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Techmeme - 2025-11-05T02:40:47-05:00

How ideology-driven AI chatbots like Grok and Gab's Arya position themselves as alternatives to mainstream chatbots accused of liberal bias (New York Times) - 2025-11-05T02:40:00-05:00

Sources detail a leadership vacuum and staff cuts at the NSA, eroding morale among its analysts and weakening the agency's long-term cyber capabilities (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW) - 2025-11-05T02:35:01-05:00

A look at US efforts to train workers for semiconductor manufacturing, led by Arizona, which has secured over 60 semiconductor expansion projects since 2020 (Nikkei Asia) - 2025-11-05T02:30:06-05:00

Barclays: hyperscalers have announced a total of 46 GW of AI data center capacity, which at full utilization will consume as much energy as ~44.2M US households (Robin Wigglesworth/Financial Times) - 2025-11-05T02:20:01-05:00

A look at data labeling startups like Objectways, whose workers record and annotate repetitive tasks like folding towels to train AI robots for physical tasks (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times) - 2025-11-05T02:15:01-05:00

VW says it's developing an AI chip for advanced driving in China via a JV between its Cariad unit and Horizon Robotics, with deliveries in three to five years (Edward White/Financial Times) - 2025-11-05T02:10:03-05:00

Customer engagement service MoEngage raised a $100M Series F led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, bringing its total funding to $250M as it ramps up AI investment (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) - 2025-11-05T01:55:03-05:00

Google's proposed Epic settlement includes reduced app store fees globally and a new program for alternative app stores to become first-class Android citizens (Sean Hollister/The Verge) - 2025-11-05T01:25:01-05:00

Google and Epic Games reached an agreement to settle Epic's 2020 antitrust lawsuit, with proposed changes to Android and Google Play pending court approval (Mike Scarcella/Reuters) - 2025-11-05T01:05:02-05:00

Google removed 749M URLs linked to Anna's Archive, a popular shadow library for pirated books, over copyright claims, representing ~5% of all takedown requests (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak) - 2025-11-05T00:35:01-05:00

Qualcomm Ventures and six Indian VC firms join India Deep Tech Alliance with an additional $850M+ in commitments; Nvidia joins as a strategic technical advisor (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) - 2025-11-04T23:25:01-05:00

A look at Fermi, a startup co-founded by ex-US Energy Secretary Rick Perry that aims to build one of the world's largest datacenter campuses in Texas by 2038 (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal) - 2025-11-04T22:45:01-05:00

Bitcoin dropped below $100K for the first time since June on Tuesday; ETH also fell as much as 15% on Tuesday, and many altcoins are down 50%+ this year (Bloomberg) - 2025-11-04T21:25:01-05:00

Shares of Asian AI-linked companies fall, tracking declines in US peers, as investors worry about stretched valuations; SoftBank falls 13%+, Advantest drops 8%+ (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC) - 2025-11-04T20:05:02-05:00

Sources detail Musk's time at xAI after he left DOGE: he oversaw the design of the racy chatbot Ani, employees turned over biometric data to train avatars, more (Wall Street Journal) - 2025-11-04T19:50:01-05:00