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AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit focused on safer AI; LawZero has raised $30M in donations, including from Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
2025-06-03 05:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC expects record profit in 2025 despite geopolitical, tariff, and FX risks, and confirms it's not building a fab in the Middle East (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
2025-06-03 06:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sensor Tower: daily US users of PDD Holdings' Temu fell by 58% in May; the US closed the "de minimis" loophole on May 2, and Temu then slashed its ad spending (Reuters)
2025-06-03 05:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Aerones, which makes robots that can service wind turbines in about half the time of humans, raised $62M led by Activate Capital and S2G Investments (Virginia Furness/Reuters)
2025-06-03 01:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google is ending PayPal account integration in Google Wallet for US users, effective June 13, after stopping new PayPal account linking in April (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)
2025-06-03 01:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A software developer explains how LLMs, especially AI agents, help automate tedious coding tasks and addresses concerns like hallucinations, job loss, and more (Thomas Ptacek/Fly)
2025-06-03 04:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Elon Musk is selling $5B in debt for xAI at a double-digit interest rate, with demand already exceeding $3.5B (Bloomberg)
2025-06-03 00:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft, Google, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto plan a public glossary of state-sponsored hacking groups to ease confusion over the spread of unofficial aliases (Reuters)
2025-06-03 00:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the DMA for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless it is opened (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
2025-06-02 23:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: the FTC is investigating whether roughly a dozen advertising and advocacy groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers (New York Times)
2025-06-02 23:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
After Google's two antitrust losses in the past year, a look at critics' claims that its breakup might be better for investors, customers, and innovation (David Streitfeld/New York Times)
2025-06-02 22:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Uber names longtime exec Andrew Macdonald as president and first COO since 2019; SVP of delivery Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty is leaving Uber after nearly 13 years (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
2025-06-02 21:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Netic, which sells an AI platform that helps home services firms automate client outreach and handle calls, raised $20M from Greylock, Founders Fund, and others (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
2025-06-02 23:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
ISP Frontier Communications settles a lawsuit from record labels that demanded broadband users accused of piracy be dropped; SCOTUS may hear Cox's similar case (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
2025-06-02 21:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Meta is prioritizing an ultralight Horizon OS headset with a compute puck, instead of a traditional Quest 4, to ship in 2026 (David Heaney/UploadVR)
2025-06-02 21:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
FDA debuts agency-wide AI tool meant to help scientific reviewers and others streamline their work and, soon, to identify high-priority targets for inspections (Maya Goldman/Axios)
2025-06-02 20:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Snowflake agrees to acquire Crunchy Data, a cloud-based database service that helps businesses and government agencies use PostgreSQL, a source says for ~$250M (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
2025-06-02 20:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Character.AI rolls out features like AvatarFX for video generation, plus Streams and Scenes for creating and sharing videos with characters on a new social feed (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
2025-06-02 20:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Neuralink raised a $650M Series E from ARK Invest, Founders Fund, G42, Human Capital, Sequoia, Thrive, and others; it was reportedly valued at ~$9B pre-money (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
2025-06-02 19:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: xAI is launching a $300M secondary stock offering that values the group at $113B, allowing staff to sell shares to new investors (Financial Times)
2025-06-02 16:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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