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A look at the global AI adoption in 2025; use in the global north grew nearly twice as fast as the south; the UAE leads with 64% of working-age adults using AI (Microsoft Corporate Responsibility)

Microsoft Corporate Responsibility : A look at the global AI adoption in 2025; use in the global north grew nearly twice as fast as the south; the UAE leads with 64% of working-age adults using AI   —  AI Diffusion Report 2025  —  Executive summary  —  Global adoption of artificial intelligence continued to rise in the second half of 2025 … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3ZpXOoY via IFTTT
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A look at Tether's role in Venezuela's economy, which puts it in a prime position to aid the U.S. as it seeks to find funds allegedly stolen by Maduro's regime (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal : A look at Tether's role in Venezuela's economy, which puts it in a prime position to aid the U.S. as it seeks to find funds allegedly stolen by Maduro's regime   —  The stablecoin served as a tool to avoid sanctions and a lifeline for everyday citizens  —  Nicolás Maduro helped make tether the world's dominant stablecoin. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/RlW7nyt via IFTTT

Malwarebytes: a 2024 Instagram data breach exposed information on 17.5 million users, including emails, phone numbers, and physical addresses (Jackson Chen/Engadget)

Jackson Chen / Engadget : Malwarebytes: a 2024 Instagram data breach exposed information on 17.5 million users, including emails, phone numbers, and physical addresses   —  As spotted by Malwarebytes, the alleged leak includes usernames, email addresses, phone numbers and more.  —  If you received a bunch … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/gMQKhl3 via IFTTT

A profile of Grubhub parent Wonder, which has raised about $2B and is rolling out robotic meal-assembly tech acquired from Sweetgreen for $186M in November 2025 (Joshua Brustein/Bloomberg)

Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg : A profile of Grubhub parent Wonder, which has raised about $2B and is rolling out robotic meal-assembly tech acquired from Sweetgreen for $186M in November 2025   —  E-commerce mogul Marc Lore's Wonder is leaning into automation in a $2 billion effort to do to restaurants what Amazon did to shopping. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/Zhk4TC5 via IFTTT

Source: OnePay, the fintech firm behind Walmart's "super app", recently bought back shares from employees at a price that values the startup at more than $4B (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

Emily Mason / Bloomberg : Source: OnePay, the fintech firm behind Walmart's “super app”, recently bought back shares from employees at a price that values the startup at more than $4B   —  OnePay, the Walmart Inc.-backed fintech firm behind the “super app” that the world's largest retailer is incorporating for customers … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/5JEYQOP via IFTTT

OpenAI and SoftBank says they will each invest $500M in SB Energy to support the infrastructure company's growth as a data center developer and operator (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : OpenAI and SoftBank says they will each invest $500M in SB Energy to support the infrastructure company's growth as a data center developer and operator   —  OpenAI and SoftBank Group Corp. have jointly invested $1 billion in SB Energy, an infrastructure company that's working with the tech firms … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/m3plTCM via IFTTT

The UK government says X restricting Grok's image creation to paid users is insulting as it just makes the ability to generate unlawful images a premium service (The Guardian)

The Guardian : The UK government says X restricting Grok's image creation to paid users is insulting as it just makes the ability to generate unlawful images a premium service   —  Spokesperson says limiting access to paying subscribers just makes ability to generate unlawful images a premium service from Techmeme https://ift.tt/j8i3HBU via IFTTT