29th April 2025 I Top Tech News I America I Europe I Asia I #techmeme #youtube #trending

29th April 2025 I Top Tech News I America I Europe I Asia I #techmeme #youtube #trending

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Hello and welcome to Top Tech News! Today’s key updates include: Dolingo’s CEO, Luis von Anan, announced a shift to AI-first operations, phasing out human contractors for AI tasks. The US House passed the Take It Down Act, criminalizing non-consensual explicit content, including deepfakes, and mandating its removal. Amazon launched 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper broadband initiative, aiming for 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit. China’s Pony.ai revealed a 70% cost reduction in autonomous driving tech, targeting mass production of robo-taxis by mid-2025. Alibaba unveiled the Quen Three AI model family, featuring 235B parameters. Wall Street banks sold $1.2B in X debt at 98 cents on the dollar. OpenAI reported over 1B ChatGPT searches weekly, with new features for users. Spotify paid $100M+ to podcast creators via a new premium engagement program. Other highlights include Pony.ai’s robo-taxi plans, Amazon’s satellite launch, and AI’s growing role in tech and media. Thanks for watching—don’t forget to subscribe, share, and stay tuned for more updates!

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Hello and welcome to Top Tech News today. Here is your daily dose of latest tech news from around the world. Before we start, please consider subscribing to our channel and press bell icon to get updates about our latest videos and daily tech news. Please also consider sharing this video. Now, these are the top tech news today. Dolingo CEO Luis von Anan says the company will gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle. As part of a shift to become AI first, the US House passes the Take It Down Act to criminalize posting non-consensual sexual images of others, including deep fakes, and require platforms to remove them. Amazon launches 27 satellites for its project Kyper broadband internet program. The first batch of 3,236 satellites it plans to send into low Earth orbit. China’s pony.ai says it can now build its most advanced autonomous driving system at 70% lower cost and plans to start mass production of robo taxes in mid 2025. Alibaba unveils the Quen three family of openweight hybrid AI reasoning models including Quen 3-235B- A 22 2B with 235B total parameters and 22 B activated parameters. A group of Wall Street banks has sold the final $1.2 $2 billion of X debt at 98 cents on the dollar after lending$1 13 billion for Musk’s takeover of Twitter in 2022. Around 50% of US adults say AI will have a negative impact on news over the next 20 years. 10% say a positive effect. 59% say AI will lead to fewer journalists. Open AAI says users made over a billion web searches in chat GPT last week and that WhatsApp users can now message 1800 chat GPT to get up-to-date search results. Open AAI announces that it will start showing product recommendations in chat GPT even for logged out users with buy buttons that link to merchant sites. Researchers say bots on Reddit posing as rape victims and more were effective at changing minds in over 1,000 posts in an unauthorized AI persuasion experiment. Paulo Alto Networks says it aims to acquire Seattlebased Protect AI. Sources say for $500 million. Protect AI’s $60 million series B in 2024 was at a reported $400 million valuation. In March 2025, World Weaguer Congress members were targeted with a spear fishing campaign via Windows malware in a legitimate Weaguer language word processor. Israeli startup Lightun, an observability service that finds runtime issues and helps debug production code, raised a $70 million series B co-led by Axel and Insight. IBM plans to invest $150 billion in the US over the next five years, including in R&D to fuel the economy and accelerate its role as the global leader in computing. Logos based Omni Retail, which digitizes order management for manufacturers, distributors, and others, raised a $20 million series A, taking its total funding to $38 million. And Spotify says it has paid $100 million plus to podcast publishers and creators since January 2025 via a new creator program based on premium subscribers video engagement. Munichbased ARX Robotics, which makes self-driving modular battlefield robots, raised 31 million euros, led by HV Capital, and plans to build a plant in Southwest England. Music creation startup Splice buys Londonbased orchestral sound studio Spitfire Audio, a source says, for approximately $50 million. Sources say Splice has over $100 million in annual revenue. That was all for today.

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