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2025-05-22 19:36:15 GMT

Sources: the US FTC is investigating whether Media Matters illegally colluded with advertisers; Elon Musk sued the advocacy group in 2023 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/technology/ftc-investigates-media-matters.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p46#a250522p46

2025-05-22 19:20:52 GMT

Sources: Apple aims to release smart glasses at the end of 2026 as part of a push into AI devices, but has shelved plans for an Apple Watch with a camera (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-22/apple-plans-glasses-for-2026-as-part-of-ai-push-nixes-watch-with-camera
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p45#a250522p45

2025-05-22 18:50:52 GMT

Apollo Research, which Anthropic partnered with to test Opus 4, recommended against deploying an early version due to its tendency to "scheme" and deceive (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/a-safety-institute-advised-against-releasing-an-early-version-of-anthropics-claude-opus-4-ai-model/
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p44#a250522p44

2025-05-22 18:41:50 GMT

Docs: ODNI is developing a centralized portal to streamline the purchase of commercially available information, like location data, by US intelligence agencies (Sam Biddle/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/intel-agencies-buying-data-portal-privacy/
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p42#a250522p42

2025-05-22 18:27:00 GMT

Anthropic's System Card: Opus 4 often attempted to blackmail engineers by threatening to reveal sensitive personal info when it was threatened with replacement (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/anthropics-new-ai-model-turns-to-blackmail-when-engineers-try-to-take-it-offline/
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p41#a250522p41

2025-05-22 18:12:03 GMT

Anthropic says Opus 4 may use command-line tools to alert the press or regulators, or lock users out, if it detects immoral behavior like faking a drug trial (Sam Bowman/@sleepinyourhat)
https://x.com/sleepinyourhat/status/1925593376591946091
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p40#a250522p40

2025-05-22 17:56:36 GMT

Tinder CEO Faye Iosotaluno will step down in July after less than two years in the role; Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff will lead Tinder temporarily (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-22/tinder-ceo-to-depart-parent-ceo-to-lead-troubled-dating-brand
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p39#a250522p39

2025-05-22 17:41:35 GMT

The Claude 4 models support "extended thinking with tool use", a beta feature that lets them alternate between reasoning and using tools like web search (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/anthropic-calls-new-claude-4-worlds-best-ai-coding-model/
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p38#a250522p38

2025-05-22 17:35:48 GMT

Mozilla plans to shut down Pocket, the read-it-later service it acquired in 2017, on July 8, and Fakespot, which helps identify unreliable reviews, on July 1 (The Mozilla Blog)
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next/
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p37#a250522p37

2025-05-22 17:26:55 GMT

Anthropic adds "thinking summaries" to both Claude 4 models and is making its Claude Code agentic command-line tool generally available (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/672705/anthropic-claude-4-ai-ous-sonnet-availability
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p36#a250522p36

2025-05-22 17:16:03 GMT

Anthropic releases Opus 4 under stricter safety measures than any prior model after tests showed it could potentially aid novices in making biological weapons (Billy Perrigo/Time)
https://time.com/7287806/anthropic-claude-4-opus-safety-bio-risk/
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p35#a250522p35

2025-05-22 17:11:42 GMT

Sonnet 4 is available to free and paid users, while Opus 4 is limited to paid users; Opus 4 API costs $15/$75 per 1M input/output tokens, Sonnet 4 costs $3/$15 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/anthropics-new-claude-4-ai-models-can-reason-over-many-steps/
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p34#a250522p34

2025-05-22 17:06:20 GMT

Anthropic says Rakuten deployed Opus 4 to code autonomously for seven hours on a complicated open-source project, paving the way for more proficient AI agents (Rhiannon Williams/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/22/1117338/anthropics-new-hybrid-ai-model-can-work-on-tasks-autonomously-for-hours-at-a-time/
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p33#a250522p33

2025-05-22 17:01:37 GMT

Anthropic's Jared Kaplan says the company stopped investing in chatbots at the end of 2024 and instead focused on improving Claude's ability to do complex tasks (Hayden Field/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/22/claude-4-opus-sonnet-anthropic.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p32#a250522p32

2025-05-22 16:56:53 GMT

Interviews with Anthropic executives about Claude Opus 4, which they say was able to play Pokémon agentically for 24 hours, up from 45 minutes previously (Kylie Robison/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-new-model-launch-claude-4/
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p31#a250522p31

