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Substack raised $100M from the Chernin Group, a16z, and others, sources say at a $1.1B valuation, as it builds a social network and focuses on advertising (New York Times)
2025-07-17 14:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta shareholders suing Mark Zuckerberg and Meta leaders over Facebook's Cambridge Analytica privacy violations reach a settlement deal, ending an $8B trial (Reuters)
2025-07-17 14:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Remagine Ventures: 342 Israeli startups are focused on generative AI in 2025, up by 198 since May 2024, and they have collectively raised $20B+ to date (Elihay Vidal/CTech)
2025-07-17 13:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Swedish AI coding startup Lovable raised a $200M Series A led by Accel at a $1.8B valuation, making it Europe's newest unicorn (Jake Rudnitsky/Bloomberg)
2025-07-17 12:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: in a Trump meeting, Jensen Huang argued US chips should be the global standard and leveraged support from David Sacks, who disliked Biden's chip rules (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
2025-07-17 11:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Big Tech acquihiring AI startups, like Meta's Scale AI deal, gives VCs only modest returns compared to traditional exits and may entrench Big Tech's dominance (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)
2025-07-17 11:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Roblox partners with Persona to estimate user ages and verify they are 13+, renames Friends to Connections, and says 13+ users can message Trusted Connections (Jay Peters/The Verge)
2025-07-17 12:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: some Trump administration officials are holding up finalizing a deal for the UAE to buy Nvidia AI chips over concerns that China could access the chips (Wall Street Journal)
2025-07-17 10:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Amazon's 2024 sustainability report says it emitted 68.25M metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, up 6% from 2023 and the first rise in three years (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
2025-07-17 10:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Danish government plan to invest €80M to acquire and run a Microsoft-powered quantum computer, set to operate in early 2027 (Sanne Wass/Bloomberg)
2025-07-17 11:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Samsung Electronics Chair Jay Y. Lee wins a full reprieval from South Korea's Supreme Court in a protracted fight over fraud and stock manipulation allegations (Wall Street Journal)
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The US FCC aims to introduce a ban on companies that use certain Chinese tech and equipment from building submarine communication cables connecting to the US (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
2025-07-17 10:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Jack Dorsey invests $10M in "and Other Stuff", a nonprofit focused on funding open-source projects and tools built on open protocols like Nostr and ActivityPub (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2025-07-17 09:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese game Revenge on Gold Diggers, one of the most popular and contentious video games in the country, sparks a debate over misogyny and male resentment (Li Yuan/New York Times)
2025-07-17 09:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How AI and automation are transforming agriculture, enabling autonomous tractors and fruit-picking robots, and improving crop management via data and analytics (William Boston/Wall Street Journal)
2025-07-17 09:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company is speeding up construction of its second and third plants in Arizona "by several quarters" to meet robust US chip demand (Nikkei Asia)
2025-07-17 08:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
TSMC reports Q2 net profit up ~60% YoY to ~$13.53B, beating estimates, and forecasts ~30% sales growth in USD terms in 2025, up from mid-20% previously (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
2025-07-17 08:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AI is already transforming Hollywood, as studios and production companies experiment with AI tools and labor groups warn of job losses and other consequences (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter)
2025-07-17 07:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Chinese firm Hailanyun's $223M undersea data center, about six miles offshore from Shanghai, which uses tech pioneered by Microsoft's Project Natick (You Xiaoying/Scientific American)
2025-07-17 07:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Location sharing apps like Find My, Snap Map, and Life360 remain popular among Gen Z users, despite concerns about their impact on real-world relationships (Summer Maxwell/SFGATE)
2025-07-17 07:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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