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How Chinese AI companies bypass US chip restrictions by transporting hard drives with AI training data to Malaysian data centers housing advanced Nvidia chips (Wall Street Journal)
2025-06-14 11:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Ellipsis Health, which developed an AI voice agent to check in on patients between doctor visits, raised a $45M Series A led by Salesforce, Khosla, and CVS (Brian Gormley/Wall Street Journal)
2025-06-14 01:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
President Trump's 2024 financial disclosure report shows he earned ~$57M from his stake in World Liberty Financial and $1.2M from an NFT licensing deal (New York Times)
2025-06-14 01:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: the US DOJ is reviewing whether Google's planned $32B acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz would illegally limit competition in the market (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)
2025-06-14 04:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Waymo temporarily limits service in SF, Austin, and Atlanta, and stops service in LA, as US cities prepare for protests against federal immigration policies (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
2025-06-14 05:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Google, Scale AI's largest customer, plans to cut ties with the company after the Meta deal; Microsoft, OpenAI, and xAI also plan to step back (Reuters)
2025-06-13 22:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Harvard releases Institutional Books 1.0, a dataset for AI researchers with 242B tokens, from 394M scanned pages and 983K public domain books in 254 languages (Matt O'Brien/Associated Press)
2025-06-14 03:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Ramp raised $200M led by Founders Fund, valuing the startup at $16B, up from $13B in March, when it conducted a $150M share sale (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
2025-06-13 23:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at 10 AI agent startups from YC's first-ever spring Demo Day; the batch included 144 companies, 70 of which focused on agentic AI (Samantha Stokes/Business Insider)
2025-06-14 05:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Oracle stock jumped 24% this week, its best performance since 2001, and is up 29% in 2025, vs. Nasdaq's 1%, after the company reported cloud momentum (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
2025-06-13 22:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Canary, which offers hotel guest management tools, raised an $80M Series D led by Brighton Park Capital, valuing the company at about $600M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
2025-06-14 02:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
As the world moves toward digital artificiality, Airbnb's redesign and Apple's Liquid Glass UI bring back skeuomorphism and dimensionality to digital interfaces (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)
2025-06-14 06:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AIM Intelligent Machines, which retrofits heavy construction equipment to operate autonomously, raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and others (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
2025-06-14 05:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Horizon3.ai, whose AI-based penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $100M Series D led by NEA (Chris Metinko/Axios)
2025-06-14 06:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, whose members include AMD, Cisco, HPE, and Intel, publishes the 1.0 specification for enhancing Ethernet standards for AI and HPC (Sean Michael Kerner/Network World)
2025-06-14 06:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A White House memo says David Sacks and Craft Ventures are divesting holdings in AI companies and hyperscalers like xAI and Meta (Dan Primack/Axios)
2025-06-13 21:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Anne Wojcicki is poised to regain control of 23andMe, after her nonprofit TTAM offered $305M to top Regeneron's bid for the DNA-testing company (Wall Street Journal)
2025-06-13 20:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Yupp, which rewards users in crypto for comparing answers from multiple AI models and giving feedback, emerges from stealth with a $33M seed led by a16z crypto (James Hunt/The Block)
2025-06-13 19:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Accel, which owns 18.5% of Scale AI after investing a total of ~$350M, expects to gain over $2.5B from Meta's $14.3B investment in the startup (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
2025-06-13 20:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Palmer Luckey's stablecoin startup Atticus raised ~$250M at a $2.25B valuation, and will merge into Erebor, formed by Luckey to get a banking license (Axios)
2025-06-13 18:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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