Test conversations with some Meta AI digital companions, including celebrity-voiced ones, show them engaging in sexual chats even when users identify as minors
Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit.
US v. Google: Chrome's GM testified that other companies cannot develop Chrome effectively, given the browser's “interdependencies” on other parts of Google
Google is the only company that can offer the level of features and functionality that its popular Chrome web browser has today …
India faces a shortage of agentic AI professionals, with executives estimating fewer than 100K in the country while demand is projected to hit ~200K by 2026
India is grappling with a critical shortage of agentic AI professionals as demand surges, driven by the shift towards sophisticated AI agents capable …
Watching OpenAI's o3 guess a photo's location, a process that included running Python code to examine license plates, is surreal, dystopian, and entertaining
Watching OpenAI's new o3 model guess where a photo was taken is one of those moments where decades of science fiction suddenly come to life. Bluesky: @wildebees , @stagefright , and @robmanuelyeah . F...
Leaked letter: Ed Martin, the interim US Attorney for DC, accused Wikipedia of allowing foreign manipulation and propaganda, threatening its tax-exempt status
Wikipedia Bluesky: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse / @whitehouse.senate.gov : Where is the referral from IRS? I've been told for years that DOJ does not investigate IRS matters without a referral. More w...
Sources: ~300 London-based DeepMind staff have sought to unionize with the CWU in recent weeks, to challenge AI sales to defense groups and Google's Israel ties
Move by employees at Google's AI arm follows discontent after weapons and surveillance pledge is dropped
Sources: Huawei has approached some clients about testing the technical feasibility of the Ascend 910D, its newest AI chip that it hopes will beat Nvidia's H100
Superpower rivalry over semiconductors heats up despite Washington's attempts to block Beijing
Stripe plans to test a stablecoin payments product aimed at companies outside the US, the UK, and the EU, using tech from Bridge, which Stripe acquired in 2024
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison said a stablecoin tool for companies outside US, UK and EU is ready for testing. — What to know:
Experts say that India is behind China in deep tech innovation due to its historical focus on services, lower R&D investment, and a brain drain of AI talent
India's government urges the private sector to take the lead in tech innovation, while industry experts say it's complicated. Bluesky: @restofworld.org and @rinachandran X: @furquansid , @restofworld ...
4chan is back online after being down for 10 days, following a hack on April 14 that led to emails of its lead administrators, called “janitors”, being leaked
On the afternoon of April 14th, a hacker using a UK IP address exploited … Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : 4chan Restored After Hackers Exploited Years of Neglected Tech Debt Rob Beschizza / Boing ...
Prompt engineering, one of the buzziest jobs in 2023, becomes obsolete as AI models better intuit user intent and companies train staff on how to write prompts
Prompt engineering, a role aimed at crafting the perfect input to send to a large language model, was poised to become one of the hottest jobs in artificial intelligence. Bluesky: @jordisoler , @tappe...
A look at the rise of “pure play” bitcoin companies like Twenty One, as the stock market is paying far more for crypto exposure than the crypto market itself is
Twenty One, Trumpcoin dinner, KKR empathy, carry on co-investments and quantitative analysis of hockey. — Project Mystery
Trump's tariffs could slow robot adoption in the US, as demand weakens and supplies of components from China, like magnets and precision bearings, are disrupted
Depressed buyers and global supply chains could delay the adoption of futuristic technology — Elon Musk, facing disarray …
Salsa, which provides APIs and UI components that let vertical SaaS platforms offer payroll as a feature to their customers, raised a $20M Series A led by Altos
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Docs and sources detail the opaque market for shares of Elon Musk's private companies; Valor recently offered investors $1B worth of shares in SpaceX and xAI
www.wsj.com/business/elo... X: Dave Benoit / @davecbenoit : It pays very well to be friends with Elon Musk. What CEO would go public when you can make your best friends rich controlling your share off...
Tel Aviv-based Sentra, whose cloud data security software now includes controls aimed at keeping AI prompts free from restricted data, raised a $50M Series B
Ryan Naraine / SecurityWeek :
Bitcoin miners' earnings power and stocks have diverged from the asset they help produce, as the hashrate languishes amid technical and macroeconomic headwinds
What's Next for Bitcoin Miners? Keshav Verma / Bitcoin Insider : Bitcoin Still Trading 40% Under Its ‘Energy Value’: What It Means Travis Hoium / Motley Fool : Why Bitcoin Miners Soared This Week
Filing: China's leading flash memory chipmaker YMTC raised ~$219M from Hebei Yangyuan Zhihui Beverage Co. at a ~$22.1B valuation in December 2023
The deal was signed in December 2023 but was only announced on Friday as it ‘involved commercial secrets’, Yangyuan said
Alpaca, which offers APIs to 200+ financial firms to help their clients trade US stocks, raised a $52M Series C to expand in the Middle East, Europe, and Asia
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A look at efforts by Apple and others to become carbon neutral by investing in eucalyptus farms in Brazil's Cerrado region, amid skepticism from some ecologists
The question is: Can Latin America's fast-growing eucalyptus tree …
NYC-based Healthee, whose AI assistant Zoe lets its clients' workers navigate health insurance and benefits options, raised a $50M Series B led by Key1 Capital
Erin Brodwin / Axios :
a16z, which has a ~20% stake in Deel worth $2.5B+, is advising Deel in fighting Rippling, whose CEO, Parker Conrad, said a16z pushed him out of Zenefits in 2016
Notably, A16Z also (reportedly) pushed some seed investors to sell their Deel stakes in prior rounds to buy as much as they could get, which some were unhappy about. … X: @cailen : Who needs reality t...
At a major Hong Kong electronics exhibition, some Chinese companies say they are exploring ways to lower or skirt tariffs while others plan to wait for clarity
Luz Ding / Bloomberg :
NetEase has lost at least three senior executives in recent months, as CEO William Ding pulls back on investments and cuts jobs in a bid to boost profits
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