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Inside the creation of AI actress Tilly Norwood, which included 2,000 iterations; Particle6, its creator, says it has ~60 NDAs for projects involving Tilly (Ellen Gamerman/Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-08 09:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An interview with 10 Kenyan AI annotators shows Chinese companies hire data labelers via opaque middleman networks and WhatsApp groups to avoid accountability (Rest of World)
2025-12-08 09:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Coinbase reopens app registrations in India after an over-two-year pause, letting users make crypto-to-crypto trades, and plans to open up crypto buying in 2026 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
2025-12-08 09:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: IBM is in advanced talks to buy data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B, above its market value of ~$8B as of December 5 close (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-08 05:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How Pathway, a startup developing an alternative to the transformer, aims to use its Dragon Hatchling architecture to create a new class of adaptive AI systems (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-08 07:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How "cash to crypto" swaps allow users everywhere to convert national currencies to stablecoins and then debit cards, avoiding financial oversight and sanctions (Aaron Krolik/New York Times)
2025-12-08 06:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at an "etiquette camp" for young founders in San Francisco, which teaches them how to dress, act, and talk, amid shifting expectations for tech founders (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)
2025-12-08 04:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Impressions from a test ride in London in a car using Wayve's self-driving tech; Wayve has raised $1.3B since launch and is testing cars with Level 2+ autonomy (John Thornhill/Financial Times)
2025-12-08 02:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
President Trump says Netflix's planned acquisition of WBD will have "to go through a process" and the deal creates "a big market share. It could be a problem" (Bloomberg)
2025-12-08 00:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Ted Sarandos met with President Trump in November, and both agreed WBD should go to the highest bidder; Sarandos argued that Netflix wasn't a monopoly (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
2025-12-07 18:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Aaru, which uses AI to simulate user behavior, has raised a Series A led by Redpoint Ventures at multiple valuation tiers, including a $1B tier (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
2025-12-07 21:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An interview with Headspace CEO Tom Pickett on its AI chatbot Ebb, which he insists isn't for serious mental health issues, Ebb's upgrade to voice, and more (Emma Jacobs/Financial Times)
2025-12-07 23:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nikita Bier accuses the European Commission of trying to deceptively amplify the reach of its post about the €120M fine on X; X terminates the EC's ad account (Bjarke Smith-Meyer/Politico)
2025-12-07 15:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Lemurian Labs, which aims to develop hardware-agnostic portability software for AI workloads, raised a $28M Series A co-led by Pebblebed Ventures and Hexagon (Sally Ward-Foxton/EE Times)
2025-12-07 11:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Essential AI, whose CEO co-wrote Google's Attention Is All You Need paper, unveils Rnj-1, an 8B-parameter open model with SWE-bench performance close to GPT-4o (Ashish Vaswani/Essential AI)
2025-12-07 16:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Excelsior Sciences, which aims to use AI and robots for small-molecule drug discovery and development, raised a $70M Series A from Khosla Ventures and others (Aayushi Pratap/Chemical & ...)
2025-12-07 07:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
India's digital transformation has exposed citizens to scams like "digital arrests", where victims are coerced into transferring funds under false accusations (Bloomberg)
2025-12-07 07:21 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Simular, which is building AI agents for Mac and Windows PCs, raised a $21.5M Series A led by Felicis; Simular has released its 1.0 version for macOS (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
2025-12-07 07:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
South Korea says it has signed an MOU with Arm to strengthen its chip and AI sectors, including a program to train ~1,400 high-level chip design specialists (Reuters)
2025-12-07 07:21 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
PermitFlow, which develops AI-powered workflow software for construction permitting, raised a $54M Series B led by Accel, a source says at a ~$500M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
2025-12-07 07:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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