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A 2024 Louisiana parole law cedes much of the parole board's power to TIGER, an algorithm with immutable risk scores, blocking thousands from early release (Richard A. Webster/ProPublica)
2025-04-13 11:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Analysis: paper gains from the Trump family's investments in various crypto projects, including NFTs, DeFi, Bitcoin mining, and memecoins, are approaching $1B (Bloomberg)
2025-04-13 06:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Copenhagen-based Sparrow Quantum, which is developing photonic quantum chips based on research conducted at the Niels Bohr Institute, raised a €21.5M Series A (Vishal Singh/Silicon Canals)
2025-04-13 05:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tel Aviv-based Groundcover, an eBPF observability service for monitoring the performance of apps, systems, and their infrastructure, raised a $35M Series B (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
2025-04-13 05:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Alibaba's AI assistant Quark surpassed ByteDance's Doubao to become China's most popular AI app in March, with ~150M and ~100M MAUs globally, respectively (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
2025-04-13 04:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
LiveKit, which offers open-source tools for building apps to transmit real-time audio and video, raised a $45M Series B; LiveKit also powers ChatGPT Voice Mode (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-04-13 04:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sam Altman says ChatGPT users had doubled in the past few weeks and that "10% of the world uses our systems", which would peg the number closer to 800M users (Martine Paris/Forbes)
2025-04-13 03:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Apple produced $22B worth of iPhones in India in the 12 months ended March 2025, up nearly 60% YoY, and now makes 20% of its iPhones in the country (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
2025-04-13 02:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AI could transform medicine by helping doctors and medical students improve their empathy and bedside manner before they interact with real patients (Kate Pickert/Bloomberg)
2025-04-13 00:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Energy Department's Argonne National Lab's PRO-AID, an AI-based tool that can assist with nuclear reactor design and help operators run nuclear plants (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
2025-04-12 22:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How the Pentagon uses AI tools from Vannevar Labs, which got a DoD deal worth up to $99M, to scan open-source intelligence, write intelligence reports, and more (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
2025-04-12 20:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
UK government report: 43% of businesses faced a cyber breach or attack in the past year; phishing was the most common type, affecting 85% of those attacked (Connor Jones/The Register)
2025-04-12 17:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Arguments start Monday in the FTC's antitrust suit targeting Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, amid reports Zuckerberg asked Trump to intervene (Washington Post)
2025-04-12 16:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
India's JioHotstar now has 200M+ paid subscribers, driven by multi-language IPL cricket streams, ranking third-largest globally after Netflix and Prime Video (Bloomberg)
2025-04-12 15:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The Trump administration excludes smartphones, laptops, hard drives, processors, memory chips, and machines used to make semiconductors from reciprocal tariffs (Bloomberg)
2025-04-12 14:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The Trump administration excludes smartphones along with selected computers and laptops from reciprocal tariffs (Financial Times)
2025-04-12 13:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the battle between Uber and its unlikely ally, Chinese-owned rival 99, against the São Paulo city government, which banned motorcycle taxis in 2023 (Gabriela Sá Pessoa/Rest of World)
2025-04-12 10:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Architect Partners: Q1 2025 was a record quarter for crypto M&A with 61 deals and $2.2B in total deal value, including Kraken's $1.5B acquisition of NinjaTrader (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg)
2025-04-12 06:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
ByteDance, which spent an estimated $11B in 2024 on infrastructure for AI, is using data from ~1B users of its apps as the linchpin of its growing AI business (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)
2025-04-12 06:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Asia's startup funding fell 40% YoY to ~$13B in Q1 2025, the lowest funding for a quarter since $12.3B in Q4 2014; AI startup funding fell 50% YoY to just $1.8B (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News)
2025-04-12 06:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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