Kate Rooney / CNBC: Cambridge, MA-based OpenEvidence, which offers an AI chatbot to help physicians, raised $75M from Sequoia at a $1B valuation, its first outside funding round — AI startup OpenEvidence is raising a fresh round of capital from Sequoia to scale its chatbot for doctors. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jordan Novet / CNBC: Baseten, which helps companies launch open-source or customized AI models, raised $75M led by IVP and Spark Capital at a $825M valuation and claims 100+ clients — Baseten, a startup that runs artificial intelligence models for clients on their cloud infrastructure, has raised $75 million in funding, the company said Wednesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Camillus Eboh / Reuters: Court documents: Nigeria sues Binance to reclaim $79.5B in alleged economic losses it says were caused by its operations in the country and $2B in back taxes — Nigeria has filed a lawsuit seeking to compel cryptocurrency exchange Binance to pay $79.5 billion for economic losses it says were caused … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: Google launches a Gemini 2.0-based AI co-scientist tool to help biomedical scientists create novel hypotheses and speed up research, available to select testers — Lab assistant powered by artificial intelligence can help generate scientific hypotheses — Google has built … Lees verder op Tech Meme
James Hunt / The Block: Binance.US resumes USD deposits and withdrawals for the first time since June 2023, when the US SEC sued Binance, Binance.US, and co-founder Changpeng Zhao — – Binance.US customers can deposit and withdraw U.S. dollars on the platform for the first time in nearly two years. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces Muse AI, a first-of-its-kind generative AI model that can generate a game environment based on visuals, players’ controller actions, or both — Microsoft Research and Xbox game studio Ninja Theory have partnered to create a new AI model for gaming. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple unveils its first-ever in-house cellular modem, the C1, to replace Qualcomm modem chips, saying it is “the most power-efficient modem ever on an iPhone” — After years of development, Apple has unveiled what it calls C1, its first-ever in-house cellular modem. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple unveils the $599+ iPhone 16e, with an A18 chip, a 48MP camera, Apple Intelligence, and an Apple-designed 5G cellular modem, the C1, shipping February 28 — Apple has officially taken the wraps off of the all-new iPhone 16e. The device features an all-new design paired with the A18 chip inside … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft unveils the Majorana 1, its first quantum processor that can potentially fit a million qubits onto a single chip the size of a desktop CPU — Microsoft has spent 17 years researching a new material and architecture for quantum computing. … Microsoft believes it has made a key breakthrough … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Apple discontinues the iPhone SE, iPhone 14, and iPhone 14 Plus; the iPhone 16e starts at $599, significantly higher than the SE’s $429 starting price — Today Apple launched its first product of the year, the brand new iPhone 16e. As part of introducing a new iPhone, however … Lees verder op Tech Meme