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How the Trump family took over World Liberty Financial, which raised $550M+ via governance tokens; the family has a claim on 75% of net revenues of token sales (Reuters)
2025-03-31 12:42 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Isomorphic Labs, a DeepMind spinoff focusing on drug discovery, raised $600M led by Thrive to research treatments, including for cancer and immune disorders (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
2025-03-31 11:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Eric and Donald Trump Jr.'s American Data Centers plans to merge with Hut 8's American Bitcoin and take a 20% stake, aiming to create the world's largest miner (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
2025-03-31 11:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An interview with White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, a Peter Thiel protégé confirmed by the Senate on March 25, on US plans to counter Beijing on AI (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
2025-03-31 10:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nokia and Amazon settle a long-running, global patent dispute over Amazon using Nokia's video tech in Prime Video and its devices, without disclosing the terms (Karin Matussek/Bloomberg)
2025-03-31 10:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
TSMC says its Kaohsiung plant in Taiwan is set to begin 2nm wafer volume production in H2 2025, reaffirming its commitment to Taiwan during its US expansion (Reuters)
2025-03-31 10:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Huawei reports FY 2024 revenue up 22.4% YoY to ~$118.2B, near its ~$123B record in 2020, net profit down 28% YoY to ~$8.63B, and R&D spend rising to ~$25B (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
2025-03-31 09:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
PumpSwap, a new DEX launched by Pump.fun's creators, processed $2.43B in cumulative trading volume after just 10 days, shaking up the Solana DEX ecosystem (Zack Abrams/The Block)
2025-03-31 10:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nasdaq-listed Chinese self-driving company WeRide, which reported a ~$260M loss in 2023 and a ~$344M loss in 2024, warns profitability is "difficult to predict" (Financial Times)
2025-03-31 09:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Memecoins attempting to profit from a man's suicide highlight Pump.fun's extreme lack of boundaries; one of the memecoins soared past $2M in total value (Kevin T. Dugan/Wall Street Journal)
2025-03-31 09:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An analysis finds 170+ violent vigilante attacks since 2023 by US "pedophile hunters", whose online content has been amplified by websites like Kick and Locals (New York Times)
2025-03-31 07:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese AI startup Zhipu, which secured three rounds of government-backed funding in March 2025, launches a free AI agent, intensifying the domestic AI race (Reuters)
2025-03-31 08:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
France's antitrust regulator fines Apple €150M after a lengthy investigation into how iOS asks to collect user data under ATT and the impact on advertisers (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
2025-03-31 08:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese startup Manus, whose AI agent service is still in the beta testing phase, announces a $39/month Manus Starter plan and an upgraded $199/month Pro tier (Bloomberg)
2025-03-31 06:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Japan earmarks up to ~$5.4B in additional aid for chipmaker Rapidus, which aims to begin mass production of 2nm chips in 2027, a highly ambitious target (Bloomberg)
2025-03-31 05:40 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the race between China and the US to build truly useful humanoid robots, as China lists "embodied" AI as a priority for a $138B state investment fund (Wall Street Journal)
2025-03-31 06:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Report: 79% of 475 AI experts believe current public perceptions of AI do not match R&D realities, while 76% said scaling current approaches will not yield AGI (Isaac Schultz/Gizmodo)
2025-03-31 05:40 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
South Korea-based Wrtn, a free-to-use AI platform with 5M+ users aggregating LLMs like GPT-4, Stable Diffusion 3, and Claude 3, raised a $56M Series B extension (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
2025-03-31 05:40 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Global foldable smartphone shipments increased by just 2.9% YoY in 2024, and shipments are expected to decline by about 4% YoY in 2025 (Counterpoint Research)
2025-03-31 01:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources detail tensions between Apple and Elon Musk's SpaceX over efforts to expand satellite cellphone services (Wall Street Journal)
2025-03-31 03:39 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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