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Chinese smartphone makers are promoting apps to help users switch from iOS in a race for market share, as Apple struggles to roll out AI features in China (Financial Times)
2025-12-07 06:21 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
In recent months, several companies like Airtable, Handshake, and Opendoor have announced that they are "refounding", as they scramble to add new AI features (Lora Kelley/New York Times)
2025-12-07 04:21 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Digital asset treasuries, one of the hottest trends in public markets in H1 2025, saw a dramatic reversal in H2; SharpLink stock has fallen 86% from its peak (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg)
2025-12-07 01:21 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of Byron Cook, a VP at Amazon who is leading the company's effort to reduce AI hallucinations with a feature called Automated Reasoning Checks (John Pavlus/Fast Company)
2025-12-06 23:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
ChatGPT head says screenshots of ChatGPT ads are "either not real or not ads"; OpenAI's research chief says "anything that feels like an ad" is now turned off (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
2025-12-06 21:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A technical deep dive into Amazon's Trainium3 accelerator, including its server SKUs' specifications, silicon design, power budget, and bill of materials (SemiAnalysis)
2025-12-06 20:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Apple's chip chief Johny Srouji told Tim Cook that he is seriously considering leaving soon; some execs floated elevating him to the CTO role (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
2025-12-06 18:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Some Reddit moderators say a surge of AI slop on the site is eroding its authenticity and could lead to a feedback loop of AI models training on AI content (Kat Tenbarge/Wired)
2025-12-06 15:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Phreeli, a privacy-focused phone carrier that lets users sign up with only a ZIP code and uses an encryption system based on "zero-knowledge proofs" (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
2025-12-06 12:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by "overfitting" in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI language in writing and speech (Sam Kriss/New York Times)
2025-12-06 08:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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2025-12-01 19:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Parents are pressuring LA Unified, the second-largest US school district, to reduce mandatory student screen time on school-issued iPads and Chromebooks (Tyler Kingkade/NBC News)
2025-12-06 07:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Microsoft is in talks to design future custom chips with Broadcom, which would involve Microsoft switching its business from Marvell (Abram Brown/The Information)
2025-12-06 07:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Short seller Grizzly shorts London-listed Trustpilot, alleging the review site pressures businesses to pay for subscriptions; Trustpilot refutes the claims (Bloomberg)
2025-12-06 07:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Leaked memos: Meta is delaying the release of its MR glasses codenamed "Phoenix" from H2 2026 to H1 2027 for "more breathing room to get the details right" (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)
2025-12-06 04:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An analysis of 100T+ tokens from the past year shows reasoning models now represent over half of all usage, open-weight model use has grown steadily, and more (OpenRouter)
2025-12-06 03:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Seattle-based Yoodli, which sells AI-powered communication training software, raised a $40M Series B led by WestBridge Capital, valuing the startup at $300M+ (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
2025-12-06 01:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Waymo plans to issue a voluntary software recall over how its robotaxis operate around school buses following an NHTSA investigation opened in October (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
2025-12-06 00:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A US judge rules Google must renegotiate annually any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices (Bloomberg)
2025-12-05 23:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the uphill battle to win regulatory approval for Netflix's acquisition of WBD, and the roles of the US DOJ, EU regulators, and state attorneys general (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
2025-12-05 21:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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