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Workers and researchers say data annotation jobs that many Venezuelans relied on have become scarce and poorly paid with the rise of generative AI (Laura Rodríguez Salamanca/Rest of World)
2025-04-17 08:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Konvoy: the gaming industry saw 43 M&A transactions and 77 VC deals in Q1 2025, and the sector is projected to be worth $186B in 2026, a 4.7% YoY jump (Rachel Kaser/VentureBeat)
2025-04-17 08:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Study: in South Korea, users with active YouTube accounts spent 210 minutes/day on the service in Q4, while Netflix subs spent 96 minutes/day on the streamer (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
2025-04-17 07:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
US community colleges are battling a flood of fake, or bot, students who bilk financial aid by enrolling in online classes and submitting AI-generated work (Jakob McWhinney/Voice of San Diego)
2025-04-17 07:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
TSMC reports Q1 net income up 60.3% YoY to $11.1B, beating estimates, as customers stockpiled chips anticipating global trade disruptions spurred by US tariffs (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)
2025-04-17 06:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
China bans automakers from using "smart driving" or "autonomous driving" in ads for driver-assist tech and tightens scrutiny after a fatal Xiaomi EV crash (Reuters)
2025-04-17 06:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: OpenAI and SoftBank are considering investing in the UK for Stargate as part of an international expansion, if the project proves successful in the US (Financial Times)
2025-04-17 05:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Docusign unveils AI contract agents, which can analyze agreements and surface issues that usually require human intervention, available by the end of 2025 (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
2025-04-17 04:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
xAI announces a memory feature for Grok in beta that enables the AI chatbot to remember details from past conversations and give more personalized responses (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-04-17 03:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Auradine, which manufactures Bitcoin miners and offers AI infrastructure, raised a $153M Series C, with $138M in equity and $15M in debt, led by StepStone Group (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
2025-04-17 03:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google is making Gemini Live camera and screen sharing features free for all Android users in the coming weeks after launching them for Advanced users last week (Abner Li/9to5Google)
2025-04-17 01:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Discord requires some UK and Australian users to verify their age by scanning their face or ID to access sensitive material; Discord says it's "an experiment" (Chris Scullion/Video Games Chronicle)
2025-04-17 02:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Perplexity is in discussions to integrate its AI assistant on Samsung's devices and has reached an agreement to preload Perplexity on Motorola's phones (Bloomberg)
2025-04-17 02:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A US judge grants a permanent injunction against an Ohio law that required platforms to verify users are at least 16 and seek parental consent for younger users (Bloomberg Law)
2025-04-17 01:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
FTC v. Meta: Mark Zuckerberg says he considers TikTok the "highest competitive threat" for Facebook and Instagram in the past few years (Julia Shapero/The Hill)
2025-04-16 23:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US House opens a probe on whether Nvidia knowingly provided AI tech to DeepSeek in violation of US rules and asks Nvidia for details on its Asian customers (New York Times)
2025-04-16 23:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
FTC challenges ex-Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg over past emails; she called Google+ a "real" competitor in 2011 and discussed blocking its ads on Facebook in 2012 (Bloomberg)
2025-04-17 00:21 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Former CISA Director Chris Krebs says he is resigning from SentinelOne to more freely challenge the White House, after Trump directed the DOJ to investigate him (Wall Street Journal)
2025-04-16 21:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tech stocks plunge amid uncertainty over US tariff plans and China export controls: AMD, Nvidia, and ASML dropped 7%, Applied Materials and Lam Research fell 5% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
2025-04-16 22:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Indian EV ride-hailing startup BluSmart appears to have suspended service a day after regulators launched a probe into Gensol, which shares its co-founders (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
2025-04-16 20:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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