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Sources: Ola's AI venture Krutrim is looking to raise up to $300M, down from a planned raise of about $500M, after seeing poor investor appetite (Livemint)
2025-04-21 12:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the tactile devices from OneCourt, Field of Vision, and Touch2See that help visually impaired spectators follow live sports with their fingers (Tom Wiggins/Wired)
2025-04-21 09:34 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with Dan Kim and Hassan Khan, former officials at the CHIPS Program Office, on subsidizing supply versus coercing demand, the program's future, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
2025-04-21 06:33 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Models like o3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro feel like "Jagged AGI": unreliable, even at some mundane tasks, but still offering superhuman capabilities in many areas (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)
2025-04-21 04:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Paul Graham likened Palantir's ICE work to "infrastructure of the police state"; a Palantir exec said Paul's view is like Google's when it killed Project Maven (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
2025-04-21 03:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
In a clever attack, hackers were able to send phishing emails that appeared to come from "no-reply@google.com", after a similar attack on PayPal users in March (Ionut Ilascu/BleepingComputer)
2025-04-21 02:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A deep dive into AI as a normal technology vs. a humanlike intelligence and how major public policy based on controlling superintelligence may make things worse (Knight First Amendment Institute)
2025-04-21 01:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
After lobbying US Congress to shelve the Senate-passed KOSA bill in 2024, Meta has now made headway in lobbying for an app store age-verification bill (Ruth Reader/Politico)
2025-04-20 22:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The success of A Minecraft Movie, set to hit $700M in ticket sales globally this weekend, signals Hollywood's breakthrough in adapting video games into films (Christopher Grimes/Financial Times)
2025-04-20 14:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the race to turn brainwaves into fluent speech, as researchers at universities in California and companies use brain implants and AI to make advances (Financial Times)
2025-04-20 18:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
India's Open Network for Digital Commerce has struggled to break the near-duopoly of Zomato and Swiggy in online food delivery after cutting back on discounts (Krishnapriya V.S./The India Forum)
2025-04-20 11:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How YouTube is adapting to the AI era; a VP expects that in five years, every video uploaded to YouTube could be dubbed automatically into every spoken language (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
2025-04-20 06:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Assort Health, which is developing voice AI agents for healthcare to manage patient phone calls, raised a $22M Series A co-led by First Round and Chemistry (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
2025-04-20 05:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Crux, a financing software provider for clean energy companies, raised a $50M Series B led by Lowercarbon Capital, taking its total funding to more than $77M (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)
2025-04-20 05:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Plano, Texas-based Tapcheck, which works with companies to let workers access their earnings before payday, raised a $25M Series A extension and $200M in debt (CTech)
2025-04-20 04:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Revel, which builds software for controlling critical hardware like rockets, emerges from stealth with $30M in funding, including a ~$23M Series A led by Thrive (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
2025-04-20 04:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Coinbase faces pump-and-dump accusations after its subsidiary Base launched a "content coin" on Zora; Coinbase clarifies that Base will never sell the tokens (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
2025-04-19 23:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sales data: AI evaluation startups have modest revenue; Weights & Biases hit $50M ARR by Dec. 2024, but only 2% of that was from its AI evaluation product Weave (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
2025-04-19 20:21 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Huawei unveils the Ascend 920 AI chip, expected to hit mass production in H2 2025, after Trump included Nvidia H20 in the ban on AI chip exports to China (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)
2025-04-19 19:21 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A comparison of OpenAI's o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1; Aaron Levie says o3 nailed a multi-step financial modeling task; Scale AI CEO says o3 is "a big breakthrough" (Every)
2025-04-19 17:21 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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