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@jonpainterphoto@lawfedi.blue
2025-11-19 05:36:36

Late afternoon walk to relax from work.
#miami #law

Biscayne Bay right near Brickell Key. Water reflects buildings with a brilliant blue sky.
@dawid@social.craftknight.com
2026-01-19 07:44:40
Dzisiaj przyszedł alert o deszczach i silnym wietrze. Możliwe są też powodzie błyskawiczne w kilku rejonach.

W weekend widzieliśmy się ze znajomymi mieszkającymi tu długo na Sycylii i od ładnych paru dni są przygotowania, otwarto punkty zarządzania kryzysowego, a telewizja i gazety ciągle o tym piszą.

Sami pojechaliśmy do miasta Ispica - jednego z miast położonych na skalistym wzgórzu otoczonym wąwozami, z dala od brzegu, bez dużych rzek i z drogami w cztery strony.

W Wale…
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-19 17:02:47

Meta release SAM 3, a model for detection, segmentation, and tracking of objects in images and video, and SAM 3D, which can reconstruct objects and humans in 3D (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
siliconangle.com/2025/11/19/me

Meta's new image segmentation models can identify objects and people and reconstruct them in 3D - SiliconANGLE
Meta's new image segmentation models can identify objects and people and reconstruct them in 3D - SiliconANGLE

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-18 06:30:31

Not that it will be forgotten:
The #AfD in Rhineland-Palatinate is also a big fan of #Trump
-- who is blackmailing Germany with special tariffs.
And these people claim for themselves to represent Germany's interests
- further proof of how dangerous this party is for our society.

Markus Stein (@steinmdl@nahe.social)
Attached: 2 images Nicht, dass es vergessen wird: Auch die #AfD in Rheinland-Pfalz ist großer #Trump-Fan, der unser Land mit Sonderzöllen erpresst. Und diese Leute beanspruchen für sich, Interessen Deutschlands zu vertreten - ein weiterer Beweis, wie gefährlich diese Partei für unsere Gesellschaft ist. #NoAfD #RLP

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-12-17 15:37:01

ChatGPT Images: OpenAI stellt neues Bildgenerierungsmodell GPT-Image-1.5 vor
OpenAI hat das neue Bildgenerierungsmodell GPT-Image-1.5 vorgestellt. Es soll schneller und präziser arbeiten und ist wohl die Antwort auf Googles Nano Banana.

ChatGPT Images: OpenAI stellt neues Bildgenerierungsmodell GPT-Image-1.5 vor
OpenAI hat das neue Bildgenerierungsmodell GPT-Image-1.5 vorgestellt. Es soll schneller und präziser arbeiten und ist wohl die Antwort auf Googles Nano Banana.

@jonpainterphoto@lawfedi.blue
2026-01-18 18:04:22

Waffles having a birthday gelato!
@… #dogs #miami

A black German Shepard mix stands on his hind legs and looks through the glass case as the shopkeeper scoops vanilla gelato
@jake4480@c.im
2025-12-19 17:24:44

My favorite 20 LPs of 2025: spacetimetech.wordpress.com/20
Tagging a bunch of you that have helped me out finding things this year or who have expressed interest - sorry if I missed you, there's a lot…

My top 20 favorite LPs of 2025
** Since some of these are metal records, there’s a small amount of R-rated horror type stuff and grossness on a couple of the images below. ** Here are my 20 favorite albums released in 2025…

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-01-16 12:11:58

X still allowing users to post sexualised images generated by Grok AI tool
theguardian.com/technology/202

X still allowing users to post sexualised images generated by Grok AI tool
Despite restrictions announced this week, Guardian reporters find standalone app continues to allow posting of nonconsensual content

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-11-18 17:20:43

I have a trick I call "The 1920 Method".
I resize most images to 1920 pixels wide before I post them to Mastodon or to my own web site. This has allowed me to keep things small, and fast, and not have to increase server space or feel like I'm putting a burden on other systems.
You'd be surprised how many images we share online work just fine at lower resolution.

@shacker@zirk.us
2026-01-18 16:45:14

Just posted a new article over in my Framespotting Substack, about the decisions that go into deciding which of your images is worthy of printing (vs keeping/posting). There’s some secret sauce there, but it’s kind of an intangible formula.
open.substack.com/pub/framespo

What is print-worthy?
When deciding what photographs to print and sell, one has to imagine (or predict) what the general public is likely to want to hang over the couch. That's been harder than I thought.

@anildash@me.dm
2025-11-18 21:09:52

This is a great milestone to see for Mastodon, in evolving towards its new community-focused governance structure. I’m optimistic about what this portends for the platform and how its features & future evolve. (And it’s fun that I was there for the photo being taken!)

Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures | TechCrunch
Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the executive director as the company becomes structured as a nonprofit government by a board.

