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A database tracking instances where lawyers got caught presenting AI hallucinations shows that, of 116 cases dating back to June 2023, 20 occurred this month (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
2025-05-26 17:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The EU says Shein's practices breach rules against false discounts, deceptive product labels, and more, and warn that it could face fines if it doesn't comply (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)
2025-05-26 17:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the UAE's Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI, which aims to supply talent to Emirati companies, incubate startups, and serve as the UAE's AI R&D arm (Bloomberg)
2025-05-26 16:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Trump Media and Technology Group aims to raise $2B in fresh equity and another $1B via a convertible bond to buy cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin (Financial Times)
2025-05-26 16:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
CB Insights: VC investment in voice AI startups rose from $315M in 2022 to $2.1B in 2024, driven by growing business adoption of voice AI agents in call centers (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
2025-05-26 15:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Palisade Research claims that OpenAI's o3 altered a shutdown script to avoid being turned off, even when explicitly instructed to allow shutdown (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)
2025-05-26 12:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
JioHotstar has grown its subscriber base from 50M in March to over 280M in May, driven by IPL cricket streams, nearing Netflix's global subscriber count of 300M (Financial Times)
2025-05-26 13:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Capgemini says it is partnering with SAP to deploy custom Mistral AI tools for industries with stringent data requirements, such as aerospace and defense (Leo Marchandon/Reuters)
2025-05-26 11:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Tim Cook declined a WH invitation to join Jensen Huang and others on Trump's Middle East trip, during which Trump criticized Cook and praised Huang (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
2025-05-26 10:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese food delivery giant Meituan reports Q1 revenue up 18.1% to ~$12.1B, vs. $12B est., net profit up 87.3% YoY to ~$1.4B, as it expands outside China (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
2025-05-26 10:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son pitched a joint US-Japan sovereign fund to top DC and Tokyo officials to back large tech and infrastructure projects in the US (Financial Times)
2025-05-26 08:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
At its Build conference, Microsoft sought to show its key role in the AI industry, with Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Jensen Huang making virtual appearances (Rafe Uddin/Financial Times)
2025-05-26 09:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI sets up a legal entity in South Korea and plans a Seoul office, its third in Asia, and says the country has the most paying ChatGPT users outside the US (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
2025-05-26 06:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Australia's WiseTech agrees to buy US cloud logistics firm E2open for $2.1B including debt, offering $3.30 per share, a 24.5% premium on E2open's May 23 close (Rishav Chatterjee/Reuters)
2025-05-26 04:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tools like Microsoft Copilot are helping execs, managers, and staff quickly catch up on work after a vacation by triaging emails and summarizing Slack threads (Jo Constantz/Bloomberg)
2025-05-26 00:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Highlights from the system prompts of Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, including model safety, avoiding sycophancy, and not regurgitating copyrighted content (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
2025-05-26 00:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Some Amazon engineers say managers have increasingly pushed them to use AI over the past year, raising output goals and becoming less forgiving about deadlines (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
2025-05-25 21:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Study: users in China's Henan province were on average denied access to 5x more websites than a typical Chinese internet user between Nov. 2023 and March 2025 (Amy Hawkins/The Guardian)
2025-05-25 23:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: the main topic at WWDC will be a redesigned software interface, dubbed Solarium, for all of Apple's operating systems, including tvOS and watchOS (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
2025-05-25 22:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google expands Veo 3 availability to 71 additional countries, and Gemini Pro subscribers now get a trial pack of 10 Veo 3 generations on the Gemini web app (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
2025-05-25 19:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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