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Analysis: since 2023, US states enacted 120+ deepfake-related laws, with 26 passed in 2025 alone; California passed eight deepfake bills in September 2024 (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)
2025-05-22 11:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
M&S CEO Stuart Machin says hackers accessed the UK retailer's systems using social engineering tactics via a third-party supplier, putting M&S "on its backside" (Financial Times)
2025-05-22 11:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Google co-founder Sergey Brin on AI frontier models, scaling data centers, reasoning, DeepThink, AGI, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
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How SpaceX's Starlink moved quickly to solidify its lead in the satellite internet business, as its competitors face production and launch capacity bottlenecks (Financial Times)
2025-05-22 09:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google is using its extensive data on users to give its AI models an advantage over OpenAI and Anthropic, starting with its opt-in Gemini with personalization (Emma Roth/The Verge)
2025-05-22 10:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Running app Strava raised new funding at a $2.2B valuation including debt, up from $1.5B after raising $110M in November 2020, and nears $500M in ARR (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)
2025-05-22 10:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto on Super Nintendo World, redesigning Donkey Kong, the new Mario Kart, the Pikmin franchise, Switch 2, and more (IGN)
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Lenovo reports Q4 revenue up 23% to $16.98B, vs. $15.6B est., and net profit down 64% YoY to ~$90M, below $225.8M est., reflecting AI and PC market competition (Bloomberg)
2025-05-22 09:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An overview of major streamers' revenues, subscriber churn, cancellation rates, shares of US TV viewing time, and shares of US sports TV rights deals since 2023 (Wall Street Journal)
2025-05-22 06:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How animation startup Toonstar uses its AI tools to make animated content up to 90% cheaper than traditional methods; its YouTube series has 30M weekly viewers (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
2025-05-22 07:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
China is catching up with the US in AI, robotics, and other sectors, driven by an R&D spending rise, hitting $500B in 2024, up 3x since Xi took office in 2012 (Brian Spegele/Wall Street Journal)
2025-05-22 08:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Takeaways from Computex 2025: little focus on consumer AI, Chinese AI and chip advances loom large, Intel and Nvidia courting Taiwanese partners, and more (Bloomberg)
2025-05-22 06:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Telegram told investors ahead of a ~$1.5B bond offering that revenue reached $1.4B in 2024, up from $343M in 2023, and net profit reached $540M in 2024 (Financial Times)
2025-05-22 06:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft researchers and others detail Aurora, an AI weather model they say makes accurate 10-day forecasts faster and at smaller scales than many other models (Rebecca Dzombak/New York Times)
2025-05-22 06:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Marcos Galperin, founder and CEO of Latin American e-commerce giant MercadoLibre, will step down in late 2025 and be replaced by commerce head Ariel Szarfsztejn (Andre Romani/Reuters)
2025-05-22 05:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An NY jury convicts Braden John Karony, the former CEO of cryptocurrency company SafeMoon, of conspiracy to defraud the US, money laundering, and wire fraud (Turner Wright/Cointelegraph)
2025-05-22 05:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of Bill Zanker, who sources say has been key in marketing the $TRUMP memecoin and organizing a dinner with Trump for the top 220 holders of the coin (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
2025-05-22 05:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Leaked recording: Sam Altman told staff that OpenAI aims to ship 100M AI "companion" devices, with the goal of releasing a device by late next year (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
2025-05-22 04:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
NYC-based Siro, which offers AI-powered coaching for sales reps, raised a $50M Series B led by SignalFire, bringing its total raised to $75M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
2025-05-22 03:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft says it's reducing "politically focused emails" within the company, as workers are unable to send emails mentioning "Palestine", "Gaza", or "genocide" (Tom Warren/The Verge)
2025-05-22 03:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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