@edintone@mastodon.green
2025-10-19 06:56:07

Visitors Gaze on Parthenon Free of Scaffolding for the First Time in 200 Years goodnewsnetwork.org/visitors-g

Visitors Gaze on Parthenon Free of Scaffolding for the First Time in 200 Years
Stunning images show the ancient Parthenon temple scaffolding-free for the first time in 200 years at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-12-19 09:54:33

🥳 New Node Pebble release (version 5.3.0)
Thanks to the lovely folks at Let’s Encrypt tagging a new release of Pebble last night¹ (version 2.9.0), there’s now a new version of Node Pebble that uses it :)
codeberg.org/small-tech/node-p
Enjoy! 💕
¹

node-pebble
A Node.js wrapper for Let’s Encrypt’s Pebble (a small RFC 8555 ACME test server not suited for a production certificate authority)

@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social
2025-12-18 13:58:04

Wow!
The first SwiftGodot-based game is on the AppStore:
apps.apple.com/us/app/terminal

Terminal Madness - Revelations App - App Store
Download Terminal Madness - Revelations by Codepassion S.L. on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Terminal…

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-01-18 16:43:01

This is some deeply weird and troubling shit. #GenAI
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/age

Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-12-18 15:33:59

Astrometric view of companions in the inner dust cavities of #protoplanetary disks: arxiv.org/abs/2512.00157 -> Gaia finds hints of planets in baby star systems: esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2025-11-18 02:28:29

Hats are cool, hats are expressive. Wear a hat to Thanksgiving.
(I grew up in LA during the 1950s and '60s, so I saw a lot of Zorro shows on TV - so I like Californio style hats with a colorful band and a stampede string.)
parks.ca.gov/pages/663/images/

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-18 15:25:49

Luma AI launches Ray3 Modify, which allows users to modify existing footage by providing character reference images; users can also define start and end frames (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/12/18/luma

Luma releases a new AI model that lets users generate a video from a start and end frame | TechCrunch
Luma AI's new model is available through the company's Dream Machine platform.

@dawid@social.craftknight.com
2026-01-15 15:29:34
W Modice znajdziemy wytwórnie czekolady rodziny Bonajuto działającą od ponad 150 lat - już 6ste pokolenie z tego, co pamiętam zajmuje się wyrabianiem czekolady.

Sycylijska czekolada z miasta Modica jest wyjątkowa, ponieważ przepis i metody nie zmieniły się znacznie od XVII wieku, hiszpańskiego panowania nad Sycylią i oryginalnych metod nauczonych od Azteków.

Czekolada jest wytwarzana na zimno, przez co cukier się nie rozpuszcza i zostawia całe kryształki, a sama tabliczka się krus…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-19 12:20:33

Hey everyone,
@… and I had the honour of speaking to @… today and would like to welcome her and her family to Gaza Verified.
She’s an architect who, due to the war, has lost her job and must now support her family …

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-12-18 00:07:11

We just transitioned CoSocial from an ad-hoc combo of AWS, OVH, and DO to @…, see fedihost.co, a Managed Fediverse Hosting outfit based in Canada and with no US dependencies. Already fe…

FediHost - Managed Fediverse Hosting
FediHost is a managed fediverse hosting service. With a couple of clicks you can be up and running with your own Mastodon or Peertube instance.

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-12-18 22:05:43

Wanna see an amazing uninterrupted multi-day timelapse of the plasma tail of comet #Lemmon blowing the #SolarWind in October/November? It's happening in the #PUNCH video embedded in the press release science.nasa.gov/blogs/punch/2 - and see also youtube.com/watch?v=6Kk05oIEeJ0 for a version with constellation lines.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-16 23:50:53

California's AG sends a cease-and-desist letter to xAI, demanding the company halt the generation and distribution of non-consensual intimate images and CSAM (Julianna Bragg/Axios)
axios.com/2026/01/16/xai-calif

California orders Musk's xAI to stop allowing fake sexualized images of minors
AI-generated sexual imagery of children has raised alarms with regulators and lawmakers.

@jonpainterphoto@lawfedi.blue
2025-11-19 05:33:13

Fruits and veggies dogs can and cannot eat.
#dogs #dogsofmastodon

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-18 12:07:57

Hi everyone,
I had video chats with three people and families from Gaza today and I’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• Yazzan (@…)
• Hadi (@…)
• Abeer (

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-18 10:45:19

Framasoft are one of the sadly very few non-bullshit orgs (they’re like us, Small Technology Foundation, not Mozilla) working for a better future for technology and society.
They’re raising funds at the moment.
Please support them if you can.
Thank you!
💕 framapiaf.org/@Framasoft/11556…

