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[@Techmeme](/creator/twitter/Techmeme)
"Mistral releases Voxtral its first open source AI audio model family and says its API transcription offerings are cheaper than models from OpenAI and Google (@rebeccabellan / TechCrunch)"  
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"Crypto exchange BigONE confirms a $27M hack from a hot wallet exploit plans to pay back users and is working with security firm SlowMist to trace stolen assets (@shauryamalwa / CoinDesk)"  
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"Decentralized messaging protocol XMTP developer Ephemera raised a $20M Series B at a $300M equity and $750M network valuation following a $20M Series A in 2021 (@yogita_khatri5 / The Block)"  
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"Founders Fund-backed Ondo Finance and Pantera Capital launch a $250M fund to invest in real-world asset tokenization projects via equity stakes and tokens (@shenlucinda / Axios)"  
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"Apple CarPlay Ultra hands-on: currently exclusive to Aston Martin enhances center console integration works smoothly with driver assist systems and more (Michael Teo Van Runkle / Ars Technica)"  
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"Saudi startup Lucidya which develops customer experience software raised a $30M Series B led by Impact46 marking the largest AI funding round in the kingdom (@yassminjabri / Bloomberg)"  
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"Firestorm Labs which has contracts with the US DOD for its 3D printed drones raised a $47M Series A and plans to grow its fleet of airliftable xCell factories (@demarest_colin / Axios)"  
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"The DOJ says ex-Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to hacking over XX telcos and to extortion; in February he admitted hacking AT&T and Verizon (@lorenzofb / TechCrunch)"  
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"An interview with Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost on settling the proxy fight with Starboard Value serving the "design and make" workforce US reshoring and more (@edgecliffe / Semafor)"  
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"Sources: Cantor Equity Partners X a SPAC backed by Cantor Fitzgerald is in late-stage talks with Blockstream Capital founder Adam Back to buy $3B+ in bitcoin (Financial Times)"  
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"Waymo introduces teen accounts in Phoenix allowing teenagers aged 14-17 to use its Waymo One ridehailing service alone with parental approval (@andyjayhawk / The Verge)"  
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"Hadrian which is building largely automated factories to produce space and defense parts raised a $260M Series C bringing its total funding to $500M (@breadfrom / TechCrunch)"  
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"Q&A with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on the browser as AI's killer app AI talent wars why users will eventually pay thousands for a single AI prompt more (@alexeheath / The Verge)"  
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"ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says "while we still prepare for growth in 2026 we cannot confirm it" after Trump threatened XX% EU tariffs; ASML falls 10%+ (@mauroorru94 / Wall Street Journal)"  
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"Sources: some Trump administration officials are holding up finalizing a deal for the UAE to buy Nvidia AI chips over concerns that China could access the chips (Wall Street Journal)"  
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"Roblox partners with Persona to estimate user ages and verify they are 13+ renames Friends to Connections and says 13+ users can message Trusted Connections (@jaypeters / The Verge)"  
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"Discord launches Orbs a virtual reward system that incentivizes users to interact with ads by completing Quests to earn digital items after a seven week beta (@laurenforristal / TechCrunch)"  
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"Samsung Electronics Chair Jay Y. Lee wins a full reprieval from South Korea's Supreme Court in a protracted fight over fraud and stock manipulation allegations (Wall Street Journal)"  
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"Uber and Baidu announce a multi-year partnership to launch robotaxis in markets outside the US and mainland China starting in Asia and the Middle East in 2025 (@natlungfy / Bloomberg)"  
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"raised $500M via a sale of PUMP tokens which sold out in XX minutes; it offered XXXX% of its total token supply at a fully diluted valuation of $4B (@zackdabrams / The Block)"  
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"Internal memo: Adam Mosseri says Meta has named long time executive Connor Hayes as head of Threads starting in mid-September; Hayes joined Meta in 2011 (@sarafischer / Axios)"  
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"Onebrief which makes military workflow software raised a $20M Series C extension led by Battery Ventures at a $1.1B valuation taking the round total to $70M (Chris Metinko / Axios)"  
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"French payments group Worldline's stock drops 20%+ after European journalism network EIC reports alleging that the company covered up customer fraud (Bloomberg)"  
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"On stablecoins JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon says "We're going to be involved in both JPMorgan deposit coin and stablecoins to understand it to be good at it" (@hugh_son / CNBC)"  
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"Portola which develops the Tolan app featuring AI companions raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures; the app has 3M+ downloads and 100K+ paid users (@kslosh / GeekWire)"  
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"Microsoft says it will no longer use China-based engineers to provide technical support to the US military after a ProPublica report raised security concerns (@stephennellis / Reuters)"  
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"Levelpath which provides AI-powered enterprise procurement services raised a $55M Series B led by Battery Ventures bringing its total funding to $100M (@mtemkin / TechCrunch)"  
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"China which pledged $8.5B for young AI startups in April is taking an industrial policy approach to help its AI companies close the gap with those in the US (@megatobin1 / New York Times)"  
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"Bedrock Robotics raised $80M from Eclipse and 8VC to develop retrofit self-driving kits for construction and worksite vehicles in testing with five companies (@kirstenkorosec / TechCrunch)"  
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"Israeli subterranean mapping startup Exodigo raised a $96M Series B led by Zeev Ventures and Greenfield Partners taking its total funding to $214M (@mike_wheatley / SiliconANGLE)"  
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"Super Micro plans to raise $2B from the sale of convertible bonds to repurchase shares as well as to fund growth and business expansion (Bloomberg)"  
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"A look at the annual Ethereum Community Conference or EthCC Ethereum's flagship European event held in Cannes this year to showcase the network's growth (@kenziesigalos / CNBC)"  
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"Ring reinstated its mission to "make neighborhoods safer" and reintroduced video sharing with police in April as its founder led an overhaul since his return (@eugenekim222 / Business Insider)"  
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"Datadog is joining the S&P XXX replacing Juniper Networks after HPE acquired Juniper before trading on July 9; DDOG jumps 10%+ after hours (@jordannovet / CNBC)"  
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"Microsoft announces a $4B commitment in cash and tech to support AI education in schools and more and starts Elevate Academy an AI training program for adults (@natashanyt / New York Times)"  
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"Bengaluru-based QpiAI which is integrating AI and quantum computing for enterprise use cases raised a $32M Series A at a $162M post-money valuation (@jagmeets13 / TechCrunch)"  
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"A federal judge reinstates FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter months after President Trump sought to fire her and Democratic colleague Alvaro Bedoya (Bloomberg Law)"  
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"Cloudflare starts blocking access to pirate sites in the UK; previously blocking was almost entirely done by local ISPs (Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak)"  
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"Reddit says it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them "view certain mature content" in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act (@jbrodkin / Ars Technica)"  
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"Google Cloud has competed well against AWS in AI attracting business from The Browser Company Safe Superintelligence Thinking Machines Lab and OpenAI (@kevkubernetes / The Information)"  
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"Sources: Prosus offered to cut its XX% Delivery Hero stake to below XX% and give up its board seat to address EU concerns over its 4.1B Just Eat Takeaway deal (@fooyunchee / Reuters)"  
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"Ambrook a startup providing specialized accounting software for US farmers and ranchers raised a $26.1M Series A led by Thrive Capital and Figma's Dylan Field (@agarfinks / Fortune)"  
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"Sources: Mistral AI is in talks to raise as much as $1B in equity from several investors including Abu Dhabi's MGX; it has raised 1B+ since its 2023 founding (Bloomberg)"  
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"Harmonic a startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev that aims to build AI better at math than humans raised a $100M Series B at a $875M valuation (@kateclarktweets / Bloomberg)"  
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"How AI and automation are transforming agriculture enabling autonomous tractors and fruit-picking robots and improving crop management via data and analytics (@berlindiary / Wall Street Journal)"  
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"Chinese game Revenge on Gold Diggers one of the most popular and contentious video games in the country sparks a debate over misogyny and male resentment (@liyuan6 / New York Times)"  
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"Stanford study: LLMs struggle to respond appropriately to questions about delusions suicide and OCD but AI could play valuable supportive roles to therapists (@benjedwards / Ars Technica)"  
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"SPAC Insider: SPACs are booming in 2025 with XX blank check companies going public so far in 2025 raising about $14.7B and beating 2022 total of $13.4B (@shenlucinda / Axios)"  
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"Observability and site reliability startup Traversal emerges from stealth with $48M in seed and Series A funding led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins (@agarfinks / Fortune)"  
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"Adobe updates its Firefly video model and adds a beta Generate Sound Effects tool that can create custom sounds from text prompts and the user's voice (@sabrinaa_ortiz / ZDNET)"  
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"OpenEvidence whose free AI search tool has signed up XX% of doctors in the US raised $210M led by GV at a $3.5B valuation up from $1B in February (@amyfeldman / Forbes)"  
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"RealSense spins out from Intel after XX years as the chipmaker's robotics camera unit and raises a $50M Series A with participation of Intel Capital and others (@samantha_subin / CNBC)"  
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"Crypto PAC Fairshake says it has raised $109M since the US elections in November 2024 and $52M in H1 2025 as it prepares for the 2026 US midterm elections (@forthewynn_ / The Block)"  
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"Total crypto market value surpassed $4T for the first time driven by altcoin rallies and US legislative momentum; Ether jumped XX% over the past five days (@sidcoins / Bloomberg)"  
