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A profile of Zach Witkoff, World Liberty Financial co-founder and son of Trump's Middle East envoy, who is pursuing crypto deals with countries like Pakistan (Wall Street Journal)
2025-05-25 18:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
London-based Converge, which uses sensors and AI to optimize the use of concrete in construction projects, raised a $22M Series A led by Dutch bank ABN Amro (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)
2025-05-25 16:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sarvam AI's 24B-parameter LLM for Indian languages Sarvam-M receives only 334 downloads in two days on Hugging Face, raising concerns about AI efforts in India (Mohit Pandey/Analytics India Magazine)
2025-05-25 15:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Grok's tendency to repeat debunked claims raises doubts about Elon Musk's goal of making it a reliable source of information in high-stakes areas like medicine (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
2025-05-25 13:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Some VCs, such as Khosla Ventures, are considering acquiring mature businesses, like call center operators, and optimizing them with AI to serve more customers (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
2025-05-25 10:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A security researcher details how he discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the Linux kernel's SMB implementation by analyzing the code using OpenAI's o3 API (Sean Heelan/Sean Heelan's Blog)
2025-05-25 06:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at updates that weren't in the Google I/O keynote, including a Nearby Passes notification in Wallet and the Play Store's Ask Someone Else to Pay button (Emma Roth/The Verge)
2025-05-25 06:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Paris-based Veesion, which offers AI-powered video surveillance software for spotting suspicious behavior in stores, raised a €38M Series B led by White Star (David Cendon Garcia/EU-Startups)
2025-05-25 05:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
CX2, a defense tech startup building software and hardware, including autonomous drones, for electronic warfare, raised a $31M Series A led by Point72 Ventures (Colin Demarest/Axios)
2025-05-25 05:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
General Medicine, an online storefront for medical care founded by PillPack founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen, launches with $32M in funding led by Matrix (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)
2025-05-25 05:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenFX, which is building a near-instant payments and settlement network for cross-border transactions, emerges from stealth with $23M in funding led by Accel (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
2025-05-25 04:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Amap, Alibaba's mapping and local services business, introduces a ride-hailing feature on the app's English version, targeting foreign visitors in China (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
2025-05-25 04:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Legora, whose AI tools help legal teams review, draft, research, and advise, raised an $80M Series B at a $675M valuation led by ICONIQ and General Catalyst (Evan Ochsner/Bloomberg Law)
2025-05-25 03:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Crypto investor John Woeltz from Kentucky was charged in NYC for allegedly kidnapping and torturing an Italian tourist for three weeks to gain crypto passwords (New York Times)
2025-05-25 01:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Accessibility consultants say the video game industry's accessibility advancements, which gained momentum in 2020, have slowed down due to cutbacks (Geoffrey Bunting/The Verge)
2025-05-25 00:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Texas is set to enact one of the strictest bans on social media for minors, with age verification requirements and letting parents request account deletions (Adam Edelman/NBC News)
2025-05-24 22:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sam Altman and Jony Ive's awkward io video feels like empty hype until a compelling device is released, especially given Ive's post-Jobs design missteps (Jason Snell/Six Colors)
2025-05-24 20:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Despite Google's guardrails, Veo 3 users are generating realistic clips of news, disasters, and fictional events, some with dialogue not included in the prompt (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
2025-05-24 18:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Elon Musk says he needs to be "super focused on X/xAI and Tesla", saying major operational improvements need to be made "as evidenced by the X uptime issues" (Valentine Baldassari/Bloomberg)
2025-05-24 17:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at The Technology Brothers Podcast Network, a daily tech news talk show that has captured the attention of Silicon Valley's investors and founders (Abram Brown/The Information)
2025-05-24 16:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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