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USPTO suspended xAI's Grok trademark application, saying the name could be confused with companies Groq and Grokstream; startup Bizly claims rights to "Grok" (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
2025-04-01 06:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI's new image generator, powered by GPT-4o, is now available to all users; Altman last week mentioned a limit of three images per day for free-tier users (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Industry executives say Rapido has a 20% share in India's four-wheeler ride-hailing segment; Uber has a ~50% share, while Ola holds most of the remaining 30% (The Economic Times)
2025-04-01 05:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tinder unveils "The Game Game", a free in-app voice-based game that invites users to flirt with AI chatbots powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini models (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
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Current and former Google DeepMind scientists say a tougher vetting process and more bureaucracy at Google's AI arm have made it harder to publish AI research (Financial Times)
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Sources: SoftBank is seeking a bridge loan of as much as $16.5B to help fund AI investments in the US; the loan may help SoftBank lead a $40B round in OpenAI (Bloomberg)
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Sources: in recent weeks, Meta executives including Mark Zuckerberg have pressed US trade officials to oppose an impending EU fine and cease-and-desist order (Wall Street Journal)
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Microsoft has closed its IoT & AI Insider Lab in Shanghai, reflecting a broader pullback from China amid geopolitical tensions; the lab was opened in May 2019 (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
2025-04-01 04:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
PayPal's Honey extension for Chrome has lost ~4M users from its peak of 20M after a viral December 2024 YouTube video accused Honey of employing shady tactics (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
2025-04-01 04:45 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: TSMC's recent $100B US investment pledge was merely an estimated price tag for existing long-term plans and reflects an intention rather than a promise (Kathrin Hille/Financial Times)
2025-04-01 03:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: CaaStle, a clothing inventory monetization platform that had raised $530M+, is almost broke and is accusing its founder of financial misconduct (Dan Primack/Axios)
2025-04-01 03:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick signals withholding promised CHIPS Act grants as he pushes companies to substantially expand their US projects (Bloomberg)
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Builder.ai dropped H2 2024 revenue estimates by ~25% after some sales channels "did not come through" and says a full audit report is expected by summer 2025 (Bloomberg)
2025-04-01 00:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Coinbase's stock fell 31% in Q1 2025, its worst quarterly performance since FTX collapsed in 2022; nearly every major crypto-linked stock plunged alongside it (Matthew Griffin/Bloomberg)
2025-04-01 01:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
LightSource, whose software helps companies manage their procurement process, costs, and vendor relationships, raised $33M led by Bain Capital and Lightspeed (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
2025-04-01 02:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Amazon resumes drone deliveries in Texas and Arizona, after halting them in January to roll out a software update to fix issues with the drone's altitude sensor (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
2025-04-01 00:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft expands Copilot+ PC features like Live Captions and Cocreator, previously exclusive to models with Snapdragon chips, to models with AMD or Intel chips (Sean Endicott/Windows Central)
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At the Intel Vision conference, CEO Lip-Bu Tan says Intel plans to spin off non-core assets, create new products including custom semiconductors, and more (Ian King/Bloomberg)
2025-03-31 23:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tampa-based ReliaQuest, which provides AI-powered cybersecurity tools, raised $500M+ in a funding round led by EQT, KKR, and FTV Capital, valuing it at $3.4B (Angus Loten/Wall Street Journal)
2025-03-31 21:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI closes a $40B funding round, the most ever raised by a private tech company, at a $300B post-money valuation; SoftBank led the round with $30B (CNBC)
2025-03-31 22:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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