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Spotify unveils 2025's top 50 most popular US podcasts, led by The Joe Rogan Experience for the fifth consecutive year; 24 of the top 50 now offer video content (Todd Spangler/Variety)
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Spotify releases Wrapped 2025, adding features like Wrapped Party, its first live interactive experience, a Top Song Quiz, Listening Age, and Wrapped Clubs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Sources and docs: Palantir's Immigration OS helps ICE track undocumented immigrants and deport them; a decade ago, Alex Karp said Trump's plans made "no sense" (Eva Dou/Washington Post)
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Uber partners with Avride to launch robotaxi rides in Dallas, marking Uber's fourth US city to offer autonomous ride options after Phoenix, Austin, and Atlanta (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
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Some YouTube creators are using AI video tools to make content for kids and babies, causing concern that their brains are being shaped by AI-generated videos (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg)
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AI Forensics: 354 AI-focused TikTok accounts pushed 43K posts made with GenAI tools that hit 4.5B views, including posts with anti-immigrant and sexual material (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
2025-12-03 11:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Vinci, which uses AI simulations to accelerate chip and other hardware design, raised a $36M Series A led by Xora Innovation, taking its total funding to $46M (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
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Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump's American Bitcoin closed down 38.8% on December 2, wiping out ~$1B in market value; TMTG is down nearly 70% in 2025 (George Steer/Financial Times)
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HBO Max's 4K Mad Men re-release had multiple errors, including lacking post-production edits in some scenes; a source says Lionsgate delivered the wrong 4K file (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
2025-12-03 10:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at startups like AGI and Plato, which build replicas of websites to let AI agents learn to navigate and complete specific tasks, like booking flights (Cade Metz/New York Times)
2025-12-03 09:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
London-based Sokin, which develops tech for B2B cross-border payments, raised a $50M Series B led by Prysm Capital at a $300M valuation (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
2025-12-03 07:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Binance names co-founder Yi He as co-CEO alongside Richard Teng, making her one of the few women leading a crypto company; she also has children with ex-CEO CZ (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
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Half of US states now require users to upload IDs or biometric data to access pornographic content, as Missouri became the 25th state to enact such a law (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
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Copper demand is being boosted by AI data centers, which require 27-33 tonnes per MW, over 2x that of conventional data centers, according to miner Grupo México (Camilla Hodgson/Financial Times)
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Stripe agrees to acquire Metronome, which offers APIs to help SaaS companies charge customers based on usage and has raised $128M in total funding (Scott Woody/Metronome)
2025-12-03 06:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An analysis of Waymo's data covering ~100M driverless miles across four US cities: Waymo cars have far lower crash rates per million miles than human drivers (Jonathan Slotkin/New York Times)
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Waymo's self-driving cars appear to be bending traffic laws and growing impatient with pedestrians as the company seeks to make them "confidently assertive" (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)
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MongoDB stock jumped 22% on December 2 after Q3 revenue rose 19% YoY to $628M, above $592M est., and raises full-year guidance on Atlas growth and AI demand (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
2025-12-03 05:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
YouTube says it will comply with Australia's social media ban for under-16s, after rejecting its inclusion in the crackdown and calling the regulation "rushed" (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg)
2025-12-03 04:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Software testing startup Antithesis raised $105M led by trading firm Jane Street, as demand grows for software to vet code generated by AI coding tools (Financial Times)
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