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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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Forums: r/BuyFromEU, r/europe, r/eutech, and Slashdot
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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.| 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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| 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 … | 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, The Verge, en.ain.ua, WinBuzzer, and Sherwood News. Mastodon: @1br0wn@eupolicy.social
| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
AI slop, shared by thousands of prolific accounts, is brute forcing virality, and platforms like Meta embrace it; some AI videos get 350M+ views — Consider, for a moment, that this AI-generated video of a bizarre creature turning into a spider, turning into a nightmare giraffe inside of a busy mall has been viewed 362 million times.
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Mastodon: @sknob@mamot.fr, @matthew@opinuendo.com, and @lowficarrots@tenforward …. X: @jason_koebler
Forums: r/technology and Beehaw
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Users report that Gemini 2.0 Flash is very good at removing watermarks from images; many models allow this but some, like Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-4o, do not — Users on social media have discovered a controversial use case for Google's new Gemini AI model: removing watermarks from images …
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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: SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Zoom, ZDNET, Zoom, Forbes, Constellation Research, WinBuzzer, diginomica, and Techstrong.ai
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Amazon devices chief Panos Panay aims to unveil the first products he has overseen in the fall, talks of new premium devices, hints at wearables like AR glasses — The introduction of tonier hardware, which will coexist with lower- and mid-priced products, is a bid to give consumers more choice …
More: Android Police, 9to5Mac, The Information, and AFTVnews
| 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, The Verge, Road to VR, Snap Newsroom, and AR Insider
| 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.| 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
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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