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"OpenAI says it will use the Google Cloud Platform for ChatGPT and its API adding it to a list of suppliers that also includes Microsoft CoreWeave and Oracle (@jordannovet / CNBC)"  
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"Getty Images drops its primary claims of copyright infringement against Stability AI in UK court but continues to pursue other claims and a separate US lawsuit (@rebeccabellan / TechCrunch)"  
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"Sources: Trump is expected to sign an executive order as soon as this week that would open up 401(k) plans to cryptocurrency and other alternative investments (Financial Times)"  
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"Dubai-based Xpanceo which is developing smart contact lenses with night vision health monitoring and more raised a $250M Series A at a $1.35B valuation (@birchnews / Bloomberg)"  
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"Nextdoor unveils new features like an interactive neighborhood map called Alerts partners with 3500+ local news outlets and more to revitalize its app (@miarsato / The Verge)"  
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"Hands-on with ChatGPT Agent: combines OpenAI's Operator and deep research tools and is incredibly simple to use but less customizable than Claude Code (@danshipper / Every)"  
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"Bilt Rewards which offers rewards points for rent payments raised $250M led by General Catalyst and GID at a $10.75B valuation up from $3.1B in January 2024 (@paigesmithnews / Bloomberg)"  
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"Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building multi-gigawatt datacenter "clusters" starting with a massive datacenter called Prometheus that will come online in 2026 (@rileyraygriffin / Bloomberg)"  
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"Remagine Ventures: XXX Israeli startups are focused on generative AI in 2025 up by XXX since May 2024 and they have collectively raised $20B+ to date (@elihayvidal / CTech)"  
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"Analysis: nearly XX Trump administration officials and nominees held crypto or investments in blockchain or digital-asset firms at the time of their selection (Washington Post)"  
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"Source: the CEO and the chief people officer of Astronomer were put on leave after a video of them cuddling on a kiss cam at a Coldplay concert went viral (@emayhawk / Axios)"  
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"ASML reports Q2 net sales of 7.7B net income of 2.29B and net bookings of 5.5B vs. 4.19B est. with tariffs having a "less negative" impact than expected (@arjunkharpal / CNBC)"  
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"Delta plans for XX% of its fares to be individually determined using AI by the end of 2025 up from X% now with the goal of eliminating static pricing entirely (@iaivanova / Fortune)"  
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"ServiceUp a vehicle repair process automation startup raised a $55M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital taking its total funding to nearly $70M (@bayareawriter / Crunchbase News)"  
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"Sources: Mark Zuckerberg has offered 10+ OpenAI researchers packages of $300M over four years and asked OpenAI's Mark Chen if he would consider joining Meta (Wall Street Journal)"  
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"Substack raised $100M from the Chernin Group a16z and others sources say at a $1.1B valuation as it builds a social network and focuses on advertising (New York Times)"  
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"Sources: in a Trump meeting Jensen Huang argued US chips should be the global standard and leveraged support from David Sacks who disliked Biden's chip rules (@trippmickle / New York Times)"  
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"Location sharing apps like Find My Snap Map and Life360 remain popular among Gen Z users despite concerns about their impact on real-world relationships (Summer Maxwell / SFGATE)"  
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"SEC Chairman Paul Atkins says the GENIUS Act is a "historic step" and the SEC is weighing an "innovation exemption" from regulations to incentivize tokenization (Bloomberg)"  
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"Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 review: looks like a regular phone with an exquisitely thin design has top-tier performance but is very pricey and lacks S Pen support (@samrutherford / Engadget)"  
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"The House passes the GENIUS Act sending the first-ever regulatory framework for issuers of stablecoins to President Trump for his signature (Axios)"  
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"Adobe Analytics: Prime Day's four-day event drove over $24B in US e-commerce sales up XXXX% YoY; traffic from generative AI sources was up 3300% YoY (@sarahpereztc / TechCrunch)"  
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"T-Mobile has received FCC and DOJ approval for its $4.4B acquisition of US Cellular after agreeing to phase out DEI programs to comply with FCC policy (@kelceegriffis / Bloomberg)"  
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"A look at Neon Coat an app that offers models and influencers free restaurant meals fitness classes and other experiences in exchange for social media posts (@laneflorsheim / Wall Street Journal)"  
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"Wealthfront which uses AI to build investment portfolios confidentially files for a US IPO; it was valued at $1.4B in 2022 during a failed acquisition by UBS (@prakhar_ns / Reuters)"  
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"Xiaomi reports Q3 revenue up XX% YoY to $12.8B above $12.4B est. and a $738.5M net income above $653M est. buoyed by growing smartphone and EV sales (Bloomberg) 📫 Subscribe:"  
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"A former OpenAI engineer details his experience working at the company including its culture engineering practices rapid growth and the launch of Codex (@calvinfo)"  
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"New York-based Talos which develops digital asset trading infrastructure says it acquired blockchain data provider Coin Metrics a source says for over $100M (@leomschwartz / Fortune)"  
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"Campfire which offers AI-powered ERP and accounting services raised a $35M Series A led by Accel (@julie188 / TechCrunch)"  
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"How Benchmark's investment in Chinese startup Manus has highlighted a philosophical divide in Silicon Valley over China patriotism and the pursuit of profit (Bloomberg)"  
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"PitchBook: XX VC-backed companies went public in the US in the first half of 2025 the smallest number in at least XX years raising a total of $44.4B (@nkniazhevich / Bloomberg)"  
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"France's Capgemini plans to acquire US-listed IT outsourcing company WNS for $3.3B in cash seeking to boost its agentic AI services; WNS serves 600+ clients (Bloomberg)"  
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"Bluesky rolls out Activity Notifications letting users receive notifications of new posts and replies from selected accounts as it expands its sports presence (@rjcc / The Verge)"  
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"HPE unveils several business changes including forming a strategy committee and appointing a new board member as it agrees to work with Elliott to boost value (@mollyschuetz / Bloomberg)"  
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"Legal AI startup Harvey raised a $300M Series E co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Coatue at a $5B valuation and says it serves XXX clients like KKR and PwC globally (@iamsternlicht / Fortune)"  
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"Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan co-founder Douglas Chen and some of Windsurf's R&D employees to focus on agentic coding efforts at DeepMind (@haydenfield / The Verge)"  
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"In Q2 2025 global VC funding reached $91B up from $82B in Q2 2024 driven largely by AI investments but down from $114B in Q1 2025 the highest since Q3 2022 (@geneteare / Crunchbase News)"  
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"In H1 2025 hackers stole $2.17B+ from crypto services including the DPRK's record $1.5B Bybit hack surpassing all of 2024 and up XX% on H1 2022 (Chainalysis)"  
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"An Indicator analysis of XX AI "nudify" websites: the sites averaged 18.5M monthly visitors may generate up to $36M annually and rely on Big Tech services (@mattburgess1 / Wired)"  
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"The News/Media Alliance says the webhost of which helped users bypass paywalls took down the site on July XX following the trade association's efforts (@emroth08 / The Verge)"  
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"Tel Aviv-based Wonderful which develops customer support AI agents for businesses in non-English speaking countries raised a $34M seed led by Index Ventures (@ychernova / Wall Street Journal)"  
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"Foundation EGI an "engineering general intelligence" startup that builds custom LLMs for engineering tasks raised a $23M Series A led by Translink Capital (@duncanriley / SiliconANGLE)"  
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"In Q2 2025 smartphone shipments in China fell X% YoY to 69M units; Huawei returned to the top spot for the first time in over four years with an XX% share (IDC)"  
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"Sources: ByteDance is working on a lightweight MR device that resembles goggles tethered to a compute puck and has a team working on the device's custom chips (The Information)"  
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"Unify which offers AI-powered tools to boost revenue pipelines raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures valuing it at $260M following a $12M Series A (@alexrkonrad / Upstarts Media)"  
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"Acquihire deals like Google's Windsurf deal are a wake-up call for AI startup employees left behind creating new uncertainty over leadership and compensation (@shiringhaffary / Bloomberg)"  
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"EQT agrees to sell Japanese automotive electronics manufacturer Pioneer for $1.1B to CarUX a unit of Taiwan-listed Innolux specializing in smart cockpit tech (Cathy Chan / Bloomberg)"  
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"Analysis: 7818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage or X% of Steam's total library of 114126 games up from 1000 titles in April 2024 (@ichirodejobaan / Totally Human Media)"  
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"Microsoft's Copilot struggles to make headway against other AI assistants; Sensor Tower: Copilot's mobile app has 79M downloads vs. ChatGPT's 900M+ downloads (@mattmday / Bloomberg)"  
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"Lenovo Legion Go S review: SteamOS is a huge improvement over Windows but battery life falls behind Windows-based handhelds and its touchpad is nearly useless (@starfire2258 / The Verge)"  
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"iCapital which makes tools for wealth managers to invest in alternative assets raised $820M+ at a $7.5B+ valuation bringing its total funding to $1.5B+ (@bayareawriter / Crunchbase News)"  
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"Mark Zuckerberg Q&A: Meta's focus on "personal super intelligence" how large compensation packages pale in comparison to AI infra investments AI glasses more (@jessicalessin / The Information)"  
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"Sources: the White House is preparing an EO requiring AI companies with federal contracts to be neutral and unbiased to combat what officials see as "woke AI" (Wall Street Journal)"  
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"A look at US-backed NVD as its parent org NIST scrambles to hire contractors to help clear a backlog of 25K+ vulnerabilities 10x the previous high in 2017 (@_mattking / MIT Technology Review)"  