Framasoft (@Framasoft@framapiaf.org)
Attached: 1 image 🌳 Renforcez l’internet du partage en contribuant à la robustesse de Framasoft ! Framadate flambant neuf, PeerTube v8, nouveaux services… Pour cette fin d'année, nous vous avons préparé plein de surprises ! Découvrez comment votre solidarité nous permet de proposer un internet sans pub ni pisteur, pensé pour les humains et humaines ! 🤝 https://framablog.org/2025/11/18/renforcons-linternet-du-partage-soutenez-les-outils-solidaires-de-framasoft/

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-16 18:21:06

OpenAI updates ChatGPT Images to generate images up to 4x faster and edit more precisely, and adds a new section in ChatGPT's app and website for images (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-15 00:01:58

X updates Grok to prevent the "editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis" and geoblocks it for all users "where it's illegal" (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
engadget.com/ai/x-says-grok-wi

X says Grok will no longer edit images of real people into bikinis
X says it is changing its policies around Grok’s image-editing abilities following a multi-week outcry over the chatbot repeatedly being accused of...

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-18 17:40:34

Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/thre

Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows | TechCrunch
Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh controversies

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-18 17:10:37

RunPod, an AI app hosting service launched four years ago that raised a $20M seed in May 2024, says it has reached a $120M annual revenue run rate (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/ai-c

AI cloud startup Runpod hits $120M in ARR — and it started with a Reddit post   | TechCrunch
Their startup journey is a wild example of how if you build it well and the timing is lucky, they will definitely come.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-18 15:01:06

Q&A with SiFive co-founder Krste Asanović, who was part of the original team that developed RISC-V, on creating a company that builds IP around RISC-V, and more (Dr. Ian Cutress/More Than Moore)
morethanmoore.substack.com/p/a

An Interview with Dr. Krste Asanović
Putting the Drive into RISC-V

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-18 20:55:34

Inside the 2026 National Retail Federation conference in New York City, where integrating AI into retail businesses was the overarching theme on the expo floor (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/01/17/busines
<…

Tech Firms Are Persuading Retailers to Put A.I. Everywhere
Stores of all kinds are using artificial intelligence to sell everything from luxury handbags to hay for horses.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-18 19:15:38

CoinGecko: over 53% of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched since 2021 are now inactive, with 7.7M tokens failing in Q4 2025, after Oct. 10 "liquidation cascade" (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)
coindesk.com/markets/2026/01/1

More than half of all crypto tokens have failed — and most died in 2025
Over 13.4 million tokens have been erased between mid-2021 and 2025, according to a new analysis by CoinGecko.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-19 09:01:26

The memory shortage that is spiking RAM prices is now expanding to the broader PC market, driving price hikes for GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and hard drives (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0

RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives
GPU makers may prioritize more profitable models; large SSDs are harder to find.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-19 05:35:53

Meta's VR layoffs may help the industry long term, as most affected roles focused on first-party content and games that competed with the broader ecosystem (Palmer Luckey/@palmerluckey)
x.com/palmerluckey/status/2013

Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) on X
I have an opinion on the Meta layoffs that is contrary with most of the VR industry and much of the media, but strongly held. This is not a disaster. They still employ the largest team working on VR by about an order of magnitude. Nobody else is even close. The "Meta is

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-19 15:15:40

OpenAI executive Chris Lehane says the company is "on track" to unveil its first device in the "latter part" of 2026; reports suggest it will be a wearable (Axios)
axios.com/2026/01/19/openai-de

Exclusive: OpenAI aims to debut first device in 2026
Lehane listed "devices" as one of the big coming attractions for OpenAI in 2026.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-19 14:15:51

Sources: internal Google data shows Gemini API calls surged from 35B in March 2025 to 85B in August 2025; Google says Gemini Enterprise hit 8M subscribers (Erin Woo/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/go

Google’s Gemini Sees Skyrocketing Business Sales
Google’s improvements to its Gemini AI models are boosting the company’s top line. Over the past year, Google’s business selling access to its Gemini AI models has skyrocketed, reflecting the improving quality of those models, according to three people with knowledge of Gemini’s sales. That’s ...

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-19 12:50:36

Sources: Microsoft is preparing to launch a session-based ad-supported Xbox Cloud Gaming tier in 2026; users note Xbox Cloud Gaming now references "ad support" (Jez Corden/Windows Central)

EXCLUSIVE: Xbox Cloud Gaming is getting ad-supported access VERY soon
Users have been noticing that Xbox Cloud Gaming has begun referencing "ad support" while launching games.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-19 12:30:40

Source: Elon Musk donates $10M to boost pro-Trump Senate candidate Nate Morris, seeking to replace Mitch McConnell, in Musk's largest-ever Senate donation (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)
axios.com/2026/01/19/elon-musk

Scoop: Musk shocks with $10 million donation in Ky. Senate race
It's the biggest sign yet that Musk plans to spend big for Republicans in the 2026 midterms.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-19 11:40:40

Q&A with FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam, only the second CEO in the company's history, on humanoid robots, automation, AI, drones, US-China trade tensions, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/01/18/busines

