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Sources: Huawei has approached some clients about testing the technical feasibility of the Ascend 910D, its newest AI chip that it hopes will beat Nvidia's H100 (Wall Street Journal)
2025-04-27 16:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
India faces a shortage of agentic AI professionals, with executives estimating fewer than 100,000 available against a projected need of 200,000 by 2026 (Prachi Verma/The Economic Times)
2025-04-27 12:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Experts say that India lags behind China in deep tech innovation due to its historical focus on services, lower R&D investment, and a brain drain of AI talent (Furquan Ameen/Rest of World)
2025-04-27 09:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the rise of "pure play" bitcoin companies like Twenty One, as the stock market is paying far more for crypto exposure than the crypto market itself is (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
2025-04-27 14:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Trump's tariffs could slow robot adoption in the US, as buyer demand weakens and supplies of key components like magnets and actuators are disrupted (Financial Times)
2025-04-27 06:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tel Aviv-based Sentra, whose cloud data security software now includes controls aimed at keeping AI prompts free from restricted data, raised a $50M Series B (Ryan Naraine/SecurityWeek)
2025-04-27 06:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Salsa, which provides APIs and UI components that let vertical SaaS platforms offer payroll as a feature to their customers, raised a $20M Series A led by Altos (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
2025-04-27 06:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Alpaca, which offers APIs for financial firms to connect and trade in US stocks, raised a $52M Series C to expand into the Middle East, Europe, and Asia (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
2025-04-27 06:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
NYC-based Healthee, whose AI assistant Zoe lets its clients' workers navigate health insurance and benefits options, raised a $50M Series B led by Key1 Capital (Erin Brodwin/Axios)
2025-04-27 06:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filing: China's leading flash memory chipmaker YMTC raised ~$219M from Hebei Yangyuan Zhihui Beverage Co. at a ~$22.1B valuation in December 2023 (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
2025-04-27 05:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
4chan is back online after being down for 10 days, following a hack that leaked the emails of its lead administrators, known as "janitors" (Owen Carry/Know Your Meme)
2025-04-27 04:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Test conversations with some Meta AI digital companions, including celebrity-voiced ones, show them engaging in sexual chats even when users identify as minors (Jeff Horwitz/Wall Street Journal)
2025-04-27 04:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Bitcoin miners' earnings power and stocks have diverged from the asset they help produce, as the hashrate languishes amid technical and macroeconomic headwinds (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)
2025-04-27 02:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Prompt engineering roles, one of the buzziest jobs in 2023, become obsolete as AI models better intuit user intent and companies train staff in writing prompts (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
2025-04-27 00:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
At a major Hong Kong electronics exhibition, some Chinese companies say they are exploring ways to lower or skirt tariffs while others plan to wait them out (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
2025-04-26 22:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Stripe plans to test a stablecoin payments product aimed at companies outside the US, the UK, and the EU, using tech from Bridge, which Stripe acquired recently (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
2025-04-26 20:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Watching OpenAI's o3 guess a photo's location feels surreal, dystopian, and entertaining, including running Python code to examine details like license plates (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
2025-04-26 19:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: ~300 London-based DeepMind staff sought to unionize with the CWU in recent weeks, to challenge AI sales to defense groups and Google's ties to Israel (Financial Times)
2025-04-26 17:09 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
a16z, which owns ~20% of Deel, a stake worth $2.5B+, is advising Deel in fighting Rippling, whose CEO Parker Conrad said a16z pushed him out of Zenefits in 2016 (The Information)
2025-04-26 16:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at efforts by Apple and others to become carbon neutral by investing in eucalyptus farms in Brazil's Cerrado region, amid skepticism from some ecologists (Gregory Barber/MIT Technology Review)
2025-04-26 11:05 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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