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"OpenAI debuts ChatGPT Agent which can control an entire computer and perform multi-step tasks powered by a new dedicated model rolling out to paid users (@haydenfield / The Verge)"  
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"NYC-based Rain which issues credit cards that let customers settle payments in stablecoins raised $24.5M led by Norwest taking its total funding to $30.5M (@catmcgrath5 / Fortune)"  
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"Moment which offers fixed income portfolio management software to financial institutions raised a $36M Series B led by Index taking its total funding to $56M (@pymnts)"  
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"Intel's former CEO backs President Trump's proposed sovereign wealth fund to secure US leadership in quantum AI and chips and combat China's tech advances (@pgelsinger / Wall Street Journal)"  
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"Sources: Meta offers to buy XX% of Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross's VC fund NFDG; about half of NFDG's first fund of $1.1B raised in 2023 has been invested (@ychernova / Wall Street Journal)"  
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"a16z moves its state of incorporation to Nevada saying Delaware's Court of Chancery "can at times appear biased against technology startup founders" (Andreessen Horowitz)"  
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"Researcher: a DOGE staffer inadvertently published a private API key for xAI on GitHub on July XX exposing access to 52+ LLMs including "grok-4-0709" (@briankrebs / Krebs on Security)"  
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"Taiwanese silicon wafer maker GlobalWafers plans to invest $4B in its US manufacturing operations more than doubling its earlier pledge to $7.5B (@kimberley_kao / Wall Street Journal)"  
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"Airbus' Acubed and Google spinout SandboxAQ test MagNav a quantum-sensing navigation device and potential GPS alternative for 150+ flight hours across the US (@isabellebiscuit / Wall Street Journal)"  
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"How Clorox is using generative AI for ad creation brainstorming new products and analyzing consumer reviews as part of a five-year $580M digital overhaul (@mims / Wall Street Journal)"  
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"IDC: the global smartphone market grew X% YoY in Q2 despite economic uncertainty and weak demand in China; Samsung led with 58M shipments up XXX% YoY (@andrewornot / AppleInsider)"  
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"In Beijing Jensen Huang says Nvidia would "accelerate the recovery" of its China chip sales and he expects US export licences "to come through very shortly" (@eleanorolcott / Financial Times)"  
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"HMD says it will "scale back" US operations citing "a challenging geopolitical and economic environment" and appears to have stopped US sales of Nokia devices (@dompreston / The Verge)"  
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"Alibaba is putting $7B in Taobao promotions as invests $1.4B to grow food delivery with both offering discounts to become China's leading "everyday app" (@eleanorolcott / Financial Times)"  
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"A look at the Chile-led Latam-GPT project which involves 30+ Latin American and Caribbean institutions collaborating to release an open-source LLM in September (Cristin Vera-Cruz / Rest of World)"  
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"AMD unveils the Zen 5-based Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-Series CPUs including the flagship $11699 Threadripper Pro 9995WX with XX cores set for July XX (@tomwarren / The Verge)"  
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"Sources: OpenAI researcher Jason Wei who worked on o3 and deep research models and his colleague Hyung Won Chung are joining Meta's new superintelligence lab (@kyliebytes / Wired)"  
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"ChatGPT Agent uses a virtual browser to do tasks such as filling online forms and calling public APIs and generates downloadable PowerPoint and Excel files (@reece___rogers / Wired)"  
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"Juniper Square which offers investment management and fund administration tools for real estate PE VC firms raised $130M led by Ribbit at a $1.1B valuation (@katie_roof / Bloomberg)"  
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"Source: OpenAI is preparing ChatGPT agents to let users create files compatible with PowerPoint and Excel generate reports and handle tasks involving websites (@steph_palazzolo / The Information)"  
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"President Trump signs the GENIUS Act and says the first federal bill to regulate stablecoins will "secure the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency" (Bloomberg)"  
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"Netflix reports Q2 revenue up XX% YoY to $11.08B vs. $11.07B est. net income of $3.13B and forecasts 2025 revenue of $44.8B-$45.2B up from $43.5B-$44.5B (@sarahwhit10 / CNBC)"  
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"Swedish AI coding startup Lovable raised a $200M Series A led by Accel at a $1.8B valuation making it Europe's newest unicorn (@rudnit / Bloomberg)"  
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"CoreWeave says it agreed to acquire bitcoin miner Core Scientific in a $9B all-stock deal set to close in Q4 2025 to expand its AI data center capacity (@danawollman / Bloomberg)"  
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"Neuralink filed on April XX as a "small disadvantaged business" that could give it preferential access to federal opportunities before being valued at $9B (@lorakolodny / CNBC)"  
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"China approves Synopsys' acquisition of simulation software company Ansys after the US lifted restrictions on chip design software sales to China (Reuters)"  
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"Moonvalley which is developing "ethical" AI video models trained on licensed content raised $84M led by General Catalyst bringing its total funding to $154M (@xpangler / Variety)"  
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"Sources: Kalshi is raising $100M+ led by Paradigm at a $1B+ valuation; Polymarket is completing a $200M+ investment led by Founders Fund at a $1B valuation (@kateclarktweets / Bloomberg)"  
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"Scale AI says it is laying off XXX full-time employees or XX% of its global workforce and will stop working with XXX contractors after Meta invested $14.3B (Bloomberg)"  
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"Boulevard which provides business management software for the self-care sector raised an $80M Series D led by JMI Equity at an $800M post-money valuation (@bayareawriter / Crunchbase News)"  
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"Arcade a gen-AI marketplace for designing jewelry raised a $25M Series A led by Canaan Partners bringing total funding to $42M and expands to home goods (@laurenforristal / TechCrunch)"  
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"The Gates Foundation Ballmer Group and others form NextLadder to spend $1B over XX years to develop AI tools for public defenders parole officers and more (@tkbeaty / Associated Press)"  
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"Amsterdam-based Dexter Energy which offers AI-based forecasting and trading products for renewable energy and batteries raised a 23M Series C led by Alantra (@skglondontown / Reuters)"  
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"OpenAI officially closes its $6.5B acquisition of Jony Ive's startup which it refers to as io Products after a trademark suit from hearing device startup Iyo (@haydenfield / The Verge)"  
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"Sources: Zerohash which provides crypto and stablecoin infrastructure is raising $100M at a $1B valuation up from $340M when it raised a Series D in 2022 (@bdanweiss / Fortune)"  
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"Sources: Menlo Ventures targets $1.5B for new funds to invest in AI ventures including $650M for early-stage startups and $850M for later-stage companies (@ychernova / Wall Street Journal)"  
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"The EU issues guidelines to help AI models with systemic risks comply with the AI Act after criticism from some companies about lack of clarity (@fooyunchee / Reuters)"  
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"Sources: MatX which designs chips to train LLMs raised a $80M Series A led by Spark Capital at a $300M valuation after raising a $25M seed in March (@mtemkin / TechCrunch) 📫 Subscribe:"  
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"Berlin-based CarOnSale a B2B marketplace for used car trading across Europe offering vehicle inspections and more raised a 70M Series C led by Northzone (@dcendongarcia / EU-Startups)"  
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"The Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Danish government plan to invest 80M to acquire and run a Microsoft-powered quantum computer set to operate in early 2027 (@sanne_wass / Bloomberg)"  
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"A look at Temu Shein Meituan and other Chinese companies' expansion plans in Brazil as they face slowing domestic demand and hurdles in the US and Europe (@megatobin1 / New York Times)"  
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"Thinking Machines Lab Mira Murati's AI startup that launched only in February raised $2B led by a16z; Nvidia Accel ServiceNow Cisco and AMD also invested (@adityaunraveled / Reuters)"  
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"Crypto asset manager Grayscale confidentially files draft IPO paperwork with the US SEC offering few details; the DCG subsidiary manages $30B+ (@jesuisnaga / The Block)"  
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"Amsterdam-based Tebi which offers a payments platform for hospitality companies raised 30M led by CapitalG after a 20M Series A in October 2024 (@abracarioca / TechCrunch)"  
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"An advisory board convened by OpenAI recommends that the company remain a nonprofit because AI is "too consequential" to be governed by a corporation alone (@tkbeaty / Associated Press)"  
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"Sources: the European Commission has stalled one of its X investigations for breaking its digital transparency rules as it negotiates a trade deal with the US (Financial Times)"  
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"Savvy Wealth a digital wealth management service for financial advisors raised a $72M Series B led by Industry Ventures taking its total funding to $100M+ (@ddjanowski / Wealth Management)"  
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"Anthropic launches Claude for Financial Services aiming to help analysts conduct market research and handle due diligence with data from FactSet and others (@shiringhaffary / Bloomberg)"  
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"Jensen Huang hailed AI models from DeepSeek Alibaba and Tencent as "world class" at a Beijing expo and said US licenses for H20 chips "will come very fast" (Reuters)"  
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"AirGarage whose platform collects and analyzes parking facilities' data to improve efficiency raised a $23M Series B bringing its total funding to $41M (Chris Metinko / Axios)"  
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"Perplexity is offering a free one-year Perplexity Pro subscription normally $20/month to 360M users of Bharti Airtel India's second-largest telecom operator (Moneycontrol)"  
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"Missouri AG Andrew Bailey is investigating Google Microsoft OpenAI and Meta claiming the companies' AI chatbots are discriminating against President Trump (@thedextriarchy / The Verge)"  
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"NetBox Labs whose open-source tools help manage networks and are used by CoreWeave ARM Cisco JP Morgan and Riot Games raised a $35M Series B (@marcusschuler /"  
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@Techmeme "Mistral releases Voxtral its first open source AI audio model family and says its API transcription offerings are cheaper than models from OpenAI and Google (@rebeccabellan / TechCrunch)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-15 16:10:51 UTC 422.6K followers, 3130 engagements