2025-05-22 16:43:50 GMT

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4, which excels at coding, and Claude Sonnet 4, both hybrid models with near-instant responses and extended thinking (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p30#a250522p30

2025-05-22 16:11:40 GMT

The US House passes the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a budget bill that would ban states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years; the bill now heads to the Senate (Tech Policy Press)
https://techpolicy.press/us-house-passes-10year-moratorium-on-state-ai-laws
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p29#a250522p29

2025-05-22 15:50:53 GMT

Sources: the US DOJ recently told Google it is examining whether Google structured an agreement with Character.AI to avoid formal government merger scrutiny (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-22/google-faces-antitrust-investigation-over-deal-for-ai-fueled-chatbot-technology
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p28#a250522p28

2025-05-22 15:41:39 GMT

io's device could be Ive's antidote to the smartphone obsession but it faces challenges, including overcoming people's reluctance to buy "yet another device" (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/the-anti-iphone/
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p27#a250522p27

2025-05-22 15:35:50 GMT

Slash, which provides banking services for specific sectors like crypto and marketing, raised a $41M Series B at a $370M valuation led by Goodwater Capital (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/article/slash-vertical-banking-nea-fintech-tech-funding-performance-marketing/
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p26#a250522p26

2025-05-22 15:11:34 GMT

Kuo: Ive and Altman's device could be larger than Humane's AI pin, may connect to smartphones and PCs to use their computing and display capabilities, and more (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/672533/jony-ive-sam-altman-ai-device-ipod-shuffle-ai-pin
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p25#a250522p25

2025-05-22 14:20:48 GMT

Kraken plans to offer tokenized versions of 50+ stocks and ETFs, including Apple and Tesla stocks, to customers in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/kraken-crypto-exchange-stock-tokens-e4fc1bb9
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p24#a250522p24

2025-05-22 14:16:01 GMT

OpenAI partners with G42 and others to build a 1-gigawatt AI data center in Abu Dhabi called Stargate UAE, its first large-scale project outside the US (Eliot Brown/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/open-ai-abu-dhabi-data-center-1c3e384d
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p23#a250522p23

2025-05-22 13:30:47 GMT

Inside the making of ASML's High NA: the latest-gen EUV machine costs $400M+, has four modules, is assembled in the Netherlands, and five units have shipped (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/22/exclusive-look-at-high-na-asmls-new-400-million-chipmaking-colossus.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p22#a250522p22

2025-05-22 13:01:32 GMT

A security researcher finds an exposed Elastic database with 184M records, including login credentials for Apple, Meta, Google, and others; its owner is unknown (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/mysterious-database-logins-governments-social-media/
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p21#a250522p21

2025-05-22 12:01:28 GMT

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun unveils the Xring O1, a Xiaomi-made 3nm chip that will power three devices, including the Tablet 7 Ultra, in a bid to compete with Apple (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-22/xiaomi-billionaire-touts-new-chinese-chip-in-tech-showcase
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p20#a250522p20

2025-05-22 11:26:12 GMT

Two new books on OpenAI and the AI industry show how Sam Altman became one of tech's great survivors, outlasting Elon Musk and returning after being sacked (Richard Waters/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1721a7e3-8fd6-47e7-83ce-e9e34e1db6eb
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p19#a250522p19

2025-05-22 11:11:22 GMT

Analysis: since 2023, US states enacted 120+ deepfake-related laws, with 26 passed in 2025 alone; California passed eight deepfake bills in September 2024 (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/business/media/deepfakes-laws-free-speech.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p18#a250522p18

2025-05-22 10:56:13 GMT

M&S CEO Stuart Machin says hackers accessed the UK retailer's systems using social engineering tactics via a third-party supplier, putting M&S "on its backside" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/19dcd993-877e-43c5-aab4-c727e574e3f2
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p17#a250522p17

2025-05-22 10:41:12 GMT

FTC v. Meta: Meta rested its case on May 21 after four days of arguments, including that it faces hefty competition and helped build Instagram and WhatsApp (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/technology/meta-antitrust-trial-arguments.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p16#a250522p16

2025-05-22 10:26:11 GMT

Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Google co-founder Sergey Brin on AI frontier models, scaling data centers, reasoning, DeepThink, AGI, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/demis-hassabis-and-sergey-brin-on
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p15#a250522p15

