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Smashing, an AI-powered news and social media posts aggregation app by Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, shuts down, citing its inability to grow quickly (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Konvoy: the gaming industry saw 43 M&A transactions and 77 VC deals in Q1 2025, and the sector is projected to be worth $186B in 2026, a 4.7% YoY jump (Rachel Kaser/VentureBeat)

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Mario Kart World's CameraPlay Lets You Broadcast Your Live Facial Reactions

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Workers and researchers say data annotation jobs that many Venezuelans relied on have become scarce and poorly paid with the rise of generative AI (Laura Rodríguez Salamanca/Rest of World)

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US community colleges are battling a flood of fake, or bot, students who bilk financial aid by enrolling in online classes and submitting AI-generated work (Jakob McWhinney/Voice of San Diego)

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Study: in South Korea, active YouTube users spent 210 minutes per day on the service in Q4, while Netflix subscribers spent 96 minutes per day on the streamer (Max Goldbart/Deadline)

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TSMC reports Q1 net income up 60.3% YoY to $11.1B, beating estimates, as customers stockpiled chips anticipating global trade disruptions spurred by US tariffs (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)

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Paebbl, the startup turning CO2 into building materials, opens first demo plant

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China bans automakers from using "smart driving" or "autonomous driving" in ads for driver-assist tech and tightens scrutiny after a fatal Xiaomi EV crash (Reuters)

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Strava acquires massively popular Runna app

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Sources: OpenAI and SoftBank are considering investing in the UK for Stargate as part of an international expansion, if the project proves successful in the US (Financial Times)

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Docusign unveils AI contract agents, which can analyze agreements and surface issues that usually require human intervention, available by the end of 2025 (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)

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Auradine, which manufactures Bitcoin miners and offers AI infrastructure, raised a $153M Series C, with $138M in equity and $15M in debt, led by StepStone Group (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

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xAI announces a memory feature for Grok in beta that enables the AI chatbot to remember details from past conversations and give more personalized responses (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Sources: Perplexity is in discussions to integrate its AI assistant on Samsung's devices and has reached an agreement to preload Perplexity on Motorola's phones (Bloomberg)

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Discord requires some UK and Australian users to verify their age by scanning their face or ID to access sensitive material; Discord says it's "an experiment" (Chris Scullion/Video Games Chronicle)

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A US judge grants a permanent injunction against an Ohio law that required platforms to verify users are at least 16 and seek parental consent for younger users (Bloomberg Law)

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Glenn Fleishman’s Kickstarter for ‘Six Centuries of Type & Printing’

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Zuckerberg tells court he made WhatsApp and Instagram better

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Google is making Gemini Live camera and screen sharing features free for all Android users in the coming weeks after launching them for Advanced users last week (Abner Li/9to5Google)

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