"Crypto exchange BigONE confirms a $27M hack from a hot wallet exploit plans to pay back users and is working with security firm SlowMist to trace stolen assets (@shauryamalwa / CoinDesk)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-16 19:45:41 UTC 422.6K followers, 3797 engagements

"Decentralized messaging protocol XMTP developer Ephemera raised a $20M Series B at a $300M equity and $750M network valuation following a $20M Series A in 2021 (@yogita_khatri5 / The Block)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 16:15:59 UTC 422.6K followers, 11.7K engagements

"Founders Fund-backed Ondo Finance and Pantera Capital launch a $250M fund to invest in real-world asset tokenization projects via equity stakes and tokens (@shenlucinda / Axios)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-03 18:50:50 UTC 422.6K followers, 5970 engagements

"Apple CarPlay Ultra hands-on: currently exclusive to Aston Martin enhances center console integration works smoothly with driver assist systems and more (Michael Teo Van Runkle / Ars Technica)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 17:41:02 UTC 422.6K followers, 4900 engagements

"Saudi startup Lucidya which develops customer experience software raised a $30M Series B led by Impact46 marking the largest AI funding round in the kingdom (@yassminjabri / Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-16 14:17:02 UTC 422.6K followers, 3112 engagements

"Firestorm Labs which has contracts with the US DOD for its 3D printed drones raised a $47M Series A and plans to grow its fleet of airliftable xCell factories (@demarest_colin / Axios)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 15:31:02 UTC 422.6K followers, 3089 engagements

"The DOJ says ex-Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to hacking over XX telcos and to extortion; in February he admitted hacking AT&T and Verizon (@lorenzofb / TechCrunch)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-15 23:55:55 UTC 422.6K followers, 4007 engagements

"An interview with Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost on settling the proxy fight with Starboard Value serving the "design and make" workforce US reshoring and more (@edgecliffe / Semafor)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-06 03:25:51 UTC 422.6K followers, 6286 engagements

"Sources: Cantor Equity Partners X a SPAC backed by Cantor Fitzgerald is in late-stage talks with Blockstream Capital founder Adam Back to buy $3B+ in bitcoin (Financial Times)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-15 21:05:57 UTC 422.6K followers, 4419 engagements

"Waymo introduces teen accounts in Phoenix allowing teenagers aged 14-17 to use its Waymo One ridehailing service alone with parental approval (@andyjayhawk / The Verge)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-08 21:10:52 UTC 422.6K followers, 4382 engagements

"Hadrian which is building largely automated factories to produce space and defense parts raised a $260M Series C bringing its total funding to $500M (@breadfrom / TechCrunch)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 18:35:47 UTC 422.6K followers, 3479 engagements

"Q&A with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on the browser as AI's killer app AI talent wars why users will eventually pay thousands for a single AI prompt more (@alexeheath / The Verge)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 14:45:47 UTC 422.6K followers, 5897 engagements

"ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says "while we still prepare for growth in 2026 we cannot confirm it" after Trump threatened XX% EU tariffs; ASML falls 10%+ (@mauroorru94 / Wall Street Journal)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-16 14:05:52 UTC 422.6K followers, 5060 engagements

"Sources: some Trump administration officials are holding up finalizing a deal for the UAE to buy Nvidia AI chips over concerns that China could access the chips (Wall Street Journal)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 10:11:15 UTC 422.6K followers, 2839 engagements

"Roblox partners with Persona to estimate user ages and verify they are 13+ renames Friends to Connections and says 13+ users can message Trusted Connections (@jaypeters / The Verge)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 11:31:25 UTC 422.6K followers, 3685 engagements

"Discord launches Orbs a virtual reward system that incentivizes users to interact with ads by completing Quests to earn digital items after a seven week beta (@laurenforristal / TechCrunch)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-14 13:15:40 UTC 422.6K followers, 4099 engagements

"Samsung Electronics Chair Jay Y. Lee wins a full reprieval from South Korea's Supreme Court in a protracted fight over fraud and stock manipulation allegations (Wall Street Journal)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 09:52:06 UTC 422.6K followers, 2788 engagements

"Uber and Baidu announce a multi-year partnership to launch robotaxis in markets outside the US and mainland China starting in Asia and the Middle East in 2025 (@natlungfy / Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-15 14:25:49 UTC 422.6K followers, 4076 engagements

"raised $500M via a sale of PUMP tokens which sold out in XX minutes; it offered XXXX% of its total token supply at a fully diluted valuation of $4B (@zackdabrams / The Block)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-12 16:35:50 UTC 422.6K followers, 5426 engagements

