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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 2m

Anthropic's weeklong anti-AI slop pop-up in NYC's West Village, part of its "Keep Thinking" Claude push, drew 5,000+ people and 10M+ social media impressions (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)

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TSMC reports Q3 revenue up 30% YoY to ~$32.5B, beating estimates, driven by AI chip demand; TSMC's Taipei-listed shares have gained 34% so far this year (Reuters)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 27m

The Ethereum Foundation announces the "Privacy cluster", a team of 47 blockchain industry experts developing protocol-level privacy features for the network (Vince Quill/Cointelegraph)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1h

Sources: Microsoft is planning a major healthcare push for Copilot in partnership with Harvard Medical School, as it seeks to reduce its dependence on OpenAI (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1h

Sources: US Commerce Department's BIS approves several billion dollars' worth of Nvidia chip exports to the UAE, an early step in a May 2025 bilateral AI deal (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1h

During a Mumbai trade visit, UK PM Keir Starmer hailed India's digital ID program, Aadhaar, as a "massive success" as the UK plans to introduce digital ID cards (Financial Times)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1h

Sources: Cursor-maker Anysphere is considering investment offers at a ~$30B valuation; Cursor generates $500M in ARR as of June, third highest for an AI app (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 2h

Netflix is making its video games available on smart TVs and streaming devices like Roku for the first time, with phones serving as controllers (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 3h

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill that will require web browsers to add settings that allow residents to opt out of third-party data collection (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 4h

Discord estimates 70,000 users globally may have had government ID photos exposed in a September 20 third-party customer service data breach (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 5h

YZi Labs, formerly Binance Labs, announces a $1B Builder Fund to support long-term founders developing on BNB Chain in areas like trading, AI, and DeFi (Logan Hitchcock/Decrypt)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 5h

Sources: the US DHS has reassigned hundreds of CISA staffers to jobs that support deportations, including at ICE, and said it would dismiss anyone who refused (Bloomberg)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 6h

MetaMask launches in-app perpetual futures trading powered by Hyperliquid, and plans to integrate Polymarket's prediction markets later this year (Danny Park/The Block)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 7h

Crypto exchange Gemini launches an Australian arm, Gemini Intergalactic Australia, to offer its services in the country after registering with regulator AUSTRAC (Reuters)

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Verizon signs a commercial agreement with AST SpaceMobile to offer satellite-to-phone connectivity in cellular dead zones starting in 2026; ASTS closes up 8.6% (Michael Kan/PCMag)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 8h

David AI, which sells audio data sets for AI training, raised a $50M Series B, sources say at a $500M valuation, up from ~$100M from its $25M Series A in May (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 8h

Prosecutors say the evidence against a man accused of starting what became the Pacific Palisades fire includes a ChatGPT-generated image of a burning city (Los Angeles Times)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 9h

New York City sues Meta, Alphabet, Snap, and ByteDance, accusing them of fueling a mental health crisis among children by addicting them to social media (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 10h

Relace, which makes tools and specialized language models to help AI agents code faster for customers like Lovable and Figma, raised a $23M Series A led by a16z (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 10h

Apple has removed Eyes Up, which archives video evidence of ICE abuses, from the App Store; unlike ICEBlock, it doesn't share ICE officers' real-time locations (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 11h

Verizon agrees to buy Starry, which provides home internet via millimeter wave tech to ~100K customers and filed for bankruptcy in 2023, for an undisclosed sum (Masha Abarinova/Fierce Network)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 11h

Sources: data streaming software maker Confluent is exploring a sale after attracting acquisition interest from PE firms and tech companies; CFLT jumps 9%+ (Milana Vinn/Reuters)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 11h

New York-based Crosby, a law firm that uses AI to help speed up the contracts process, raised a $20M Series A co-led by Index Ventures, BCV, and Elad Gil (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 12h

Google Pixel Buds 2a review: ANC is a welcome addition and sound is detailed and punchy, but there's still no wireless charging and voice performance suffers (Billy Steele/Engadget)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 12h

Google Pixel Watch 4 review: a significant leap in Google's smartwatch lineup with a nice domed display, but Gemini is unreliable, and GPS maps are still wonky (Victoria Song/The Verge)

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