https://ift.tt/pMSbcDo Amar Diwakar / Rest of World : Dubai is emerging as a global hub for AI talent, attracting workers with its Golden...
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Saturday, May 31, 2025
AI's real threat to education isn't that it encourages students to cheat, but that it short-circuits the learning processes needed to use generative AI adeptly (Nicholas Carr/New Cartographies)
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May 31, 2025
https://ift.tt/hdU6wn0 Nicholas Carr / New Cartographies : AI's real threat to education isn't that it encourages students to che...
Twitch plans to start testing the ability to host a vertical livestream and rolls out an open beta of 2k streaming, letting creators stream at 1440p (Jay Peters/The Verge)
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May 31, 2025
https://ift.tt/EV2rdUl Jay Peters / The Verge : Twitch plans to start testing the ability to host a vertical livestream and rolls out an ...
Share of news influencers on Bluesky has doubled after the 2024 US election to 43%, but X remains popular, with 82% of news influencers maintaining an account (Pew Research Center)
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May 31, 2025
https://ift.tt/6jXofGZ Pew Research Center : Share of news influencers on Bluesky has doubled after the 2024 US election to 43%, but X re...
Friday, May 30, 2025
Sources: Abridge, which uses AI to transcribe medical chats, is raising $300M led by a16z at a $5.3B valuation, up from $2.75B in February when it raised $250M (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
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May 30, 2025
https://ift.tt/ctXCE4z Kate Clark / Bloomberg : Sources: Abridge, which uses AI to transcribe medical chats, is raising $300M led by a16z...
Q&A with Mary Meeker on publishing her first Trends report since 2019, its focus on the AI revolution, why OpenAI may have an insurmountable lead, and more (Dan Primack/Axios)
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May 30, 2025
https://ift.tt/Nr5jz7e Dan Primack / Axios : Q&A with Mary Meeker on publishing her first Trends report since 2019, its focus on the ...
Sources: Trump administration plans to expand Entity List restrictions to cover subsidiaries of Chinese companies, aiming to block workarounds via new offshoots (Bloomberg)
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May 30, 2025
https://ift.tt/n6Kc8Y0 Bloomberg : Sources: Trump administration plans to expand Entity List restrictions to cover subsidiaries of Chines...
Thursday, May 29, 2025
A federal appeals court grants the Trump administration's request to temporarily pause a lower court ruling that struck down most of President Trump's tariffs (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
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May 29, 2025
https://ift.tt/9iXKrDP Kevin Breuninger / CNBC : A federal appeals court grants the Trump administration's request to temporarily pau...
Stargate's financing and future are far from straightforward, with ~$50B in commitments to date, far below the $500B touted by President Trump and Sam Altman (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)
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May 29, 2025
https://ift.tt/QcPAu7w Tabby Kinder / Financial Times : Stargate's financing and future are far from straightforward, with ~$50B in c...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Sources: the US Commerce Department has told electronic design automation groups, which include Cadence and Synopsys, to stop supplying their tech to China (Financial Times)
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May 28, 2025
https://ift.tt/9KD0xAm Financial Times : Sources: the US Commerce Department has told electronic design automation groups, which include ...
Rillet raised a $25M Sequoia-led Series A and has added ~200 customers, including Windsurf, since debuting an AI tool in 2024 to automate general ledger systems (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
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May 28, 2025
https://ift.tt/r9fm8yp Marina Temkin / TechCrunch : Rillet raised a $25M Sequoia-led Series A and has added ~200 customers, including Win...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
An Iranian man pleads guilty in US court to participating in the Robbinhood ransomware gang, compromising networks of US cities and orgs between 2019 and 2024 (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
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May 27, 2025
https://ift.tt/A7xeats Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer : An Iranian man pleads guilty in US court to participating in the Robbinhood r...
Sources: Apple plans a dedicated app for video games to replace Game Center and come preinstalled on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV devices later this year (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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May 27, 2025
https://ift.tt/5fxABCG Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple plans a dedicated app for video games to replace Game Center and come pre...
