Kate Clark / Bloomberg: Source: Lightspeed has invested a total of $2.2B in AI deals, excluding the $2B Anthropic funding round it is leading, and is close to raising a $7B fund — The 25-year-old venture capital firm is embracing tech’s new era of enormous artificial intelligence deals Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jiahui Huang / Wall Street Journal: Chinese self-driving company WeRide aims to make more inroads overseas in 2025; WeRide operates in nine countries and secured new deals in Switzerland and Japan — WeRide already operates driverless vehicles in 30 cities across nine countries — Chinese autonomous-driving company WeRide … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Simon Willison / Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI updates ChatGPT’s Canvas feature with o1 model support and HTML and React code rendering, making it a direct competitor to Claude’s Artifacts — Talk about burying the lede! The ability to render HTML leapfrogs Canvas into being a direct competitor to Claude Artifacts … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kate Clark / Bloomberg: Source: Lightspeed has invested a total of $2.2B in AI deals, excluding the $2B Anthropic funding round it’s leading and is close to raising a $7B fund — The 25-year-old venture capital firm is embracing tech’s new era of enormous artificial intelligence deals Lees verder op Tech Meme
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta’s Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones — If you hadn’t heard, there’s a new AI star in town: DeepSeek, the subsidiary of Hong Kong-based quantitative analysis … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Filing: Character AI says 1A protects it from liability in a lawsuit that claims a teen committed suicide after becoming emotionally attached to a chatbot — Character AI, a platform that lets users engage in roleplay with AI chatbots, has filed a motion to dismiss a case brought … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: UnitedHealth says the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit in February 2024 affected ~190M people, nearly double its previous estimate of 100M — UnitedHealth has confirmed the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit last February affected around 190 million people in America — nearly double previous estimates. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Business Insider: Sources: Rad AI, which creates AI-powered tools for radiologists, raised a $60M Series C at a $525M valuation; Rad AI raised a $50M Series B in March 2024 — – Rad AI recently raised a Series C funding round led by Transformation Capital, Business Insider has learned. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Catherine McGrath / Fortune: White House crypto czar David Sacks says NFTs and memecoins are neither securities nor commodities, but collectibles that people buy to “commemorate something” — Non-fungible tokens and memecoins are neither securities nor commodities, according to White House crypto czar David Sacks. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Flip, which lets shoppers share video reviews and earn cash based on engagement, launches a creator fund that grants up to $100M of equity over 5+ years — Flip is a social commerce app that lets shoppers become creators. They can share honest reviews and earn cash based on engagement on the platform. Lees verder op Tech Meme