"Internal memo: Adam Mosseri says Meta has named long time executive Connor Hayes as head of Threads starting in mid-September; Hayes joined Meta in 2011 (@sarafischer / Axios)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 16:11:02 UTC 422.6K followers, 2723 engagements

"Onebrief which makes military workflow software raised a $20M Series C extension led by Battery Ventures at a $1.1B valuation taking the round total to $70M (Chris Metinko / Axios)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-06-22 03:50:46 UTC 422.6K followers, 6793 engagements

"French payments group Worldline's stock drops 20%+ after European journalism network EIC reports alleging that the company covered up customer fraud (Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-06-25 09:40:34 UTC 422.6K followers, 4020 engagements

"On stablecoins JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon says "We're going to be involved in both JPMorgan deposit coin and stablecoins to understand it to be good at it" (@hugh_son / CNBC)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-15 18:40:48 UTC 422.6K followers, 5624 engagements

"Portola which develops the Tolan app featuring AI companions raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures; the app has 3M+ downloads and 100K+ paid users (@kslosh / GeekWire)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-13 13:55:42 UTC 422.6K followers, 5084 engagements

"Microsoft says it will no longer use China-based engineers to provide technical support to the US military after a ProPublica report raised security concerns (@stephennellis / Reuters)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-19 00:06:47 UTC 422.6K followers, 3557 engagements

"Levelpath which provides AI-powered enterprise procurement services raised a $55M Series B led by Battery Ventures bringing its total funding to $100M (@mtemkin / TechCrunch)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-06-30 22:53:23 UTC 422.6K followers, 4736 engagements

"China which pledged $8.5B for young AI startups in April is taking an industrial policy approach to help its AI companies close the gap with those in the US (@megatobin1 / New York Times)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-16 09:17:01 UTC 422.6K followers, 2906 engagements

"Bedrock Robotics raised $80M from Eclipse and 8VC to develop retrofit self-driving kits for construction and worksite vehicles in testing with five companies (@kirstenkorosec / TechCrunch)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-16 15:55:39 UTC 422.6K followers, 2929 engagements

"Israeli subterranean mapping startup Exodigo raised a $96M Series B led by Zeev Ventures and Greenfield Partners taking its total funding to $214M (@mike_wheatley / SiliconANGLE)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-16 12:43:41 UTC 422.6K followers, 3435 engagements

"Super Micro plans to raise $2B from the sale of convertible bonds to repurchase shares as well as to fund growth and business expansion (Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-06-23 17:55:46 UTC 422.6K followers, 4729 engagements

"A look at the annual Ethereum Community Conference or EthCC Ethereum's flagship European event held in Cannes this year to showcase the network's growth (@kenziesigalos / CNBC)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-05 16:36:07 UTC 422.6K followers, 6459 engagements

"Ring reinstated its mission to "make neighborhoods safer" and reintroduced video sharing with police in April as its founder led an overhaul since his return (@eugenekim222 / Business Insider)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-18 22:51:46 UTC 422.6K followers, 3936 engagements

"Datadog is joining the S&P XXX replacing Juniper Networks after HPE acquired Juniper before trading on July 9; DDOG jumps 10%+ after hours (@jordannovet / CNBC)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-03 01:11:32 UTC 422.6K followers, 6807 engagements

"Microsoft announces a $4B commitment in cash and tech to support AI education in schools and more and starts Elevate Academy an AI training program for adults (@natashanyt / New York Times)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-09 16:56:16 UTC 422.6K followers, 3595 engagements

"Bengaluru-based QpiAI which is integrating AI and quantum computing for enterprise use cases raised a $32M Series A at a $162M post-money valuation (@jagmeets13 / TechCrunch)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 01:50:40 UTC 422.6K followers, 4733 engagements

"A federal judge reinstates FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter months after President Trump sought to fire her and Democratic colleague Alvaro Bedoya (Bloomberg Law)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 23:09:10 UTC 422.6K followers, 4047 engagements

"Cloudflare starts blocking access to pirate sites in the UK; previously blocking was almost entirely done by local ISPs (Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-15 20:20:51 UTC 422.6K followers, 3933 engagements

"Reddit says it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them "view certain mature content" in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act (@jbrodkin / Ars Technica)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-14 22:20:47 UTC 422.6K followers, 5147 engagements

"Google Cloud has competed well against AWS in AI attracting business from The Browser Company Safe Superintelligence Thinking Machines Lab and OpenAI (@kevkubernetes / The Information)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-14 18:45:58 UTC 422.6K followers, 3779 engagements

"Sources: Prosus offered to cut its XX% Delivery Hero stake to below XX% and give up its board seat to address EU concerns over its 4.1B Just Eat Takeaway deal (@fooyunchee / Reuters)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-18 23:56:14 UTC 422.6K followers, 3621 engagements

"Ambrook a startup providing specialized accounting software for US farmers and ranchers raised a $26.1M Series A led by Thrive Capital and Figma's Dylan Field (@agarfinks / Fortune)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-01 23:20:50 UTC 422.6K followers, 6070 engagements

"Sources: Mistral AI is in talks to raise as much as $1B in equity from several investors including Abu Dhabi's MGX; it has raised 1B+ since its 2023 founding (Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-08 19:22:47 UTC 422.6K followers, 5626 engagements

"Harmonic a startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev that aims to build AI better at math than humans raised a $100M Series B at a $875M valuation (@kateclarktweets / Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-10 18:30:55 UTC 422.6K followers, 5504 engagements

"How AI and automation are transforming agriculture enabling autonomous tractors and fruit-picking robots and improving crop management via data and analytics (@berlindiary / Wall Street Journal)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 08:17:52 UTC 422.6K followers, 2618 engagements

"Chinese game Revenge on Gold Diggers one of the most popular and contentious video games in the country sparks a debate over misogyny and male resentment (@liyuan6 / New York Times)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 08:32:23 UTC 422.6K followers, 2726 engagements

"Stanford study: LLMs struggle to respond appropriately to questions about delusions suicide and OCD but AI could play valuable supportive roles to therapists (@benjedwards / Ars Technica)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-12 13:31:05 UTC 422.6K followers, 4788 engagements

"SPAC Insider: SPACs are booming in 2025 with XX blank check companies going public so far in 2025 raising about $14.7B and beating 2022 total of $13.4B (@shenlucinda / Axios)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-18 18:30:57 UTC 422.6K followers, 3647 engagements

"Observability and site reliability startup Traversal emerges from stealth with $48M in seed and Series A funding led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins (@agarfinks / Fortune)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-06-18 14:21:52 UTC 422.6K followers, 3847 engagements

"Adobe updates its Firefly video model and adds a beta Generate Sound Effects tool that can create custom sounds from text prompts and the user's voice (@sabrinaa_ortiz / ZDNET)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-18 21:02:01 UTC 422.6K followers, 4002 engagements

"OpenEvidence whose free AI search tool has signed up XX% of doctors in the US raised $210M led by GV at a $3.5B valuation up from $1B in February (@amyfeldman / Forbes)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-15 17:13:52 UTC 422.6K followers, 3535 engagements

"RealSense spins out from Intel after XX years as the chipmaker's robotics camera unit and raises a $50M Series A with participation of Intel Capital and others (@samantha_subin / CNBC)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-11 11:10:51 UTC 422.6K followers, 4494 engagements

"Crypto PAC Fairshake says it has raised $109M since the US elections in November 2024 and $52M in H1 2025 as it prepares for the 2026 US midterm elections (@forthewynn_ / The Block)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-15 19:10:55 UTC 422.6K followers, 4168 engagements

"Total crypto market value surpassed $4T for the first time driven by altcoin rallies and US legislative momentum; Ether jumped XX% over the past five days (@sidcoins / Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-18 14:06:13 UTC 422.6K followers, 3670 engagements

"OpenAI says it will use the Google Cloud Platform for ChatGPT and its API adding it to a list of suppliers that also includes Microsoft CoreWeave and Oracle (@jordannovet / CNBC)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-16 20:01:22 UTC 422.6K followers, 5215 engagements

"Getty Images drops its primary claims of copyright infringement against Stability AI in UK court but continues to pursue other claims and a separate US lawsuit (@rebeccabellan / TechCrunch)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-06-25 20:25:43 UTC 422.6K followers, 4142 engagements

