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Google quietly released an Android app called Google AI Edge Gallery on GitHub, letting users run some AI models from Hugging Face locally on their phones — Last week, Google quietly released an app that lets users run a range of openly available AI models from the AI dev platform Hugging Face on their phones.
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| NPR: |
Internal docs show Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like youth risk — For years, when Meta launched new features for Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, teams of reviewers evaluated possible risks: Could it violate users' privacy?
More: Engadget, TechCrunch, The Economic Times, and WinBuzzer
Bluesky: @justinhendrix, @bobbyallyn, @noaasm, @lizzieohreally, @ambientvisions, @hypervisible, and @daphnek. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Forums: r/nottheonion and r/technology
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitch plans to start testing the ability to host a vertical livestream and rolls out an open beta of “2K streaming”, letting creators stream at 1440p — The platform is also launching an open beta of higher-quality streams. … Twitch is announcing a bunch of updates at TwitchCon Europe …
More: Twitch, Mashable, Bleeding Cool News, Engadget, and ChannelX
Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk and @knoebel
| Nicholas Carr / New Cartographies: |
AI's real threat to education isn't that it encourages students to cheat, but that it short-circuits the learning processes needed to use generative AI adeptly — AI's real threat to education. — Among the general public, generative AI's most enthusiastic early adopters have been students.
Bluesky: @cjpberry, @dogsincali, @ojala, and @pgho. Mastodon: @js@podcastindex.social. Threads: @medieval_moll. X: @roughtype
| Amar Diwakar / Rest of World: |
Dubai is emerging as a global hub for AI talent, attracting workers with its Golden Visa program, no taxes, attractive salaries, and ease of setting up business — Western job seekers see lucrative offers in the booming AI hub, while others deal with rejections and lower pay.| Pew Research Center: |
Share of news influencers on Bluesky has doubled after the 2024 US election to 43%, but X remains popular, with 82% of news influencers maintaining an account — The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new research on how Americans absorb civic information, form beliefs and identities, and engage in their communities.
More: TechCrunch, PCMag, and Fast Company
Bluesky: @wiselike, @dima7b, @eduardosuarez, @tongli, @zidan, @johngramlich, @mattnavarra.com, @handle.invalid, @ketanjoshi.co, and @strictlychristo. Forums: r/BlueskySocial
| Christopher Grimes / Financial Times: |
Art house streaming service and distributor Mubi raised $100M led by Sequoia at a $1B valuation; Mubi has about 20M registered users worldwide — Capital infusion led by Silicon Valley firm comes after box office success of ‘The Substance’ — Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
More: GQ
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Grow a Garden, a hit game on Roblox, has spawned a market where in-game items are sold for real money on sites like eBay, potentially violating Roblox's ToS — At a recent peak on Saturday, May 24, some 8.7 million people were playing at once, roughly the population of Switzerland … | Gabriel Daros / Rest of World: |
Brazil is piloting dWallet, a digital wallet program that allows users to monetize their data, the first nationwide initiative of its kind in the world — Brazil is piloting dWallet, a project that lets citizens earn money from their data. It is ahead of similar U.S-based initiatives.| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
A Replit employee details a critical security flaw in web apps created using AI-powered app builder Lovable that exposes API keys and personal info of app users — THE SCOOP — Lovable, the popular vibe coding app that describes itself as the fastest-growing company in Europe …
More: James O'Claire, Futurism, TheGamer, Analytics India Magazine, Matt's Website, Matt's Website, and The Information
Bluesky: @augustafund. X: @amasad, @reedalbergotti, @reedalbergotti, @doctoryev, @semafor, @lovable_dev, @lovable_dev, @antonosika, @antonosika, and @mattppal. Forums: Slashdot
| Vishal Singh / Silicon Canals: |
London-based Dojo, a payments tech provider to over 140K businesses, raised $190M from Vitruvian Partners in its first equity raise since launching in 2021 — London-based Dojo, a payments technology provider, has announced an investment of $190M (nearly €168.66M) from global investment firm Vitruvian Partners.
More: FinSMEs, Business Wire, Finextra, UKTN, PYMNTS.com, The Paypers, FinTech Futures, FinTech Global, and Tech Funding News
LinkedIn: Dojo and Geoffrey Barraclough
| Katherine Davis / Axios: |
Vivodyne, which uses AI and robots to grow human tissues in the lab for drug discovery and development, raised a $40M Series A led by Khosla Ventures — Vivodyne, a San Francisco-based startup using lab-grown human tissues to discover and develop drugs, raised $40 million in a Series A led by Khosla Ventures.| Bloomberg: |
Docs and sources: Builder.ai faked business with Bengaluru-based VerSe, which runs the Dailyhunt news app, by “round-tripping” sales worth ~$60M from 2021-2024 — Builder.ai, the artificial intelligence startup that recently announced plans to declare bankruptcy …
More: The Economic Times and The Captable
Bluesky: @elizabethbitmeehan.com, @edzitron.com, @edzitron.com, and @mhbergen
X: @patwardhannn, @patwardhannn, @workmj, @steventey, @patwardhannn, @patwardhannn, and @patwardhannn
LinkedIn: Taylor Hoekstra, Greg Kovacic, Mark Bergen, Bismah Malik, and Yazhou Sun
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Q&A with Mary Meeker on publishing her first Trends report since 2019, its focus on the AI revolution, why OpenAI may have an insurmountable lead, and more — Mary Meeker, the famed internet analyst turned venture capitalist, on Friday published her first Trends report since 2019 — focused on the AI revolution.
More: TechCrunch, Bond Capital, The Economic Times, PitchBook, The Information, and Financial Times
X: @refsrc, @edsim, @howardlindzon, @buccocapital, @modestproposal1, @hdubugras, @bondcap, @davidmarcus, and @pedroh96
LinkedIn: Katie Denton and Alexander Krey
Forums: Hacker News and r/Futurology
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