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David Morris / Bloomberg: Chinese self-driving company WeRide’s shares closed up 6.8% at $16.55, giving a market cap of ~$4.5B, after raising $440.5M in a US IPO and private placement  —  The Guangzhou-based company’s ADS pared initial gains to close at $16.55 on Friday in New York, above the IPO price of $15.50 apiece. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Associated Press: Engineers, developers, and researchers say OpenAI’s transcription tool Whisper hallucinates chunks of text or even entire sentences, including racial commentary  —  Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Accel registers with the US SEC as an investment adviser to tap private markets, joining Sequoia, a16z, Bessemer, and other VC firms that made a similar move  —  – Firm is transforming from VC to registered investment adviser  — VC firm will be able to buy more discounted secondary stakes Lees verder op Tech Meme

André Beganski / Decrypt: Arkham Intelligence: hackers returned $19.3M of $20M+ worth of crypto they stole from US government-controlled wallet on Thursday  —  A government-controlled wallet that had been drained of $20 million on Thursday received most of its funds back Friday, adding another layer of mystery … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Mullin / Wired: Brain-computer interface company Science Corporation says its retinal implant, which has a 2mm chip, let some blind people read, play cards, and recognize faces  —  Science Corporation’s retinal implant allowed some people who lost their central vision to read, play cards, and recognize faces. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christopher Beam / The Atlantic: A profile of Mike Solana, a Peter Thiel protégé whose Pirate Wires newsletter and podcast became popular among “anti-woke” tech figures since the “techlash”  —  Mike solana has opinions.  Here are a few of them: Building stuff is good. Lees verder op Tech Meme

André Beganski / Decrypt: Arkham Intelligence: hackers returned $19.3M of $20M+ worth of crypto they stole from US government-controlled wallet on Thursday  —  A government-controlled wallet that had been drained of $20 million on Thursday received most of its funds back Friday, adding another layer of mystery … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christopher Beam / The Atlantic: A profile of Mike Solana, a Peter Thiel protégé whose Pirate Wires newsletter and podcast became popular among “anti-woke” tech figures since the “techlash”  —  Mike solana has opinions.  Here are a few of them: Building stuff is good. Lees verder op Tech Meme

André Beganski / Decrypt: Arkham Intelligence: hackers returned $19.3M of $20M+ worth of crypto they stole from US government-controlled wallet on Thursday  —  A government-controlled wallet that had been drained of $20 million on Thursday received most of its funds back Friday, adding another layer of mystery … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Nooks, whose AI tools can analyze sales calls and summarize customer interactions, raised a $43M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins at a $285M valuation  —  Founded by three Stanford roommates, Nooks has raised $43 million in funding to build tools for automating laborious sales tasks. Lees verder op Tech Meme