Paul Gillin / SiliconANGLE: Aerospike, which offers a highly scalable NoSQL database platform for processing data queries, raised $109M led by Sumeru, taking its total funding to $241M  —  Aerospike Inc., which sells a highly scalable, real-time NoSQL database management system, said today it closed a $109 million investment round led … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Google sues two alleged crypto scammers, accusing them of using its Play Store to offer fraudulent crypto trading and investment apps to steal users’ money  —  Google is suing two alleged crypto scammers, accusing them of using its Play Store to offer fraudulent cryptocurrency trading apps … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Elon Musk says “Tesla is increasing comp … of our AI engineering team”, after OpenAI has been “aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers” with “massive” offers  —  – CEO says carmaker is going extra mile to retain specialists  — Exodus may exacerbate concerns about conflicts, governance Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz: An interview with Saber founder Matthew Karch on criticism of Embracer, joining Embracer’s board in 2020, layoffs, and Embracer’s $2B Savvy deal breaking down  —  Studio founder shares his view of the story behind Embracer’s struggles, and why he’s bullish on the group’s recovery Lees verder op Tech Meme

Scott Stein / CNET: An interview with Andrew Bosworth on the 10th anniversary of Reality Labs, the past and future of VR/AR/AI, Meta’s next AR glasses prototype, and more  —  Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth talks with CNET about the past and future of VR, AR and AI.  —  2014 doesn’t seem that long ago to me. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Zhu Xingming, founder of Chinese robot maker Inovance, dubbed little Huawei, says protectionism won’t stop its growth as automation is critical to supply chains  —  Shenzhen Inovance founder says automation tech is indispensable to global supply chains  —  The founder of China’s largest … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hope King / Axios: AT&T plans to invest an additional $3B by 2030 to help close the US digital divide, after initially committing $2B by 2024, which helped nearly 5M Americans  —  – Many Americans want Congress to handle threats to affordable and reliable internet access, Axios’ Maria Curi has reported. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrea Grimes / Home With The Armadillo: Substack’s new emphasis on followers, not subscriptions, and its opaque steps to migrate paid subscriptions off the platform make leaving harder for writers  —  And it’ll be worse this time around!  —  The writing life, which has never exactly been a picnic for independent journalists and freelancers … Lees verder op Tech Meme