Tech Meme

Kylie Robison / The Verge: Sources: Haofei Wang, X’s director of engineering who joined the company in July 2023, has left the company  —  The sudden departure comes after Musk shifted his attention to DOGE and xAI. … X’s director of engineering, Haofei Wang, has suddenly left the company, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cecilia Kang / New York Times: A look at lobbying efforts by AI companies since Trump’s return; hundreds submitted comments after a second AI-related EO, which called for pro-growth AI policy  —  After the president made A.I. dominance a top priority, tech companies changed course from a meeker approach under the Biden administration. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Arcade, a gen-AI marketplace for designing jewelry, raised a $25M Series A led by Canaan Partners, bringing total funding to $42M, and expands to home goods  —  Arcade, a generative AI marketplace for designing jewelry, is expanding its offerings to include home goods, starting with rugs. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Berlin-based workflow automation startup n8n raised a €55M Series B, sources say on a valuation of ~€250M, and says it has 3K+ enterprise customers  —  Developer tooling is changing rapidly with AI.  So companies that are making it easier to adopt AI in their workflows are seeing a boom of attention. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nate Raymond / Reuters: Massachusetts’ top securities regulator probes Robinhood’s decision to launch a prediction markets hub, after sending the company a subpoena last week  —  Massachusetts’ top securities regulator has launched an investigation into trading platform Robinhood’s (HOOD.O) decision to launch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

OpenAI: Leadership updates  —  OpenAI has grown a lot.  We remain focused on the same core—pursuing frontier AI research that accelerates human progress—but we now also deliver products used by hundreds of millions of people.  This real-world usage—in science, business, education and more … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft unveils 11 Security Copilot AI agents, five created by partners, that do things like triage phishing and data loss alerts, coming to preview in April  —  Microsoft has six new security agents that can do things like process phishing and data loss alerts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: OpenAI expands COO Brad Lightcap’s responsibilities, including over global expansion and corporate partnerships; Sam Altman will focus on research and product  —  OpenAI is expanding the role of its chief operating officer and elevating two executives to the C-suite as Chief Executive Officer … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Simon Willison / Simon Willison’s Weblog: DeepSeek releases MIT-licensed DeepSeek-V3-0324, the latest version of their enormous DeepSeek v3 model; the previous DeepSeek v3 version had a custom license  —  deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324.  Chinese AI lab DeepSeek just released the latest version of their enormous DeepSeek v3 model … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava on the music creation platform, the economics of creator platforms, why creatives “deserve better” than AI tools, and more  —  Today, I’m talking with Kakul Srivastava, CEO of music creation platform Splice. Lees verder op Tech Meme