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Techmeme - 2024-04-29T11:35:33-04:00

Tether says it invested $200M in brain-computer interface company Blackrock Neurotech, via its newly established VC arm Tether Evo (Philip Lagerkranser/Bloomberg) - 2024-04-29T11:10:01-04:00

SCOTUS rejects an appeal from Elon Musk in his case to overturn an SEC agreement to have a lawyer pre-approve his posts about Tesla, without giving a reason (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg) - 2024-04-29T10:30:01-04:00

The NHTSA investigates Ford's driver assistance system BlueCruise, which was active in two recent crashes that killed multiple people in Texas and Pennsylvania (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch) - 2024-04-29T10:15:06-04:00

A look at the rise of Mustafa Suleyman and Demis Hassabis, two of the most powerful AI executives, who grew up in London and met at Queen Elizabeth's School (New York Times) - 2024-04-29T09:55:03-04:00

Getir plans to close its quick grocery delivery operations in the US, the UK, and Europe to focus on its home market of Turkey, impacting 6,000+ jobs (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) - 2024-04-29T09:40:01-04:00

The UK bans default guessable usernames and passwords for some IoT devices, to help avoid a situation like the 2016 Mirai botnet, the first country to do so (Alexander Martin/The Record) - 2024-04-29T09:30:01-04:00

Manor Lords, a new medieval city building game from Polish indie developer Grzegorz Styczen, sells 1M+ copies and hits 170K+ concurrent players on Steam (Konrad Krasuski/Bloomberg) - 2024-04-29T08:50:03-04:00

PitchBook: investors have poured $330B into ~26,000 AI and ML startups over the past three years, up 66% on funding to 20,350 AI companies from 2018 to 2020 (New York Times) - 2024-04-29T06:40:01-04:00

Sources: Meta's Oversight Board told some staff last week that their jobs were at risk, likely adding to its challenges after criticism for moving too slowly (Naomi Nix/Washington Post) - 2024-04-29T06:20:13-04:00

The European Commission designates iPadOS under the DMA, giving Apple six months to comply, after designating iOS, the App Store, and Safari in September 2023 (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg) - 2024-04-29T06:00:04-04:00

France makes a non-binding offer to buy some of Atos' operations, including its supercomputer and cyber products, for €700M to €1B, as Atos seeks to raise €1.7B (Bloomberg) - 2024-04-29T05:45:06-04:00

The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on its archived content, and to let ChatGPT respond with short summaries of FT articles (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times) - 2024-04-29T04:25:11-04:00

An interview with Grindr CEO George Arison on online safety, a mass data protection lawsuit against the app in the UK, plans for increasing ad revenue, and more (Financial Times) - 2024-04-29T03:55:03-04:00

Privacy nonprofit noyb files a GDPR complaint against OpenAI in Austria on behalf of an unnamed public figure, who found ChatGPT gave his incorrect birth date (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch) - 2024-04-29T02:25:00-04:00

Sources: Chinese officials told Tesla that Beijing has tentatively approved the company's plan to launch its Full Self-Driving software feature in the country (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal) - 2024-04-29T02:09:25-04:00