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Emily Mason / Bloomberg : Visa partners with Stripe's Bridge to help fintechs launch their own stablecoin-linked card programs in multiple countries at once, starting in Latin America   —  The platform will allow developers to launch card programs in multiple countries at once, starting with Argentina, Colombia … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/4tjZlYf via IFTTT

Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET : Visa announces Visa Intelligent Commerce, opening its payment network to developers building AI agents to find and buy products for users   —  AI has transformed everyday tasks such as writing, coding — even shopping.  Now, Visa is introducing an initiative to prepare its payment network … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/ieZzUgN via IFTTT

Lily Hay Newman / Wired : WhatsApp plans to add cloud-based AI features like message summarization and composition, utilizing a system called Private Processing to maintain data privacy   —  WhatsApp's AI tools will use a new “Private Processing” system designed to allow cloud access without letting Meta or anyone else see end-to-end encrypted chats. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/Kk1xy3q via IFTTT

Reece Rogers / Wired : OpenAI announces that it will start showing product recommendations in ChatGPT, even for logged-out users, with buy buttons that link to merchants' sites   —  OpenAI is launching a shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, complete with product picks and buy buttons. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/T5OIaPJ via IFTTT

Sharon Goldman / Fortune : P-1 AI, which is developing an AI-powered engineering agent and hopes AI can eventually design complex machines, emerges from stealth with $23M in seed funding   —  P-1 AI founders Paul Eremenko (left), Aleksa Gordic (center), and Adam Nagel (right).  —  Courtesy of P-1 AI from Techmeme https://ift.tt/4Z6Sbvx via IFTTT

CBS Mornings on YouTube : Geoffrey Hinton fears AI companies are under-investing in safety research, embracing military usage, and sharing model weights while pushing for less regulation   —  Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, often called a “godfather of artificial intelligence,” spoke with Brook Silva-Braga … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/TgMj23p via IFTTT

Anjli Raval / Financial Times : A profile of Darktrace CEO Jill Popelka, who joined the British cyber security firm in Jan. 2024 and was at the helm when it was bought by Thoma Bravo for £4.3B   —  Jill Popelka has tried to strengthen the cyber company's operations and cast off the shadow of early backer Mike Lynch from Techmeme https://ift.tt/Vi5k9yR via IFTTT

Manish Singh / India Dispatch : Analysis: Meesho accounts for about 37% of India's e-commerce orders, but only 8%-9% of the sector's total value due to the small average transaction size   —  A $4.5 sari reveals the ruthless arithmetic behind Meesho's assault on India's e-commerce hierarchy from Techmeme https://ift.tt/EtXDlr5 via IFTTT

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : While Apple's iPhone manufacturing in India matches China in quality, making the extraordinarily complex 20th anniversary iPhones outside China remains doubtful   —  Apple has begun breaking up its AI and machine learning organization by moving pieces to other parts of the company. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/c34EqHd via IFTTT

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal : Prompt engineering roles, one of the buzziest jobs in 2023, become obsolete as AI models better intuit user intent and companies train staff in writing prompts   —  Prompt engineering, a role aimed at crafting the perfect input to send to a large language model, was poised to become one of the hottest jobs in artificial intelligence. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/P05MqCA via IFTTT

Luz Ding / Bloomberg : At a major Hong Kong electronics exhibition, some Chinese companies say they are exploring ways to lower or skirt tariffs while others plan to wait them out   —  Tech Across the Globe … Tan is cutting jobs, reducing management layers and trying to energize the once-mighty company's culture. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/b5UuXfT via IFTTT

Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk : Stripe plans to test a stablecoin payments product aimed at companies outside the US, the UK, and the EU, using tech from Bridge, which Stripe acquired recently   —  Stripe CEO Patrick Collison said a stablecoin tool for companies outside US, UK and EU is ready for testing.  —  What to know: from Techmeme https://ift.tt/d2Cj5D8 via IFTTT

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog : Watching OpenAI's o3 guess a photo's location feels surreal, dystopian, and entertaining, including running Python code to examine details like license plates   —  Watching OpenAI's new o3 model guess where a photo was taken is one of those moments where decades of science fiction suddenly come to life. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/QX04rWy via IFTTT