The Man Delivering FedEx Into the Age of Drones, Robots and A.I.
Raj Subramaniam took over three years ago from FedEx’s founder, who ran the company for nearly 50 years. Since then, technology, tariffs and other disruptions have “fundamentally shifted” patterns of global trade.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-19 11:25:36

On Joe Rogan's JRE, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck discuss Hollywood and AI; Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate the plot because viewers are on their phones (Jack Dunn/Variety)
variety.com/2026/film/news/mat

Matt Damon: Netflix Wants Movies to Account for Viewers on Their Phone
Matt Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate 'the plot three or four times in the dialogue' to account for viewers using their phones.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-19 11:01:46

Sources: after five Thinking Machines staff left, investors are rattled, potentially impacting fundraising; two researchers quit via Slack during an all-hands (The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/th

Thinking Machines Exodus Tests Investor Appetite for a $50 Billion Valuation
The timing couldn’t have been more awkward for Thinking Machines Lab. On Wednesday, during an all-hands meeting at the AI startup, its CEO, Mira Murati, announced that she had fired one of Thinking Machines’ co-founders, its Chief Technology Officer Barret Zoph, for poor performance and speaking ...

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-17 21:31:06

A look at Michael Saylor's Strategy, known for buying bitcoin via creative financing strategies, as its stock trades way below its peak amid the crypto downturn (Rob Copeland/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/0…

Michael Saylor’s Creative Bitcoin Strategy Isn’t Working
Michael Saylor’s financial alchemy thrust an ordinary software company, Strategy, into the center of the crypto frenzy. It all worked spectacularly, until now.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-17 19:30:54

Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY and a single-year record; AI artist Xania Monet had 125M on-demand audio streams (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/music-liste

Global music streams hit 5 trillion in 2025
The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. That’s a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024. That’s according to a 2025 Year-End Report from Luminate. They are an industry data and analytics company that provides insight into changing behaviors across music listenership. In the U.S., on-demand audio streams hit 1.4 trillion. That’s a 4.6% increase from last year. But attention is on older music. Less than half all U.S. on-demand audio streams were from tracks released i…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-18 01:01:38

The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren't enough skilled workers in the US, such as electricians, to keep up (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
wired.com/story/why-there-aren

The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians
The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren’t enough skilled tradespeople in the US to keep up.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-18 06:11:00

Listen Labs, whose AI tools help Microsoft and others run customer research and interviews, raised a $69M Series B led by Ribbit Capital at a $500M valuation (Iain Martin/Forbes)
forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

This $500 Million AI Startup Runs Customer Interviews For Microsoft And Sweetgreen
The San Francisco-based company, which has run more than 1 million customer interviews with its automated AI tools to help major companies figure out what their users want, has now raised $69 million.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-18 05:50:59

David Sacks and top MAGA influencers are publicly opposing House Foreign Affairs Chair Brian Mast's proposed AI OVERWATCH Act to regulate AI chip sales to China (Axios)
axios.com/2026/01/16/maga-bria

MAGA targets Brian Mast over AI chips regulation
"Kill the bill," Laura Loomer said.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-18 06:56:10

OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
fortune.com/2026/01/15/former-…

Exclusive: Former OpenAI policy chief creates nonprofit institute, calls for independent safety audits of frontier AI models
Former OpenAI policy head Miles Brundage has launched AVERI and says top AI labs should have independent AI safety audits

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-18 11:01:04

India's largest retailer Reliance Retail says its daily quick commerce orders peaked at 1.6M in Q4 2025; market leader Blinkit averaged 2.4M daily orders in Q3 (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
indiadispatch.com/p/the-myster

The Mystery of Reliance's Quick Commerce Growth
The rest of the industry is not feeling it.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-17 19:55:50

In a proposed settlement, the US FTC says crypto bridge Nomad must repay victims of a 2022 cyberattack that led to $186M worth of funds being stolen (Connor Jones/The Register)
theregister.com/2025/12/17/nom

Blockchain company Nomad to repay users under FTC deal after $186M cyberattack
: Regulator makes various additional demands over alleged cybersecurity failings

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-17 23:20:41

Coinbase is rolling out stock trading, more advanced trading tools, prediction markets via Kalshi, and more, amid a push to be a one-stop financial app (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/12/17/coinbase-p

Coinbase adds prediction markets and stock trading in push to be one-stop trading app
Coinbase is expanding into stocks, advanced trading, prediction markets, and new tools for businesses, developers, and automated financial guidance.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-17 22:55:59

Meta is testing limiting Facebook professional accounts and Pages to posting just two links per month, unless they subscribe to $14.99 /month Meta Verified (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/face

Facebook is testing a link posting limit for professional accounts and pages | TechCrunch
Meta said that the test impacts professional accounts and pages on Facebook.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-17 22:10:40

Micron reports Q1 revenue up 57% YoY to $13.64B, vs. $12.84B est., net income up 180% to $5.24B, and Q2 revenue forecast above est.; MU jumps 5% after hours (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/12/17/micron-q1-

Micron forecasts surging revenue as computer memory demand for AI remains high
The high demand for memory has driven Micron shares higher and they are up 168% in 2025.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-18 01:50:42

Apple unveils iOS changes in Japan to comply with local law, including alternative app stores and payment options, a new fee structure, and new default controls (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
macrumors.com/2025/12/17/japan

Japan App Store Gets Alternative Marketplaces, Third-Party Payments and More
Apple today introduced several changes to the App Store in Japan to meet the requirements of the Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA) that goes...

