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Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the US' third-largest district, trained 1,000+ educators on AI and introduced Gemini to 105K+ students, the largest US rollout (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
2025-05-19 11:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who transformed himself from an academic into a CEO; as of mid-April, Anthropic was on track for $2B in annual revenue (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
2025-05-19 10:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of nonprofit Psst, launched in September 2024 to offer a "digital safe" for tech whistleblowers; its legal team manually reviews encrypted submissions (Victoria Turk/Wired)
2025-05-19 11:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nvidia unveils NVLink Fusion, letting customers use its NVLink to pair non-Nvidia CPUs or accelerators with Nvidia's products in their own rack-scale setups (Bloomberg)
2025-05-19 04:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Neuralink and other brain-computer interface startups, as the number of people with brain implants is set to double from ~100 in the next 12 months (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
2025-05-19 04:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Nvidia is in advanced talks to invest in PsiQuantum, a startup looking to build quantum computers that is in the process of raising $750M+ (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
2025-05-19 02:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the reasoning behind David Zaslav's strategy to rebrand HBO Max as Max, its failure to broaden the streamer's appeal, and the push to bring "HBO" back (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
2025-05-19 00:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Viral TikTok videos of AI bots interviewing job candidates and sometimes glitching are bringing focus to a practice more companies have embraced since 2023 (David Mack/Slate)
2025-05-19 00:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Cyera is raising $500M led by Lightspeed, Greenoaks and Georgian in a round valuing the data security company at $6B, up from 2024's $3.4B valuation (Bloomberg)
2025-05-18 22:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How the crypto industry is adapting to the recent wave of kidnappings, from more extensive security around conferences, to a rise in personal bodyguards, more (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
2025-05-18 23:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Some parent groups are hosting Alternative Device Fairs, showcasing phones with limited features, social media blocks, and AI-powered content filters (Kaitlyn Tiffany/The Atlantic)
2025-05-18 22:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Gurman: Apple is "unlikely" to spend much time discussing Siri at WWDC and is preparing to separate the Apple Intelligence brand from Siri in marketing (Michael Burkhardt/9to5Mac)
2025-05-18 22:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources detail Apple's AI efforts, including John Giannandrea's tenure, Craig Federighi's initial lack of interest in LLMs, and its acquisitions, including Siri (Bloomberg)
2025-05-18 22:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An interview with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke and CPO Mario Rodriguez on the year of SWE agents, Copilot phase two, Project Padawan, programming's future, and more (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
2025-05-18 17:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Eight workers, from a nurse dealing with hospital discharge planning algorithms to a salon owner with AI-generated hairstyles, share how AI changed their work (Marin Cogan/Bloomberg)
2025-05-18 20:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How a hacker breached the Signal knockoff app TeleMessage in about 20 minutes thanks to a basic misconfiguration, leading to sensitive data spilling out (Micah Lee/Wired)
2025-05-18 15:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chime's S-1: MyPay revenue totaled $64.3M in Q1 vs. estimated credit losses from the product of $57.3M, highlighting the risks with the paycheck advance product (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
2025-05-18 13:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Government officials and experts say there have been dozens of recorded crypto-related abductions globally over the past year; France saw five in recent months (Wall Street Journal)
2025-05-18 12:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Venture Intelligence: Indian deep tech startups have raised $4.7B since 2014, accounting for just 3.2% of Indian startup funding, signaling a sector-wide crunch (Sayan Chakraborty/Nikkei Asia)
2025-05-18 09:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AI deals that the US struck with the UAE and Saudi Arabia reinforce its AI leadership, but raise security concerns that the US can mitigate through safeguards (SemiAnalysis)
2025-05-18 06:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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