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Nikkei Asia: A look at Huawei’s efforts to make HarmonyOS a formidable rival to iOS and Android; Counterpoint: 16% of smartphones sold in China in Q4 2023 used HarmonyOS  —  Chinese tech giant unveiled new operating system in January  — … Read More »A look at Huawei’s efforts to make HarmonyOS a formidable rival to iOS and Android; Counterpoint: 16% of smartphones sold in China in Q4 2023 used HarmonyOS (Nikkei Asia)

NBC News: Experts say the US government and tech companies are failing to mount a clear response to the theft of trade secrets by Chinese corporate and government spies  —  U.S. officials say some of America’s most prominent tech firms… Read More »Experts say the US government and tech companies are failing to mount a clear response to the theft of trade secrets by Chinese corporate and government spies (NBC News)

Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: Dune Analytics: decentralized exchange Uniswap tops $2T in all-time trading volume after breaching $1T in May 2022 and remains the largest DEX by trading volume  —  Launched in November 2018, Uniswap took 42 months to breach… Read More »Dune Analytics: decentralized exchange Uniswap tops $2T in all-time trading volume after breaching $1T in May 2022 and remains the largest DEX by trading volume (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Mahbod Moghadam, the controversial co-founder of Genius and Everipedia, passed away in March at age 41, according to a post on Genius attributed to his family  —  Mahbod Moghadam, the controversial, never-boring co-founder of Genius and… Read More »Mahbod Moghadam, the controversial co-founder of Genius and Everipedia, passed away in March at age 41, according to a post on Genius attributed to his family (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

Reuters: X says it has been “forced by court decisions to block certain popular accounts in Brazil” and is barred from giving details of the order  —  X Corp, formerly Twitter, has been “forced by court decisions” to block certain… Read More »X says it has been “forced by court decisions to block certain popular accounts in Brazil” and is barred from giving details of the order (Reuters)

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: A profile of former Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg and her new startup Meeno, which provides an AI-powered chatbot for relationship advice on iOS and has raised $4.9M  —  Ex-Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg thinks advanced AI… Read More »A profile of former Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg and her new startup Meeno, which provides an AI-powered chatbot for relationship advice on iOS and has raised $4.9M (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: Email: Galaxy Digital’s venture arm, which has long invested its own money, is raising a $100M fund with outside capital, focused on early-stage crypto startups  —  Galaxy’s prolific venture wing plans to start accepting – and… Read More »Email: Galaxy Digital’s venture arm, which has long invested its own money, is raising a $100M fund with outside capital, focused on early-stage crypto startups (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: Report: Google changed its privacy policy in June 2022 to more broadly cover its use of publicly available content, including Google Docs, to train AI models  —  According to The New York Times, the companies may… Read More »Report: Google changed its privacy policy in June 2022 to more broadly cover its use of publicly available content, including Google Docs, to train AI models (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)

Alexandra Sternlicht / Fortune: A look at OnlyFans AI chatbot startups, which are replacing some low-wage workers with bots trained on creators’ chats to mimic their dirty talk and upselling  —  Hey there, it’s tech reporter Alexandra Sternlicht.  —  OnlyFans… Read More »A look at OnlyFans AI chatbot startups, which are replacing some low-wage workers with bots trained on creators’ chats to mimic their dirty talk and upselling (Alexandra Sternlicht/Fortune)

Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: Source: Y Combinator is inviting some alumni entrepreneurs to invest a minimum of $250,000, which will be split among the three funds it is currently raising  —  – The accelerator is requiring limited partners invest in… Read More »Source: Y Combinator is inviting some alumni entrepreneurs to invest a minimum of $250,000, which will be split among the three funds it is currently raising (Kia Kokalitcheva/Axios)