Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: News reader Particle launches on the web, featuring news headlines and AI summaries, key quotes, links to sources, and reader questions answered by AI  —  Particle, the startup behind an AI-powered newsreader that aims to help publishers, not just steal their work, is bringing its product to the web. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Hunt / The Block: DeFi company IntoTheBlock and financial services company Trident Digital announce they are merging to form Sentora and have raised a $25M Series A  —  – IntoTheBlock and Trident Digital have announced a merger to form a new institutional DeFi platform called Sentora. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Logan Kilpatrick / Google Developers Blog: Google unveils Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview I/O Edition with “significantly” improved capabilities for coding and building interactive web apps, before I/O on May 20  —  We’ve seen developers doing amazing things with Gemini 2.5 Pro, so we decided to release an updated version a couple … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katie Roof / Bloomberg: Germany- and US-based Parloa, which uses AI to automate customer service and call center operations, raised $120M at a $1B valuation, after raising $66M in 2024  —  Parloa GmbH, a startup building an artificial intelligence platform for customer service, has raised $120 million from investors … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google updates its iOS app to add a “Simplify” feature to simplify complex text in a Search result or Discover article, powered by its Gemini 1.5 models  —  The Google app on iOS, which has its own web browser, is adding a new “Simplify” feature when you come across complex text. Lees verder op Tech Meme