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OpenAI is buying io, Jony Ive's secretive AI startup, for ~$6.5B in stock; Ive and LoveFrom will remain independent but take over design for all of OpenAI (Bloomberg)
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Microsoft seizes ~2.3K domains globally to disrupt Lumma's malware-as-a-service operation, after finding 394K+ PCs infected by Lumma (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
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In a joint statement, the US, France, Germany, and eight other countries say Russia has stepped up cyber attacks on firms aiding Ukraine, often via Fancy Bear (Eric Geller/Cybersecurity Dive)
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In April ChatGPT started to, by default, reference all past chats for more personalized responses, but this means users lose control of their prompts' context (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
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AI videos from Google's Veo 3, which features synchronized audio as well as crisper, more detailed video, are both impressive and terrifying (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)
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Google tests bringing ads to AI Mode, both below responses as well as "integrated into" them, and expands ads in AI Overviews to desktop in the US (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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Sources and docs: a "major lapse" at Thoma Bravo's Opexus, which helps US agencies manage investigations and FOIA, let two convicted hackers delete databases (Jason Leopold/Bloomberg)
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AI model ranking project LMArena spins off from UC Berkeley and raises a $100M seed led by a16z and UC Investments, sources say at a $600M valuation (Bloomberg)
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Mistral partners with All Hands AI to release Devstral, a model to help with coding, in "research preview" under Apache 2.0, and says it outperforms Gemma 3 27B (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-05-21 15:21 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Brazilian researchers scraped 2B+ Discord messages from 3,167 public servers using Discord's public API, covering 2015 to 2024, and publish the messages online (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
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Singapore-based business banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $150M at a $6.2B valuation, up from $5.6B in October 2022, and debuts a $150M share sale (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
2025-05-21 13:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filed, which uses AI to automate tax professionals' low-value tasks, raised $17.2M across seed and preseed led by Northzone, Day One Ventures, and others (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
2025-05-21 14:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google expands its sovereign cloud options in the EU, including a new "data shield" that provides additional cyber security protections to European clients (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
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China threatens legal action against anyone enforcing US restrictions on Huawei chips, escalating the US-China tech dispute as the two countries hold meetings (Bloomberg)
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After a protest disrupted a Build talk, Microsoft's head of security for AI Neta Haiby accidentally revealed confidential messages about Walmart's AI usage (Tom Warren/The Verge)
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Distributed Denial of Secrets: the TeleMessage hacker stole messages from 60+ US government users covering about one day ending May 4, including travel plans (Reuters)
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Volvo expands its Google partnership to integrate Gemini across its model lineup, the first automaker to do so, hoping to ease a driver's "cognitive load" (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
2025-05-21 11:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Maine AG filing: Coinbase says its recent data breach impacted 69,461 individuals; stolen data included government IDs, account info, and personal identifiers (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
2025-05-21 12:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft files an amicus brief to support Epic in its App Store fight and blames Apple for its delayed Xbox mobile gaming store, announced in May 2024 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
2025-05-21 11:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Baidu reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to ~$4.5B, above ~$4.3B est., and a ~$1B net profit, as the Chinese search giant fends off intensifying competition in AI (Bloomberg)
2025-05-21 11:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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