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Recent grads and PhDs are being recruited by AI companies like Handshake to provide specialized training data in fields like music and law for $30-$160 per hour (Emma Haidar/Bloomberg)
2025-07-25 23:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Palantir becomes the 20th most valuable US company, after its stock more than doubled in 2025, giving it a market cap of $375B (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
2025-07-25 22:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR and will report to Alexandr Wang (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
2025-07-25 21:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tea says hackers accessed a database from more than two years ago, leaking 72,000 images, including 13,000 verification photos and images of government IDs (NBC News)
2025-07-25 21:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Mark Zuckerberg announces that former OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao will be chief scientist at Meta's new superintelligence lab (Ina Fried/Axios)
2025-07-25 20:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Intel plans to spin off its Network and Edge Group into a standalone company and says it will seek outside investment for the business unit (Dylan Martin/CRN)
2025-07-25 20:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Anthropic is in talks to raise $3B to $5B, including from Middle Eastern investors, in a round that could more than double its valuation to $150B+ (Financial Times)
2025-07-25 20:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Core Devices CEO says the company has recovered the Pebble trademark, allowing it to rename its new smartwatches as Pebble 2 Duo and Pebble Time 2 (Victoria Song/The Verge)
2025-07-25 18:09 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Microsoft is investigating whether a leak in its early alert system for cybersecurity companies let Chinese hackers exploit SharePoint flaws (Bloomberg)
2025-07-25 19:09 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The NHTSA closes its 14-month investigation into a series of minor collisions and unexpected behavior from Waymo vehicles, and won't take further action (David Shepardson/Reuters)
2025-07-25 18:09 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sen. Alex Padilla grants the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it a part of a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents (Morgan Sung/KQED)
2025-07-25 17:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Some 4chan users claim they breached Tea, the women's dating safety app that has topped the US App Store charts, exposing selfies and drivers' licenses (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
2025-07-25 17:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Apple expands its App Store age rating system; developers must disclose app content, such as violent themes, letting Apple calculate and assign age ratings (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2025-07-25 15:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft previews Copilot Appearance, a virtual character with real-time expressions, voice, and conversational memory, for some users in the US, UK, Canada (Tom Warren/The Verge)
2025-07-25 15:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Tea, a woman-only safety app with 4M users that lets users anonymously assign red or green flags to local men, as it goes viral with 900K new signups (Angela Yang/NBC News)
2025-07-25 16:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: GPT-5 shows improved performance in coding, particularly in practical software engineering tasks, outperforming prior OpenAI models and Claude Sonnet 4 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
2025-07-25 15:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Lyft partners with Austria-based Benteler to deploy autonomous shuttles in the US in late 2026, to be initially deployed in partnership with airports and cities (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
2025-07-25 14:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: the number of Optimus humanoid robots Tesla has made this year is in the hundreds, well behind the pace needed to meet Musk's goal of producing 5K+ (The Information)
2025-07-25 14:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Anysphere launches Bugbot, an AI-powered tool that integrates with GitHub to detect coding errors introduced by humans or AI agents, for $40 per month per user (Lauren Goode/Wired)
2025-07-25 14:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta will end political, election, or social issue ads in the EU from October, like Google, with both citing incoming regulation (Sara Fischer/Axios)
2025-07-25 12:05 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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