May 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
🤷
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A look at the motivations behind David Zaslav's strategy to rebrand as Max, its failure to broaden the streamer's appeal, and the push to bring "HBO" back (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
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May 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
A look at the motivations behind David Zaslav's strategy to rebrand as Max, its failure to broaden the streamer's appeal, and the push to bring "HBO" back (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
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Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post.
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AWS enters into 'strategic partnership' with Saudi Arabia-backed Humain | TechCrunch
Amazon says it'll work with Humain, the AI company recently launched by Saudi Arabia’s ruler, to invest '$5 billion-plus' in a strategic partnership.
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May 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post.
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nice move from Huawe… i mean, Honor.
Honor launches a free AI image-to-video generator powered by Google's Veo 2 in the Honor 400 and 400 Pro, shipping May 22; Veo 2 is limited to paid Gemini plans (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
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May 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
nice move from Huawe… i mean, Honor.