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Trump signs an EO to establish an office within the Commerce Department to facilitate investments above $1B in the US and administer funds from the CHIPS Act (Bloomberg)
2025-03-31 23:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: SoftBank will invest an initial $7.5B in OpenAI's $40B round, plus $22.5B by 2025's end; other backers include Microsoft, Coatue, Altimeter, and Thrive (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
2025-03-31 23:44 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sam Altman says OpenAI is planning to "release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-03-31 20:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Sesame, which makes realistic AI voice assistants, is in talks to raise $200M+ co-led by Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital, valuing the company at $1B+ (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
2025-03-31 21:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sam Altman says "we added one million users in the last hour", following last week's Images for ChatGPT launch; over the weekend he said "our GPUs are melting" (Kylie Robison/The Verge)
2025-03-31 20:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
TL;DR: we are excited to release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months, and we want to talk to devs about how to make it maximally useful: https://openai.com/... we are excited to make this a very, very good model! __ we are planning to (Sam Altman/@sama)
2025-03-31 20:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How JioHotstar became India's most popular streamer, with 100M subscribers paying less than $1/month on average, via a freemium model, micro dramas, and more (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
2025-03-31 19:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Apple releases visionOS 2.4 with Apple Intelligence, a Spatial Gallery app that features Apple-curated media, with "new content released regularly", and more (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
2025-03-31 18:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Apple releases iOS 18.4 with Priority notifications for Apple Intelligence, which adds support for eight more languages, Ambient Music via Control Center, more (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
2025-03-31 17:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Substack rolls out a TikTok-like video feed in its app, initially featuring short-form videos under 10 minutes (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
2025-03-31 17:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Alexa+ will start rolling out to users today; sources: some features demoed in February are slated to arrive in two months, while others will take longer (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)
2025-03-31 17:43 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Retym, which aims to bring its first AI data center chip to market this year, raised a $75M Series D led by Spark Capital, bringing its total funding to $180M (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
2025-03-31 16:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Seattle-based Temporal, an open-source microservices orchestration service, raised a $146M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1.72B post-money valuation (TechCrunch)
2025-03-31 14:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: GlobalFoundries mulls merging with UMC, Taiwan's 2nd-largest chipmaker, to form a bigger, US-based company with production in Asia, the US, and Europe (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
2025-03-31 16:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Runway releases its Gen-4 video-generating AI model to individual and enterprise users, touting its ability to maintain consistency of subjects, styles, more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-03-31 16:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Cerebras says it has resolved "all open issues" with the CFIUS, as it prepares for an IPO; the AI startup filed a notice about its ties to Abu Dhabi's G42 (Ian King/Bloomberg)
2025-03-31 14:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AMD completes its $4.9B purchase of data center equipment designer ZT Systems, announced in August 2024, taking on its roughly 1,000 design engineers (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
2025-03-31 14:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Oracle is using very specific words to avoid responsibility for an Oracle Cloud breach, after a report on March 21 that a threat actor claimed responsibility (Kevin Beaumont/DoublePulsar)
2025-03-31 14:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Barclays, Monzo, Lloyds, and other major UK banks join Amazon, Google, Match, Meta, BT, and Three in committing to live data sharing in a UK fraud clampdown (Georgina Quach/Financial Times)
2025-03-31 12:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Amazon's AGI Lab unveils Nova Act, a general purpose AI agent to control a web browser and independently perform some simple actions, and a Nova Act SDK (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
2025-03-31 13:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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