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Sources: Tim Cook spoke to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick last week about how tariffs could affect iPhone prices, before Trump exempted Apple products (Washington Post)
2025-04-17 18:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
LMArena says it's starting a company, whose corporate name will be Arena Intelligence, with plans to raise money, and releases a new beta version of its website (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
2025-04-17 18:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
New Jersey's AG sues Discord, alleging the platform's features to keep children under 13 safe from sexual predators and harmful content are inadequate (Justin Ling/Wired)
2025-04-17 17:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Goodfire, which works on decoding the inner workings of AI models, raised $50M led by Menlo; source: Anthropic invested $1M, its first startup investment (Rocket Drew/The Information)
2025-04-17 17:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Instagram launches Blend, an invite-only, personalized Reels feed for users and their friends in a group chat with new content everyday (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
2025-04-17 16:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The DOJ and 17 US states that brought the antitrust case seek to force Google to sell off its "network" ad business, which is ~12% of Alphabet's total revenue (Axios)
2025-04-17 16:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google says "we won half of this case and we will appeal the other half" of the US antitrust ruling, and "we disagree" with the decision on its publisher tools (@newsfromgoogle)
2025-04-17 16:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Santiago, Chile-based Toku, which helps businesses accept consumer payments, send payment reminders, and more, raised a $39M Series A led by Oak HC/FT (Jeff Kauflin/Forbes)
2025-04-17 16:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
In her ruling, Judge Brinkema says Google did not meet the monopoly definition for tools used to buy display ads, but did for ad exchanges and website ad tools (Bloomberg)
2025-04-17 16:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Global Payments acquires the 45% stake in Worldpay that Fidelity still owned and buys the 55% held by PE firm GTCR, in a deal valuing Worldpay at $24.3B (Steve Dickson/Bloomberg)
2025-04-17 14:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The Wikimedia Foundation partners with Kaggle to release a dataset of "structured Wikipedia content in English and French" optimized for AI model training (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
2025-04-17 10:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Leaked email: the US CFPB plans a 50% reduction in supervisory activities and a shift in focus from fintech companies back to traditional banks (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
2025-04-17 15:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US FDA cleared Neuralink rival Precision Neuroscience in late March 2025 to offer a less invasive brain implant; the device contains 1,024 metal electrodes (Ike Swetlitz/Bloomberg)
2025-04-17 12:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A US judge says Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising tech, the second time in a year a court found Google acted illegally (David McCabe/New York Times)
2025-04-17 15:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
TSMC CEO C. C. Wei says "TSMC is not engaged in any discussion with other companies regarding any joint venture", after a recent report of a tie-up with Intel (Bloomberg)
2025-04-17 10:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Polish parcel locker operator InPost acquires UK delivery service Yodel, boosting its UK market share from 2% to ~8% and delivering 300M+ UK parcels annually (Konrad Krasuski/Bloomberg)
2025-04-17 09:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in China on April 16 and visited Beijing on April 17, a source says to meet officials to discuss Trump's new chip export rules (Financial Times)
2025-04-17 09:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
In Q1 2025, AI and ML startups raised $73.1B, accounting for 57.9% of global VC funding, with OpenAI's recent round led by SoftBank contributing $40B (Jacob Robbins/PitchBook)
2025-04-17 09:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Nvidia has privately pushed back against new US export rules, arguing China can already make some H20-level chips; Nvidia sold ~$12B of H20s in FY 2024 (Wall Street Journal)
2025-04-17 09:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Smashing, an AI-powered news and social media posts aggregation app by Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, shuts down, citing its inability to grow quickly (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
2025-04-17 08:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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