"Sources: Trump is expected to sign an executive order as soon as this week that would open up 401(k) plans to cryptocurrency and other alternative investments (Financial Times)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 21:16:33 UTC 422.6K followers, 5309 engagements

"Dubai-based Xpanceo which is developing smart contact lenses with night vision health monitoring and more raised a $250M Series A at a $1.35B valuation (@birchnews / Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-08 17:05:43 UTC 422.6K followers, 3836 engagements

"Nextdoor unveils new features like an interactive neighborhood map called Alerts partners with 3500+ local news outlets and more to revitalize its app (@miarsato / The Verge)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-15 10:42:43 UTC 422.6K followers, 3219 engagements

"Hands-on with ChatGPT Agent: combines OpenAI's Operator and deep research tools and is incredibly simple to use but less customizable than Claude Code (@danshipper / Every)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 17:25:54 UTC 422.6K followers, 6075 engagements

"Bilt Rewards which offers rewards points for rent payments raised $250M led by General Catalyst and GID at a $10.75B valuation up from $3.1B in January 2024 (@paigesmithnews / Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-11 02:25:50 UTC 422.6K followers, 5913 engagements

"Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building multi-gigawatt datacenter "clusters" starting with a massive datacenter called Prometheus that will come online in 2026 (@rileyraygriffin / Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-14 15:35:39 UTC 422.6K followers, 6568 engagements

"Remagine Ventures: XXX Israeli startups are focused on generative AI in 2025 up by XXX since May 2024 and they have collectively raised $20B+ to date (@elihayvidal / CTech)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 12:16:22 UTC 422.6K followers, 3390 engagements

"Analysis: nearly XX Trump administration officials and nominees held crypto or investments in blockchain or digital-asset firms at the time of their selection (Washington Post)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-18 06:21:10 UTC 422.6K followers, 3726 engagements

"Source: the CEO and the chief people officer of Astronomer were put on leave after a video of them cuddling on a kiss cam at a Coldplay concert went viral (@emayhawk / Axios)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-18 21:25:58 UTC 422.6K followers, 3956 engagements

"ASML reports Q2 net sales of 7.7B net income of 2.29B and net bookings of 5.5B vs. 4.19B est. with tariffs having a "less negative" impact than expected (@arjunkharpal / CNBC)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-16 06:16:28 UTC 422.6K followers, 4896 engagements

"Delta plans for XX% of its fares to be individually determined using AI by the end of 2025 up from X% now with the goal of eliminating static pricing entirely (@iaivanova / Fortune)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 02:55:41 UTC 422.6K followers, 5119 engagements

"ServiceUp a vehicle repair process automation startup raised a $55M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital taking its total funding to nearly $70M (@bayareawriter / Crunchbase News)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-09 12:40:47 UTC 422.6K followers, 4463 engagements

"Sources: Mark Zuckerberg has offered 10+ OpenAI researchers packages of $300M over four years and asked OpenAI's Mark Chen if he would consider joining Meta (Wall Street Journal)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-19 00:31:29 UTC 422.6K followers, 4450 engagements

"Substack raised $100M from the Chernin Group a16z and others sources say at a $1.1B valuation as it builds a social network and focuses on advertising (New York Times)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 14:15:14 UTC 422.6K followers, 3338 engagements

"Sources: in a Trump meeting Jensen Huang argued US chips should be the global standard and leveraged support from David Sacks who disliked Biden's chip rules (@trippmickle / New York Times)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 10:48:05 UTC 422.6K followers, 3014 engagements

"Location sharing apps like Find My Snap Map and Life360 remain popular among Gen Z users despite concerns about their impact on real-world relationships (Summer Maxwell / SFGATE)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 06:30:45 UTC 422.6K followers, 2494 engagements

"SEC Chairman Paul Atkins says the GENIUS Act is a "historic step" and the SEC is weighing an "innovation exemption" from regulations to incentivize tokenization (Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-18 14:46:02 UTC 422.6K followers, 3355 engagements

"Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 review: looks like a regular phone with an exquisitely thin design has top-tier performance but is very pricey and lacks S Pen support (@samrutherford / Engadget)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-18 02:50:56 UTC 422.6K followers, 5686 engagements

"The House passes the GENIUS Act sending the first-ever regulatory framework for issuers of stablecoins to President Trump for his signature (Axios)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 20:03:21 UTC 422.6K followers, 4288 engagements

"Adobe Analytics: Prime Day's four-day event drove over $24B in US e-commerce sales up XXXX% YoY; traffic from generative AI sources was up 3300% YoY (@sarahpereztc / TechCrunch)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-14 17:06:04 UTC 422.6K followers, 4153 engagements

"T-Mobile has received FCC and DOJ approval for its $4.4B acquisition of US Cellular after agreeing to phase out DEI programs to comply with FCC policy (@kelceegriffis / Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-12 01:05:56 UTC 422.6K followers, 5514 engagements

"A look at Neon Coat an app that offers models and influencers free restaurant meals fitness classes and other experiences in exchange for social media posts (@laneflorsheim / Wall Street Journal)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 05:25:43 UTC 422.6K followers, 3687 engagements

"Wealthfront which uses AI to build investment portfolios confidentially files for a US IPO; it was valued at $1.4B in 2022 during a failed acquisition by UBS (@prakhar_ns / Reuters)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-06-23 15:21:11 UTC 422.6K followers, 6362 engagements

"Xiaomi reports Q3 revenue up XX% YoY to $12.8B above $12.4B est. and a $738.5M net income above $653M est. buoyed by growing smartphone and EV sales (Bloomberg) 📫 Subscribe:"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2024-11-18 11:10:43 UTC 422.6K followers, 4252 engagements

"A former OpenAI engineer details his experience working at the company including its culture engineering practices rapid growth and the launch of Codex (@calvinfo)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-15 22:15:53 UTC 422.6K followers, 4212 engagements

"New York-based Talos which develops digital asset trading infrastructure says it acquired blockchain data provider Coin Metrics a source says for over $100M (@leomschwartz / Fortune)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-16 17:55:49 UTC 422.6K followers, 3397 engagements

"Campfire which offers AI-powered ERP and accounting services raised a $35M Series A led by Accel (@julie188 / TechCrunch)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-06-30 17:01:27 UTC 422.6K followers, 3526 engagements

"How Benchmark's investment in Chinese startup Manus has highlighted a philosophical divide in Silicon Valley over China patriotism and the pursuit of profit (Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-15 02:05:59 UTC 422.6K followers, 5845 engagements

"PitchBook: XX VC-backed companies went public in the US in the first half of 2025 the smallest number in at least XX years raising a total of $44.4B (@nkniazhevich / Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-12 04:35:56 UTC 422.6K followers, 5349 engagements

"France's Capgemini plans to acquire US-listed IT outsourcing company WNS for $3.3B in cash seeking to boost its agentic AI services; WNS serves 600+ clients (Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-07 09:01:18 UTC 422.6K followers, 3316 engagements

"Bluesky rolls out Activity Notifications letting users receive notifications of new posts and replies from selected accounts as it expands its sports presence (@rjcc / The Verge)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-08 10:46:03 UTC 422.6K followers, 56.4K engagements

"HPE unveils several business changes including forming a strategy committee and appointing a new board member as it agrees to work with Elliott to boost value (@mollyschuetz / Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-16 12:58:36 UTC 422.6K followers, 2963 engagements

"Legal AI startup Harvey raised a $300M Series E co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Coatue at a $5B valuation and says it serves XXX clients like KKR and PwC globally (@iamsternlicht / Fortune)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-06-23 14:45:44 UTC 422.6K followers, 3885 engagements

"Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan co-founder Douglas Chen and some of Windsurf's R&D employees to focus on agentic coding efforts at DeepMind (@haydenfield / The Verge)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-11 21:33:21 UTC 422.6K followers, 11.2K engagements

"In Q2 2025 global VC funding reached $91B up from $82B in Q2 2024 driven largely by AI investments but down from $114B in Q1 2025 the highest since Q3 2022 (@geneteare / Crunchbase News)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-08 13:46:18 UTC 422.6K followers, 5117 engagements

"In H1 2025 hackers stole $2.17B+ from crypto services including the DPRK's record $1.5B Bybit hack surpassing all of 2024 and up XX% on H1 2022 (Chainalysis)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 12:57:13 UTC 422.6K followers, 3241 engagements

