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London-based SumUp, which offers payments and other financial services to ~4M SMBs, raised €285M at a valuation higher than its $8.5B valuation in June 2022 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) 11-12-2023

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based SumUp, which offers payments and other financial services to ~4M SMBs, raised €285M at a valuation higher than its $8.5B valuation in June 2022  —  SumUp — the fintech that provides payments and related services to some 4 million small businesses in Europe … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The US needs an AI moonshot mentality, and in 2024 the government should galvanize support for a broad investment backed by strong public sector infrastructure (Wall Street Journal) 11-12-2023

Wall Street Journal: The US needs an AI moonshot mentality, and in 2024 the government should galvanize support for a broad investment backed by strong public sector infrastructure  —  Artificial intelligence is too important to be left entirely in the hands of the big tech companies Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paris-based Mistral AI raised €385M, or ~$415M, from investors including a16z and Lightspeed; sources say the deal values the 22-person startup at ~$2B (Cade Metz/New York Times) 10-12-2023

Cade Metz / New York Times: Paris-based Mistral AI raised €385M, or ~$415M, from investors including a16z and Lightspeed; sources say the deal values the 22-person startup at ~$2B  —  The company has publicly released its latest technology so people can build their own chatbots.  Rivals like OpenAI and Google argue that approach can be dangerous. Lees verder op Tech Meme

London-based SumUp, which offers payments and other financial services to ~4M SMBs, raised €285M at a valuation higher than its $8.5B valuation in June 2022 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) 11-12-2023

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based SumUp, which offers payments and other financial services to ~4M SMBs, raised €285M at a valuation higher than its $8.5B valuation in June 2022  —  SumUp — the fintech that provides payments and related services to some 4 million small businesses in Europe … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York state, IBM, and more plan to invest $10B in a chip research facility at the University at Albany, set to include ASML's advanced chip-making equipment (Wall Street Journal) 11-12-2023

Wall Street Journal: New York state, IBM, and more plan to invest $10B in a chip research facility at the University at Albany, set to include ASML’s advanced chip-making equipment  —  Planned facility to include advanced chip-making equipment made by ASML  —  New York state is joining chip companies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources detail Disinfo Lab: run by an Indian intelligence officer and behind a covert influence operation on social media discrediting Narendra Modi's critics (Washington Post) 11-12-2023

Washington Post: Sources detail Disinfo Lab: run by an Indian intelligence officer and behind a covert influence operation on social media discrediting Narendra Modi’s critics  —  NEW DELHI — Since 2020, an opaque organization calling itself the Disinfo Lab has published lengthy dossiers and social media posts claiming … Lees verder op Tech Meme

How Street Sense, The Salvation Army, and Samaritan are using tech to help the unhoused, as people shift to cashless payment apps and don't carry spare change (Ashraf Khalil/Associated Press) 11-12-2023

Ashraf Khalil / Associated Press: How Street Sense, The Salvation Army, and Samaritan are using tech to help the unhoused, as people shift to cashless payment apps and don’t carry spare change  —  John Littlejohn remembers the days when lots of people had a couple of dollars to spare to buy a copy of Street Sense … Lees verder op Tech Meme