The Ethical Tech Briefing Halal Tech DailyIndependent tech, curated with restraint. | Wednesday
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Top Story A brief history of AI executives calling for regulationOver the past few days, a lot of people who stand to make a lot of money from AI all publicly agreed that it's time to make everyone slow down before... The Verge |
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Playing both sides of the U.S.-China AI “Cold War” From Latin America to Southeast Asia, countries are dividing their AI investments between the two superpowers rather than choosing one over the other. Rest of World | Shopify Drops React Native for Swift and Kotlin as AI Changes Cross-Platform Development Tradeoffs Shopify recently announced it is abandoning React Native to rewrite its flagship apps in Swift and Kotlin. With the significant jump in the quality of... InfoQ |
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Why Meta’s Zuckerberg rebuffed Dario Amodei’s AI slowdown calls Mr. Amodei has warned that the AI development is beginning to outstrip the labs’ ability to understand and control the systems it is creating. But Mr.... Technology News Today, Latest Tech News - The Hindu | Article: Your Next DSL Author Is a Language Model In this article, the author introduces Typed Domain Grounding, an approach to reducing LLM hallucinations in domain-specific languages by embedding th... InfoQ |
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With UPI MDR Clarity, PhonePe Eyes IPO By March 2027 With greater clarity around the monetisation of UPI payments following’ the introduction of a new Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) framework,… Inc42 | Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years’ worth of nuclear fuel Fluxnium's fibers can extract uranium directly from seawater, which has enough of the nuclear fuel to power thousands of generations. TechCrunch |
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Inside Dextrus’ Contrarian Bet In India’s Venture Capital-Heavy Workspace Ecosystem The traditional Indian workplace is being reimagined. Whether it is a year-old startup or a decades-old enterprise, companies now want… Inc42 |
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NEOPAY, CBD Deal Gives Eligible UAE Merchants Access to Financing NEOPAY has partnered with Commercial Bank of Dubai (CBD) to help small and medium-sized enterprises access working capital financing and banking servi... Fintechnews ME | Amazon launches Alexa+ in India with Hindi support Amazon is letting all customers use Alexa+ assistant in early access period. TechCrunch |
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Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils Comments Lobste.rs | Lyft Moves Streaming Fleet to Apache Flink Kubernetes Operator Lyft has moved hundreds of production Flink jobs from a 2020 in-house Kubernetes operator to the Apache Flink Kubernetes Operator, unlocking last-stat... InfoQ |
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The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week 109 upvotes · 77 comments on Hacker News Hacker News | Apple iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max Review: For Camera Fiends Fun camera features help make these candy bar iPhones stand out from the dazzle of the folding iPhone Duo. Wired |
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Here's how the iPhone 18 Pro's Apple Reference Image tech works Apple Reference Image is like giving your photos a tamper-proof seal. Engadget |
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SK Hynix reportedly in talks with Intel to build memory chips in US SK Hynix told TechCrunch the company hasn't finalized any plans or arrangements yet. TechCrunch | How chimps teach their kids tool tricks Adults first demonstrate tool use, then hand over the implements to their infants, who copy the behavior. Ars Technica |
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A/I Shuts Down A/I is Autistici/Inventati, nothing to do with algorithms.
Why this matters: to quote senior advisor and journalist Anne Roth:
20,000 mail accounts.... Lobste.rs | Kellton wins automotive lender integration platform deal The lender aims to cut fragmented data flows and speed future product rollouts by replacing point-to-point links with a governed integration layer. TechDay India - India's technology news network |
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How Blackstone went from buying AGS Health to cashing out in a year The post How Blackstone went from buying AGS Health to cashing out in a year appeared first on The Ken. The Ken - Business, Startups, Technology and Healthcare news from India |
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