Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: SEC filing: Salesforce paid $419M, including $374M in cash, to buy commission management tool Spiff in a deal announced in December 2023; Spiff had raised $110M  —  Salespeople live and die by commissions, which typically form a big chunk of how they are paid. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Billy Perrigo / TIME: A profile of Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei; the startup prioritizes AI safety over profit, hoping to spark a “race to the top” on safety in the AI industry  —  In the summer of 2022, Dario Amodei had a difficult decision to make.  Anthropic, the AI company where he is co-founder and CEO … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Lumen details how malware bricked 600K+ routers connected to an autonomous system number belonging to a US ISP in October 2023; the ISP seems to be Windstream  —  An unknown threat actor with equally unknown motives forces ISP to replace routers.  —  One day last October … Lees verder op Tech Meme

MK Manoylov / The Block: Babylon, which builds infrastructure to let proof-of-stake systems obtain staking capital from bitcoin, raised $70M led by Paradigm, after raising $18M in 2023  —  – The Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon raised $70 million in fresh financing led by Paradigm. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Source: Elon Musk and Donald Trump are discussing crypto policy, as Trump increasingly highlights bitcoin and other digital assets as a way to reach new voters  —  – Trump campaign discusses having Musk speak at convention  — Billionaires talk about Musk business interests, including EVs Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kylie Robison / The Verge: Anthropic releases a new feature called “tool use” to let users create AI assistants, available via Anthropic Messages API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI  —  Anthropic is releasing a new feature for its AI chatbot Claude that will let anyone create an email assistant … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jody Godoy / Reuters: Filing: Terraform Labs and founder Do Kwon reach a tentative settlement with the SEC in its case alleging they misled investors before the collapse of TerraUSD  —  Singapore-based Terraform Labs and its founder Do Kwon have reached a tentative settlement with the U.S. Securities … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jef Feeley / Bloomberg: Elon Musk agrees to testify in the SEC’s probe of his 2022 Twitter acquisition, after dropping his plan to appeal a court order that he comply with a subpoena  —  – Billionaire will sit for five-hour deposition with regulator  — Agency probing Musk’s disclosure of initial Twitter stake Lees verder op Tech Meme