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How the delivery app Fantuan grew its US presence to 50+ cities since 2019 by focusing on Asian cuisines, with an app design reminiscent of Chinese platforms (Alex Harring/CNBC)
2025-06-01 15:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Researchers say tactics used to make AI more engaging, like making them more agreeable, can make chatbots reinforce harmful ideas, like encouraging drug use (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)
2025-06-01 14:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Apple's AI plans for WWDC; sources: macOS 26 will be named Tahoe and Apple is testing its 3B, 7B, 33B, and 150B AI models via internal tool Playground (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
2025-06-01 14:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
DappRadar: NFT lending market volume has dropped 97% from a peak of ~$1B in January 2024 to ~$50M in May 2025, with borrower activity falling by 90% (Stephen Katte/Cointelegraph)
2025-06-01 11:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of DoorDash CEO Tony Xu, who has transformed the once-scrappy delivery startup into a ~$90B industry consolidator through an acquisition spree (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
2025-06-01 06:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft and the CWA reach a tentative contract agreement for ~300 ZeniMax QA workers after two years of talks, marking Microsoft's first US union contract (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)
2025-06-01 03:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure (Kyle Baird/DL News)
2025-06-01 05:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An analysis of the top 100 trending TikTok videos under #mentalhealthtips finds 52 contain misinformation, including misused language and quick-fix methods (The Guardian)
2025-06-01 05:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Dubai is emerging as a global hub for AI talent, attracting workers with its Golden Visa program, no taxes, attractive salaries, and ease of setting up business (Amar Diwakar/Rest of World)
2025-06-01 01:29 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AI's real threat to education isn't that it encourages students to cheat, but that it short-circuits the learning processes needed to use generative AI adeptly (Nicholas Carr/New Cartographies)
2025-05-31 23:29 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Twitch plans to start testing the ability to host a vertical livestream and rolls out an open beta of 2k streaming, letting creators stream at 1440p (Jay Peters/The Verge)
2025-05-31 21:29 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Share of news influencers on Bluesky has doubled after the 2024 US election to 43%, but X remains popular, with 82% of news influencers maintaining an account (Pew Research Center)
2025-05-31 19:29 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Art house streaming service and distributor Mubi raised $100M led by Sequoia at a $1B valuation; Mubi has about 20M registered users worldwide (Christopher Grimes/Financial Times)
2025-05-31 17:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Internal docs show Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content (NPR)
2025-05-31 16:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google quietly released an Android app called Google AI Edge Gallery on GitHub, letting users run some AI models from Hugging Face locally on their phones (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-05-31 15:27 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Grow a Garden, a hit game on Roblox, has spawned a market where in-game items are sold for real money on sites like eBay, potentially violating Roblox's ToS (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
2025-05-31 14:27 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Brazil is piloting dWallet, a digital wallet program that allows users to monetize their data, the first nationwide initiative of its kind in the world (Gabriel Daros/Rest of World)
2025-05-31 11:27 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A Replit employee details a critical security flaw in web apps created using AI-powered app builder Lovable that exposes API keys and personal info of app users (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
2025-05-31 07:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
London-based Dojo, a payments tech provider to over 140K businesses, raised $190M from Vitruvian Partners in its first equity raise since launching in 2021 (Vishal Singh/Silicon Canals)
2025-05-31 06:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Vivodyne, which uses AI and robots to grow human tissues in the lab for drug discovery and development, raised a $40M Series A, taking its total funding to $78M (Katherine Davis/Axios)
2025-05-31 06:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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