Bloomberg : Sources: Chinese AI startup Manus raised $75M led by Benchmark at a $500M valuation, and plans to expand to markets including the US, Japan, and the Middle East   —  The Chinese startup behind Manus AI secured a round of financing led by US venture firm Benchmark, scoring capital to explore … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/w0aDbnM via IFTTT

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Meta moves Threads from Threads.net to Threads.com and updates its web app, including features to more easily access custom feeds, create new columns, and more   —  Instagram Threads, Meta's newest social network and X competitor, is officially relocating from the website Threads.net to Threads.com. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/uI6t5Uc via IFTTT

Phoebe Liu / Forbes : Infinite Reality, a metaverse startup that claims it is valued at $15.5B, faces questions about the legitimacy of its funding, investor identities, and more   —  Florida-based Infinite Reality claims it raised more than $3 billion from a sole unnamed investor. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/dG1If8J via IFTTT

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : OpenAI brings the tech behind the new ChatGPT image generator to its API, for $5/1M text input tokens, $10/1M image input tokens, and $40/1M image output tokens   —  OpenAI on Wednesday brought the tech behind its new and improved image generation feature in ChatGPT to its API … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/LlYc5h0 via IFTTT

Sri Muppidi / The Information : Documents: OpenAI told investors it expects revenues of $125B in 2029 and $174B in 2030, with sales from agents and other products exceeding those from ChatGPT   —  For two years, ChatGPT has been OpenAI's cash cow.  But by the end of the decade, the company has told some potential … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/yClA7zg via IFTTT

Recorded on April 23, 2025 Brain-Computer Interfaces: From Promise to Product Speakers: David Rotman , editor at large, and Antonio Regalado , senior editor for biomedicine. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been crowned the 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2025 by  MIT Technology Review ‘s readers. BCIs are electrodes implanted into the brain to send neural commands to computers, primarily to assist paralyzed people. Hear from  MIT Technology Review  editor at large David Rotman and senior editor for biomedicine Antonio Regalado as they explore the past, present, and future of BCIs. Related Coverage Brain-computer interfaces face a critical test from MIT Technology Review https://ift.tt/G7lj6mo via IFTTT

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : SK Telecom, South Korea's largest telecom, says hackers accessed USIM-related customer info, potentially useful in SIM swap attacks and targeted surveillance   —  South Korea's largest mobile operator, SK Telecom, is warning that a malware infection allowed threat actors to access sensitive USIM-related information for customers. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/YpS5qU1 via IFTTT

Bloomberg : DOJ v. Google: an OpenAI exec says Google declined to let OpenAI access its search index; a DOJ remedy proposal would make Google share its index with rivals   —  OpenAI's Nick Turley said the company never intended to simply create a chatbot like its popular ChatGPT, and instead wanted to deliver a … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/bqdSHfh via IFTTT

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune : Supabase, an open-source alternative to Google's Firebase that's used by 2M+ developers, raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation   —  Supabase cofounders Ant Wilson and Paul Copplestone.  —  Supabase  —  Paul Copplestone didn't think things like this actually happened. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/iru49Bp via IFTTT

Kevin Beaumont / DoublePulsar : Microsoft has improved Recall, but biometrics are only required for setup and users can open it with just a PIN, and sensitive data filtering is unreliable   —  Last year, Microsoft announced Recall, a feature which screenshots your PC every few seconds, OCRs the screenshots and produces … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/xa2587r via IFTTT

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 … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/VXPSuBs via IFTTT

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 … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/R6yBxYZ via IFTTT

New York Times : After Meta blocked news on its platforms in Canada, misleading content from right-wing Facebook pages like Canada Proud has surged ahead of the federal election   —  After Meta blocked news from its platforms in Canada, hyperpartisan and misleading content from popular right-wing Facebook pages such as Canada Proud has filled the gap. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/JaU2S5I via IFTTT

Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer : In a clever attack, hackers were able to send phishing emails that appeared to come from “no-reply@google.com”, after a similar attack on PayPal users in March   —  In a rather clever attack, hackers leveraged a weakness that allowed them to send a fake email that seemed delivered … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/mNteHLZ via IFTTT