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[image]</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d05265764d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@ednewtonrex:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cce57212c2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">...2. It will likely be appealed, and will probably go to higher courts. I think the judge mischaracterizes the effect of the copying on the market for & value of the original, and I suspect this will be the subject of more debate. This decision is unlikely to be the end of the story. So there are good aspects - in particular, it looks like many AI companies will be determined to be infringing copyright on a massive scale due to their use of masses of pirated works.</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="big_story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:top;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4ea9ab1a6b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The UK CMA proposes to designate Google with “strategic market status” in general search and search advertising under the new Digital Markets Competition Regime</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span> </td> <td style="padding: 0 10px;vertical-align:top;"> <div class="narrow_image" style="position:relative;"> <img src="https://www.techmeme.com/250624/i2.jpg"> </div> </td> </tr> <!-- <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="excerpt">Big Tech giant slams Competition and Markets Authority's plan as ‘punitive’ and risk to economic growth</span> <span class="cite">(Financial Times)</span> </td> </tr> --> </table> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:5px 10px 3px;"> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e09048f049&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@newsmediaorg:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=70363202a3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">The NMA supports the @CMAgovUK's proposal to give Google Search strategic market status - a critical step toward fairer terms for publishers and stronger oversight of our digital ecoystem. Our CEO @OwenMeredithNMA sets out our position in full: </a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3c6f562536&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@stokel:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=43c431f009&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">It is very weird that the CMA is choosing to go after Google *now* for dominating the search and ad markets when its share of the market is easing off for the first time in 15 years [image]</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;background-color:#f4f4f4;" class="story sponsor"> <table class="leading_item" style="width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:middle;"> <span class="label" style="display: block;color: #686860;font-size: 12px;font-weight: bold;padding: 2px 0;">SPONSOR</span> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=13a571223c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Ship with AI: The Future of Coding is Here</a></span> <span class="excerpt" style="color: black;font-size: 16px;"> — Use natural language in Slack to trigger real PRs, docs, dashboards, infra & more. Codegen connects GitHub, Linear, Notion, and beyond.</span> </td> <td style="padding:0 20px 0 15px;vertical-align:middle;text-align:right;"> <a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cb8668560a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;"> <img class="sponsor_image" src="https://techmeme.com/simg/codegen.png"> </a> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="big_story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:top;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2e7ca64cfa&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Waymo launches robotaxis in Atlanta available exclusively in Uber's app, covering a 65-square-mile area excluding highways, after launching in Austin on March 4</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Andrew J. Hawkins / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span> </td> <td style="padding: 0 10px;vertical-align:top;"> <div class="narrow_image" style="position:relative;"> <img src="https://www.techmeme.com/250624/i11.jpg"> </div> </td> </tr> <!-- <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="excerpt">Atlanta is the second city to host Uber and Waymo's burgeoning partnership.</span> <span class="cite">(Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge)</span> </td> </tr> --> </table> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:5px 10px 3px;"> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a7325fa319&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@joecarlsonshow:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=07924ffeae&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Last week they doubled the area they're operating in California, today they're starting rides in Atlanta. Waymo sure seems to be scaling fast for a company that can't scale.</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8c7265a02e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@buccocapital:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7d2f1c1b88&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Uber up 35% since this tweet Waymo partnering with Uber in Atlanta after Austin was a big success Some people still don't think aggregated demand is worth anything. Time will tell! [image]</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d52af50369&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Amazon says it plans to bring same-day or next-day delivery to “tens of millions” of people who live “in more than 4,000” smaller US towns by the end of 2026</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Andrew J. Hawkins / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e96f96d3c0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple sparks a backlash from iPhone owners after pushing a notification from the Apple Wallet app that promoted a Fandango deal for Apple's F1 movie</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sarah Perez / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=159383453c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Microsoft is planning a round of Xbox layoffs next week, with managers expecting substantial cuts, the fourth big layoff at Xbox in the past 18 months</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jason Schreier / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1860e25ea1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft and Meta unveil the $399 Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition, a bundle with the $299 Meta Quest 3S in a new color, available in “extremely limited” quantities</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jez Corden / </span><span class="pub_name">Windows Central</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5cd1d18b04&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: 19-year-old Edward Coristine, who has gone by “Big Balls” online and was one of the first technologists hired as part of DOGE, has resigned</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=30f424cf6c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft makes Windows 10's extended security updates free for an extra year for users who sync PC settings via a Microsoft Account and the Windows Backup app</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Zac Bowden / </span><span class="pub_name">Windows Central</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=300ae3773a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Chrome for Android is rolling out a feature that lets users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen, after it launched for iOS users in 2023</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jay Peters / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=020f2b28f9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">CareerBuilder + Monster, which once dominated the online recruitment industry, files for Chapter 11 and agrees to sell its job board operations to JobGet</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jonathan Stempel / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> artificial