Tech Meme

Rocket Drew / The Information: Goodfire, which works on decoding the inner workings of AI models, raised $50M led by Menlo; source: Anthropic invested $1M, its first startup investment  —  Anthropic has made its first investment in another startup, putting $1 million into Goodfire, a one-year-old startup … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David McCabe / New York Times: A US judge says Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising tech, the second time in a year a court found Google acted illegally  —  The ruling was the second time in a year that a federal court had found that Google had acted illegally to maintain its dominance. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paige Smith / Bloomberg: Leaked email: the US CFPB plans a 50% reduction in supervisory activities and a shift in focus from fintech companies back to traditional banks  —  America’s top consumer financial watchdog has spelled out its priorities under the Donald Trump era, including a dramatic cut to supervision … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jeff Kauflin / Forbes: Santiago, Chile-based Toku, which helps businesses accept consumer payments, send payment reminders, and more, raised a $39M Series A led by Oak HC/FT  —  Santiago-based Toku has secured $39 million in new funding to try to do for business payments what Brazil’s Nubank has done for consumer banking … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steve Dickson / Bloomberg: Global Payments acquires the 45% stake in Worldpay that Fidelity still owned and buys the 55% held by PE firm GTCR, in a deal valuing Worldpay at $24.3B  —  A trio of deals valuing Worldpay at $24.3 billion created a new behemoth in payment processing and cracked open a merger market that’s … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ike Swetlitz / Bloomberg: The US FDA cleared Neuralink rival Precision Neuroscience in late March 2025 to offer a less invasive brain implant; the device contains 1,024 metal electrodes  —  One of the co-founders of Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp. is building a different kind of brain implant. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: The Wikimedia Foundation partners with Kaggle to release a dataset of “structured Wikipedia content in English and French” optimized for AI model training  —  Data science platform Kaggle is hosting a Wikipedia dataset that’s specifically optimized for machine learning applications. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: TSMC CEO C. C. Wei says “TSMC is not engaged in any discussion with other companies regarding any joint venture”, after a recent report of a tie-up with Intel  —  Chief Executive Officer C. C. Wei, responding to questions about a possible Intel collaboration, said TSMC remained focused on its own business. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Nvidia has privately pushed back against new US export rules, arguing China can already make some H20-level chips; Nvidia sold ~$12B of H20s in FY 2024  —  New chip restrictions for Nvidia and AMD show administration’s determination to battle China on tech advances as well as trade Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jacob Robbins / PitchBook: In Q1 2025, AI and ML startups raised $73.1B, accounting for 57.9% of global VC funding, with OpenAI’s recent round led by SoftBank contributing $40B  —  Investors still have an AI FOMO problem: 57.9% of global VC dollars invested in Q1 went to AI and machine learning startups, according to the latest PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor. Lees verder op Tech Meme