Tech Meme

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Los Angeles-based Ghost, a B2B marketplace for surplus inventory with more than 6,000 members, raised a $40M Series C led by L Catterton  —  Ghost cofounders Josh Kaplan and Dee Murthy.  —  MATT CLERKIN AT CLERK CREATIVE  —  At Ghost, all product development groups are named after, well, ghosts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Filings: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz each donated $2.5M to pro-Trump super PAC Right For America; Andreessen also gave ~$844K to the GOP and Trump campaign  —  – Horowitz later said he would also donate to Democrat Harris  — Apollo’s Marc Rowan also contributed to pro-Trump super PAC Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Monogoto, which offers software-defined connectivity tools for enterprises, raised a $27M Series A led by Toyota Ventures, taking its total funding to $38M  —  Connectivity and connected networks are part and parcel of the way many devices and services operate today, thanks to innovations … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Anthropic updates its Responsible Scaling Policy, setting benchmarks for when an AI model’s abilities reach a point where additional safeguards are necessary  —  Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the popular Claude chatbot, today announced a sweeping update … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wired: A review of Character.AI finds several instances of AI personas being created without a person’s consent, seemingly violating the company’s terms of service  —  Character.AI lets users create bots in the likeness of any person—without requiring their consent. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Anthropic updates its Responsible Scaling Policy, setting benchmarks for when an AI model’s abilities reach a point where additional safeguards are necessary  —  Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the popular Claude chatbot, today announced a sweeping update … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard Nieva / Forbes: Galileo, a startup that helps companies fine tune, evaluate, observe, and protect their AI models, raised a $45M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners  —  Galileo, founded by former Google and Uber employees, helps companies to make sure their models are actually ready for primetime when they launch. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe teases AI tools that can generate 3D scenes, make animated graphics in different styles, and automatically remove distractions in images and videos  —  Adobe is previewing some experimental AI tools for animation, image generation, and cleaning up video and photographs that could eventually be added to its Creative Cloud apps. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: A teardown of Microsoft’s diskless Xbox Series X, which was released today, shows a redesigned motherboard, a 6nm chip, and a new cooling system  —  Microsoft’s discless Xbox Series X goes on sale today, and while it looks slightly different on the outside thanks to a white paint job and lack … Lees verder op Tech Meme

CoinDesk: Trump-backed World Liberty Financial crypto project gets off to a bumpy start, as its website crashes and WLFI token sales fall far short of the $300M target  —  A blockchain wallet connected to the token holds nearly $4 million worth of ether (ETH), $1.2 million of tether (USDT) and around $250,000 USD Coin (USDC) tokens. Lees verder op Tech Meme