Tech Meme

PYMNTS.com: Singapore-based cross-border B2B payment service Thunes raised a $150M Series D co-led by Apis Partners and Vitruvian Partners to accelerate its US expansion  —  Thunes has raised $150 million in a Series D funding round to strengthen its cross-border payments platform and accelerate its expansion in the United States. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to “juice engagement” through follow-up questions, instead of providing useful insights  —  Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to “juice engagement” … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean O’Neill / Skift: TPG agrees to acquire Sabre’s hospitality solutions unit, which provides SaaS to hotel brands, for $1.1B in cash, as Sabre focuses on its core airline business  —  SKIFT TAKE  —  Sabre’s sale of its hotel reservations tech should help the travel tech company focus on its core airline business. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Davey Alba / Bloomberg: US v. Google: Google says its controls for publishers to opt out of AI training only cover work by Google DeepMind, not training by its other units for search  —  Google can train its search-specific AI products, like AI Overviews, on content across the web even when the publishers have chosen … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Sources: Decagon, which is building customer service-focused AI agents, is in talks to raise $100M in new funding led by a16z and Accel at a $1.5B valuation  —  The company, which builds customer service AI agents, is raising fresh funding as it continues to help businesses shave millions in labor costs. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: Anthropic offers to buy back shares from current and former employees, the first transaction of its kind for Anthropic, valuing the startup at $61.5B  —  Anthropic is offering to buy back shares from hundreds of current and former employees, the first transaction of its kind for the four-year-old company. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: At the adtech remedy hearing, Google says it’s open to giving competitors access to real-time bidding data from its ad exchange AdX, but it rejects a breakup  —  The tech giant faces a Sept. 22 remedies trial over a partial monopoly in its adtech stack  —  At the landmark adtech remedy hearing today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: A hacking group called DragonForce takes credit for ransomware attacks targeting British retailers M&S, Harrods, and Co-Op over the past two weeks  —  – Cybercrime spree targeted Marks & Spencer, Co-Op, Harrods  — Hacking gang takes credit for attacks on the retailers Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Singer / New York Times: Google plans to roll out Gemini next week for children under 13 whose parents use Family Link and says it will not use the under-13 users’ data to train its AI  —  The tech giant said it would make its Gemini chatbot available to children next week, and warned families in an email about the changes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Temu stops shipping products from China directly to US shoppers and lists only products shipped from US warehouses, as Trump closes the de minimis exemption  —  Bargain Chinese retailer Temu changed its business model in the U.S. as the Trump administration’s new rules on low-value shipments took effect on Friday. Lees verder op Tech Meme