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South Korean police arrest four over hacking 120K home security cameras, whose footage was used to make sexually exploitative material; one person made ~$12K (John Yoon/New York Times)
2025-12-02 13:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Prediction market Kalshi raised $1B led by Paradigm at an $11B valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in October 2025, making its co-founders billionaires (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
2025-12-02 13:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese short-video company Kuaishou launches Kling Video O1, saying it is the first multimodal AI model to unify video generation, editing, and post-production (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
2025-12-02 13:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
YouTube launches Recap, which lets users review their most notable video habits over the past year, in the US, ahead of a global rollout next week (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
2025-12-02 14:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium, spun out of the nonprofit AI lab Kyutai, raised $70M led by FirstMark and Eurazeo, after launching in September (Bloomberg)
2025-12-02 12:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Michael and Susan Dell say they will deposit $250 in individual investment accounts for 25M kids, totaling $6.25B, comparing the gift to Dell's direct model (Nicholas Kulish/New York Times)
2025-12-02 14:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A Claude user gets Claude 4.5 Opus to generate a 14,000-token document that Claude calls its "Soul overview"; an Anthropic staffer confirms its authenticity (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
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A profile of Cursor CEO Michael Truell, a 25-year-old who started building the AI coding tool in 2023, as some question Cursor's reliance on third-party models (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-02 11:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Just Eat founder Jitse Groen plans to step down as CEO effective January 1, replaced by Prosus Europe head Roberto Gandolfo; Groen founded Takeaway.com in 2000 (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
2025-12-02 11:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Study: using the SCONE-bench benchmark of 405 smart contracts, Claude Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5, and GPT-5 found and developed exploits collectively worth $4.6M (Anthropic)
2025-12-02 11:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
CANI files a CA ballot measure to let an oversight board review and undo nonprofit conversions in science and tech since Jan. 2024, indirectly targeting OpenAI (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-02 07:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
UK pension funds are cutting exposure to US equities over worries about growing concentration in a few tech stocks and a potential bubble in the AI sector (Financial Times)
2025-12-02 09:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Americans express fear and negativity toward AI, often relying on bad arguments like water usage, a stark contrast with Asia and Europe's relative positivity (Noah Smith/Noahpinion)
2025-12-02 10:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Polymarket's Ukraine war betting, based on ISW's map, generated $1M+ in volume for "Will Russia capture Myrnohrad?"; an "unauthorized" map edit resolved the bet (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
2025-12-02 11:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An interview with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on why there's no AI bubble, his view that Watson's healthcare push was "inappropriate", IBM's quantum bet, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
2025-12-02 08:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Apple doesn't plan to comply with India's mandate to preload a state-owned cyber safety app on iPhones and will raise its concerns with New Delhi (Reuters)
2025-12-02 07:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Trade data shows South Korea's chip exports rose 38.5% YoY to a record $17.26B in November, driven by strong data center demand and higher memory prices (Reuters)
2025-12-02 06:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Shopify says it fixed an issue in its login authentication flow, resolving a December 1 outage that left some merchants unable to log in or access POS systems (Neil J Kanatt/Reuters)
2025-12-02 06:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nvidia announces Alpamayo-R1, an AI model for autonomous driving research, and calls it the "first industry-scale open reasoning vision language action model" (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
2025-12-02 05:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Texas AG Ken Paxton says he is investigating Shein to determine whether it violated state laws on unethical labor practices and the sale of unsafe products (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
2025-12-02 05:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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