Tech Meme

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Portland-based Hydrolix, a data lake service that offers a repository for log data, raised an $80M Series C led by QED, bringing its total raised to $148M  —  GeekWire’s startup coverage documents the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial scene.  Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: Sources: Oracle told some clients this week that hackers stole old login credentials, the second breach that Oracle acknowledged to clients in the past month  —  – FBI investigating the breach, software company told clients  — Oracle informed health-care customers of separate March hack Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dominic Preston / The Verge: The White House appears to have used an oversimplified calculation that several major AI chatbots recommend to calculate reciprocal tariffs  —  ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude all recommend the same “nonsense” tariff calculation. … When President Donald Trump began yesterday’s announcement … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI says 130M+ ChatGPT users have generated 700M+ images since the feature’s March 25 launch, and India is now the fastest-growing ChatGPT market  —  OpenAI’s new image-generation feature is on track to be one of the company’s most popular product launches ever. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Unframe, which helps enterprises deploy tailored AI products for any use case within hours, comes out of stealth with $50M from Bessemer, TLV, Craft, and others  —  Enterprise artificial intelligence platform startup Unframe Inc. launched today with an announcement that it has raised $50 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Cyberhaven, whose AI-powered tech helps companies detect when employees use internal data in an unauthorized manner, raised a $100M Series D at a $1B+ valuation  —  Data security startup Cyberhaven Inc. today announced that it has closed a $100 million funding round to support its growth efforts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware: Intel unveils a new slogan, “That’s the power of Intel Inside”, bringing back its Intel Inside theme from 1991; its current marketing focuses on its Core series  —  From inside to outside?  —  Ever since Intel launched its ‘Intel Inside’ campaign in 1991, its brand identity … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tracy Qu / Wall Street Journal: PDD-owned Pinduoduo says it plans to allocate ~$13.76B over the next three years to support its merchants, following other Chinese e-commerce companies’ efforts  —  PDD, which also owns Temu, reported slower quarterly profit and revenue growth in the fourth quarter Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jessica Testa / New York Times: Spotify debuts new ad tools, including an AI tool in the US and Canada that generates scripts and voiceovers, and pitches itself to advertisers as “nutritional”  —  After finally achieving profitability, the streaming platform wants to be a healthy alternative to “doom scrolling.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: Bitcoin fell ~5% to ~$81K, ether dropped 7%, and Solana fell 13% after President Trump unveiled new tariffs; Coinbase’s and MicroStrategy’s shares are down 6%+  —  Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were under pressure Thursday after President Donald Trump’s big tariffs reveal jolted the stock market. Lees verder op Tech Meme