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A look at the sprawling network of group chats that began in 2020 as a place for SV leaders to talk candidly, with Marc Andreessen playing a central role (Ben Smith/Semafor)
2025-04-28 02:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tel Aviv-based Sentra, whose cloud data security software now includes controls aimed at keeping AI prompts free from restricted data, raised a $50M Series B (Ryan Naraine/SecurityWeek)
2025-04-27 06:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Huawei has approached some clients about testing the technical feasibility of the Ascend 910D, its newest AI chip that it hopes will beat Nvidia's H100 (Wall Street Journal)
2025-04-27 16:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Architect Partners: crypto firms have struck 88 M&A and SPAC deals worth $8.2B so far in 2025, nearly 3x the $2.75B transaction value across 188 deals in 2024 (Wall Street Journal)
2025-04-27 17:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Trump's tariffs could slow robot adoption in the US, as buyer demand weakens and supplies of key components like magnets and actuators are disrupted (Financial Times)
2025-04-27 06:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
While Apple's iPhone manufacturing in India matches China in quality, making the extraordinarily complex 20th anniversary iPhones outside China remains doubtful (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
2025-04-27 19:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the rise of "pure play" bitcoin companies like Twenty One, as the stock market is paying far more for crypto exposure than the crypto market itself is (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
2025-04-27 14:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Huawei's recovery shows the limits of US policies aimed at restricting China, and how those policies can backfire, spurring Chinese firms to innovate and grow (Samm Sacks/Bloomberg)
2025-04-28 01:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
India faces a shortage of agentic AI professionals, with executives estimating fewer than 100,000 available against a projected need of 200,000 by 2026 (Prachi Verma/The Economic Times)
2025-04-27 12:15 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Salsa, which provides APIs and UI components that let vertical SaaS platforms offer payroll as a feature to their customers, raised a $20M Series A led by Altos (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
2025-04-27 06:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Alpaca, which offers APIs for financial firms to connect and trade in US stocks, raised a $52M Series C to expand into the Middle East, Europe, and Asia (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
2025-04-27 06:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Experts say that India lags behind China in deep tech innovation due to its historical focus on services, lower R&D investment, and a brain drain of AI talent (Furquan Ameen/Rest of World)
2025-04-27 09:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Geoffrey Hinton fears AI companies are under-investing in safety research, embracing military usage, and sharing model weights while pushing for less regulation (CBS Mornings on YouTube)
2025-04-28 00:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of Darktrace CEO Jill Popelka, who joined the British cyber security firm in Jan. 2024 and was at the helm when it was bought by Thoma Bravo for £4.3B (Anjli Raval/Financial Times)
2025-04-27 23:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Analysis: Meesho accounts for about 37% of India's e-commerce orders, but only 8%-9% of the sector's total value due to the small average transaction size (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
2025-04-27 21:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
NYC-based Healthee, whose AI assistant Zoe lets its clients' workers navigate health insurance and benefits options, raised a $50M Series B led by Key1 Capital (Erin Brodwin/Axios)
2025-04-27 06:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filing: China's leading flash memory chipmaker YMTC raised ~$219M from Hebei Yangyuan Zhihui Beverage Co. at a ~$22.1B valuation in December 2023 (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
2025-04-27 05:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
4chan is back online after being down for 10 days, following a hack that leaked the emails of its lead administrators, known as "janitors" (Owen Carry/Know Your Meme)
2025-04-27 04:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Test conversations with some Meta AI digital companions, including celebrity-voiced ones, show them engaging in sexual chats even when users identify as minors (Jeff Horwitz/Wall Street Journal)
2025-04-27 04:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Bitcoin miners' earnings power and stocks have diverged from the asset they help produce, as the hashrate languishes amid technical and macroeconomic headwinds (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)
2025-04-27 02:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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