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Nari Labs unveils Dia, a 1.6B parameter text-to-speech model designed to produce naturalistic dialogue directly from text prompts, built with "zero funding" (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
2025-04-23 09:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Noxtua, which develops AI tech to research, analyze, and draft legal documents, raised an €80.7M Series B led by C.H. Beck, Germany's leading legal publisher (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)
2025-04-23 08:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Cursor maker Anysphere has reached ~$300M in ARR and declined an acquisition offer from OpenAI, which now aims to buy rival Windsurf, with $100M in ARR (TechCrunch)
2025-04-23 06:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
UN says the ~$40B cybercrime call center industry, tied to East and Southeast Asian crime syndicates, is expanding globally to regions with weak governance (Connor Jones/The Register)
2025-04-23 06:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent asked Nvidia to ship ~1M H20s, ideally by the end of May, but the actual number delivered fell short due to new US curbs (Nikkei Asia)
2025-04-23 06:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A week after a hack, 4chan remains down, apparently pushed off the internet by rival hackers; its toxic legacy carries on across social platforms and culture (Ryan Broderick/Wired)
2025-04-23 05:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta's Oversight Board says Meta's new speech policies were "announced hastily" in January and asks the company to assess the impact on vulnerable user groups (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
2025-04-23 05:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Elon Musk says production of Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus, is being affected by China's recent restrictions on exports of rare earth minerals used in magnets (Bloomberg)
2025-04-23 05:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Bethesda, Maryland-based AuthMind, which offers observability-based identity protection services to enterprises, raised a $19.3M seed led by Cheyenne Ventures (Dan Primack/Axios)
2025-04-23 03:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Cantor's Brandon Lutnick, son of the US commerce secretary, seeks to form a $3B BTC acquisition vehicle with SoftBank, Tether, and Bitfinex as partners (Financial Times)
2025-04-23 01:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Huawei's smart driving software unit, which became profitable in 2024 after revenue grew over 5x and is powering car systems by BYD, BMW, and others (Bloomberg)
2025-04-23 04:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Intel is set to announce plans this week to cut 20%+ of its staff, its first major restructuring under Lip-Bu Tan; it had 108,900 workers in Dec. 2024 (Bloomberg)
2025-04-23 01:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Mantra's CEO begins burning $80M worth of his OM tokens and plans to burn $80M worth from partners, after a 90% collapse on April 13 erased $5B+ in market value (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
2025-04-23 02:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Superpower, which uses AI for personalized health overviews and offers biannual lab testing that analyzes 100+ blood biomarkers, launches with a $30M Series A (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
2025-04-23 00:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
US v. Google: OpenAI's ChatGPT chief, Nick Turley, says the company would be interested in buying Chrome from Google if a federal court orders it to be spun off (Bloomberg)
2025-04-22 23:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
SAP reports Q1 cloud revenue up 26% YoY to €4.99B, vs. €5.05B est., and adjusted operating income up 58% to €2.5B, beating estimates; SAP jumps 9%+ after hours (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
2025-04-22 22:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
WBD rolls out a $7.99/month Extra Member Add-On for US Max subscribers, about two years after Netflix made a similar move to crack down on password sharing (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
2025-04-22 21:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
SK Telecom, South Korea's largest telecom, says hackers accessed USIM-related customer info, potentially useful in SIM swap attacks and targeted surveillance (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
2025-04-22 20:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Researcher: the official SDK JS library for interacting with the XRP Ledger, with 140K+ weekly downloads, was compromised; XRP Ledger Foundation says it's fixed (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
2025-04-22 20:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
DOJ v. Google: an OpenAI exec says Google declined to let OpenAI access its search index; a DOJ remedy proposal would make Google share its index with rivals (Bloomberg)
2025-04-22 19:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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