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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cfa92d8f7f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Researchers say tactics used to make AI more engaging, like making them more agreeable, can drive chatbots to reinforce harmful ideas, like encouraging drug use</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Nitasha Tiku / </span><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=b62b519c72&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A Replit employee details a critical security flaw in web apps created using AI-powered app builder Lovable that exposes API keys and personal info of app users</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Reed Albergotti / </span><span class="pub_name">Semafor</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=32636fd712&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Docs and sources: Builder.ai faked business with Bengaluru-based VerSe, which runs Dailyhunt, by “round-tripping” nearly $60M in total revenue from 2021 to 2024</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=28e2baf798&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Dubai is emerging as a global hub for AI talent, attracting workers with its Golden Visa program, no taxes, attractive salaries, and ease of setting up business</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Amar Diwakar / </span><span class="pub_name">Rest of World</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=a22a07568f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Nicholas Carr / </span><span class="pub_name">New Cartographies</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=3aa36a807b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The share of news influencers on Bluesky almost doubled after the 2024 US election to 43%, but X remains popular, with 82% of news influencers having an account</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Pew Research Center</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=35d576f3ec&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Analysis of the top 100 trending TikTok videos under #mentalhealthtips: 52 contain misinformation, including misused therapeutic language and quick-fix methods</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">The Guardian</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=9215608d9c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nvidia reported record gaming revenue of $3.76B in Q1, up 42% YoY, driven by sales of its Blackwell chips that can be used to enhance game graphics through DLSS</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Max Knoblauch / </span><span class="pub_name">Sherwood News</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=3b6ab746ed&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Roblox game Grow a Garden has spawned a market where in-game items are sold for real money on sites like eBay and Facebook, potentially violating Roblox's ToS</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Cecilia D'Anastasio / </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=25baa7ad30&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Vista Equity Partners agrees to acquire ERP software provider Acumatica from PE firm EQT, sources say in a deal that values Acumatica at ~$2B including debt</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=62a0fcb62f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Defense tech firm Leidos acquires VA-based Kudu Dynamics, which provides AI-enabled cyber defense and offense tools to the US DOD and other customers, for $300M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Courtney Albon / </span><span class="pub_name">Defense News</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=75423022b1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How the delivery app Fantuan grew its US presence to 50+ cities since 2019 by focusing on Asian cuisines, with an app design reminiscent of Chinese platforms</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alex Harring / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</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=aa5e2dfa9d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A profile of DoorDash CEO Tony Xu, who has transformed the once-scrappy delivery startup into an almost $90B industry consolidator through an acquisition spree</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Samantha Subin / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</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=da5109881c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Art house streaming service and distributor Mubi raised $100M led by Sequoia at a $1B valuation; Mubi has ~20M registered users worldwide and 400+ employees</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Christopher Grimes / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial 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=40f3675407&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">London-based Dojo, a payments tech provider to over 140K businesses, raised $190M from Vitruvian Partners in its first equity raise since launching in 2021</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Vishal Singh / </span><span class="pub_name">Silicon Canals</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=618be9dbb0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Boston-based cloud cost management startup CloudZero raised a $56M Series C led by BlueCrest Capital Management and Innovius Capital</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chris Metinko / </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=529452ebcd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">NYC-based Empathy, whose products are focused on loss support and legacy planning for bereaving families, raised a $72M Series C led by Adams Street Partners</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Allie Garfinkle / </span><span class="pub_name">Fortune</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=1c434824ab&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Vivodyne, which uses AI and robots to grow human tissues in the lab for drug discovery and development, raised a $40M Series A led by Khosla Ventures</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Katherine Davis / </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=20956bc370&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Twitch plans to start testing the ability to host a vertical livestream and an open beta of “2K streaming” that will let partners and affiliates stream at 1440p</a></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=816c2aaae8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A profile of prediction market Kalshi, which is using its federal financial license to open up sports gambling across the US, even in states where it is illegal</a></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=23783cb8d4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Brazil is piloting dWallet, a digital wallet program that lets users manage, own, and profit from their data, the first such nationwide initiative in the world</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Gabriel Daros / </span><span class="pub_name">Rest of World</span>)</span>
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