"An Indicator analysis of XX AI "nudify" websites: the sites averaged 18.5M monthly visitors may generate up to $36M annually and rely on Big Tech services (@mattburgess1 / Wired)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-14 12:35:36 UTC 422.6K followers, 4392 engagements

"The News/Media Alliance says the webhost of which helped users bypass paywalls took down the site on July XX following the trade association's efforts (@emroth08 / The Verge)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 17:45:55 UTC 422.6K followers, 3235 engagements

"Tel Aviv-based Wonderful which develops customer support AI agents for businesses in non-English speaking countries raised a $34M seed led by Index Ventures (@ychernova / Wall Street Journal)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-04 02:33:27 UTC 422.6K followers, 6149 engagements

"Foundation EGI an "engineering general intelligence" startup that builds custom LLMs for engineering tasks raised a $23M Series A led by Translink Capital (@duncanriley / SiliconANGLE)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-10 15:45:56 UTC 422.6K followers, 3593 engagements

"In Q2 2025 smartphone shipments in China fell X% YoY to 69M units; Huawei returned to the top spot for the first time in over four years with an XX% share (IDC)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-16 08:40:37 UTC 422.6K followers, 2655 engagements

"Sources: ByteDance is working on a lightweight MR device that resembles goggles tethered to a compute puck and has a team working on the device's custom chips (The Information)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-14 18:05:43 UTC 422.6K followers, 3441 engagements

"Unify which offers AI-powered tools to boost revenue pipelines raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures valuing it at $260M following a $12M Series A (@alexrkonrad / Upstarts Media)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-15 21:15:53 UTC 422.6K followers, 4023 engagements

"Acquihire deals like Google's Windsurf deal are a wake-up call for AI startup employees left behind creating new uncertainty over leadership and compensation (@shiringhaffary / Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-19 06:31:03 UTC 422.6K followers, 3014 engagements

"EQT agrees to sell Japanese automotive electronics manufacturer Pioneer for $1.1B to CarUX a unit of Taiwan-listed Innolux specializing in smart cockpit tech (Cathy Chan / Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-06-28 04:26:00 UTC 422.6K followers, 5001 engagements

"Analysis: 7818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage or X% of Steam's total library of 114126 games up from 1000 titles in April 2024 (@ichirodejobaan / Totally Human Media)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-16 09:46:42 UTC 422.6K followers, 3159 engagements

"Microsoft's Copilot struggles to make headway against other AI assistants; Sensor Tower: Copilot's mobile app has 79M downloads vs. ChatGPT's 900M+ downloads (@mattmday / Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 02:20:46 UTC 422.6K followers, 5091 engagements

"Lenovo Legion Go S review: SteamOS is a huge improvement over Windows but battery life falls behind Windows-based handhelds and its touchpad is nearly useless (@starfire2258 / The Verge)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-18 09:21:17 UTC 422.6K followers, 3643 engagements

"iCapital which makes tools for wealth managers to invest in alternative assets raised $820M+ at a $7.5B+ valuation bringing its total funding to $1.5B+ (@bayareawriter / Crunchbase News)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-10 19:21:00 UTC 422.6K followers, 4050 engagements

"Mark Zuckerberg Q&A: Meta's focus on "personal super intelligence" how large compensation packages pale in comparison to AI infra investments AI glasses more (@jessicalessin / The Information)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-15 18:20:53 UTC 422.6K followers, 3702 engagements

"Sources: the White House is preparing an EO requiring AI companies with federal contracts to be neutral and unbiased to combat what officials see as "woke AI" (Wall Street Journal)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 23:46:01 UTC 422.6K followers, 4234 engagements

"A look at US-backed NVD as its parent org NIST scrambles to hire contractors to help clear a backlog of 25K+ vulnerabilities 10x the previous high in 2017 (@_mattking / MIT Technology Review)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-12 22:35:58 UTC 422.6K followers, 5270 engagements

"OpenAI debuts ChatGPT Agent which can control an entire computer and perform multi-step tasks powered by a new dedicated model rolling out to paid users (@haydenfield / The Verge)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 17:08:42 UTC 422.6K followers, 5043 engagements

"NYC-based Rain which issues credit cards that let customers settle payments in stablecoins raised $24.5M led by Norwest taking its total funding to $30.5M (@catmcgrath5 / Fortune)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-03-29 05:51:13 UTC 422.6K followers, 4769 engagements

"Moment which offers fixed income portfolio management software to financial institutions raised a $36M Series B led by Index taking its total funding to $56M (@pymnts)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-11 15:20:49 UTC 422.6K followers, 3569 engagements

"Intel's former CEO backs President Trump's proposed sovereign wealth fund to secure US leadership in quantum AI and chips and combat China's tech advances (@pgelsinger / Wall Street Journal)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-16 11:20:59 UTC 422.6K followers, 4221 engagements

"Sources: Meta offers to buy XX% of Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross's VC fund NFDG; about half of NFDG's first fund of $1.1B raised in 2023 has been invested (@ychernova / Wall Street Journal)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-03 21:10:50 UTC 422.6K followers, 5148 engagements

"a16z moves its state of incorporation to Nevada saying Delaware's Court of Chancery "can at times appear biased against technology startup founders" (Andreessen Horowitz)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-09 20:56:06 UTC 422.6K followers, 3751 engagements

"Researcher: a DOGE staffer inadvertently published a private API key for xAI on GitHub on July XX exposing access to 52+ LLMs including "grok-4-0709" (@briankrebs / Krebs on Security)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-15 09:55:50 UTC 422.6K followers, 3102 engagements

"Taiwanese silicon wafer maker GlobalWafers plans to invest $4B in its US manufacturing operations more than doubling its earlier pledge to $7.5B (@kimberley_kao / Wall Street Journal)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-05-16 09:46:16 UTC 422.6K followers, 3256 engagements

"Airbus' Acubed and Google spinout SandboxAQ test MagNav a quantum-sensing navigation device and potential GPS alternative for 150+ flight hours across the US (@isabellebiscuit / Wall Street Journal)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-16 15:10:39 UTC 422.6K followers, 3414 engagements

"How Clorox is using generative AI for ad creation brainstorming new products and analyzing consumer reviews as part of a five-year $580M digital overhaul (@mims / Wall Street Journal)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-06 01:25:52 UTC 422.6K followers, 10.2K engagements

"IDC: the global smartphone market grew X% YoY in Q2 despite economic uncertainty and weak demand in China; Samsung led with 58M shipments up XXX% YoY (@andrewornot / AppleInsider)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-14 20:20:56 UTC 422.6K followers, 4151 engagements

"In Beijing Jensen Huang says Nvidia would "accelerate the recovery" of its China chip sales and he expects US export licences "to come through very shortly" (@eleanorolcott / Financial Times)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-16 09:31:41 UTC 422.6K followers, 2999 engagements

"HMD says it will "scale back" US operations citing "a challenging geopolitical and economic environment" and appears to have stopped US sales of Nokia devices (@dompreston / The Verge)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-11 16:46:06 UTC 422.6K followers, 4636 engagements

"Alibaba is putting $7B in Taobao promotions as invests $1.4B to grow food delivery with both offering discounts to become China's leading "everyday app" (@eleanorolcott / Financial Times)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-15 06:21:24 UTC 422.6K followers, 2976 engagements

"A look at the Chile-led Latam-GPT project which involves 30+ Latin American and Caribbean institutions collaborating to release an open-source LLM in September (Cristin Vera-Cruz / Rest of World)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-16 09:02:21 UTC 422.6K followers, 2717 engagements

"AMD unveils the Zen 5-based Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-Series CPUs including the flagship $11699 Threadripper Pro 9995WX with XX cores set for July XX (@tomwarren / The Verge)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 16:50:50 UTC 422.6K followers, 3068 engagements

"Sources: OpenAI researcher Jason Wei who worked on o3 and deep research models and his colleague Hyung Won Chung are joining Meta's new superintelligence lab (@kyliebytes / Wired)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-16 05:01:43 UTC 422.6K followers, 7237 engagements

"ChatGPT Agent uses a virtual browser to do tasks such as filling online forms and calling public APIs and generates downloadable PowerPoint and Excel files (@reece___rogers / Wired)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 17:20:48 UTC 422.6K followers, 3877 engagements

