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Gov. Tim Walz activates the Minnesota National Guard to help St. Paul address a cyberattack detected Friday that led the city to shut down many of its systems (Ernesto Londoño/New York Times)
2025-07-29 23:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of Luke Farritor, a 23-year-old Thiel Fellow who gained recognition for using AI to help decipher the Herculaneum papyri and later joined DOGE (Bloomberg)
2025-07-29 23:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Apple loses a fourth AI researcher in a month to Meta's superintelligence team; the AFM team is in flux and Apple has marginally increased their pay (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
2025-07-29 18:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Wag, the pet care tech company once valued at ~$650M following a $300M investment from SoftBank Vision Fund in 2018, has filed for bankruptcy (Stephen Council/SFGATE)
2025-07-29 19:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Yelp is making AI videos about restaurants, using AI generated scripts and voice-overs based on reviews, incorporating pictures and videos posted by users (Jay Peters/The Verge)
2025-07-29 20:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
EA reports Q1 net bookings up 3% YoY to $1.3B, above $1.29B est., and forecasts Q2 net bookings of $1.8B to $1.9B, below estimates of $2.01B (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
2025-07-29 21:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google rolls out new AI Mode features: Search Live with video input, Canvas for planning, image and PDF uploading, and AI Mode in Google Lens in desktop Chrome (Abner Li/9to5Google)
2025-07-29 21:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: over a dozen people at Thinking Machines Lab were approached by Meta; one offer was $1B+ over a multi-year span; not a single person has taken the offer (Kylie Robison/Wired)
2025-07-29 18:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Groq is set to raise ~$600M in a funding round led by Disruptive, which committed more than $300M to the deal that would give Groq a ~$6B valuation (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)
2025-07-29 20:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
YouTube is rolling out age estimation tech in the US to identify teen users and serve more age-appropriate content, regardless of the birthday given at signup (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Runway and Luma AI say they are talking to robotics and self-driving car companies about their video models and expect these revenue sources to eclipse studios (Rocket Drew/The Information)
2025-07-29 18:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An interview with Anthropic's Dario Amodei and how his father's passing from an illness, four years before a breakthrough made it 95% curable, shaped his path (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
2025-07-29 18:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Docs: Groq revised its 2025 revenue projections to $500M+ within the past month, citing delays in data center capacity, after projecting $2B+ earlier this year (The Information)
2025-07-29 22:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US SEC approves in-kind creations and redemptions for crypto ETFs, allowing institutional investors to exchange ETF shares for the underlying BTC or ETH (André Beganski/Decrypt)
2025-07-29 22:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Daniel Ek says Spotify's ad business has "been moving too slowly"; Spotify ad chief Lee Brown left on July 28 to join DoorDash as its chief revenue officer (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
2025-07-29 22:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Anthropic is nearing a deal to raise $5B in a funding round led by Iconiq, valuing it at $170B; Anthropic was valued at $61.5B in March (Financial Times)
2025-07-29 17:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI launches study mode in ChatGPT, designed to encourage students to engage with learning material, available to logged-in Free, Plus, Pro, and Team users (Reece Rogers/Wired)
2025-07-29 17:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity company CyberArk Software; a typical premium could put the deal well above $20B (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
2025-07-29 16:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sparrow, which uses AI to consolidate fragmented leave management processes, raised a $35M Series B led by Silver Lake Waterman, for $64M in total funding (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
2025-07-29 17:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
eToro says it's launching tokenized US equities, ETF, and futures trading via ERC-20 tokens, citing regulatory clarity from the US' Genius Act and the EU's MiCA (RT Watson/The Block)
2025-07-29 16:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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