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Solid, which offers APIs for banking, payments, cards, and crypto products and had raised $81M, files for Chapter 11, citing a "costly" lawsuit with FTV Capital (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)
2025-04-10 06:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with CMU professor and OpenAI board member Zico Kolter on CMU's partnership with Google, the dangers of AI agents interacting with one another, and more (Will Knight/Wired)
2025-04-10 08:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tel Aviv-based Anecdotes, which helps automate corporate governance, risk, and compliance processes, raised a $30M Series B extension, taking the round to $55M (Sophie Shulman/CTech)
2025-04-10 06:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Artisan, which is building AI sales development representatives, raised a $25M Series A led by Glade Brook Capital, after raising $12M in September 2024 (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
2025-04-10 06:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Austin-based network security startup Portnox, which develops zero-trust access control tools, raised a $37.5M Series B, taking its total funding to $59.5M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
2025-04-10 06:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
SILQ, a new B2B e-commerce firm formed by the merger of Bangladesh-based ShopUp and Saudi Arabia-based Sary, raised $110M co-led by Sanabil and Valar Ventures (Bloomberg)
2025-04-10 06:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Isomorphic Labs, a life sciences startup spun out of Google DeepMind aiming to "solve all disease" through AI-powered drug discovery (Hayden Field/CNBC)
2025-04-10 04:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
xAI launches an API for Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini with "reasoning" capabilities; Grok 3 costs $3/$15 per million input/output tokens, Grok 3 mini costs $0.30/$0.50 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-04-10 04:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI launches the Pioneers Program, which aims to work with "multiple companies" to design tailored AI benchmarks for specific domains like legal and finance (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-04-10 06:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Court document: NSO Group's spyware Pegasus was used to target 1,223 WhatsApp users in 51 countries in a 2019 attack; Mexico led with 456 victims, India had 100 (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
2025-04-10 04:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tessell, which offers a multi-cloud database-as-a-service, raised a $60M Series B and plans to launch an AI-based conversational database management service (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
2025-04-10 02:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Autonomous driving startup Wayve will install its Level 2 advanced driver assistance software in Nissan's vehicles from 2027, its first global carmaker deal (Financial Times)
2025-04-10 03:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google introduces Firebase Studio, an AI-powered platform that lets users create custom mobile and web apps, APIs, backends, and frontends from their browser (Taryn Plumb/VentureBeat)
2025-04-10 03:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI countersues Elon Musk, claiming harassment and asking a federal judge to stop Musk from any further attacks in a case over OpenAI's future structure (Anna Tong/Reuters)
2025-04-10 00:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US Senate confirms former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins as SEC chair, succeeding Gary Gensler; Atkins is widely expected to support crypto-friendly policies (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
2025-04-10 00:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
In her Senate testimony, Sarah Wynn-Williams alleged Meta briefed China on US AI efforts, ignored warnings on China potentially accessing US user data, and more (Barbara Ortutay/Associated Press)
2025-04-10 01:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
BTC jumped 7%+ to ~$83K, while ETH, DOGE, XRP, and SOL gained over 12% as Trump paused some tariffs; Strategy closed up 25%, Robinhood up 24%, Coinbase up 17% (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
2025-04-09 21:40 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Framework opens Laptop 12 preorders in the UK, Europe, and Canada starting at €569, £499, and CA$719; US preorders are delayed due to Trump's tariffs (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
2025-04-09 21:40 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Ex-Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams tells US senators that Meta targeted teens with ads based on their emotional state identified via their online activity (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2025-04-10 00:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Docs: NSO Group, which is still on the US Commerce Department's Entity List, has hired Vogel Group, a lobbying firm with direct ties to the Trump administration (Vas Panagiotopoulos/Wired)
2025-04-09 22:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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