2025-05-22 10:11:12 GMT

Q&A with legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto on Super Nintendo World, redesigning Donkey Kong, the new Mario Kart, the Pikmin franchise, Switch 2, and more (IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/the-big-shigeru-miyamoto-interview-i-see-nintendo-as-like-a-talent-agency-and-we-have-within-our-roster-a-lot-of-talented-characters
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p14#a250522p14

2025-05-22 09:50:44 GMT

Google is using its extensive data on users to give its AI models an advantage over OpenAI and Anthropic, starting with its opt-in Gemini with personalization (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/671201/google-personal-context-ai-advantage-data
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p13#a250522p13

2025-05-22 09:35:42 GMT

Running app Strava raised new funding at a $2.2B valuation including debt, up from $1.5B after raising $110M in November 2020, and nears $500M in ARR (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/strava-app-2-2-billion-dollar-valuation-ef50e598?st=BxHMVc&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p12#a250522p12

2025-05-22 09:01:24 GMT

How SpaceX's Starlink moved quickly to solidify its lead in the satellite internet business, as its competitors face production and launch capacity bottlenecks (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b635423f-e721-454c-b75c-98d0ad8fedf1?accessToken=zwAGNbPv7zeQkdO2NUI_5yFFTNO3XJjQrY_t8Q.MEUCIARC4DrN5Ew67mqZcHAVxzywZw_TwFQFAKS0UXXWUJ3qAiEAxr9SCC4fjV2XprOPFvGyjBqon6RzPNPSMfDlQIrdXw4&sharetype=gift&token=f05b4e32-9893-4c23-9166-5c46d7c9fe7f
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p11#a250522p11

2025-05-22 08:35:46 GMT

Lenovo reports Q4 revenue up 23% to $16.98B, vs. $15.6B est., and net profit down 64% YoY to ~$90M, below $225.8M est., reflecting AI and PC market competition (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-22/lenovo-sales-beat-estimates-though-profit-sags-from-pc-rivalry
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p10#a250522p10

2025-05-22 08:11:07 GMT

China is catching up with the US in AI, robotics, and other sectors, driven by an R&D spending rise, hitting $500B in 2024, up 3x since Xi took office in 2012 (Brian Spegele/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-us-technology-economy-advancements-bb8d7439?st=Gr81WY&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p9#a250522p9

2025-05-22 06:35:54 GMT

How animation startup Toonstar uses its AI tools to make animated content up to 90% cheaper than traditional methods; its YouTube series has 30M weekly viewers (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/business/media/ai-cartoons-animation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JE8.2GDQ.woVsJEQ-lljF&smid=url-share
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p8#a250522p8

2025-05-22 06:20:45 GMT

An overview of major streamers' revenues, subscriber churn, cancellation rates, shares of US TV viewing time, and shares of US sports TV rights deals since 2023 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/streamers-are-finally-making-money-for-consumers-its-getting-messier-5aa54c8f?st=kN55wo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p7#a250522p7

2025-05-22 05:45:44 GMT

Takeaways from Computex 2025: little focus on consumer AI, Chinese AI and chip advances loom large, Intel and Nvidia courting Taiwanese partners, and more (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-22/computex-2025-five-takeaways-from-asia-s-biggest-ai-tech-event
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p6#a250522p6

2025-05-22 05:30:44 GMT

Sources: Telegram told investors ahead of a ~$1.5B bond offering that revenue reached $1.4B in 2024, up from $343M in 2023, and net profit reached $540M in 2024 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a8b42949-3d4f-4562-9f44-cc715f1494dc?accessToken=zwAGNbOBmwvAkdOotClJPU9FYtOfRMxxXxSU3A.MEQCIGvW5bl3DQF7x4NlNkh9bfIg_BEdQHSiZbLKlWl5q7-eAiAUFBBT0TS7bOqZYMWXY0xoVwvUSU5O1TTuErFN2_u6xQ&sharetype=gift&token=f163bea2-a491-4674-80c7-7a2aa7ef7b51
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p5#a250522p5