Memo: the Trump admin pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls requiring all foreign students applying to study in the US to undergo social media vetting (Nahal Toosi/Politico)
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May 27, 2025
https://ift.tt/icDzNgQ Nahal Toosi / Politico : Memo: the Trump admin pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls requiring all foreig...
More US states are rolling out subsidies for satellite connectivity in rural areas, including some that have funded programs that exclusively subsidize Starlink (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)
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May 27, 2025
https://ift.tt/E019oIV Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal : More US states are rolling out subsidies for satellite connectivity in rur...
Monday, May 26, 2025
The top contributor to X's Community Notes is Web3 Antivirus, a startup that uses an automated process to flag crypto scam posts and has posted 52,000 times (Alexios Mantzarlis/Indicator)
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May 26, 2025
https://ift.tt/1f6VpbM Alexios Mantzarlis / Indicator : The top contributor to X's Community Notes is Web3 Antivirus, a startup that ...
Scam victims in Singapore lost a total of ~$858M last year, up 70% YoY; most are contacted via Meta-owned apps, and deepfakes in scams are increasingly common (Owen Walker/Financial Times)
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May 26, 2025
https://ift.tt/UJQVbSv Owen Walker / Financial Times : Scam victims in Singapore lost a total of ~$858M last year, up 70% YoY; most are c...
Sources, including 30+ current and former Meta employees and 10+ US officials, detail Mark Zuckerberg's embrace of Trump, which has yet to pay major dividends (Bloomberg)
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May 26, 2025
https://ift.tt/zrJcX4e Bloomberg : Sources, including 30+ current and former Meta employees and 10+ US officials, detail Mark Zuckerberg...
People are using ChatGPT for unsparing assessments of their looks, with many also asking the chatbot to create plans to "glow up" their appearance (Tatum Hunter/Washington Post)
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May 26, 2025
https://ift.tt/jCyJ4LT Tatum Hunter / Washington Post : People are using ChatGPT for unsparing assessments of their looks, with many also...
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Source: the main topic at WWDC will be a redesigned software interface, dubbed Solarium, for all of Apple's operating systems, including tvOS and watchOS (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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May 25, 2025
https://ift.tt/dPJSFAT Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Source: the main topic at WWDC will be a redesigned software interface, dubbed Solarium,...
Some Amazon engineers say managers have increasingly pushed them to use AI over the past year, raising output goals and becoming less forgiving about deadlines (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
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May 25, 2025
https://ift.tt/56fTYJy Noam Scheiber / New York Times : Some Amazon engineers say managers have increasingly pushed them to use AI over t...
Google expands Veo 3 availability to 71 additional countries, and Gemini Pro subscribers now get a trial pack of 10 Veo 3 generations on the Gemini web app (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
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May 25, 2025
https://ift.tt/62ONXuB Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : Google expands Veo 3 availability to 71 additional countries, and Gemini Pro subs...
A profile of Zach Witkoff, World Liberty Financial co-founder and son of Trump's Middle East envoy, who is pursuing crypto deals with countries like Pakistan (Wall Street Journal)
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May 25, 2025
https://ift.tt/Pqt4Z7Q Wall Street Journal : A profile of Zach Witkoff, World Liberty Financial co-founder and son of Trump's Middle ...
Saturday, May 24, 2025
Accessibility consultants say the video game industry's accessibility advancements, which gained momentum in 2020, have slowed down due to cutbacks (Geoffrey Bunting/The Verge)
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May 24, 2025
https://ift.tt/bDvZBFe Geoffrey Bunting / The Verge : Accessibility consultants say the video game industry's accessibility advanceme...
Texas is set to enact one of the strictest bans on social media for minors, with age verification requirements and letting parents request account deletions (Adam Edelman/NBC News)
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May 24, 2025
https://ift.tt/KQi2UJP Adam Edelman / NBC News : Texas is set to enact one of the strictest bans on social media for minors, with age ver...