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-18 00:35:41

Sources: OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with investors about raising tens of billions of dollars, and as much as $100B, at a valuation of around $750B (The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Has Discussed Raising Tens of Billions at Valuation Around $750 Billion
OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with some investors about raising new funding at a valuation of around $750 billion, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions. It could raise tens of billions of dollars, and as much as $100 billion, according to two of the people. Talks ...

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-18 06:20:41

Manus says it crossed $100M ARR eight months after launch and is growing at 20% MoM since Manus 1.5's release; its total revenue run rate is now over $125M (Jake Rudnitsky/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Manus Says Sales Hit $125 Million Run Rate Months After Launch
Chinese AI pioneer Manus said its annual run rate for revenue is over $125 million, eight months after it released artificial intelligence agents designed to help execute tasks for users.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-18 06:15:40

SoftBank Group Corp was among the Japanese tech stocks that fell on Dec. 18, as AI infrastructure spending worries on Wall Street crossed into the Asian markets (Lim Hui Jie/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/12/18/japan-tech

SoftBank leads decline in Japanese tech stocks as worries over AI spending spill over to Asia
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slipped 1.81%, dragged by losses in Oracle, Broadcom, Nvidia and other AI names.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-18 06:05:40

Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer says Amazon canceled a $150M advance for a Texas AI data center campus; FRMI fell 34% on Dec. 12 after saying a tenant had canceled (Dakin Campbell/Business Insider)
businessinsider.com/fermi-amer

Mystery solved: Amazon is the prospective tenant in talks with data center developer rocked by stock plunge
"The lead negotiator for Amazon called me on Thursday," Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer told Business Insider. The deal would pay more than $20 billion over the next 20 years, he said.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-18 05:55:53

Wall Street clearinghouse DTCC selects the Canton Network blockchain as a real-world asset tokenization partner after receiving a No-Action Letter from the SEC (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
coindesk.com/business/2025/12/

Wall Street giant DTCC Picks privacy focused blockchain Canton Network for tokenization
Canton creator Digital Asset will help tokenize DTC-custodied U.S. Treasury securities.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-18 04:35:45

Sources: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning, is in late-stage talks to raise several hundred million dollars at a $2B valuation (Alex Heath/Sources)
sources.news/p/a-new-world-mod

A new world model startup is quietly raising big money
General Intuition is building a general-purpose AI agent and world model.

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2025-12-18 04:05:41

How Apple is helping filmmakers and developers create immersive media for the Vision Pro and share best practices (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)
fastcompany.com/91461534/apple

With Apple’s help, storytellers are figuring out Vision Pro
The headset opens up immersive new opportunities for dramas, documentaries, music videos, and beyond. Some filmmakers and developers are diving right in.

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2025-12-18 09:25:57

An in-depth look at a recent research paper that offered a roadmap to the viability of 3D HBM-on-GPU integration for improved AI performance and utilization (More Than Moore)
morethanmoore.substack.com/p/s
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Solving The Problems of HBM-on-Logic
Future AI Accelerators Might Need To Be Slower To Be Faster

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2025-12-18 08:05:45

Sources detail how Tiger Global fueled the COVID-era unicorn bubble that burst ahead of the AI boom; the firm recently shared its $12.7B 2021 fund is now up 16% (Issie Lapowsky/Rest of World)
restofworld.org/2025/tiger-glo

Big bets and broken unicorns: Tiger Global’s rise and reckoning
The fast-money pandemic era helped build billion-dollar startups around the world — then brought many down just as quickly. Will the AI boom be a repeat?

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2025-12-18 07:45:42

Filing: Sony and Tencent reach a "confidential settlement" over Tencent's Light of Motiram, a game that Sony alleged was a "slavish clone" of its Horizon series (Jay Peters/The Verge)
theverge.com/news/847080/sony-

Sony’s legal battle against Tencent’s Horizon ‘clone’ is already over
Sony has reached a settlement with Tencent in its lawsuit over Light of Motiram, a game Sony alleged was a “clone” of its Horizon series.

