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Techmeme - 2025-05-10T16:56:31-04:00

The FTC pushes the enforcement of its "click-to-cancel" rule requiring businesses to make canceling subscriptions as easy as signing up, from May 14 to July 14 (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget) - 2025-05-10T16:55:39-04:00

Source: Tel Aviv-based AI21 Labs, which is building its own LLMs and launched an AI orchestration system in March, is raising a $300M Series D (Ben Bergman/Business Insider) - 2025-05-10T15:50:01-04:00

Ramp: 32.4% of US businesses using Ramp cards had OpenAI subscriptions in April, up from 28% in March; Google AI subscriptions fell to 0.1% in April (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - 2025-05-10T14:40:27-04:00

Q&A with Sonos interim CEO Tom Conrad on the disastrous app redesign, the Ace headphones, subscriptions, the canceled video player, Google, and more (Chris Welch/The Verge) - 2025-05-10T13:30:02-04:00

Pope Leo XIV says he chose his name to honor Pope Leo XIII's work during the first industrial revolution, as AI poses challenges in a new industrial revolution (Lauren Kent/CNN) - 2025-05-10T12:15:02-04:00

The UK stopped asking Uber to pay VAT on the full cost of rides, instead collecting VAT only on its commission, after a setback in a similar dispute with Bolt (Financial Times) - 2025-05-10T11:10:17-04:00

A look at Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center, staffed largely by ex-intelligence and military personnel, which has become a key pillar of US cyber defense (Bloomberg) - 2025-05-10T09:35:01-04:00

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