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Report: over a thousand international students have had US immigration statuses terminated in 2025; a Caltech ML professor says it's harming the talent pipeline — An AI doctoral student in California had their SEVIS record — the digital proof of their valid student visa — terminated, putting their immigration status at risk.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Paul Graham likened Palantir's ICE work to “infrastructure of the police state”; a Palantir exec said Paul's view is like Google's when it killed Project Maven — One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend …
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Meta is testing using AI tools in the US to detect teen Instagram users, even if they've lied about their birthday, and place them under Teen Account settings — On Instagram, AI tools will detect underage users and automatically change their account settings.
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| Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: |
TSMC says its role in the semiconductor supply chain limits its ability to comply with export rules, after reports its tech was used in Huawei's Ascend 910B — “TSMC's role in the semiconductor supply chain inherently limits its visibility and information available to it regarding …
More: Ars Technica, Tech in Asia, Benzinga, DigiTimes, Yahoo Finance, and PhoneArena
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Sources: Huawei plans mass shipments of its 910C chip, which combines two 910B chips and is comparable to Nvidia's H100, to Chinese customers as early as May — Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) plans to begin mass shipments of its advanced 910C artificial intelligence chip to Chinese customers … | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Airbnb now shows the full cost of a stay, excluding taxes, in search results by default; a Biden-era FTC rule on “junk fees” is set to go into effect on May 12 — Customers in the US and 200-plus other markets that didn't previously have price-display regulations will now see the total cost …
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Judge overseeing hearing on fixing Google's monopoly questioned if DOJ's proposal to force a sale of Chrome met the “causation” standard for a structural remedy — The judge overseeing a hearing to determine how to fix Google's search monopoly on Monday questioned the government's proposal …
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky starts rolling out blue check verification, initially limiting verification to select organizations and its moderation team — Bluesky announced on Monday that it is rolling out blue check verification, confirming previous rumors that this feature was on its way to the platform.
More: Wired, Forbes, Gizmodo, Thurrott, Engadget, The Verge, Neowin, MediaPost, and TechRadar
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| Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: |
Models like o3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro feel like “Jagged AGI”: unreliable, even at some mundane tasks, but still offering superhuman capabilities in many areas — Amid today's AI boom, it's disconcerting that we still don't know how to measure how smart, creative, or empathetic these systems are.
More: Unite.AI. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @rizzn. LinkedIn: Claudia Jaramillo and Ethan Mollick
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| Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: |
Brand aggregator Upexi says it is raising $100M to accumulate Solana, causing its shares to surge over 400%, part of a trend of companies investing in crypto — Upexi Inc. is raising $100 million as part of a pivot that will see the company start to accumulate the cryptocurrency Solana, according to a Monday statement.
More: Upexi, Inc., Chainwire, PYMNTS.com, CryptoSlate, NFTgators, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, ZyCrypto, The Crypto Times, crypto.news, and The Block. Bluesky: @caseynewton
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Google settles an Android TV case with India's competition regulator, will offer standalone licenses for Play Store and Play Services for Android TVs in India — This is the first case that has been settled under the amended Competition Act, wherein the settlement and committment provisions were introduced in 2023.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
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