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2025-12-18 06:55:58

Sources: Pinduoduo and Temu owner PDD fires dozens following a fistfight between employees and Chinese officials probing fraudulent deliveries on its platform (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

PDD Fires Dozens of Workers After Fistfight With China Officials
PDD Holdings Inc. fired a government relations team in Shanghai following a fistfight between employees and Chinese regulators who were performing checks at the e-commerce company, according to people familiar with the matter.

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2025-12-18 06:30:39

Tim Sweeney says Fortnite will not return to iOS in Japan in 2025, as Apple is "charging a competition-crushing 21% junk fee on third-party in-app payments" (Tim Sweeney/@timsweeneyepic)
x.com/timsweeneyepic/status/20

Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) on X
Sadly, Fortnite will not return to iOS in Japan in 2025 as promised. Apple was required to open up iOS to competing stores today, and instead of doing so honestly, they have launched another travesty of obstruction and lawbreaking in gross disrespect to the government and people

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2025-12-18 13:01:50

Stockholm-based vibe coding startup Lovable raised $330M led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures at a $6.6B valuation, up from $1.8B after raising $200M in July (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/12/18/busines

Lovable, a Start-Up That Makes Anyone a Coder, Raises $330 Million
The Swedish company is now valued at $6.6 billion, more than triple its $1.8 billion valuation set by investors in July.

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2025-12-18 12:25:56

Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 2024 Bitcoin mining levels, and AI carbon emissions could hit 32.6M to 79.7M tons, compared to NYC's 50M (Justine Calma/The Verge)
theverge.com/news/845831/ai-ch

AI’s water and electricity use soars in 2025
AI data centers are using growing amounts of electricity and water, research shows, although companies aren’t divulging many details.

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2025-12-18 12:05:57

UK AI Security Institute report: AI models are rapidly improving at potentially dangerous biological and chemical tasks, and show fast jumps in self-replication (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
transformernews.ai/p/aisi-ai-s

AI is making dangerous lab work accessible to novices, UK’s AISI finds
UK AISI’s first Frontier AI Trends Report finds that AI models are getting better at self-replication, too

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2025-12-18 11:50:41

Apple says it will roll out more App Store ads in 2026 "to increase opportunity in search results"; Apple's website says 800M users visit the App Store weekly (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
9to5mac.com/2025/12/17/apple-a

Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results - 9to5Mac
Apple is expanding the number of ads that appear in App Store search results. In an update on its Apple...

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2025-12-18 11:25:58

Circana: Xbox Series console sales fell 70% YoY to an all-time low in November, compared to the PS5's 40% YoY drop and Switch 1 and 2's combined 10% YoY fall (Rebekah Valentine/IGN)
ign.com/articles/xbox-us-conso

Xbox U.S. Console Unit Sales Just Reached an All-Time November Low - IGN
This morning, we learned that November was a surprisingly bad month for video game spending across the board. But one console in particular is really struggling, and that's the Xbox.

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2025-12-18 09:40:50

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr tells a Senate committee the FCC "is not an independent agency"; the agency removed "independent agency" from its site as he testified (Axios)
axios.com/2025/12/17/brendan-c

FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement
The statement speaks to a broader trend of regulatory agencies losing power to the executive branch during the Trump era.

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2025-12-18 16:25:50

Rivian launches Universal Hands-Free driving for second-generation R1 EVs, expanding coverage from 135,000 highway miles to 3.5M miles across the US and Canada (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/12/18/rivi

Rivian rolls out new 'Universal Hands-Free' driving feature | TechCrunch
The driver assistance software is available on Rivian's for Gen 2 R1 cars and works on 3.5 million miles of North American roads. But it doesn't slow or stop for traffic lights or stop signs.

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2025-12-18 15:50:44

Endra, whose AI tools automate mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design for commercial buildings, raised a $20M seed led by Notion (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
fortune.com/2025/12/18/endra-a

Exclusive: Swedish startup automating mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design for commercial buildings raises $20 million in seed round
Notion Capital is leading the seed round for Endra, which says reduces the time to design buildings' electrical systems from months to hours.

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2025-12-18 13:10:44

North Korean hackers stole a record $2.02B in crypto in 2025, a 51% YoY rise that takes its cumulative stolen total to $6.75B; individual wallet hacks hit 158K (Chainalysis)
chainalysis.com/blog/crypto-ha

2025 Crypto Theft Reaches $3.4 Billion
North Korean hackers stole $2.02 billion in cryptocurrency in 2025, a 51% year-over-year increase, pushing their all-time total to $6.75 billion.

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2025-12-19 17:36:09

Netflix acquires avatar creation platform Ready Player Me to let its subscribers carry their personas and fandoms across games; the startup raised $72M (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/netf

Netflix acquires gaming avatar maker Ready Player Me | TechCrunch
The gaming startup will allow Netflix subscribers to create avatars that can extend across gaming titles.

