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California SB 243, which would mandate safety protocols for AI companion chatbots, has passed the State Assembly and Senate and now heads to Gov. Newsom's desk (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
2025-09-12 06:27 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Despite hype and optimistic projections, the humanoid robot industry faces hurdles, from battery life and design to limited demand for large-scale deployments (Evan Ackerman/IEEE Spectrum)
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Databricks' head of AI, Naveen Rao, is transitioning to an advisory role; source: his next venture will focus on a next-gen computer to address rising AI costs (Bloomberg)
2025-09-12 02:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Adobe reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $5.99B, vs. $5.91B est., Digital Media revenue up 12% to $4.46B, and Digital Experience revenue up 9% to $1.48B (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
2025-09-11 21:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue Perplexity, alleging that it unlawfully scraped their websites and redirected their traffic to its AI summaries (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
2025-09-11 20:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Albania appoints an AI bot named Diella as the minister responsible for managing and awarding all public procurement tenders to combat corruption (Reuters)
2025-09-11 23:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI and Microsoft say they have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding for the next phase of their partnership, and are working to finalize terms (Ina Fried/Axios)
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OpenAI says its nonprofit parent will continue to have oversight over the company and will own an equity stake of more than $100B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
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Google plans to shut down Tables, a work-tracking tool and competitor to Airtable, in December and directs users to migrate to Google Sheets or AppSheet (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2025-09-11 20:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Figure's shares closed up 24% at $31.11 in its Nasdaq debut, giving it a ~$6.6B market cap, after the company and some of its backers raised $787.5M in its IPO (Bloomberg)
2025-09-11 21:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: the clause rescinding Microsoft's access to OpenAI's most powerful tech if OpenAI develops AGI remains part of their new deal, but it has been modified (New York Times)
2025-09-12 01:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: crypto exchange Gemini raises $425M in its IPO, selling about 15.2M shares for $28 each after marketing them for $24 to $26 apiece (Bloomberg)
2025-09-12 00:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Alibaba releases Qwen3-Next, a new model architecture optimized for long-context understanding, large parameter scale, and better computational efficiency (Crystal Liu/Alizila)
2025-09-12 03:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: OpenAI and Nvidia will pledge billions in UK data center investments during their next week's trip, which coincides with President Trump's UK visit (Bloomberg)
2025-09-12 05:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Apple gets FDA clearance for hypertension alerts on Apple Watch, and plans to roll out the feature to Series 11, 10, and 9, and Watch Ultra 3, and 2 next week (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
2025-09-12 05:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Winklevoss twins' Gemini has seen its planned US IPO oversubscribed by 20x; in an unusual move, the IPO proceeds will be capped at $425M (Echo Wang/Reuters)
2025-09-11 18:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
In 2030, OpenAI projects $200B in revenue, with R&D spending hitting ~45% of that, or ~$90B; R&D costs of Alphabet and others are currently 10%-20% of revenue (The Information)
2025-09-11 19:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US DOJ sues Uber, with its civil rights division alleging that Uber discriminates against people with physical disabilities in violation of federal law (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
2025-09-11 18:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Figure's shares opened up 44% at $44 in its Nasdaq debut, giving it a $7.62B+ market cap, after the company and some of its backers raised $787.5M in its IPO (Reuters)
2025-09-11 17:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
GE Vernova plans to sell its Proficy industrial software unit to PE firm TPG for $600M and reinvest the proceeds in grid software (Reuters)
2025-09-11 17:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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