Tech Meme

Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: Palantir reports Q1 revenue up 39% YoY to $884M, vs. $863M est., and raises 2025 sales guidance to $3.9B; PLTR falls 8%+ after hours  —  The company described rising demand for artificial intelligence software as a “ravenous whirlwind,” and bumped its 2025 revenue forecast to about $3.9 billion from about $3.75 billion. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: Recraft, whose image model Recraft V3 beat OpenAI’s DALL-E and Midjourney on the Artificial Analysis benchmark last year, raised a $30M Series B led by Accel  —  Recraft, the startup behind a mysterious image model that beat OpenAI’s DALL-E and Midjourney on a respected industry benchmark last year … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: Sources: Databricks is in advanced talks to acquire startup Neon, a maker of a serverless open-source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, for about $1B  —  An Upstarts paid subscriber special edition: acquisition-hungry data and AI unicorn Databricks is in advanced talks to buy the startup behind … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Raphael Satter / Reuters: App used by Trump adviser says it is temporarily suspending services following reported hack  —  The communications app used by U.S. President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Mike Waltz, says it is temporarily suspending services following a reported hack that exposed some of its messages. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: TeleMessage’s parent company says it is “investigating a potential security incident” and has suspended all of its services “out of an abundance of caution”  —  The messaging app that President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor was seen using during … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: General Atlantic is in advanced talks to buy a minority stake in Blackstone-backed Liftoff; the deal would value the mobile app marketing firm at $4B+  —  A deal for the Redwood, California-based company could be announced as soon as Monday, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the details aren’t public. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Logan Hitchcock / Decrypt: Solana Foundation: enough validators were able to quietly patch a 0-day bug last month that could have allowed unlimited “Token-22” minting and account draining  —  The Solana Foundation disclosed that validators quietly patched a major bug, avoiding a potentially catastrophic exploit. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: Palantir reports Q1 revenue up 39% YoY to $884M, vs. $863M est., and raises 2025 sales guidance to $3.9B on demand for AI software that’s a “ravenous whirlwind”  —  Sales will be about $3.9 billion in 2025, the Denver-based software company said Monday in a statement. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Nvidia launches open-source transcription model Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2, topping the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard with a word error rate of 6.05%  —  Nvidia has become one of the most valuable companies in the world in recent years thanks to the stock market noticing how much demand … Lees verder op Tech Meme

TechCrunch: Hasan Sukkar, the founder of AI startup 11x, which has raised $70m+ to date, steps down as CEO; CTO Prabhav Jain has been named the new CEO  —  Hasan Sukkar, the founder of AI startup 11x, is stepping down from his role as CEO, Sukkar announced on LinkedIn this morning. Lees verder op Tech Meme