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Berlin-based Mirelo, whose AI models can interpret video content to add matching sound effects, raised a $41M seed led by Index and a16z, after a $3M pre-seed (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
2025-12-15 12:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Analysis: Tata, Infosys, and Cognizant are set to bear the brunt of Trump's $100K H-1B fee; from 2020 to 2024, 93% of Infosys' H-1B hires would have had to pay (Bloomberg)
2025-12-15 11:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Teneo survey of 350 public-company CEOs: 68% plan to spend more on AI in 2026 than in 2025, <50% of AI projects generated more returns than their cost, and more (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: the UK government wants Apple, Google, and others to block explicit images at the OS level by default to protect kids and have adults verify their ages (Financial Times)
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London-based PolyAI, which makes call center AI voice assistants, raised an $86M Series D led by Georgian, Hedosophia, and Khosla, after raising $50M in 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
2025-12-15 10:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
DTCC: credit default swaps tied to a handful of US tech groups have climbed 90% since early September, as investors seek ways to protect against an AI debt bust (Financial Times)
2025-12-15 10:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filing: Reddit says in its lawsuit against Australia's social media ban that it is "a collection of public fora" and social interaction isn't its "sole purpose" (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
2025-12-15 10:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon's rivalry is moving beyond ads with explicit customer poaching efforts and lawsuits; AT&T twice blocked T-Mobile's Easy Switch tool (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)
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US volunteer fire departments are scrambling to find software amid shrinking options and higher costs, as companies backed by private equity dominate the market (Mike Baker/New York Times)
2025-12-15 09:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How David Sacks and AI adviser Sriram Krishnan overcame the opposition to Trump's AI EO, reaching out to lawmakers and finally modifying the text of the order (Washington Post)
2025-12-15 09:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AI image generators like Nano Banana have increased realism by mimicking phone camera traits in contrast, exposure, and sharpening to avoid the uncanny valley (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
2025-12-15 08:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Interviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: job losses to AI, work used for training, falling wages and rates, freelancers losing clients, and more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
2025-12-15 09:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How Nvidia's lobbying efforts grew after Howard Lutnick brokered Jensen Huang's access to Trump, ending with the president's approval of the H200 sales to China (Financial Times)
2025-12-15 07:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Investigation: after Trump's return to office, the SEC eased up on or dismissed 60%+ of ongoing crypto cases, including ones involving Trump-linked companies (New York Times)
2025-12-15 03:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the three months ending November 30, raising its total data center and cloud capacity commitments to $248B (Martin Peers/The Information)
2025-12-15 06:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow collapse after regulatory pressure killed Amazon's $1.7B deal in 2024, and increased Chinese competition (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
2025-12-15 04:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How UAE's growing interest in crypto drew Michael Saylor, Changpeng Zhao and other crypto executives to Abu Dhabi, hoping to secure deals with Emirati investors (Angus Berwick/Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-15 02:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
iRobot files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after reaching a restructuring support agreement to hand control to its secured lender and key supplier, Shenzhen Picea (Bloomberg)
2025-12-15 00:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An interview with Marcos Galperin, CEO of MercadoLibre, which has a $105B market cap, on his upcoming resignation, MercadoLibre's rivalry with Amazon, and more (Bloomberg)
2025-12-15 01:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How Skövde, a small Swedish city of 58,000, built a local video game ecosystem via a degree for game developers at University of Skövde and a startup incubator (Ralph Jones/The Guardian)
2025-12-14 23:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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