2025-05-22 05:25:56 GMT

Microsoft researchers and others detail Aurora, an AI weather model they say makes accurate 10-day forecasts faster and at smaller scales than many other models (Rebecca Dzombak/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/climate/ai-weather-models-aurora-microsoft.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JE8.eojW.6sPdL0Je7LkB&smid=url-share
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p4#a250522p4

2025-05-22 05:15:43 GMT

A profile of Bill Zanker, who sources say has been key in marketing the $TRUMP memecoin and organizing a dinner with Trump for the top 220 holders of the coin (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/trump-s-old-partner-sells-memecoins-cologne-and-access
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p3#a250522p3

2025-05-22 04:55:54 GMT

An NY jury convicts Braden John Karony, the former CEO of cryptocurrency company SafeMoon, of conspiracy to defraud the US, money laundering, and wire fraud (Turner Wright/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/safemoon-ceo-john-karony-guilty-new-york
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p2#a250522p2

2025-05-22 04:35:57 GMT

Marcos Galperin, founder and CEO of Latin American e-commerce giant MercadoLibre, will step down in late 2025 and be replaced by commerce head Ariel Szarfsztejn (Andre Romani/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/mercadolibre-replace-founder-galperin-ceo-taps-szarfsztejn-role-2025-05-21/
http://www.techmeme.com/250522/p1#a250522p1

2025-05-22 03:35:59 GMT

Leaked recording: Sam Altman told staff that OpenAI aims to ship 100M AI "companion" devices, with the goal of releasing a device by late next year (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/what-sam-altman-told-openai-about-the-secret-device-hes-making-with-jony-ive-f1384005?st=RUGPjK&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p60#a250521p60

2025-05-22 03:20:44 GMT

NYC-based Siro, which offers AI-powered coaching for sales reps, raised a $50M Series B led by SignalFire, bringing its total raised to $75M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/21/siro-lands-50m-from-signalfire-to-expand-its-ai-powered-coaching-solution-for-on-ground-sales-reps/
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p59#a250521p59

2025-05-22 03:05:55 GMT

Amazon introduces AI shopping experts, an audio feature that summarizes product details, customer reviews, and more, on select products for some US customers (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/amazons-ai-generated-shopping-experts-summarize-product-details-in-new-audio-feature/
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p58#a250521p58

2025-05-22 02:55:53 GMT

Microsoft says it's reducing "politically focused emails" within the company, as workers are unable to send emails mentioning "Palestine", "Gaza", or "genocide" (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/672312/microsoft-block-palestine-gaza-email
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p57#a250521p57

2025-05-22 02:25:53 GMT

Nansen: the 220 winners of Trump's May 22 dinner contest spent $394M total on the $TRUMP token, with the top seven spending $10M+ each and a third $1M+ each (Kevin Collier/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/trumps-crypto-dinner-cost-1-million-seat-average-rcna207802
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p56#a250521p56

2025-05-22 01:56:04 GMT

Digital physical therapy provider Hinge Health raised $437M in its US IPO, after the company and its backers sold 13.7M shares at $32 each, the top of its range (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/insight-partners-backed-hinge-health-ipo-raises-437-million
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p55#a250521p55

2025-05-22 01:01:30 GMT

Google DeepMind says Gemini Diffusion, an experimental text diffusion model demoed at Google I/O and available by waitlist, generates 1,000-2,000 tokens/second (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/05/21/gemini-diffusion-google-io-sleeper-hit-blazing-speed-ai-model-wars/
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p54#a250521p54

2025-05-22 00:25:50 GMT

OpenAI updates its Responses API for building agentic applications to include remote MCP server support, image generation and Code Interpreter tools, and more (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/programming-development/openai-updates-its-new-responses-api-rapidly-with-mcp-support-gpt-4o-native-image-gen-and-more-enterprise-features/
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p53#a250521p53

2025-05-21 23:50:44 GMT

Bitcoin reached a new all-time high, surpassing $110,000 and breaking its January record, after slumping to $74,000 in April (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/crypto-market-today.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p52#a250521p52

2025-05-21 23:35:58 GMT

Signal says it will block by default screenshots of its Windows 11 desktop app due to the privacy risks of Microsoft's Recall; users can enable them in settings (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/signal-resorts-to-weird-trick-to-block-windows-recall-in-desktop-app/
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p51#a250521p51

