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Techmeme @Techmeme Apr 20

FYI: We're now omitting links in @Techmeme tweets. Why?

1. Links limit reach (see embedded study)
2. The cost for posting links using X's API increased today by 1900%.

Links may return later, but we're still exploring how we might accomplish that.

Techmeme Verified account @Techmeme Apr 9

An analysis of the 200 most-recent tweets on X by 18 big publishers indicates links seem to hurt engagement, after debate arose over X's value for sharing news (@laurahazardowen / Nieman Lab)

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Techmeme @Techmeme 2h

How a small, wealthy AI-safety network that organized in Signal chats grew into a coalition that beat the $100M super PAC Leading the Future in the midterms (Politico)

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Anthropic-backed AI safety super PAC Public First spent $63M+ in the 2026 midterms, and 10 of the 17 congressional candidates it backed won their elections (@birnbaum_e / Bloomberg)

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US Treasury moves to cut crypto exchange MEXC off from the US financial system, alleging $16B+ in illicit flows, including Russian and Iranian sanctions evasion (@franciscomemor / CoinDesk)

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Report: SEA makes up ~50% of APAC data center capacity being built, led by Malaysia and Thailand, which paused 49 and delayed approvals of 117 projects in Sept. (Arundhati Hazra / The Guardian)

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