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2025-12-19 16:56:01

A Paris court rejects a French government request to suspend Shein in the country after finding illegal weapons and child-like sex dolls for sale on the site (Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/shein-fast-

Paris court rejects bid to suspend Shein platform in France
A Paris court has rejected a government request to suspend the Chinese fast-fashion platform Shein in France. Authorities found illegal weapons and child-like sex dolls for sale on Shein's website. Shein welcomed the decision on Friday, saying it remains committed to strengthening its control processes in cooperation with French authorities. The controversy began in early November when France's consumer watchdog and Finance Ministry moved to suspend Shein's online marketplace. French authoritie…

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2025-12-18 20:20:48

Sources: Salient, which uses AI to automate loan servicing, raised $10M following a $60M Series A in June, pushing its valuation to ~$500M; its ARR hit $25M (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
fortune.com/2025/12/18/salient

Salient’s quiet AI boom: How this two-year old startup is building a company to survive the bubble burst
Salient cofounder Ari Malik built AI to automate loan servicing, turning collections calls into a high-growth business now valued around $500 million.

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2025-12-18 20:15:47

Instacart will pay $60M to settle FTC allegations that it used deceptive tactics in its subscription signup and "satisfaction guarantee" advertising (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/12/18/instacart-

Instacart to pay $60 million to settle FTC claims it deceived customers
The federal agency alleged that Instacart used a number of deceptive tactics in its subscription signup and "satisfaction guarantee" advertising.

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2025-12-18 17:55:49

Netflix hires ESPN anchor Elle Duncan as its first on-air host for live sports and cultural events; she has appeared on SportsCenter, College GameDay, and more (Todd Spangler/Variety)
variety.com/2025/tv/news/netfl

Netflix Hires ESPN Anchor Elle Duncan as First Sports On-Air Host
Netflix Hires ESPN anchor and TV sports veteran Elle Duncan as its first on-air sports host.

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2025-12-18 17:40:51

Nirvana, which uses real-time driving telematics to build insurance policies for truckers, raised a $100M Series D at a $1.5B valuation, up from $830M in March (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
news.crunchbase.com/ai/insuran

Exclusive: AI Insurance Startup Nirvana Nearly Doubles Valuation To $1.5B with $100M Series D
Nirvana Insurance, an AI-based commercial insurance platform for the trucking industry, has raised a $100 million Series D round at a $1.5 billion valuation, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively. The raise comes just over nine months after the startup raised $80 million in a Series C round of funding at an $830 million valuation.

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2025-12-18 17:10:51

Sources describe tensions between OpenAI's research and ChatGPT product groups, leading to the "code red"; OpenAI is set to beat its 2025 revenue goal of $13B (The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/op

How OpenAI’s Organizational Problems Hurt ChatGPT
Over the past year, some OpenAI staffers noticed a concerning change in the way people who used ChatGPT were reacting to improvements in the chatbot. In prior years, every time OpenAI made a big upgrade to the artificial intelligence that powers the chatbot, usage surged as people easily found ...

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2025-12-18 23:30:51

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get Google search data without a warrant; an expert warns it may encourage warrantless searches nationwide (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
therecord.media/google-searche

Pa. high court rules that police can access Google searches without a warrant
In a decision that only affects Pennsylvanians but could have privacy implications elsewhere, the state's Supreme Court ruled that police did not need a warrant to access a rape suspect's Google searches.

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2025-12-18 23:16:06

Mistral launches Mistral OCR 3, featuring improvements in processing forms, scanned documents, complex tables, and handwriting, priced at $2 per 1,000 pages (Mistral AI)
mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr-3

Introducing Mistral OCR 3 | Mistral AI
Achieving a new frontier for both accuracy and efficiency in document processing.

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2025-12-18 22:55:50

Memo: the TikTok US deal is set to close on Jan. 22; terms include retraining the recommendation algorithm on US user data and Oracle overseeing data protection (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
hollywoodreporter.com/business

TikTok U.S. Deal to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium
Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor.

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2025-12-18 22:30:50

Internal memo: TikTok has signed a deal to sell its US unit; Oracle, Silver Lake, MGX will collectively own 45% of the US entity, and ByteDance will retain ~20% (Sara Fischer/Axios)
axios.com/2025/12/18/tiktok-sa

Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after years-long saga
The deal would end a years-long saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.

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2025-12-18 20:51:01

YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio, two large channels that used AI to create fake movie trailers; the platform earlier suspended the channels' ads (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
deadline.com/2025/12/youtube-t

YouTube Shuts Down Channels Using AI To Create Fake Movie Trailers Watched By Millions
YouTube has terminated two prominent channels, Screen Culture and KH Studio, using artificial intelligence to create fake movie trailers.

