Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Y Combinator received a record 24K applications for its latest cohort and accepted less than 1%, of which ~35% are AI-focused and 50% use AI in their business  —  More than one-third of the famed startup accelerator Y Combinator’s latest batch of companies are focused specifically on artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lindsey Adler / Wall Street Journal: MLB partners with Uplift Labs, which uses AI and images captured by two iPhone cameras to detect players’ flaws, forecast their potential, and flag injury risk  —  The most important thing a baseball team can do ahead of the amateur draft is predict future success for developing young ballplayers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kwaku Gyasi / Bloomberg: Chicago-based public cloud infrastructure startup Fly.io, which has data centers in 37 regions globally, raised a $70M Series C led by EQT at a $467M valuation  —  Fly.io, a tech startup whose public cloud infrastructure enables developers to deploy applications, has raised $70 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: A look at Anonymous Sudan, a self-described hacktivist group that researchers tied to Russia and that has targeted Microsoft, Sweden, Israel, the US, and others  —  A hacking group responsible for a series of outages at Microsoft Corp. earlier this month had spent the previous months attacking targets … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: OpenAI plans to open an office in London, its first office outside the US, due to “world-class talent”; Sam Altman had floated Poland and France  —  ChatGPT creator OpenAI Inc. has chosen London as the home of its first corporate office outside the US, according to a company statement issued Wednesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: An interview with senior Binance executive Yi He, who has been out of the global spotlight and has children with CZ, on regulators, compliance, Okcoin, and more  —  One senior Binance executive has managed to stay out of the global spotlight over the past six years and counting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: An interview with senior Binance executive Yi He, who has stayed out of the spotlight and has children with CZ, on regulators, compliance, Okcoin, and more  —  One senior Binance executive has managed to stay out of the global spotlight over the past six years and counting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Carl Pei’s Nothing raised $96M led by Highland Europe before the Phone (2)’s launch, taking the company’s funding to $250M; sources say 2022 revenue was $200M  —  Smartphone sales are in decline as handset makers grapple with saturated markets and a tough consumer economic climate. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Kynge / Financial Times: Some Nigerian officials raise concerns as Chinese company-backed super apps PalmPay and OPay gain popularity and Huawei’s 5G equipment dominates the country  —  Activities give sense of the importance Chinese companies in several sectors attach to country’s potential Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Astrix Security, which helps companies manage and secure third-party app integrations, raised a $25M Series A led by CRV to expand in Tel Aviv and the US  —  Astrix Security, a platform that helps companies manage and secure third-party app integrations, today announced that it closed … Lees verder op Tech Meme