Tech Meme

Katie Fehrenbacher / Axios: Crux, a financing software provider for clean energy companies, raised a $50M Series B led by Lowercarbon Capital, taking its total funding to more than $77M  —  Crux, a clean economy financing software provider, raised a $50 million Series B round to expand its capital platforms, CEO Alfred Johnson tells Axios. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Revel, which builds software for controlling critical hardware like rockets, emerges from stealth with $30M in funding, including a ~$23M Series A led by Thrive  —  Revel founder Scott Morton.  —  Revel  —  Scott Morton’s heart rate spiked at the same time, every time. Lees verder op Tech Meme

CTech: Plano, Texas-based Tapcheck, which works with companies to let workers access their earnings before payday, raised a $25M Series A extension and $200M in debt  —  Hilton, Taco Bell, and McDonald’s among companies using the fintech’s on-demand pay service.  —  Tapcheck  —  Funding  —  Fintech Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Weiss / Fortune: Coinbase faces pump-and-dump accusations after its subsidiary Base launched a “content coin” on Zora; Coinbase clarifies that Base will never sell the tokens  —  Jesse Pollak is the creator of Base, a new blockchain from Coinbase.  —  Winni Wintermeyer for Fortune Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sri Muppidi / The Information: Sales data: AI evaluation startups have modest revenue; Weights & Biases hit $50M ARR by Dec. 2024, but only 2% of that was from its AI evaluation product Weave  —  Startups whose products evaluate artificial intelligence to make sure it isn’t making things up or delivering unsafe results … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jowi Morales / Tom’s Hardware: Huawei unveils the Ascend 920 AI chip, expected to hit mass production in H2 2025, after Trump included Nvidia H20 in the ban on AI chip exports to China  —  The Ascend 920 supposedly offers a performance comparable to the Nvidia H20. … Just one day after this, Huawei announced the Ascend 920 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Every: A comparison of OpenAI’s o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1; Aaron Levie says o3 nailed a multi-step financial modeling task; Scale AI CEO says o3 is “a big breakthrough”  —  Our take on what’s powerful, what’s practical, and what’s still TBD … If you’ve been following AI news this week … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A half-marathon in Beijing featured a road race with human runners and 21 Chinese humanoid robots, highlighting both the progress and limitations of such robots  —  A half-marathon in Beijing featured a road race between human runners and 21 robot models—and showed how far robots still are from mimicking people. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Cybersecurity experts say the Trump administration’s removal of security guardrails has given US adversaries more room to operate in the disinformation space  —  America’s adversaries have more room to operate, at least in the disinformation space, cybersecurity experts say. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ananya Bhattacharya / Rest of World: A look at Foxconn’s $2.5B “Project Elephant”, an upcoming factory on the outskirts of Bengaluru, its second-largest factory outside China, creating 40,000 jobs  —  The $2.5 billion “Project Elephant” will be the company’s second-largest factory outside China and create 40,000 jobs. Lees verder op Tech Meme