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New York Times: Trump grants a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road and a cryptocurrency cult hero, serving a life sentence on money laundering and drug charges  —  Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Tencent unveils Hunyuan3D 2.0, an AI system that turns single images or text prompts into 3D models in seconds, and open sources it on HuggingFace and GitHub  —  Tencent has unveiled “Hunyuan3D 2.0,” an AI system that turns single images or text descriptions into detailed 3D models within seconds. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Render, which offers developers cloud services for building, deploying, and running apps and websites, raised an $80M Series C led by Georgian  —  Developer-focused cloud infrastructure startup Render Services Inc. says it’s ready to disrupt traditional giants such as Amazon Web Services Inc … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Survey of 3,000+ game devs: 11% were laid off in the past year, 58% back unionization, 30% say generative AI is having a negative impact on the industry, more  —  The 2025 GDC survey revealed the impact of industry-wide layoffs in 2024 where one of every 11 game developers lost a job. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Trump says he would be open to Elon Musk or Larry Ellison purchasing TikTok US as part of a joint venture that would give the US government 50% ownership  —  “I have the right to make a deal,” Trump said at an event alongside Ellison at the White House on Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Tencent unveils Hunyuan3D 2.0, an AI system that turns single images or text prompts into 3D models in seconds, and open sources it on HuggingFace and GitHub  —  Tencent has unveiled “Hunyuan3D 2.0,” an AI system that turns single images or text descriptions into detailed 3D models within seconds. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Trump grants a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road and a cult hero in the cryptocurrency world who was serving a life sentence  —  Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stephen Pastis / Forbes: Highnote, which offers businesses a card-issuing software, raised a $90M Series B led by Adams Street Partners, a source says at a $750M+ valuation  —  The San Francisco company raised $90 million.  It aims to combine the different payments services offered by Stripe and Marqeta into one platform. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle announce The Stargate Project, a JV to invest in US AI infrastructure, committing $100B now and up to $500B in the next four years  —  OpenAI says that it will team up with both the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and with Oracle, along with others, to build multiple data centers for AI in the U.S. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Tencent unveils Hunyuan3D 2.0, an AI system that turns single images or text prompts into 3D models in seconds, and open sources it on HuggingFace and GitHub  —  Tencent has unveiled “Hunyuan3D 2.0,” an AI system that turns single images or text descriptions into detailed 3D models within seconds. Lees verder op Tech Meme