Tech Meme

Bloomberg: In her ruling, Judge Brinkema says Google did not meet the monopoly definition for tools used to buy display ads, but did for ad exchanges and website ad tools  —  Google was found by a federal judge to have illegally monopolized some online advertising technology markets in a blow to a key part of the company’s business. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Instagram launches Blend, an invite-only, personalized Reels feed for users and their friends in a group chat with new content everyday  —  Instagram on Thursday announced that it’s rolling out Blend, a new feature that lets you create a custom, personalized reels feed for you and your friends. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Axios: The DOJ and 17 US states that brought the antitrust case seek to force Google to sell off its “network” ad business, which is ~12% of Alphabet’s total revenue  —  Google’s dominance of the online advertising and ad-tech markets violates U.S. antitrust laws, a federal court ruled Thursday … Lees verder op 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