intelligence </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d520f69df2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">John Oliver's Last Week Tonight looks at AI slop, how it corrodes the concept of objective reality, the slop economy, tech leaders' enthusiasm for gen AI, more</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">LastWeekTonight on YouTube</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4a7bbf8271&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: in 2024, OpenAI considered document collaboration features but lacked the staff to create them, but has since built some unreleased collaboration tools</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=948aa0382a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">WhatsApp has become a kind of AI marketplace where chatbots like ChatGPT, Meta AI, and Perplexity jockey for users' attention</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Pranav Dixit / </span><span class="pub_name">Business Insider</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=30859fa0b1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Interviews with 24+ Microsoft customers and salespeople show that Microsoft is struggling to sell Copilot to enterprises as many of their employees want ChatGPT</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f8930066fd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google releases a new Gemini Robotics On-Device model with an SDK and says the vision language action model can adapt to new tasks in 50 to 100 demonstrations</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ryan Whitwam / </span><span class="pub_name">Ars Technica</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a4ee90942d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Inside Amazon's Indiana data center complex: built for Anthropic with plans for ~30 centers, consuming 2.2GW of power and millions of gallons of water per year</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=97fcc8e784&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Court filings from in-ear hardware device startup iyO's trademark dispute lawsuit against OpenAI detail OpenAI and io's efforts to build a mass-market AI device</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Maxwell Zeff / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1a59398808&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at 2025's AI models and what's next: OpenAI's o3 is a technical breakthrough, agents will improve randomly and in leaps, but scaling parameters will slow</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Nathan Lambert / </span><span class="pub_name">Interconnects</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8a14a45049&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Researchers: “chain of thought” techniques used by Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI show inconsistencies where chatbot answers contradict the stated reasoning</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Cristina Criddle / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=eac9e59e61&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Scale AI used Google Docs to track work for customers like Google, Meta, and xAI, and left confidential AI training documents accessible to anyone with the link</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Business Insider</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2664c901de&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The Linux Foundation unveils the Agent2Agent project, with founding members including Google, Amazon, and Microsoft; Google donated the protocol spec and SDKs</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Google Developers Blog</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d3cb67905f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">At its Discover 2025 conference, HPE unveiled HPE CloudOps Software, GreenLake Intelligence, which can deploy AI agents across its hybrid cloud stack, and more</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Larry Dignan / </span><span class="pub_name">Constellation Research</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8c74e44f51&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How Broadway is embracing large-scale, high-resolution videos as an integrated narrative tool aided by generative AI, as some creatives worry about its overuse</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Michael Paulson / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> dating apps </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1b73c6f9de&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Demand is growing for expensive personalized dating services that vet members before first dates; Tinder's paid users have fallen for two years amid app fatigue</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=dc3e38eefb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Q&A with Hinge CEO Justin McLeod on why AI companionship is like junk food, plans for a Hinge mobile payment system to avoid Apple's App Store fees, and more</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Nilay Patel / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> funding deals </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5b85f3f01d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Abridge, which uses AI to automate doctors' notetaking, raised $300M led by a16z at a $5.3B valuation, after raising $250M at a $2.75B valuation in February</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Belle Lin / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ddc0a2d333&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Digital Asset, which builds the Canton Network, an open-source public blockchain for regulated financial institutions, raised $135M co-led by DRW and Tradeweb</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ryan Browne / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1b40690e59&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Xbow, whose AI tool automates penetration testing and topped HackerOne's US leaderboard for finding and reporting software bugs, raised a $75M Series B</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dina Bass / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0eb0f66374&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">AI dictation startup Wispr Flow raised a $30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, after its 2024 pivot away from a hardware device, taking its total funding to $56M</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> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d7d5d1ef47&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Eventual, which develops Daft, a Python-native open-source data processing engine, raised a $7.5M seed led by CRV and a $20M Series A led by Felicis Ventures</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rebecca Szkutak / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=55bee867a9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Berlin-based Synthflow, a no-code service letting enterprises build and deploy customized voice AI customer service agents, raised a $20M Series A led by Accel</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rebecca Szkutak / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> more news </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=31dbf54cc7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">New Zealand-based Xero, which offers accounting software for small businesses, agrees to acquire payments software company Melio in a $2.5B+ cash-and-stock deal</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rajasik Mukherjee / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6df7b99b3e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Amazon says it plans to invest £40B in the UK economy over the next three years, including opening four new warehouses; Amazon invested £12B+ in the UK in 2023</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Freya Jones / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;background-color:#f4f4f4;" class="story sponsor"> <table class="leading_item" style="width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> 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