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Test conversations with some Meta AI digital companions, including celebrity-voiced ones, show them engaging in sexual chats even when users identify as minors — Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit.
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| 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.
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| Prachi Verma / The Economic Times: |
India faces a shortage of agentic AI professionals, with executives estimating fewer than 100K in the country while demand is projected to hit ~200K by 2026 — India is grappling with a critical shortage of agentic AI professionals as demand surges, driven by the shift towards sophisticated AI agents capable … | Furquan Ameen / Rest of World: |
Experts say that India is behind China in deep tech innovation due to its historical focus on services, lower R&D investment, and a brain drain of AI talent — India's government urges the private sector to take the lead in tech innovation, while industry experts say it's complicated.
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| 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
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Huawei has approached some clients about testing the technical feasibility of the Ascend 910D, its newest AI chip that it hopes will beat Nvidia's H100 — Superpower rivalry over semiconductors heats up despite Washington's attempts to block Beijing
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| Owen Carry / Know Your Meme: |
4chan is back online after being down for 10 days, following a hack on April 14 that led to emails of its lead administrators, called “janitors”, being leaked — 4chan is officially back online today. — The imageboard site had been down for 10 days, ever since a hack …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Architect Partners: crypto firms have struck 88 M&A and SPAC deals worth $8.2B so far in 2025, nearly 3x the $2.75B transaction value across 188 deals in 2024 — Companies seek to capitalize on lighter regulation, growing mainstream interest — President Trump's embrace of digital currencies …
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| 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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
A look at the rise of “pure play” bitcoin companies like Twenty One, as the stock market is paying far more for crypto exposure than the crypto market itself is — Twenty One, Trumpcoin dinner, KKR empathy, carry on co-investments and quantitative analysis of hockey. — Project Mystery| 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.
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| Financial Times: |
Trump's tariffs could slow robot adoption in the US, as demand weakens and supplies of components from China, like magnets and precision bearings, are disrupted — Depressed buyers and global supply chains could delay the adoption of futuristic technology — Elon Musk, facing disarray … Sponsor Posts
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