2025-05-21 23:01:13 GMT

A US district judge rules Google and Character.AI must face a Florida woman's lawsuit claiming Character.AI's chatbots caused her 14-year-old son's suicide (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/google-ai-firm-must-face-lawsuit-filed-by-mother-over-suicide-son-us-court-says-2025-05-21/
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p50#a250521p50

2025-05-21 22:15:45 GMT

Amazon plans to sell Nike products directly for the first time since 2019, when Nike stopped selling through Amazon due to lingering counterfeit issues (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nike-sell-amazon-first-time-since-2019
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p49#a250521p49

2025-05-21 21:25:46 GMT

Zoom reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.17B, in line with expectations, Enterprise revenue up 6% YoY to $704.7M, and raises its FY 2026 forecast above estimates (Juby Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/zoom-lifts-annual-forecasts-robust-demand-amid-ai-push-2025-05-21/
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p48#a250521p48

2025-05-21 21:23:47 GMT

Snowflake reports Q1 product revenue up 26% YoY to $996.8M, vs. $966M est., and forecasts Q2 product revenue above estimates; SNOW jumps 6%+ after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/snowflake-gives-strong-outlook-with-focus-on-new-ai-tools
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p47#a250521p47

2025-05-21 21:01:23 GMT

AT&T agrees to acquire Lumen's consumer fiber business for $5.75B, in an all-cash deal expected to close in H1 2026; LUMN jumps 13%+ after hours (Milana Vinn/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/att-agrees-buy-lumens-consumer-fiber-business-575-billion-cash-2025-05-21/
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p46#a250521p46

2025-05-21 20:40:47 GMT

CoreWeave announces a $2B debt offering, representing a $500M increase from its initial announcement, and says it was five times oversubscribed; CRWV jumps 19% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/coreweave-shares-offering.html
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2025-05-21 20:15:44 GMT

Shopify launches new AI tools, including one for setting up storefronts and another for creating elements like banners, and upgrades its AI assistant Sidekick (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/21/shopify-launches-an-ai-powered-store-builder-as-part-of-its-latest-update/
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2025-05-21 19:40:42 GMT

Epic v. Apple: Spotify says its recent update supporting web payments has resulted in "a significant increase in iOS users upgrading to a Premium subscription" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/21/spotify-says-support-for-external-payments-on-ios-has-already-boosted-subscriptions/
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2025-05-21 19:05:58 GMT

Sen. Wyden says AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile failed to create systems for notifying about surveillance on Senate-issued devices, despite a requirement to do so (Alfred Ng/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/21/congress/exclusive-phone-companies-failed-to-warn-senators-about-surveillance-wyden-says-00361400
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2025-05-21 18:25:42 GMT

World Network raised $135M in a token sale to a16z and Bain Capital Crypto "to meet increasing demand for Orb-verified World IDs"; WLD jumped 14% on the news (Margaux Nijkerk/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2025/05/21/sam-altmans-world-raises-135m-in-token-sale-to-a16z-and-bain-capital-crypto
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2025-05-21 18:03:05 GMT

Sources: OpenAI owned a 23% stake in io from a 2024 deal so is now paying ~$5B to fully acquire it; separately, OpenAI's Start-up Fund invested in io last year (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/technology/openai-jony-ive-deal.html
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2025-05-21 18:01:29 GMT

In a video and letter signed "Sam & Jony", Altman and Ive announce io, founded last year by Ive, Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey, and Tang Tan to create new products (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/
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2025-05-21 17:48:35 GMT

Sources: Sam Altman and LoveFrom have been working for two years on a new device to move consumers beyond screens, including headphones and devices with cameras (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/former-apple-design-guru-jony-ive-to-take-expansive-role-at-openai-5787f7da?st=UvZgB1&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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2025-05-21 17:10:42 GMT

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)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/openai-to-buy-apple-veteran-jony-ive-s-ai-device-startup-in-6-5-billion-deal
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2025-05-21 17:02:43 GMT

Microsoft seizes ~2.3K domains globally to disrupt Lumma's malware-as-a-service operation, after finding 394K+ PCs infected by Lumma (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lumma-infostealer-malware-operation-disrupted-2-300-domains-seized/
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2025-05-21 16:55:55 GMT