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2025-12-19 02:30:52

The US Senate confirms FDIC acting chairman Travis Hill to lead the agency, which regulates stablecoin issuers and impacts how the crypto industry is banked (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
coindesk.com/policy/2025/12/11

Two Trump Appointees Confirmed to Take Over Core Crypto Regulators CFTC, FDIC
In a package of confirmations, the U.S. Senate approved Mike Selig to lead the CFTC and Travis Hill to run the FDIC, both with major potential reach into crypto.

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2025-12-19 02:25:51

The US Senate confirms Trump pick Michael Selig as chairman of the CFTC, as lawmakers consider legislation to give the agency more control over digital assets (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Senate Confirms Selig as Chief of CFTC and Hill to Run the FDIC
The US Senate on Thursday night confirmed Michael Selig as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Travis Hill as chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., installing permanent chiefs of two agencies that play critical roles overseeing financial markets and banks.

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2025-12-19 01:50:48

US approving Nvidia H200 exports to China is based on the idea that Huawei is a viable competitor, but data shows the gap between Nvidia and Huawei is widening (Chris McGuire/Council on Foreign Relations)
cfr.org/article/chinas-ai-chip…

China’s AI Chip Deficit: Why Huawei Can’t Catch Nvidia and U.S. Export Controls Should Remain
Executive SummaryOn December 8, the Trump administration announced plans to loosen U.S. export controls on artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China by approving the sale of Nvidia H200 chips—the m…

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2025-12-19 06:05:49

Samsung unveils the Exynos 2600, the world's first smartphone SoC built on a 2nm Gate-All-Around process, expected to power some Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus models (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)
androidauthority.com/samsung-e

Samsung announces Exynos 2600: World's first 2nm smartphone chip that might power the Galaxy S26
Samsung has announced the Exynos 2600 chip, promising notable gains in performance, efficiency, and thermal behavior.

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2025-12-19 03:20:54

Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's "code red" call, enterprise strategy, product ambitions, IPO plans, ChatGPT's personalization plans, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
bigtechnology.com/p/sam-altman<…

Sam Altman on OpenAI’s Plan to Win, AI Personalization, Infrastructure Math, and The Inevitable IPO
OpenAI's CEO joins Big Technology for a candid discussion covering OpenAI's strategy, its product ambitions, its ability to pay for $1 trillion+ in infrastructure, going public, and much more.

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2025-12-19 09:25:50

Meta's head of Threads Connor Hayes says that fediverse compatibility isn't a priority for its current roadmap, but it is something that it's "maintaining" (Alex Heath/Sources)
sources.news/p/whats-next-for-

What's next for Threads
Connor Hayes wants Meta's X rival to be "the place on the internet to talk about what's going on in the world." Also: Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour this week on ACCESS.

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2025-12-19 16:01:41

The TikTok deal is the worst of all possible outcomes, shifting ownership of TikTok to Trump's allies, while maintaining the supposed problematic links to China (Karl Bode/Techdirt)
techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok

TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…

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2025-12-19 15:45:51

Cursor-developer Anysphere acquires code review startup Graphite and says Graphite will continue operating as an independent product (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
fortune.com/2025/12/19/cursor-

Exclusive: Cursor acquires code review startup Graphite as AI coding competition heats up
By purchasing Graphite, Cursor, currently valued at $29 billion, gains more code review and debugging capabilities

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2025-12-19 15:06:26

Boston-based Neurable, which builds an OS for brain-computer interfaces, raised a $35M Series A led by Spectrum Moonshot Fund, bringing its total raised to $65M (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
axios.com/pro/health-tech-deal

Exclusive: Neurable raises $35M for brain-computer interface AI
The company plans to kick off another raise next year, despite having 18 months of runway.

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2025-12-19 14:30:55

Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says ByteDance's US entities will retain direct control over core US revenue drivers, including ecommerce, ads, and marketing (Financial Times)
ft.com/content/7a778d46-8bf8-4

TikTok says Chinese owner will retain core US business
Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX to invest in new data security joint venture as part of Trump-brokered deal

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2025-12-19 14:22:08

Sources: Google has formed a new executive council to allocate computing capacity given a critical shortage; members include Thomas Kurian and Demis Hassabis (Erin Woo/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/in

Inside the Balancing Act Over Google’s Compute Crunch
Earlier this year, Google convened a group of its top executives to address what some staffers see as an existential problem: the company doesn’t have enough computer chips for everyone who wants them. A shortage of computing capacity was creating internal tensions, as leaders of Google’s varied ...

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2025-11-19 18:21:21

AI video startup Luma AI raised a $900M Series C led by Humain, sources say at a ~$4B valuation, and partners with Humain on a 2GW AI cluster in Saudi Arabia (Vaibhavi Khanwalkar/The Economic Times)
economictimes.i…

Video generation platform Luma AI raises $900 million, valued at $4 billion
The firm’s Indian-American CEO Amit Jain, an IITian who was formerly with Apple, told ET that the domain the company operated in is capital-intensive and requires sizable investments to scale. Sources close to the company pegged its valuation at around $4 billion.