Tech Meme

Will Knight / Wired: Q&A with CMU professor and OpenAI board member Zico Kolter on CMU’s partnership with Google, the dangers of AI agents interacting with one another, and more  —  Zico Kolter, a Carnegie Mellon professor and board member at OpenAI, tells WIRED about the dangers of AI agents interacting with one another … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: US court document: NSO Group’s Pegasus was used to target 1,223 WhatsApp users in 51 countries in a 2019 attack; Mexico led with 456 victims and India had 100  —  NSO Group’s notorious spyware Pegasus was used to target 1,223 WhatsApp users in 51 different countries during a 2019 hacking campaign, according to a new court document. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: TSMC reports Q1 revenue up ~42% YoY to $25.5B, above est. and its fastest revenue growth since 2022, as electronics makers stockpiled chips ahead of US tariffs  —  That marked TSMC’s fastest pace of growth since 2022.  Electronics manufacturers had stockpiled goods in US warehouses … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Solid, which offers APIs for banking, payments, cards, and crypto products and had raised $81M, files for Chapter 11, citing a “costly” lawsuit with FTV Capital  —  Banking-as-a-service startup Solid (formerly called Wise) has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: SILQ, a new B2B e-commerce firm formed by the merger of Bangladesh-based ShopUp and Saudi Arabia-based Sary, raised $110M co-led by Sanabil and Valar Ventures  —  The venture capital arm of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures are jointly leading … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Artisan, which is building AI sales development representatives, raised a $25M Series A led by Glade Brook Capital, after raising $12M in September 2024  —  It’s been a tough but exciting year for 23-year-old Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, founder and CEO of AI sales agent startup Artisan. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Austin-based network security startup Portnox, which develops zero-trust access control tools, raised a $37.5M Series B, taking its total funding to $59.5M  —  Network security startup Portnox revealed today that it has raised $37.5 million in new funding to accelerate product innovation … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches the Pioneers Program, which aims to work with “multiple companies” to design tailored AI benchmarks for specific domains like legal and finance  —  OpenAI, like many AI labs, thinks AI benchmarks are broken.  It says it wants to fix them through a new program. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sophie Shulman / CTech: Tel Aviv-based Anecdotes, which helps automate corporate governance, risk, and compliance processes, raised a $30M Series B extension, taking the round to $55M  —  The Israeli GRC platform simplifies regulatory headaches for tech, finance, and healthcare firms.  —  GRC  —  Funding  —  Anecdotes Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: xAI launches an API for Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini with “reasoning” capabilities; Grok 3 costs $3/$15 per million input/output tokens, Grok 3 mini costs $0.30/$0.50  —  Billionaire Elon Musk might’ve just been countersued by OpenAI.  But that isn’t stopping his AI company, xAI … Lees verder op Tech Meme