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An interview with Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn on criticism after Duolingo went "AI-first", parasocial interactions with "personality"-infused chatbots, and more (Emma Jacobs/Financial Times)
2025-06-09 08:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
CB Insights: VCs and private equity firms poured $3.1B to fund 144 deals in the LA area in Q1 2025, up from $2.7B in Q1 2024 and $1.4B in Q1 2023 (Los Angeles Times)
2025-06-08 23:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Cloudflare open sourced an OAuth library mostly written by Claude, showing how AI handles mechanical implementation while humans guide with context and judgment (Max Mitchell)
2025-06-09 05:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Apple researchers detail the limitations of top LLMs and large reasoning models, like o3, especially on problems of medium to high complexity (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)
2025-06-09 01:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft showcases a new fullscreen Xbox experience optimized for handhelds, coming first to the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X and to other handhelds in 2026 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
2025-06-08 19:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Interviews with executives at Yahoo News, the WSJ, and Bloomberg about adding AI-powered summaries, how they can help busy readers, reliability issues, and more (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
2025-06-08 21:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft and Asus unveil the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X, two gaming handhelds that will run Windows games from multiple storefronts, including Steam (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
2025-06-08 18:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
At a clandestine math conclave in Berkeley in May, a chatbot powered by o4-mini answered some of the hardest solvable problems much faster than a mathematician (Lyndie Chiou/Scientific American)
2025-06-08 17:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Thoughts on the major design overhaul of Apple's OSes with "Liquid Glass" UI elements, which will launch at WWDC and set the stage for fresh hardware products (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
2025-06-08 15:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Treefera, which uses satellite imagery, drone imagery, and AI to provide real-time insights into supply chains, raised a $30M Series B led by Notion Capital (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
2025-06-08 15:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the intensifying race for super apps in the Gulf, as Careem, Talabat, Amazon, Botim, and Noon consolidate various services into single platforms (Divsha Bhat/Rest of World)
2025-06-08 13:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Meta is in talks for a potential multibillion-dollar investment in Scale AI, Meta's largest external AI investment; Scale AI was last valued at ~$14B (Bloomberg)
2025-06-08 08:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Skyral, a London-based modeling and simulation startup developing AI-based digital twin tech for defense, healthcare, and other sectors, raised a $20M Series A (Lucy Adams/Tech.eu)
2025-06-08 11:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Voxel, whose AI-powered logistics safety software integrates into existing security cameras to detect and predict workplace hazards, raised a $44M Series B (Colin Campbell/Axios)
2025-06-08 06:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An in-depth look at the US SEC's EDGAR system breach that was disclosed in 2017, as one of the key hackers, Olga Kuprina, says EDGAR remains a soft target (Liam Vaughan/Bloomberg)
2025-06-08 06:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Mistral AI has closed or is closing a handful of commercial contracts, each worth $100M+ over three to five years, as it expands its own infrastructure (Financial Times)
2025-06-08 06:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Obvio, which uses AI-powered stop sign cameras to detect infractions, raised a $22M Series A led by Bain to expand beyond its first five cities in Maryland (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
2025-06-08 05:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Former Apple employees say integrating LLMs with Siri has led to bugs, an issue not faced by companies that have built GenAI-based voice assistants from scratch (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
2025-06-08 05:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Singapore-based investment app Syfe raised a $53M Series C extension, taking the round to $80M and total funding to $132M, and plans to expand into Hong Kong (Sam Phillips/South China Morning Post)
2025-06-08 05:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filipino workers in Taiwan's chip industry report struggling with overwork and discrimination, citing overnight shifts of up to 16 hours and abusive treatment (Rest of World)
2025-06-08 03:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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