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Techmeme - 2025-05-10T06:36:15-04:00

A study finds that asking LLMs to be concise in their answers, particularly on ambiguous topics, can negatively affect factuality and worsen hallucinations (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - 2025-05-10T06:35:02-04:00

A profile of OpenAI's CEO of Applications Fidji Simo, who is tasked with broadening ChatGPT amid a straining Microsoft relationship and a battle with Elon Musk (Bloomberg) - 2025-05-10T02:30:01-04:00

The Trump administration's plan to cut the budget of the NSF, considered key to US tech leadership, by about 57% to $3.9B is alarming the startup and VC sector (Jessica Mathews/Fortune) - 2025-05-10T02:10:03-04:00

ServiceNow agrees to acquire cloud-native data catalog and data governance startup Data.World, which had raised over $130M and was valued at $350M in 2022 (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch) - 2025-05-10T01:55:03-04:00

US real estate analytics provider CoStar agrees to acquire Domain, an Australian property listings website that competes with News Corp's REA, for about $1.92B (Stuart Condie/Wall Street Journal) - 2025-05-10T01:40:03-04:00

SoundCloud quietly changed its policies to allow the company to use audio uploaded by users on its platform to "inform, train, develop or serve as input to AI" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - 2025-05-10T00:40:01-04:00

Japan's NTT, which owns 57.7% of IT services provider and data center operator NTT Data, launches a $16.4B take-private tender offer to buy the remaining stake (Reuters) - 2025-05-10T00:30:01-04:00

How the three largest US gig economy companies, Lyft, DoorDash, and Uber, are aggressively expanding into Europe and Turkey through acquisitions (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) - 2025-05-10T00:10:02-04:00

Datadog acquires Eppo, which offers feature flagging and app experimentation tools, reportedly for $220M; Eppo had raised $47.5M and was valued at $80M in 2022 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - 2025-05-09T23:55:04-04:00

The US FDA plans to deploy AI tools to all centers by June 30, 2025 to speed up scientific reviews, after completing a pilot and naming its first AI chief (Conor Hale/Fierce Biotech) - 2025-05-09T22:45:01-04:00

Meta unveils AssetGen 2.0, an AI system that generates higher quality 3D assets compared to AssetGen 1.0, rolling out to Horizon creators later in 2025 (David Heaney/UploadVR) - 2025-05-09T22:15:01-04:00

Q&A with SAP CEO Christian Klein on data security, Databricks partnership, building a "social network for B2B", positioning SAP as a neutral player, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery) - 2025-05-09T21:45:00-04:00

Google agrees to pay Texas $1.4B to settle two lawsuits claiming it tracks Texans' personal location and maintains their facial recognition data without consent (Ryan Autullo/Bloomberg Law) - 2025-05-09T19:35:03-04:00

Pinterest agrees to pay $34.7M to settle a 2021 lawsuit from Christine Martinez, an early adviser who claimed she co-created the platform without compensation (Eli Tan/New York Times) - 2025-05-09T19:30:01-04:00

Google agrees to pay Texas $1.4 billion data privacy settlement (Dan Mangan/CNBC) - 2025-05-09T19:10:01-04:00