/r/technology
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The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything
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Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags / Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.
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AI sticker shock hits corporate America
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Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people
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Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM applicants
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AI hiring algorithms reject Black, Asian job seekers at higher rates
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95% of canceled annual app subscribers never come back, per report
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Anthropic secures $965 billion valuation after raising $65 billion
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Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest—and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days
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Fact Check: BlackRock CEO said Americans' savings and investments will fund data centers, new power infrastructure
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Workplace data reveals ChatGPT losing ground rapidly as people diversify
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Employees using AI are working faster, but the economy isn't more efficient. A look at what happened in the pre-Internet era might explain why
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Temu fined $232 million for breaching EU rules on sale of illegal products
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AIs don't like religion - particularly Jehovah's Witnesses, study claims
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Last.fm is Now Independent!
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Tech layoffs 2026 update: Over 142,000 people have been laid off from Meta, LinkedIn, Cisco and more
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Republicans Are Lost in the AI Wilderness - White House went all in on artificial intelligence. Then the public started hating it.
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Both Steam Deck OLEDs sold out hours after price hike
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New Hampshire data center developer withdraws plans hours before opponents were to pack town meeting
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Boos, AI-washing, and 'low-value human capital': The psychological traps CEOs are falling into when they botch their AI messaging
Techmeme
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California AG Rob Bonta sues 23andMe, alleging it failed to protect sensitive user data in a 2023 breach that affected ~7M people across the US (Jaimie Ding/Associated Press)
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Okta reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to $765M, vs. $752M est., says the agentic AI build-out is spiking demand for its identity tools; OKTA jumps 7%+ after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
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Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
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Sources: Airwallex raised new funding led by Lee Fixel's Addition at a ~$12B valuation, up from $8B late last year, and hit $1.5B in ARR, up from $1B in October (Axios)
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Doc: the EU is preparing emergency powers to intervene in Europe's chip supply chains during shortages, including by forcing chipmakers to override contracts (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
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Dell reports Q1 revenue up 88% YoY to $43.84B, vs. $35.43B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; DELL jumps 38%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
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Autodesk agrees to buy MaintainX, a company focused on maintenance tools, in an all-cash deal that values MaintainX at $3.6B (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
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Snowflake stock closed up 36% on Thursday, its best day ever, after the company boosted guidance and announced an AI compute deal with Amazon (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
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Fonoa, which helps enterprises manage indirect tax compliance, raised a $110M Series C led by Headline and acquired PwC's Indirect Tax Edge platform (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
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Anthropic adds dynamic workflows to Claude Code, enabling hundreds of subagents to run in parallel for complex engineering tasks such as framework migrations (Claude)
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The CFTC moves to vacate a $5M settlement with Gemini, reversing a Biden-era enforcement action, following a lobbying campaign by the Winklevoss twins (Wall Street Journal)
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Anthropic raised a $65B Series H at a $965B post-money valuation, overtaking OpenAI's $852B valuation, and says its revenue run rate crossed $47B this month (New York Times)
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Anthropic says it expects Mythos-class models to be available to all customers "in the coming weeks" following the development of stronger safeguards (Madison Mills/Axios)
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Corgi, which uses AI to provide insurance for startups, raised a $106M Series B1 at a $2.6B valuation, up from $1.3B on May 6, for a total funding of $378M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
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Anthropic launches Opus 4.8, saying it's "more likely to flag uncertainties about its work and less likely to make unsupported claims", at the same price as 4.7 (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)