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Landbase, whose GPT-4o-based AI tool automates outreach marketing, raised a $30M Series A co-led by Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures and Picus Capital (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
2025-06-12 13:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nominal, which makes industrial design software for space, energy, and defense tech, raised $75M led by Sequoia, after raising $27M in April 2024 (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
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Meter, which sells and maintains packages of custom data center networking equipment, raised $170M led by General Catalyst at a $1B+ valuation (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
2025-06-12 12:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The UK passes the Data (Use and Access) Bill, criticized by creatives, without an amendment to force companies to declare using copyrighted material to train AI (Zoe Kleinman/BBC)
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Meta sues Joy Timeline, which makes nudify app CrushAI, in Hong Kong to "prevent them from advertising CrushAI apps on Meta platforms"; CrushAI had run 5K+ ads (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
2025-06-12 11:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Pittsburgh-based Gecko Robotics, which makes robots to inspect infrastructure, raised a $125M Series D at a $1.25B valuation, up from $633M in December 2023 (Ian Thomas/CNBC)
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Tesla sues ex-Optimus engineer Zhongjie Li, who worked at Tesla from 2022 to 2024, accusing him of stealing humanoid robot info and setting up a rival startup (Dana Hull/Bloomberg)
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Spain-based Multiverse Computing, which makes tools to compress LLMs by up to 95% using "quantum-inspired" networks, raised a €189M Series B and has 100 clients (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
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Visa: stablecoin transaction volumes hit $752B in May, up from $409B in May 2024, and wallets that regularly send and receive payments hit a record 46M average (Financial Times)
2025-06-12 11:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Gemini and Glassnode research: centralized treasuries, including governments, ETFs, and public companies, now control 30.9% of bitcoin's circulating supply (Martin Young/Cointelegraph)
2025-06-12 10:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Apple unveils updates to help parents protect kids and teens, including easier Child Accounts setup, stronger defaults, and granular App Store age ratings (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
2025-06-12 10:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
SAG-AFTRA ends the 300+ day video game actors strike after reaching a tentative deal for a new Interactive Media Agreement with the major video game companies (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
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TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, including national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)
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How an AI assistant developed by Brazilian nonprofit NoHarm is helping pharmacists in remote Amazon clinics process prescriptions more quickly and catch errors (Pedro Nakamura/Rest of World)
2025-06-12 09:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Amsterdam's failed experiment to create a fair welfare AI system that would evaluate every welfare applicant in the city for potential fraud (MIT Technology Review)
2025-06-12 09:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US prosecution of quant trader Richard Ho could define how quant algorithms can become stolen property and have a major impact on Wall Street's talent war (Chris Dolmetsch/Bloomberg)
2025-06-12 09:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at Apple's vision for Apple TV+ and its film business, as Tim Cook says the company's $200M+ bet on the F1 movie is about more than selling iPhones (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
2025-06-12 06:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of Airwallex co-founder Jack Zhang, who turned down Stripe's $1.2B offer seven years ago; the fintech is now valued at $6.2B and plans an IPO in 2026 (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
2025-06-12 06:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Fermàt, which uses AI to analyze e-commerce store performance and audience behavior for personalized campaigns, raised a $45M Series B led by VMG Partners (Chris Metinko/Axios)
2025-06-12 06:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
TSMC opens a joint research lab with the University of Tokyo, the company's first with a university outside Taiwan, expanding a relationship that began in 2019 (Nikkei Asia)
2025-06-12 06:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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