Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Source: AI coding startup Cursor, which has helped permeate “vibe coding”, hit 1M+ DAUs in March 2025, driven largely by word-of-mouth growth — Word-of-mouth growth has helped turn a 60-person startup into one of the early hits of the generative AI era. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Katie Roof / Bloomberg: SignalFire raised a $1B+ fund to bet on early-stage AI startups, taking its AUM to $3B, and plans to use AI to spot market trends to help portfolio companies — With the new funds SignalFire will focus on AI — and use it too. — Venture capital firm SignalFire has raised over a $1 billion … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: Nintendo and Sony fell by 10%+ on April 7 amid a widespread selloff in Japan exacerbated by US tariffs; most Switch hardware is assembled in China and Vietnam — Nintendo, fresh off the announcement of its pivotal next-generation Switch 2 console, is particularly vulnerable as North America accounted … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Philip Stafford / Financial Times: Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company is involved in discussions about US rules on stablecoins, and may offer a US-only coin depending on new US regulations — World’s most traded cryptocurrency does not currently accept customers in the US — Tether, the world’s most traded cryptocurrency … Lees verder op Tech Meme
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: Bitcoin is down 10% to around $76,000 after President Trump’s global tariffs, far below its record $110,000 high at Trump’s January 20 inauguration — The rapid drop shows that cryptocurrencies, which the president has promoted, are subject to the same market gyrations as any other risky asset. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Reuters: TSMC and Foxconn fell by the Taiex exchange’s daily 10% limit on April 7 as US tariffs roil global supply chains; Taiwan’s 32% tariff is among Asia’s highest — Taiwan stocks plummeted almost 10% on Monday, the biggest one-day percentage fall on record, in the first trading since U.S. tariffs … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: Sources and an APK teardown: OpenAI is testing watermarks for images generated via ChatGPT’s free account, however whether OpenAI rolls them out is unclear — OpenAI is reportedly testing a new “watermark” for the Image Generation model, which is a part of the ChatGPT 4o model. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: How Apple may adjust to the US tariffs; sources say the iPhone 17 Pro’s camera panel will span the width of the phone and will be the same color as the device — After years of avoiding iPhone price hikes in the US, Apple could finally be forced to to make increases. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jamie Friedlander Serrano / Washington Post: AI is aiding radiologists with tools like tumor-detection algorithms; 75%+ of AI software cleared by the US FDA for medical use is designed to support radiology — About two-thirds of radiology departments in the United States use AI in some capacity, according to a recent unpublished survey. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Matteo Wong / The Atlantic: A look at the ARC-AGI exam designed by French computer scientist François Chollet to show the gulf between AI models’ memorized answers and “fluid intelligence” — Deep down, Sam Altman and François Chollet share the same dream. They want to build AI models that achieve … Lees verder op Tech Meme