TMtechmemeHugging Face unveils Microduck, a $400, 1.7lb, 10-inch-tall bipedal robot developed in part by Pollen Robotics and manufactured by Shenzhen-based Seeed Studio (Bloomberg)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Adam Mosseri met with state AG representatives roughly a month ago, saying Meta would appeal any adverse verdict but was willing to make changes (Reuters)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Donald Trump Jr. told GOP state AGs at a March event that gambling companies' "vested interest" was misleading states to attack prediction markets (New York Times)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMeta says its new teen safeguards on Facebook and Instagram are exclusively for US users; the changes will be closely watched by officials outside of the US (Bloomberg)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeCambridge, MA-based Transfyr emerges from stealth with a $25M seed to use AI to address science's reproducibility crisis and capture labs' "tacit knowledge" (Carl Zimmer/New York Times)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeX launches NFL Gametime, an integrated NFL feed and hub featuring live data, scores, statistics, creator content, and more through to the 2027 Super Bowl (Brian Steinberg/Variety)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeRockstar executives discuss GTA VI, including new interactive systems that let player habits like diet alter characters' appearance and in-game social media (Thom Waite/Dazed)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeYouTube and TikTok are yet to publicly acknowledge Meta's proposed changes under its AG settlement; some US lawmakers signal an appetite for industry-wide rules (Mike Isaac/New York Times)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Singapore-based Shein is set to price its Hong Kong IPO at ~$6.20, or near the midpoint of its marketed range, raising $1.73B and valuing it at ~$26.5B (Reuters)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAnthropic releases findings from a pilot that let three external researchers run studies on Claude usage; one study found users delegate high-stakes tasks (Anthropic)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeUK consulting executives say AI has made interpersonal skills more valuable, as the companies consider more office time for junior staff to hone them (Ellesheva Kissin/Financial Times)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA federal judge, in his US Court of Appeals ruling, urged SCOTUS to reconsider the issue of CSAM and revisit legal precedents that predated advances in AI (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA look at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID app, which has been downloaded 42M times since launching in 2014 and can identify 11,000 bird species (Claer Barrett/Financial Times)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: DeepSeek is set to soon raise $7.4B at a $74B valuation from existing and new investors to fund R&D and its expansion into computing infrastructure (Wall Street Journal)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeIndian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Porsche's IT consulting business, MHP, for €320M as part of a five-year, €1.25B contract to provide AI services to Porsche (Priyanka Salve/CNBC)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGoogle starts rolling out the google.com/goto URL as a passthrough URL to help prevent scraping of its search results by third-party tools and AI companies (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeArturo Béjar, a key witness in state AGs' trial against Meta, says terms of the settlement are insufficient to protect young users; Meta rejects the criticism (Nick Robins-Early/The Guardian)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeFiling: Nvidia says it has $18B committed to equity investments for the rest of the fiscal year and held $47.9B in private companies as of late July (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMeta seeks to position itself as the industry leader in child safety through its settlement with US AGs, while still refusing to admit any wrongdoing (Casey Newton/Platformer)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: the US is probing Singapore-based Apex Logistics for its suspected role in smuggling servers with Nvidia AI chips to China; Apex says it is cooperating (Bloomberg)industry28 days ago▲ 24Read story→