In a joint statement, the US, France, Germany, and eight other countries say Russia has stepped up cyber attacks on firms aiding Ukraine, often via Fancy Bear (Eric Geller/Cybersecurity Dive)
https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/russia-hacking-ukraine-aid-logistics-tech-companies-advisory/748723/
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2025-05-21 16:51:57 GMT

Google tests bringing ads to AI Mode, both below responses as well as "integrated into" them, and expands ads in AI Overviews to desktop in the US (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/21/google-is-bringing-ads-to-ai-mode/
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p34#a250521p34

2025-05-21 16:35:37 GMT

AI videos from Google's Veo 3, which features synchronized audio as well as crisper, more detailed video, are both impressive and terrifying (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/05/21/videos-from-google-veo-3-are-impressive-and-terrifying/
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p33#a250521p33

2025-05-21 16:25:52 GMT

In April ChatGPT started to, by default, reference all past chats for more personalized responses, but this means users lose control of their prompts' context (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/chatgpt-new-memory/
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2025-05-21 15:55:53 GMT

AI model ranking project LMArena spins off from UC Berkeley and raises a $100M seed led by a16z and UC Investments, sources say at a $600M valuation (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/lmarena-goes-from-academic-project-to-600-million-startup
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2025-05-21 15:50:43 GMT

Sources and docs: a "major lapse" at Thoma Bravo's Opexus, which helps US agencies manage investigations and FOIA, let two convicted hackers delete databases (Jason Leopold/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/security-failures-behind-us-contractor-s-data-breach?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0NzgzMjU4MCwiZXhwIjoxNzQ4NDM3MzgwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTV0xWU0pEV1gyUFMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIyQjE3NzFFOTlEODc0QzRDOTY1Njg1RTZBQkJGM0QwRCJ9.80gcRhIo8feGYPj3TsvjoKwo-250-5xR2xN3wkwikxI
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2025-05-21 15:15:43 GMT

Mistral partners with All Hands AI to release Devstral, a model to help with coding, in "research preview" under Apache 2.0, and says it outperforms Gemma 3 27B (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/21/mistrals-new-devstral-model-was-designed-for-coding/
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p29#a250521p29

2025-05-21 14:30:45 GMT

Brazilian researchers scraped 2B+ Discord messages from 3,167 public servers using Discord's public API, covering 2015 to 2024, and publish the messages online (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/researchers-scrape-2-billion-discord-messages-and-publish-them-online/
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p28#a250521p28

2025-05-21 13:30:39 GMT

Filed, which uses AI to automate tax professionals' low-value tasks, raised $17.2M across seed and preseed led by Northzone, Day One Ventures, and others (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/05/21/ai-tax-startup-filed-bags-17-2m-turbocharge-tax-return-processing/
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2025-05-21 12:30:49 GMT

Singapore-based business banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $150M at a $6.2B valuation, up from $5.6B in October 2022, and debuts a $150M share sale (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/bank-startup-airwallex-valued-at-6-2-billion-with-new-funding
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2025-05-21 12:10:38 GMT

After a protest disrupted a Build talk, Microsoft's head of security for AI Neta Haiby accidentally revealed confidential messages about Walmart's AI usage (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/671373/microsoft-ai-security-chief-walmart-conversation-build-protest-disruption
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2025-05-21 11:55:51 GMT

China threatens legal action against anyone enforcing US restrictions on Huawei chips, escalating the US-China tech dispute as the two countries hold meetings (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/us-china-tensions-over-chips-risk-hurting-trade-truce-dialogue
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2025-05-21 11:45:37 GMT

Google expands its sovereign cloud options in the EU, including a new "data shield" that provides additional cyber security protections to European clients (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c9ee9f3b-8d9e-446d-a0f9-66d546b55fa3
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2025-05-21 11:30:38 GMT

Distributed Denial of Secrets: the TeleMessage hacker stole messages from 60+ US government users covering about one day ending May 4, including travel plans (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hacker-who-breached-communications-app-used-by-trump-aide-stole-data-across-us-2025-05-21/
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p22#a250521p22

2025-05-21 11:20:38 GMT

Maine AG filing: Coinbase says its recent data breach impacted 69,461 individuals; stolen data included government IDs, account info, and personal identifiers (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/coinbase-says-recent-data-breach-impacts-69-461-customers/
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p21#a250521p21

2025-05-21 11:10:48 GMT

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)
https://www.theverge.com/news/670954/volvo-google-gemini-ai-cars-android-automotive
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2025-05-21 11:01:08 GMT

