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Snap updates its Family Center tool to let parents view daily screen time averages and a breakdown of time spent by specific app segment like Snap Map (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago

Vinted CEO Thomas Plantenga says the Lithuania-based secondhand retailer plans to spend tens of millions of dollars to expand in the US in the coming months (www.wsj.com)
13 days ago

How Google, Huawei, Microsoft, and Nvidia, as well as startups and university research teams, spent millions of dollars to develop AI weather forecasting tools (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Google Microsoft Startup AI Nvidia

NYT and CCDH analysis: Grok created and shared 1.8M+ sexualized images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X (www.nytimes.com)
13 days ago Elon Musk

An analysis of 5,290 AI research papers at NeurIPS: 141, or ~3%, had US-China AI lab collaboration, up from 134 in 2024; Llama featured in 106 Chinese papers (www.wired.com)
13 days ago China AI

Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, and 800+ creatives launch “Stealing Isn't Innovation” to protest unauthorized AI training, backed by RIAA, SAG-AFTRA, and others (www.theverge.com)
13 days ago AI

Wikipedia's Guide to Spotting AI Is Now Being Used To Hide AI (news.slashdot.org)
13 days ago AI

Israeli startup Claroty, which makes security tech for hospitals, manufacturing, and industrial systems, raised a $150M Series F, sources say at a $3B valuation (www.calcalistech.com)
13 days ago Israel Startup Manufacturing

South Korea's Kospi stock index breaks through the record 5,000 level, driven by chip stocks, led by Samsung, up ~3X, and SK Hynix, up ~4x, in the past year (t.co)
13 days ago Korea Samsung

Filing: PhonePe reports H1 FY 2026 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$427.5M, a ~$157M loss, and 657.6M users; the payments company plans to sell 50.7M shares in its IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago IPO

South Korea enacts the AI Basic Act, which it says includes the world's first comprehensive set of laws regulating AI, as startups warn of compliance burdens (www.reuters.com)
13 days ago Korea Startup AI

Q&A with recently departed OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek, who claims OpenAI's shift toward more conservative ways made high-risk, pioneering work harder (www.corememory.com)
13 days ago

A look at the entry-level hiring squeeze in marketing, communications, and customer service as executives increasingly argue AI can absorb much of the workload (www.ft.com)
13 days ago AI

Blue Origin's Satellite Internet Network TeraWave Will Move Data At 6 Tbps (tech.slashdot.org)
13 days ago

Survey: over 40% of executives said AI saved them more than eight hours per week, while two-thirds of non-management staff said they saved less than two hours (www.wsj.com)
13 days ago AI

Sources: the US Senate's crypto market structure bill is likely to be delayed by several weeks as key lawmakers shift focus to potential housing legislation (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Real Estate Senate

A year after the DeepSeek shock following R1's release, US tech companies still lead in AI chips, model quality, and sales, with no change in investment trends (www.barrons.com)
13 days ago AI

German exchange operator Deutsche Boerse agrees to acquire European fund distribution platform Allfunds for about $6.2B in cash and stock (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Germany Europe

Japanese NAND flash maker Kioxia's stock is up ~800% over the past 12 months, as AI demand and constrained NAND flash supply boost the chipmaker's pricing power (www.ft.com)
14 days ago Japan AI

The US House Committee on Foreign Affairs approves a bipartisan bill that calls for arms-sale style congressional oversight of advanced AI chip exports (www.bloomberg.com)
14 days ago AI

Deepinder Goyal, CEO of Indian online food delivery service Zomato and its parent Eternal, steps down and will be succeeded by Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago India

Sources: Anthropic projected a 40% gross margin from selling AI to companies and devs in 2025, down from earlier estimates of 50% due to higher inference costs (www.theinformation.com)
14 days ago AI

BitGo raises $212.8M in its US IPO at $18 per share, above the marketed range of $15 to $17 per share, giving it a market value of about $2.1B (www.bloomberg.com)
14 days ago IPO

Weight-Loss Drugs Could Save US Airlines $580 Million Per Year (science.slashdot.org)
14 days ago

xAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he has “left” the company days after appearing on a podcast last week where he claimed that xAI had been skirting regulations (gizmodo.com)
14 days ago

FBI's Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch On You (hardware.slashdot.org)
14 days ago FBI

'America Is Slow-Walking Into a Polymarket Disaster' (news.slashdot.org)
14 days ago U.S.

Marketing tech startup Applecart raised $100M in a minority funding round led by Blackstone's growth equity business, a source says at a ~$700M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
14 days ago Startup Equity

Apple Reportedly Replacing Siri Interface With Actual Chatbot Experience For iOS 27 (apple.slashdot.org)
14 days ago IOS Apple chatbot

Spotify Lawsuit Triggered Anna's Archive Domain Name Suspensions (yro.slashdot.org)
14 days ago Spotify

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