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Analysis: ten loss-making AI startups, including OpenAI, gained ~$1T in valuation over the past year, fueling concerns of an inflating bubble in private markets (Financial Times)
2025-10-16 06:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How facial recognition software rejects people with facial differences, who number an estimated 100M+ worldwide, blocking them from accessing essential services (Matt Burgess/Wired)
2025-10-16 08:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The full Space Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: The future of tech launches here
2025-10-15 15:43 - https://techcrunch.com/feed/
 
Homeless Man AI Prank Prompt: Risks, Ethics, and How to Use AI Responsibly
2025-10-16 09:46 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Functions Are Asymmetric
2025-10-16 05:46 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
IRS Open Sources its Fact Graph
2025-10-16 00:44 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
South Korea's AI textbook program, meant to personalize learning, was rolled back after just four months after complaints about inaccuracies and extra workload (Junhyup Kwon/Rest of World)
2025-10-16 06:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nvidia partners with startup Firmus on Project Southgate, a $2.9B initial undertaking to build renewable energy-powered AI data centers across Australia (Keira Wright/Bloomberg)
2025-10-16 06:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Huawei's key partners SiCarrier and Qiyunfang showcased chipmaking gear and EDA software at a Shenzhen expo; SiCarrier's gear competes with older US products (Bloomberg)
2025-10-16 05:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Microsoft aims to produce most new products, including servers and Surface laptops, outside China from 2026; AWS is also adopting a similar strategy (Nikkei Asia)
2025-10-16 06:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How OpenSea reinvented itself from an NFT marketplace to a crypto trading aggregator, facilitating $1.6B in trades in the first two weeks of October (Jeff Kauflin/Forbes)
2025-10-16 06:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
TSMC reports Q3 net profit up 39% YoY to ~$14.8B, beating est., after previously reporting a 30% rise in revenue, the latest sign of robust spending on AI chips (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
2025-10-16 06:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
YouTube's creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU's GDP in 2024 and supported 200K+ full-time equivalent jobs, according to advising firm Oxford Economics (David Wheeldon/YouTube Official Blog)
2025-10-16 05:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
I'm recomming my customers switch to Linux rather that Upgrade to Windows 11
2025-10-16 01:45 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
OpenAI says all Sora 2 users can now generate videos up to 15 seconds on the app and web, while Pro users can generate videos up to 25 seconds on the web (@openai)
2025-10-16 04:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Investigation: the Trump family's crypto empire has reaped over $1B in pre-tax profits over the past year; Eric Trump says the true figure is "probably more" (Financial Times)
2025-10-16 05:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Basis Theory, which provides data management and payments infrastructure tools, raised a $33M Series B led by Costanoa, taking its total funding to $50M (David Penn/Finovate)
2025-10-16 03:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Liberate, which builds AI agents to automate insurance operations, raised a $50M Series B led by Battery Ventures at a $300M post-money valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
2025-10-16 03:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The White House says representatives from Microsoft, Meta, Google, and other corporate donors to the $250M ballroom attended a dinner with President Trump (Wall Street Journal)
2025-10-16 05:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
New Alzheimer's Treatment Clears Plaques from Brains of Mice Within Hours
2025-10-16 03:45 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
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