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Techmeme - 2024-05-01T02:45:53-04:00

Walmart discontinues its telehealth service Health Virtual Care citing "escalating operating costs"; Walmart acquired telehealth provider MeMD in 2021 (Justine Calma/The Verge) - 2024-05-01T02:45:13-04:00

A backlash against data centers has triggered laws in Arizona, Georgia, and other parts of the US to restrain the rapidly growing, energy-intensive industry (Antonio Olivo/Washington Post) - 2024-05-01T02:25:05-04:00

In tests run by executives in advertising, animation, and real estate, OpenAI's Sora generated people with more realistic facial features than Runway or Pika (Financial Times) - 2024-05-01T02:05:04-04:00

Taiwan's KYEC, one of the largest chip testing and packaging services firms, divests its entire stake in a Suzhou, China-based subsidiary citing US restrictions (Kelly Le/South China Morning Post) - 2024-05-01T01:00:41-04:00

Google Phone app beta rolls out "Audio Emoji", letting callers select an emoji to play animated sound effects: clapping, laughing, party, crying, poop, sting (Ben Schoon/9to5Google) - 2024-05-01T00:25:01-04:00

Filing: API Holdings, the parent firm of Indian online pharmacy PharmEasy, raises $216M at a $710M valuation, down ~90% from its peak valuation of $5.6B in 2021 (Entrackr) - 2024-05-01T00:05:26-04:00

A look at gpt2-chatbot, a mysterious AI chatbot which became available on LLM benchmarking site LMSYS Org and is believed to have similar capabilities as GPT-4 (Maxwell Zeff/Gizmodo) - 2024-04-30T23:20:06-04:00

Elisity, which is developing AI tools for companies to anticipate and pre-empt cyber threats, raised a $37M Series B from Insight Partners and others (FinSMEs) - 2024-04-30T23:05:01-04:00

Esther Crawford joins Meta's Messenger team as director of product; Crawford was Twitter's director of product management before being laid off in February 2023 (Kwan Wei Kevin Tan/Business Insider) - 2024-04-30T22:10:00-04:00

The House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry accuses Gary Gensler of misleading Congress on the SEC's position on whether ETH is a security (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk) - 2024-04-30T21:15:01-04:00

Over 50 ex-Google employees, fired in connection with a sit-in protest against Google's business ties to Israel, file an NLRB complaint for unlawful retaliation (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge) - 2024-04-30T20:35:01-04:00

AMD projects its MI300 lineup to generate ~$4B in revenue in 2024, up $500M from an earlier forecast, but short of expectations; AMD drops 6%+ after hours (Ian King/Bloomberg) - 2024-04-30T20:00:42-04:00

Sam's Club has deployed its exit tech, which uses computer vision to check members' purchases against their receipts, at 120+ locations, or 20% of its stores (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - 2024-04-30T19:50:02-04:00

An APK review suggests the Rabbit R1 runs Android and its entire user interface is powered by a single Android app (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority) - 2024-04-30T19:25:16-04:00

Twitch rolls out its TikTok-like discovery feed, launching as a tab within the Twitch iOS and Android apps showing live streams and clips (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) - 2024-04-30T19:10:03-04:00