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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=287942be56&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources detail Apple's AI efforts, including John Giannandrea's tenure, Craig Federighi's initial lack of interest in LLMs, and its acquisitions, including Siri</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=10f5001a44&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@alexmaxham:</a>
<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2fe0d7fd89&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">So Apple didn't believe in AI and didn't want to spend money on GPUs, that's why they're behind. Yikes </a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8196d0c9f7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">I'm genuinely perplexed how any self-proclaimed “China Hawk” can claim that President Trump's AI deals with UAE and Saudi Arabia aren't hugely beneficial for the United States. As leading semiconductor analyst Dylan Patel observed, these deals “will noticeably shift the balance of power” in America's favor. The only question you need to ask is: does China wish it had made these deals? Yes of course it does. But President Trump got there first and beat them to the punch.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=80b41a928d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">my take: [screenshot: “1. It's going to cannibalize US buildout and leave the world with three independent power centers of Al hardware where we could've stuck to our guns, done more power generation at home, and only had China to deal with not these wild card countries that are not actual allies. If this really is as important as we believe, why are we letting these countries and companies we deeply distrust get access to it?"]</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cceab45e3b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">MIT says it no longer stands behind a widely circulated research paper by its student that claimed an AI tool boosted discoveries in a materials science lab</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Justin Lahart / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=49507d3904&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Government officials and experts say there have been dozens of recorded crypto-related abductions globally over the past year; France saw five in recent months</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4c19446454&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How the crypto industry is adapting to the recent wave of kidnappings, from more extensive security around conferences, to a rise in personal bodyguards, more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Emily Nicolle / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9ee962c856&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Critics question Meta's Louisiana datacenter plans for three new power plants; Meta's carbon footprint is up from 2020, when it pledged 2030 net-zero emissions</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Justine Calma / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=47d06e0329&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Big Tech companies are firing staff who organize protests and rejecting petitions, even as a poor job market discourages worker activism, once ubiquitous in SV</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Washington Post</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ef8666863a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Deep dive on the evolution of Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI, from its $1B investment in 2019 through Copilot rollouts and ChatGPT's launch to present day</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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artificial intelligence
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=100903af3a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: White House and lawmakers are scrutinizing Apple's plan to use Alibaba's AI on iPhones in China, over concerns about data sharing, censorship, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tripp Mickle / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4a02636c63&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at AI companies' lobbying push, as well as the GOP's pitch, for the amendment to ban state-level AI regulation, added to the budget reconciliation bill</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Brian Merchant / </span><span class="pub_name">Blood in the Machine</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=779b3ddb11&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How rapid advances in AI are helping Harvard's Galileo Project and other UFO research efforts process huge amounts of data in real time from multiple sources</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=192536534b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">About 30% of South Korean schools have adopted AI-powered digital textbooks since the country's education ministry began a full-scale rollout in March 2025</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Nikkei Asia</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=125ab4c820&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">UnitedHealth's Optum is developing an AI-powered risk scoring system for Medicare patients that does not rely solely on physician-submitted diagnosis codes</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Bob Herman / </span><span class="pub_name">STAT</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d089d4ec15&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An interview with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke and CPO Mario Rodriguez on the year of SWE agents, Copilot phase two, Project Padawan, programming's future, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Frederic Lardinois / </span><span class="pub_name">The New Stack</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b7ceff8b93&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Eight workers, from a nurse dealing with hospital discharge planning algorithms to a salon owner with AI-generated hairstyles, share how AI changed their work</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Marin Cogan / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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video games
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5e597d5e18&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at EA's attempts to shut down “anti-DEI” mods for The Sims 4, including one that changes LGBT and Black NPCs to straight and white</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alana Yzola / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7ef2fc1086&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Q&A with Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser on Switch 2 pricing backlash, physical games' importance to its business despite Game-Key cards, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Logan Plant / </span><span class="pub_name">IGN</span>)</span>
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venture capital
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d6f8c5741c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Carta: VC deals are stalling at seed, with the Series A deal count falling by 79% between Q1 2022 and Q1 2025; 46% of seed deals were bridge rounds in Q1 2025</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dan Primack / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=65d1a3e718&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Venture Intelligence: Indian deep tech startups have raised $4.7B since 2014, accounting for just 3.2% of Indian startup funding, signaling a sector-wide crunch</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sayan Chakraborty / </span><span class="pub_name">Nikkei Asia</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=dd23c0eef9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Chinese startups are highlighting their roots instead of downplaying them as they grow overseas, fueled by the success of Chinese social media apps and DeepSeek</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kinling Lo / </span><span class="pub_name">Rest of World</span>)</span>
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funding deals
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=685f808024&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Addepar, which provides wealth management software, raised a $230M Series G co-led by Vitruvian Partners and WestCap at a $3.25B valuation, up from $2B in 2021</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lawrence White / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6e25c61f07&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Utah-based property management software firm Entrata raised $200M from Blackstone at a $4.3B valuation; Entrata raised $507M from Silver Lake and others in 2021</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a5791bdd18&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">NYC-based Optimal Dynamics, a provider of AI-powered fleet management software to trucking companies, raised a $40M Series C led by Koch Disruptive Technologies</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Marc Vartabedian / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0e23541204&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Cohere Health, which uses AI to provide prior authorization for health plans, raised a $90M Series C led by Temasek, taking its total funding to ~$200M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Noah Tong / </span><span class="pub_name">Fierce Healthcare</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e7da0e4b46&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">London-based Granola, which provides an AI-based notetaking app, raised a $43M Series B led by NFDG at a $250M valuation, taking its total funding to $67M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ivan Mehta / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3510ee88f0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Cyera is raising $500M led by Lightspeed, Greenoaks and Georgian in a round valuing the data security company at $6B, up from 2024's $3.4B valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9b31f1749c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Boston-based PhaseV, which is developing AI software to accelerate clinical trials and drug development, raised a $50M Series A co-led by Accel and Insight</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Aaron Weitzman / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=940847f892&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Somite AI, which is developing AI foundation models for stem cell therapies, raised a $47M+ Series A led by Khosla Ventures, taking its total funding to ~$60M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Gil Press / </span><span class="pub_name">Forbes</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=dec57de17d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">London-based Origin, which offers software to help HR teams administer employee benefits, emerges from stealth with a $21M Series A led by Felix Capital</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lucy Adams / </span><span class="pub_name">Tech.eu</span>)</span>
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more news
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=70514f0698&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Indian investment app Groww agrees to acquire wealthtech startup Fisdom in an all-cash deal, valuing Fisdom at $140M to $160M; Fisdom had raised ~$48M</a></span>
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