Tech Meme

Jeff Kauflin / Forbes: Santiago, Chile-based Toku, which helps businesses accept consumer payments, send payment reminders, and more, raised a $39M Series A led by Oak HC/FT  —  Santiago-based Toku has secured $39 million in new funding to try to do for business payments what Brazil’s Nubank has done for consumer banking … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steve Dickson / Bloomberg: Global Payments acquires the 45% stake in Worldpay that Fidelity still owned and buys the 55% held by PE firm GTCR, in a deal valuing Worldpay at $24.3B  —  A trio of deals valuing Worldpay at $24.3 billion created a new behemoth in payment processing and cracked open a merger market that’s … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ike Swetlitz / Bloomberg: The US FDA cleared Neuralink rival Precision Neuroscience in late March 2025 to offer a less invasive brain implant; the device contains 1,024 metal electrodes  —  One of the co-founders of Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp. is building a different kind of brain implant. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: The Wikimedia Foundation partners with Kaggle to release a dataset of “structured Wikipedia content in English and French” optimized for AI model training  —  Data science platform Kaggle is hosting a Wikipedia dataset that’s specifically optimized for machine learning applications. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: TSMC CEO C. C. Wei says “TSMC is not engaged in any discussion with other companies regarding any joint venture”, after a recent report of a tie-up with Intel  —  Chief Executive Officer C. C. Wei, responding to questions about a possible Intel collaboration, said TSMC remained focused on its own business. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Nvidia has privately pushed back against new US export rules, arguing China can already make some H20-level chips; Nvidia sold ~$12B of H20s in FY 2024  —  New chip restrictions for Nvidia and AMD show administration’s determination to battle China on tech advances as well as trade Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jacob Robbins / PitchBook: In Q1 2025, AI and ML startups raised $73.1B, accounting for 57.9% of global VC funding, with OpenAI’s recent round led by SoftBank contributing $40B  —  Investors still have an AI FOMO problem: 57.9% of global VC dollars invested in Q1 went to AI and machine learning startups, according to the latest PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in China on April 16 and visited Beijing on April 17, a source says to meet officials to discuss Trump’s new chip export rules  —  Visit comes after US clamps down on chipmaker’s sales to China  —  Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang visited Beijing on Thursday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Konrad Krasuski / Bloomberg: Polish parcel locker operator InPost acquires UK delivery service Yodel, boosting its UK market share from 2% to ~8% and delivering 300M+ UK parcels annually  —  Polish parcel locker operator InPost SA announced it’s taking over UK delivery service Yodel to boost its footprint in one of the most developed e-commerce markets in Europe. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Laura Rodríguez Salamanca / Rest of World: Workers and researchers say data annotation jobs that many Venezuelans relied on have become scarce and poorly paid with the rise of generative AI  —  Venezuela has long provided the tech industry with cheap, educated workers.  But with the rise of generative AI, jobs have become less lucrative and harder to find. Lees verder op Tech Meme