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Ted Sarandos says Netflix talent uses "AI tools to do set references, pre-vis, VFX sequence prep, shot planning" and AI can make movies "10% better" (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
2025-04-18 12:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Exaforce, which lets cybersecurity teams work with AI agents to cut false positives and busywork, raised a $75M Series A led by Khosla, Mayfield, and Thomvest (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News)
2025-04-18 10:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Insiders, including tech execs, say President Trump's trade war may hinder the US computing industry by raising costs for building chip fabs and AI data centers (Financial Times)
2025-04-18 09:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
China's Q1 2025 smartphone shipments grew 3.3% YoY to 71.6M units; Xiaomi led with 18.6% market share, Apple was the only foreign brand in top 5 with 13.7% (IDC)
2025-04-18 06:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at ways AI is being used to cut carbon emissions: calculating fuel-efficient driving patterns, monitoring grid infrastructure, and more (Coco Liu/Bloomberg)
2025-04-18 07:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
ChatGPT users are figuring out the location of photos using o3's image-analyzing capabilities paired with its web search functionality, raising privacy concerns (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-04-18 04:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Memo: CEO Lip-Bu Tan flattens Intel's leadership team, with important semiconductor groups reporting directly to him, and names Sachin Katti as CTO and AI chief (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
2025-04-18 02:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
US consumers are flocking to Chinese shopping apps DHgate and Taobao, which let them buy direct from manufacturers, as Shein and Temu prices rise amid tariffs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2025-04-18 02:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Meta asked Microsoft, Amazon, and others over the past year to fund Llama training costs in exchange for incentives, as part of a "Llama Consortium" (The Information)
2025-04-18 01:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Apple Intelligence features, such as Writing Tools, are no longer available in Meta's iOS apps including Facebook, WhatsApp, and Threads (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)
2025-04-18 00:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: the CFPB terminated more than 1,400 workers, leaving about 200 employees and effectively gutting the agency that Elon Musk previously said to "delete" (Makena Kelly/Wired)
2025-04-17 23:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI launches Flex processing in beta, an API option halving o3 and o4-mini prices in exchange for slower responses and "occasional resource unavailability" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-04-17 23:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google rolls out Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview, with support for Canvas for working on text or code; developers can disable thinking or set a token limit for it (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
2025-04-17 21:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Netflix says co-founder Reed Hastings has left his post as executive chairman to become chairman and non-executive director of the company (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
2025-04-17 21:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 12.5% YoY to $10.54B, vs. $10.51B est., net income of $2.89B, and stops reporting number of subscribers on a quarterly basis (Todd Spangler/Variety)
2025-04-17 20:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Former YC President Geoff Ralston launches Safe AI Fund, or SAIF, providing initial funding of $100K with a $10M cap to startups that "enhance AI safety" (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
2025-04-17 20:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Framework Laptop 13 review: it's modular and customizable, has a great keyboard and improved thermals, but it's pricey and the screen's brightness can be better (Kyle Barr/Gizmodo)
2025-04-17 20:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google is offering its Google One AI Premium plan for free to US college students until spring 2026; students have until June 30, 2025, to sign up (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
2025-04-17 20:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Global Payments shares plunge 15%+ and FIS shares jump 9%+ after Global Payments said it's buying Worldpay from FIS and GTCR and selling Issuer Solutions to FIS (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
2025-04-17 20:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Amazon plans to release its first TV streaming device with its Vega OS, used in some Echo devices, in 2025 and is courting publishers to add their apps (Janko Roettgers/Lowpass)
2025-04-17 20:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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