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Some creatives and academics are rejecting AI on environmental and ethical grounds, and describe the pressure they feel to use AI to "keep up" with others (Emine Saner/The Guardian)
2025-06-05 08:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Counterpoint has revised its 2025 global smartphone shipment growth forecast to 1.9% YoY, down from 4.2%, citing "renewed uncertainties surrounding US tariffs" (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
2025-06-05 06:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OatFi, whose APIs handle underwriting, origination, and capital deployment for B2B payment providers, raised a $24M Series A led by White Star Capital (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
2025-06-05 06:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Edinburgh-based Wordsmith, whose AI tools help legal teams automate contract and policy reviews, raised a $25M Series A led by Index Ventures (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
2025-06-05 05:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Pan-European consumer group BEUC files a complaint with the EC against Shein over its alleged use of "dark patterns", after targeting Temu in 2024 (Helen Reid/Reuters)
2025-06-05 06:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A former employee says fewer than 10,000 people use Ola Krutrim's LLM chatbot, which supports 10 Indian languages, and that over 60% of them are random testers (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)
2025-06-05 06:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Singapore's Temasek cuts back on startup investments after the fund wrote down hundreds of millions of dollars on a spate of collapsed startups, including FTX (Financial Times)
2025-06-05 04:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
DoorDash, Uber, and Grubhub agree to settle a 2021 lawsuit against New York City over its pandemic-era 15% cap to commissions and fees charged to restaurants (Malathi Nayak/Bloomberg)
2025-06-05 04:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
23andMe plans to hold a new auction for its DNA data, opening with a $305M bid led by Anne Wojcicki, after the ex-CEO challenged Regeneron's winning bid in May (Steven Church/Bloomberg)
2025-06-05 05:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says the "tides have turned" in Silicon Valley, making it more acceptable for the tech industry to support the US military's efforts (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
2025-06-05 03:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Amazon is developing software for humanoid robots to deliver packages and is near completion of an indoor "humanoid park" in San Francisco to test them (Rocket Drew/The Information)
2025-06-05 02:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How AI-assisted "vibe hacking", which often relies on jailbroken versions of mainstream AI models, is leading to a cybersecurity "arms race" (Matthew Gault/Wired)
2025-06-05 04:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
MongoDB reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $549M, vs. $527.5M est., net loss down 54% to $37.6M, and increases its full-year guidance; MDB up 14%+ after hours (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
2025-06-05 01:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filing: OpenAI seeks to block a May 13 court order requiring it to preserve all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats, arguing it poses a risk to users' privacy (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
2025-06-04 23:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Document: Xiaohongshu, a TikTok alternative known in the US as Rednote, has surged to a $26B valuation based on recent market transactions via a GSR fund (Echo Wong/Bloomberg)
2025-06-05 00:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US DOJ seized ~145 domains and crypto linked to BidenCash, a dark web market that made $17M+ in revenue since 2022 by selling stolen credit cards and more (Ionut Ilascu/BleepingComputer)
2025-06-04 23:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Amazon is creating an AI team within its Lab126 hardware R&D unit that will help develop an agentic AI framework for use in its robotics operations (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
2025-06-04 21:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta reveals more information about its research glasses Aria Gen 2, including their form factor, computer vision cameras, sensors, and on-device compute (Emma Roth/The Verge)
2025-06-04 22:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Epic v. Apple: a US appeals court rejects Apple's request to pause key parts of a federal judge's order requiring it to open the App Store to more competition (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
2025-06-04 21:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Circle priced its upsized IPO at $31 per share, above marketed range of $27 to $28, raising nearly $1.1B and valuing the company at approximately $6.9B (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
2025-06-04 21:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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