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xAI introduces Grok 4, trained on its Colossus supercomputer, featuring multimodal tools, faster reasoning, Grok 4 Voice, Grok 4 Code, a new interface, and more (Amanda Caswell/Tom's Guide)
2025-07-10 05:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
xAI launches Grok 4 Heavy, a "multi-agent version" of Grok 4 offering increased performance, and unveils a new $300/month AI subscription plan, SuperGrok Heavy (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
2025-07-10 06:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Nvidia plans to launch a new AI chip designed for China that will be a version of its Blackwell RTX Pro 6000 processor, as soon as September (Financial Times)
2025-07-10 02:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The team behind AI agent Manus has relocated its HQ to Singapore and started recruiting there, while parent company Butterfly Effect reportedly remains in China (Hannah Wang/South China Morning Post)
2025-07-10 04:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Amazon weighs another multibillion-dollar investment in Anthropic, as it seeks to position itself ahead of Google, which has invested $3B+ in Anthropic (Financial Times)
2025-07-10 05:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A German court ruled Meta's tracking pixels embedded in third-party websites and apps violate the EU's GDPR, ordering it to pay €5,000 to a German Facebook user (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
2025-07-09 22:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Groq has talked with investors about raising $300M to $500M at a $6B post-investment valuation, which would double its $2.8B valuation from August 2024 (The Information)
2025-07-09 23:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Singapore-based Augmentus, which is developing a no-code interface for factory engineers to deploy autonomous robotic surface finishing systems, raised $11M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
2025-07-10 00:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Israeli VC firm Cyberstarts has raised a $300M fund to allow long-time employees at some of its portfolio companies to cash out their vested shares (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
2025-07-09 21:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nominal, which develops AI agents for ERP systems to automate tasks for finance teams, raised a $20M Series A led by Next47, bringing its total funding to ~$30M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
2025-07-10 01:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Meta offered Ruoming Pang a $200M+ pay package over a several-year period in line with Meta's other major AI hires; Apple didn't try to match the offer (Bloomberg)
2025-07-09 23:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
In an internal Meta essay, an outgoing AI researcher says a "culture of fear", with performance reviews and layoffs, is spreading like "a metastatic cancer" (Kalley Huang/The Information)
2025-07-09 20:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
a16z moves its state of incorporation to Nevada, saying Delaware's Court of Chancery "can at times appear biased against technology startup founders" (Andreessen Horowitz)
2025-07-09 21:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Revolut is in talks to raise about $1B of funding via newly issued shares and the sale of some existing stock at a $65B valuation (Financial Times)
2025-07-09 19:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: LangChain, which helps developers use off-the-shelf AI models to create new apps, raised $100M led by IVP at a $1.1B valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
2025-07-09 19:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Microsoft's Chief Commercial Officer said during a presentation that AI saved Microsoft $500M+ last year in its call centers and increased satisfaction (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
2025-07-09 19:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
France's antitrust regulator has notified Meta of a potential antitrust violation, accusing it of abusing its dominant position in the online ad sector (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
2025-07-09 18:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: OpenAI plans an AI-powered web browser with some user interactions within a ChatGPT-like native chat interface instead of clicking through to websites (Reuters)
2025-07-09 18:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
MaintainX, which makes maintenance and operations software, raised a $150M Series D at a $2.5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $254M (Ateev Bhandari/Reuters)
2025-07-09 18:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
YouTube is updating its monetization guidelines on July 15, defining "inauthentic" content as "mass-produced and repetitious" amid concerns over AI slop (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2025-07-09 18:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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