"Juniper Square which offers investment management and fund administration tools for real estate PE VC firms raised $130M led by Ribbit at a $1.1B valuation (@katie_roof / Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-06-16 18:10:58 UTC 422.6K followers, 8468 engagements

"Source: OpenAI is preparing ChatGPT agents to let users create files compatible with PowerPoint and Excel generate reports and handle tasks involving websites (@steph_palazzolo / The Information)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-16 00:30:51 UTC 422.6K followers, 7975 engagements

"President Trump signs the GENIUS Act and says the first federal bill to regulate stablecoins will "secure the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency" (Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-18 19:38:14 UTC 422.6K followers, 5600 engagements

"Netflix reports Q2 revenue up XX% YoY to $11.08B vs. $11.07B est. net income of $3.13B and forecasts 2025 revenue of $44.8B-$45.2B up from $43.5B-$44.5B (@sarahwhit10 / CNBC)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 20:11:43 UTC 422.6K followers, 5044 engagements

"Swedish AI coding startup Lovable raised a $200M Series A led by Accel at a $1.8B valuation making it Europe's newest unicorn (@rudnit / Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 11:49:21 UTC 422.6K followers, 3454 engagements

"CoreWeave says it agreed to acquire bitcoin miner Core Scientific in a $9B all-stock deal set to close in Q4 2025 to expand its AI data center capacity (@danawollman / Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-07 13:02:10 UTC 422.6K followers, 7004 engagements

"Neuralink filed on April XX as a "small disadvantaged business" that could give it preferential access to federal opportunities before being valued at $9B (@lorakolodny / CNBC)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-18 02:10:57 UTC 422.6K followers, 5413 engagements

"China approves Synopsys' acquisition of simulation software company Ansys after the US lifted restrictions on chip design software sales to China (Reuters)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-14 08:50:37 UTC 422.6K followers, 3630 engagements

"Moonvalley which is developing "ethical" AI video models trained on licensed content raised $84M led by General Catalyst bringing its total funding to $154M (@xpangler / Variety)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-14 14:50:38 UTC 422.6K followers, 3962 engagements

"Sources: Kalshi is raising $100M+ led by Paradigm at a $1B+ valuation; Polymarket is completing a $200M+ investment led by Founders Fund at a $1B valuation (@kateclarktweets / Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-06-25 17:25:44 UTC 422.6K followers, 12.5K engagements

"Scale AI says it is laying off XXX full-time employees or XX% of its global workforce and will stop working with XXX contractors after Meta invested $14.3B (Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-16 15:45:40 UTC 422.6K followers, 9723 engagements

"Boulevard which provides business management software for the self-care sector raised an $80M Series D led by JMI Equity at an $800M post-money valuation (@bayareawriter / Crunchbase News)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 15:50:57 UTC 422.6K followers, 3506 engagements

"Arcade a gen-AI marketplace for designing jewelry raised a $25M Series A led by Canaan Partners bringing total funding to $42M and expands to home goods (@laurenforristal / TechCrunch)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-03-24 20:01:49 UTC 422.6K followers, 4347 engagements

"The Gates Foundation Ballmer Group and others form NextLadder to spend $1B over XX years to develop AI tools for public defenders parole officers and more (@tkbeaty / Associated Press)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-18 01:06:02 UTC 422.6K followers, 6382 engagements

"Amsterdam-based Dexter Energy which offers AI-based forecasting and trading products for renewable energy and batteries raised a 23M Series C led by Alantra (@skglondontown / Reuters)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-02 12:46:27 UTC 422.6K followers, 3987 engagements

"OpenAI officially closes its $6.5B acquisition of Jony Ive's startup which it refers to as io Products after a trademark suit from hearing device startup Iyo (@haydenfield / The Verge)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-09 17:36:34 UTC 422.6K followers, 4129 engagements

"Sources: Zerohash which provides crypto and stablecoin infrastructure is raising $100M at a $1B valuation up from $340M when it raised a Series D in 2022 (@bdanweiss / Fortune)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-11 18:35:48 UTC 422.6K followers, 3447 engagements

"Sources: Menlo Ventures targets $1.5B for new funds to invest in AI ventures including $650M for early-stage startups and $850M for later-stage companies (@ychernova / Wall Street Journal)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-06-29 22:35:36 UTC 422.6K followers, 6533 engagements

"The EU issues guidelines to help AI models with systemic risks comply with the AI Act after criticism from some companies about lack of clarity (@fooyunchee / Reuters)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-18 11:41:05 UTC 422.6K followers, 4016 engagements

"Sources: MatX which designs chips to train LLMs raised a $80M Series A led by Spark Capital at a $300M valuation after raising a $25M seed in March (@mtemkin / TechCrunch) 📫 Subscribe:"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2024-11-22 19:21:02 UTC 422.6K followers, 3897 engagements

"Berlin-based CarOnSale a B2B marketplace for used car trading across Europe offering vehicle inspections and more raised a 70M Series C led by Northzone (@dcendongarcia / EU-Startups)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-13 04:25:57 UTC 422.6K followers, 5096 engagements

"The Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Danish government plan to invest 80M to acquire and run a Microsoft-powered quantum computer set to operate in early 2027 (@sanne_wass / Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 10:31:52 UTC 422.6K followers, 4284 engagements

"A look at Temu Shein Meituan and other Chinese companies' expansion plans in Brazil as they face slowing domestic demand and hurdles in the US and Europe (@megatobin1 / New York Times)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-06-21 19:31:09 UTC 422.6K followers, 6277 engagements

"Thinking Machines Lab Mira Murati's AI startup that launched only in February raised $2B led by a16z; Nvidia Accel ServiceNow Cisco and AMD also invested (@adityaunraveled / Reuters)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-15 17:20:50 UTC 422.6K followers, 5083 engagements

"Crypto asset manager Grayscale confidentially files draft IPO paperwork with the US SEC offering few details; the DCG subsidiary manages $30B+ (@jesuisnaga / The Block)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-14 14:15:38 UTC 422.6K followers, 5172 engagements

"Amsterdam-based Tebi which offers a payments platform for hospitality companies raised 30M led by CapitalG after a 20M Series A in October 2024 (@abracarioca / TechCrunch)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-06-11 11:21:12 UTC 422.6K followers, 4496 engagements

"An advisory board convened by OpenAI recommends that the company remain a nonprofit because AI is "too consequential" to be governed by a corporation alone (@tkbeaty / Associated Press)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 23:30:51 UTC 422.6K followers, 3950 engagements

"Sources: the European Commission has stalled one of its X investigations for breaking its digital transparency rules as it negotiates a trade deal with the US (Financial Times)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 04:35:41 UTC 422.6K followers, 3639 engagements

"Savvy Wealth a digital wealth management service for financial advisors raised a $72M Series B led by Industry Ventures taking its total funding to $100M+ (@ddjanowski / Wealth Management)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-06 03:55:48 UTC 422.6K followers, 5737 engagements

"Anthropic launches Claude for Financial Services aiming to help analysts conduct market research and handle due diligence with data from FactSet and others (@shiringhaffary / Bloomberg)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-15 11:55:45 UTC 422.6K followers, 6768 engagements

"Jensen Huang hailed AI models from DeepSeek Alibaba and Tencent as "world class" at a Beijing expo and said US licenses for H20 chips "will come very fast" (Reuters)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-16 04:55:54 UTC 422.6K followers, 4049 engagements

"AirGarage whose platform collects and analyzes parking facilities' data to improve efficiency raised a $23M Series B bringing its total funding to $41M (Chris Metinko / Axios)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-08 14:40:43 UTC 422.6K followers, 3592 engagements

"Perplexity is offering a free one-year Perplexity Pro subscription normally $20/month to 360M users of Bharti Airtel India's second-largest telecom operator (Moneycontrol)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-17 05:11:00 UTC 422.6K followers, 6023 engagements

"Missouri AG Andrew Bailey is investigating Google Microsoft OpenAI and Meta claiming the companies' AI chatbots are discriminating against President Trump (@thedextriarchy / The Verge)"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-11 01:36:04 UTC 422.6K followers, 4792 engagements

"NetBox Labs whose open-source tools help manage networks and are used by CoreWeave ARM Cisco JP Morgan and Riot Games raised a $35M Series B (@marcusschuler /"
@Techmeme Avatar @Techmeme on X 2025-07-14 20:10:44 UTC 422.6K followers, 4278 engagements

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