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Nvidia's deals with Saudi Arabia's Humain and the UAE's G42 highlight its strategy to diversify beyond Big Tech customers by partnering with nation states (Financial Times)
2025-05-18 05:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
NYC-based Optimal Dynamics, a provider of AI-powered fleet management software to trucking companies, raised a $40M Series C led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (Marc Vartabedian/Wall Street Journal)
2025-05-18 05:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Cohere Health, which uses AI to provide prior authorization for health plans, raised a $90M Series C led by Temasek, taking its total funding to ~$200M (Noah Tong/Fierce Healthcare)
2025-05-18 05:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
About 30% of South Korean schools have adopted AI-powered digital textbooks since the country's education ministry began a full-scale rollout in March 2025 (Nikkei Asia)
2025-05-18 05:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
London-based Origin, which offers software to help HR teams administer employee benefits, emerges from stealth with a $21M Series A led by Felix Capital (Lucy Adams/Tech.eu)
2025-05-18 03:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A Fireblocks survey of 295 finance executives: 49% say their institutions use stablecoins in payments, 23% are testing them, and 18% are in the planning stages (Ezra Reguerra/Cointelegraph)
2025-05-18 03:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Addepar, which provides wealth management software, raised a $230M Series G co-led by Vitruvian Partners and WestCap at a $3.25B valuation, up from $2B in 2021 (Lawrence White/Reuters)
2025-05-18 04:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Somite AI, which is developing AI foundation models for stem cell therapies, raised a $47M+ Series A led by Khosla Ventures, taking its total funding to ~$60M (Gil Press/Forbes)
2025-05-18 05:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An analysis of YouTube's new weekly ranking of top podcasts in the US by watch time shows many popular and well-established podcasts did not rank in the top 100 (Jessica Testa/New York Times)
2025-05-18 02:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese startups are highlighting their roots instead of downplaying them as they grow overseas, fueled by the success of Chinese social media apps and DeepSeek (Kinling Lo/Rest of World)
2025-05-18 00:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser on Switch 2 pricing backlash, physical games' importance to its business despite Game-Key cards, and more (Logan Plant/IGN)
2025-05-17 22:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How rapid advances in AI are helping Harvard's Galileo Project and other UFO research efforts process huge amounts of data in real time from multiple sources (Bloomberg)
2025-05-17 20:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at EA's attempts to shut down "anti-DEI" mods for The Sims 4, including one that changes LGBT and Black NPCs to straight and white (Alana Yzola/Wired)
2025-05-17 18:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
What to expect at Google I/O 2025: an updated Gemini Ultra model, updates for Android 16, Project Astra AI assistant, and Project Mariner AI agents, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-05-17 17:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's next chip for China will not be from the Hopper series following US restrictions on Hopper H20 chip sales to China (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)
2025-05-17 16:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Carta: VC deals are stalling at seed, with the Series A deal count falling by 79% between Q1 2022 and Q1 2025; 46% of seed deals were bridge rounds in Q1 2025 (Dan Primack/Axios)
2025-05-17 06:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: White House and lawmakers are scrutinizing Apple's plan to use Alibaba's AI on iPhones in China, over concerns about data sharing, censorship, and more (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
2025-05-17 12:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
London-based Granola, which provides an AI-based notetaking app, raised a $43M Series B led by NFDG at a $250M valuation, taking its total funding to $67M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
2025-05-17 06:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Analysis: China imported a record $30.9B in chipmaking equipment in 2024, including $9.63B from Japan, $9.53B from the Netherlands, and $4.86B from Singapore (Nikkei Asia)
2025-05-17 09:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Deep dive on the evolution of Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI, from its $1B investment in 2019 through Copilot rollouts and ChatGPT's launch to present day (Bloomberg)
2025-05-17 06:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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