Tech Meme

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: Sources: top X executives hinted to Interpublic and other ad firms that not spending on X could lead to legal woes, due to X’s lawsuit against some advertisers  —  Interpublic recently signed an advertising agreement with the platform; other agencies are also in negotiations Lees verder op Tech Meme

Courtney Albon / Defense News: Austin-based autonomous shipbuilding startup Saronic raised a $600M Series C led by Elad Gil at a $4B valuation, and unveiled plans for a next-gen shipyard  —  Texas-based Saronic Technologies announced Tuesday it raised $600 million in private funding to build an autonomous shipyard it’s calling Port Alpha. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Mistral’s Le Chat app tops 1M downloads in just 14 days, quickly reaching the App Store’s top free downloads spot in France; ChatGPT hit 500K in just six days  —  A couple of weeks after the initial release of Mistral’s AI assistant, Le Chat, the company told Le Parisien that it has reached one million downloads. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kim Zetter / Wired: Source: 19-year-old Edward Coristine and Kyle Schutt, both DOGE engineers, are now on staff at the CISA; Coristine was briefly an intern for Neuralink  —  DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Jeans / Forbes: Clearview AI co-founder and President Hoan Ton-That resigns, after stepping back as CEO in December 2024, and says he will continue serving as a board member  —  Hoan Ton-That left Clearview after the company struggled to secure big federal government contracts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Courtney Albon / Defense News: Austin-based autonomous shipbuilding company Saronic raised a $600M Series C led by Elad Gil at a $4B valuation, and unveiled plans for a next-gen shipyard  —  Texas-based Saronic Technologies announced Tuesday it raised $600 million in private funding to build an autonomous shipyard it’s calling Port Alpha. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Max A. Cherney / Reuters: AheadComputing, a startup co-founded by former Intel execs and engineers that aims to build RISC-V chip technology, raised a $21.5M seed led by Eclipse Ventures  —  Newly formed chip startup AheadComputing on Wednesday said it had raised $21.5 million in seed funding. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Mistral’s Le Chat app tops 1M downloads in just 14 days, quickly reaching the App Store’s top free downloads spot in France; ChatGPT had 500K in just six days  —  A couple of weeks after the initial release of Mistral’s AI assistant, Le Chat, the company told Le Parisien that it has reached one million downloads. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google is removing Gemini support from the main Google app on iOS, pushing users to download the standalone Gemini app  —  Google is informing iOS users that it will be removing Gemini support from the main Google app as it pushes users over to the full Gemini app. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Uber ditches commissions in favor of fees for auto-rickshaw drivers in India in response to increased competition from local rivals Rapido and Namma Yatri  —  Uber is moving away from its commission-based model for three-wheeled motorized rickshaw drivers in India in response to increased competition … Lees verder op Tech Meme