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As startups flood the market with AI shopping agents, Amazon is playing defense by blocking agents' access to its site and investing heavily in its own tools (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
2025-12-26 02:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A US judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from detaining CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed, one of the Europeans the US barred on claims of promoting censorship (Aishvarya Kavi/New York Times)
2025-12-26 00:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An interview with Citizen Lab founder Ronald Deibert about the US adopting authoritarian digital practices, the research group's accomplishments, and more (Finian Hazen/MIT Technology Review)
2025-12-25 23:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Apple settles with a Brazilian regulator to allow alternative app stores; report: Apple will charge a 5% fee for alt app stores and 15% on App Store link-outs (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
2025-12-25 21:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Xiaomi unveils $999+ 17 Ultra in China with three rear cameras, including a 50MP 1" sensor and a 200MP periscope lens; Leica edition gets a mechanical zoom ring (Siddharth/GSMArena.com)
2025-12-25 19:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AI sector minted 50+ new billionaires in 2025; Crunchbase: investors poured $200B+ into AI startups in 2025, or about 50% of global funding, up from 34% in 2024 (Alicia Park/Forbes)
2025-12-25 18:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tesla's robotaxi service in Austin significantly trails Waymo, deploying an estimated 30 cars with safety drivers, vs. Waymo's 200 cars without human monitors (Jack Ewing/New York Times)
2025-12-25 15:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the humans employed to rescue robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay $20 to $24 to manually close robotaxi doors and $60 to $80 to tow its cars (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)
2025-12-25 13:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Detroit's Apple Developer Academy, launched after the BLM protests, which spends $20K per student, nearly 2x the budget of local community colleges (Paresh Dave/Wired)
2025-12-25 12:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
PitchBook: crypto M&A hit $8.6B across 267 deals in 2025 vs. $2.17B in 2024; 11 crypto IPOs raised $14.6B worldwide, up from $310M from four IPOs in 2024 (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
2025-12-25 09:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
2025-12-25 07:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groq, which has raised ~$1.8B, includes payouts to Groq's key execs and investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global (The Information)
2025-12-25 06:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A teardown of Huawei's Mate 70 Pro and Pura 80 Pro shows 57% of components were made in China; similarly priced Huawei phones in 2023 had 32% Chinese components (Takehiro Hasegawa/Nikkei Asia)
2025-12-25 05:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with Google DeepMind VP of Research Pushmeet Kohli on launching AlphaFold 2 five years ago, hallucinations, building an "AI co-scientist", and more (Sandro Iannaccone/Wired)
2025-12-25 02:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese humanoid robot startup Galbot raised over $300M led by China Mobile's industry investment fund at a $3B valuation, bringing its total funding to $800M (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)
2025-12-25 01:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nvidia agrees to a licensing deal with Groq; CEO Jonathan Ross and other top executives will join Nvidia; Groq says it will continue operating independently (Ian King/Bloomberg)
2025-12-24 22:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nvidia has agreed to buy AI chip startup Groq for $20B in cash, according to Alex Davis, CEO of Disruptive, which led Groq's latest financing round in September (David Faber/CNBC)
2025-12-24 21:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Analysis: Oracle has moved $66B of debt for building AI data centers off its balance sheet using SPVs; Meta has moved $30B, xAI moved $20B, and CoreWeave $2.6B (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)
2025-12-24 19:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The Trump administration's travel ban on five Europeans includes researchers working to tackle online disinformation and abuse, like CCDH founder Imran Ahmed (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
2025-12-24 17:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Beijing-based DP Technology, which develops AI tools used by researchers for tasks like computer-aided drug design and battery design, raised a ~$114M Series C (Eunice Xu/South China Morning Post)
2025-12-24 16:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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