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Techmeme - 2025-11-24T00:40:35-05:00

Apple's DMA compliance isn't "malicious", but an effort to balance Apple's privacy focus with the EU's mandate, as iOS 26.2 iPhone/Watch Wi-Fi sync changes show (John Gruber/Daring Fireball) - 2025-11-24T00:40:01-05:00

OPM Director Scott Kupor earlier this month said DOGE "doesn't exist" and OPM took over many of its functions, eight months before DOGE was set to close (Courtney Rozen/Reuters) - 2025-11-23T23:05:28-05:00

Interviews with current and former OpenAI employees detail how updates that made ChatGPT more appealing to boost growth sent some users into delusional spirals (New York Times) - 2025-11-23T22:50:28-05:00

Changes to CISA left some states without election cybersecurity help; California says CISA gave little support during the November 4 vote on redistricting (Associated Press) - 2025-11-23T20:25:01-05:00

Major insurers have recently sought permission from US regulators to offer policies excluding liabilities tied to businesses deploying AI chatbots and agents (Financial Times) - 2025-11-23T18:15:00-05:00

Flexion, which is building a full autonomy stack for humanoid robots, raised a $50M Series A from DST Global Partners, NVentures, and others, after a $7M+ seed (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News) - 2025-11-23T16:15:00-05:00

Sources: Infinite Reality, rebranded as Napster, told staff that $3B+ in funding from an unnamed investor is not coming, calling itself a "victim of misconduct" (Forbes) - 2025-11-23T14:20:07-05:00

Science-centric streamer CuriosityStream's Q3 revenue rose 46% YoY to $18.4M, driven by IP licensing deals for AI training that generated $23.4M through Sept. (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica) - 2025-11-23T13:30:01-05:00

Filing: Meta axed research based on a Nielsen survey in 2020 that found evidence of social media harms, claiming the survey was tainted by the "media narrative" (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters) - 2025-11-23T11:30:00-05:00

X's new About This Account feature reveals that some top accounts, including many MAGA influencers, are based in countries like Russia, India, and Nigeria (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast) - 2025-11-23T10:50:03-05:00

Sources: iOS 27 will be a Snow Leopard-style update focused on bug fixes and performance, plus new AI features; FT's retirement report on Tim Cook was premature (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - 2025-11-23T10:30:01-05:00

A researcher details an LLM-based AI agent that "demonstrated a near-flawless ability" to bypass bot detection methods while answering online survey questions (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media) - 2025-11-23T08:00:44-05:00

Chip companies in South Korea, Taiwan, and China have been raising pay and bonuses as global competition intensifies for a limited pool of chip engineers (June Yoon/Financial Times) - 2025-11-23T05:00:44-05:00

An in-depth look at the humanoid robotics industry, which currently relies heavily on hype to rally interest and investors, as AI fuels the humanoid boom (James Vincent/Harper's) - 2025-11-23T02:00:36-05:00

Bedrock Data, which has debuted ArgusAI to show enterprises what data their AI models access during training and to prevent data leakage, raised a $25M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios) - 2025-11-23T01:50:01-05:00