AI startup Crusoe secures $11.6B in debt and equity to expand a Texas data center it is building for OpenAI, set to open in 2026 and host up to 400K Nvidia GPUs (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-data-center-funding-microsoft-75e879b6?st=N2KcjD&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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2025-05-21 10:50:39 GMT

Baidu reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to ~$4.5B, above ~$4.3B est., and a ~$1B net profit, as the Chinese search giant fends off intensifying competition in AI (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/baidu-reports-surprise-revenue-jump-during-china-s-ai-battle
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2025-05-21 10:35:40 GMT

Microsoft files an amicus brief to support Epic in its App Store fight and blames Apple for its delayed Xbox mobile gaming store, announced in May 2024 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/671409/microsoft-xbox-mobile-store-delay-apple-epic-court-case
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2025-05-21 10:25:38 GMT

Amazon issues refunds for purchases as far back as 2018; CFO Brian Olsavsky said on May 1 that Amazon took a ~$1B charge over "some historical customer returns" (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-20/amazon-gives-refunds-apologizes-for-years-old-returns-issues
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2025-05-21 10:15:41 GMT

A look at the Coller Dolittle challenge, modeled on the Turing test with a $10M equity investment prize to decipher an animal's language and elicit a reply (Anjana Ahuja/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a9f664a8-a227-47e4-844c-a5ae5a67c574
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2025-05-21 10:05:38 GMT

Analysis: AI energy consumption is exploding, with data centers doubling electricity use between 2017 and 2023, accounting for 4.4% of all US energy consumption (MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/
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2025-05-21 09:55:37 GMT

Google Meet's AI translator hands-on: emulates voice and tone, translating with a few seconds of lag, similar to watching an overdubbed foreign-language speaker (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/google-meet-ai-translation-6a30c43a?st=erXQkW&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p13#a250521p13

2025-05-21 09:45:40 GMT

Abu Dhabi's TII releases Falcon Arabic, an AI model that it claims can match the performance of models up to 10 times its size, and smaller model Falcon H1 (Omar El Chmouri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/uae-releases-falcon-arabic-ai-model-to-outcompete-mideast-rivals
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2025-05-21 09:35:40 GMT

UK retailer M&S says it expects a £300M profit hit from an April cyberattack and disruption to continue until July 2025; M&S' market cap has falled by ~£750M (Laura Onita/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fa80b540-c836-4c45-a77f-38aa1693c656
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2025-05-21 08:55:42 GMT

Inside China's "stolen iPhone building": electronics traders in Shenzhen describe how even remotely locked stolen iPhones can be stripped and sold at a profit (William Langley/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/752f84ac-329d-4e10-ae46-7a1c27319498?accessToken=zwAGNZ51SjOwkc91L4SsMp1OENOuRnocJzGUmA.MEYCIQC9EgImlV0WP8_UeYQYrTkYb0liPq5b78n_WtMzW6eNegIhAMFQNDGgX4lNezIkU6ubpHiGb_KJznA15SHI60L9ldap&sharetype=gift&token=1cd32693-d722-4e41-b9f9-7a113fbd9fe4
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p10#a250521p10

2025-05-21 08:45:41 GMT

Google says weather apps have "graduated from beta" on Android Auto and Cars with Google built-in, and Android Auto will "soon" get browser and video apps (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/05/20/android-auto-weather-video-browser-apps/
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2025-05-21 08:35:41 GMT

Indonesian ex-scammers reveal how Southeast Asian scam farms lured them via Facebook and Telegram ads; Indonesia says 6,700+ people were tricked since 2020 (Linda Yulisman/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/fake-job-ads-facebook-telegram-indonesia-tech-workers/
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2025-05-21 08:25:37 GMT

Book excerpt: a profile of AI-obsessed autodidact Eliezer Yudkowsky, who introduced the DeepMind founders to Peter Thiel and inspired DeepMind's Shane Legg (Keach Hagey/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-the-optimist-open-ai-sam-altman/
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2025-05-21 06:30:40 GMT

Google's I/O keynote was both scary and chill, a fever dream of sizzle reels selling how AI changes everything, even search, and can give users superpowers (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/google-io-2025-ai-everything-everywhere/
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p6#a250521p6