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Sources: TSMC could face a $1B+ penalty to settle a US export control investigation over a chip it made that ended up inside Huawei's Ascend 910B chip (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
2025-04-08 16:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Rain, which offers an employer-integrated personal finance and earned wage access app, raised a $75M Series B led by Prosus at a $340M post-money valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
2025-04-08 16:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Emergency response drone maker Brinc announced $75M in funding led by Index Ventures, bringing total raised to $157.2M; Motorola will become Brinc's distributor (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
2025-04-08 16:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: a16z seeks to raise a $20B megafund for growth-stage investments in AI companies; global LPs see it as a way to invest in US firms without restrictions (Reuters)
2025-04-08 15:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Transcarent, which offers a medical concierge app service for businesses, completes its ~$621M acquisition of digital health company Accolade, taking it private (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
2025-04-08 15:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Qualtrics founder and Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith launches a $1B fund aimed at connecting tech startups with sports and entertainment across 20 to 25 investments (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
2025-04-08 14:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Blackbird Labs, which makes a blockchain-based payment loyalty app for restaurants, raised $50M led by Spark Capital, taking its total funding to $85M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
2025-04-08 14:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Amazon launches Nova Sonic, an AI voice model to generate natural-sounding speech that it says is "the most cost-efficient" model on the market, via Bedrock (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
2025-04-08 13:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google says all new Google TV devices in the US must now have a remote with a Free TV or Live TV button that opens its Freeplay library of 150+ FAST channels (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)
2025-04-08 13:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: US officials say DOGE is using AI to surveil at least one federal agency's communications for anti-Trump sentiment; a source says DOGE is using Signal (Reuters)
2025-04-08 12:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Micron has told US customers that it plans to impose a surcharge on some products like SSDs from April 9 to account for President Trump's tariffs (Reuters)
2025-04-08 13:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Internal memo: the DOJ has disbanded the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit, established by Biden in 2021, as the DOJ is "not a digital assets regulator" (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
2025-04-08 12:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tech CEOs who spent big on Trump's inauguration are yet to see the investment pay off; Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are down 22% since January 20 (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
2025-04-08 12:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Analysts: the original Switch's huge success has given Nintendo a high mountain to climb, and the Switch 2 is a massive bet that fans want more of the same (Financial Times)
2025-04-08 11:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Interviews with 40 sources describe concerns about Helsing, Europe's most valuable defense tech startup, including whether it can live up to its €5B valuation (Bloomberg)
2025-04-08 11:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Turkish startup Sipay, which bills itself as "Stripe for emerging markets", raised a $78M Series B at an $875M valuation to expand outside of Turkey (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)
2025-04-08 11:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Toronto-based Tailscale, which helps set up corporate VPNs, raised $160M led by Accel, a source says at a $1.5B valuation, up from $1B in May 2022 (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)
2025-04-08 11:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta rolls out Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger, automatically enrolling young users and adding built-in protections, in the US, the UK, and others (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
2025-04-08 11:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Beijing opposes fast-fashion giant Shein's plans to move some production out of China, as it seeks to stave off a manufacturing exodus after US tariffs (Bloomberg)
2025-04-08 10:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google rolls out Gemini Live camera and screenshare features to the Pixel 9 series and Samsung Galaxy S25 devices, available in 45 languages for users over 18 (Umar Shakir/The Verge)
2025-04-08 10:24 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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