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AI slop, shared by thousands of prolific accounts, is brute forcing virality, and platforms like Meta embrace it; some AI videos get 350M+ views — Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working. — Consider, for a moment, that this AI-generated video …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Open letter: ~100 EU companies urge EU lawmakers to take “radical action” to shrink the reliance on foreign infrastructure by fostering a so-called “Euro stack” — A broad coalition drawn from across the ranks of Europe's tech industry is calling for “radical action” …
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HR service Rippling sues Deel, accusing its rival of hiring a mole in its Dublin office to comb through trade secrets, uncovered via a “honeypot” Slack channel — A lawsuit by Rippling accuses a top competitor, Deel, of placing a mole in its ranks — which it uncovered via a “honeypot” trap on Slack.| Stephen Morris / Financial Times: |
Alphabet spins off laser-based internet company Taara from its X “moonshot” incubator; Taara, which raised new funding, has its origins in Loon, closed in 2021 — Taara start-up aims to compete with Elon Musk's Starlink to connect remote areas to the internet using light beams
More: Engadget, DatacenterDynamics, en.ain.ua, The Verge, Sherwood News, and WinBuzzer. Mastodon: @1br0wn@eupolicy.social
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Roblox open sources Cube 3D, the first version of its AI foundation model for generating 3D objects, trained on licensed and public datasets and its own data — The model, Cube 3D, creates 3D models from a text prompt. … Roblox is launching and open-sourcing Cube 3D …
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| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
Zoom unveils AI Companion 2.0, which adds agentic AI features, including calendar management, meeting tools, and document creation, rolling out by July 2025 — Zoom became a household name during the pandemic as remote work became the norm nearly overnight.
More: The Verge, ZDNET, SiliconANGLE, Zoom, Forbes, Constellation Research, Zoom, WinBuzzer, diginomica, and Techstrong.ai
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Bumble rolls out new ID verification in the US, the UK, Australia, France, India, and six other markets, as founder Whitney Wolfe Herd returns as its CEO — Bumble Inc. is adding ID verification to its dating app alongside other new features, an attempt to court safety-conscious younger users … | Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Walmart's OnePay says Klarna will replace Affirm to offer buy-now-pay-later to US shoppers later in 2025, and OnePay can buy a Klarna stake; AFRM drops 10%+ — Swedish fintech firm Klarna will be the exclusive provider of buy now, pay later loans for Walmart, taking a coveted partnership away from rival Affirm, CNBC has learned.| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Sources: Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan has considered restructuring Intel's AI approach and cutting staff to address a slow and bloated middle management layer — Intel's incoming CEO Lip-Bu Tan has considered significant changes to its chip manufacturing methods and artificial intelligence strategies ahead …
More: Capital Brief, New York Post, WinBuzzer, Barron's Online, Benzinga, and Tech in Asia
Forums: r/intelstock and r/hardware
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Discord launches a Social SDK to let developers offer friends lists, cross-platform messaging, voice, and more, with console and mobile support “coming soon” — An easier way to connect with Discord friends. … Discord is launching a way for developers to directly integrate …
More: PC Gamer, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, and Developer Tech News
| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
Crypto exchange OKX says it has “temporarily” suspended its DEX aggregator services, used to launder the $1.5B Bybit hack, after reported EU scrutiny under MiCA — Digital-asset exchange OKX has suspended a service used by hackers to launder proceeds from a $1.5 billion heist … | Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian: |
How Elon Musk targeted 18F, as former employees say the GSA group focused on increasing bureaucratic efficiency through tech, similar to what DOGE claims to do — Rightwing campaign propelled by tech billionaire accuses General Services Administration's 18F of being a far-left cell
Bluesky: @montgomery, @angelacolter, @ronbronson.com, @metacurity.com, and @galenstone. X: @blakersdozen
Forums: r/NewsOfTheStupid and r/politics
| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
An interview with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel on Snap's fifth-generation smart glasses, unveiled in September 2024, competing with Apple and Meta, Snap OS, and more — The new Spectacles can project augmented-reality imagery onto the lenses. — Evan Spiegel sees something others don't …
More: TechCrunch, Snap Newsroom, The Verge, Road to VR, and AR Insider
| Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: |
Telegram's Pavel Durov has left France, reportedly after a judge authorized him to leave the country for “several weeks”; the investigation is ongoing — The Russian-born founder and owner of the messaging app Telegram said he returned to Dubai after spending several months … Sponsor Posts
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