Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Temu and Shein have supplanted Walmart and Target as focal points in internal Amazon meetings related to retail, as Amazon explores new promo campaigns  —  The e-commerce companies with Chinese roots have, for now, replaced Walmart and Target as Amazon’s central competitive focus Lees verder op Tech Meme

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Boston-based CyberSaint, which helps enterprises assess, measure, remediate, and communicate their cyber risk posture, raised a $21M Series A led by Riverside  —  Cyber risk management startup CyberSaint Inc. today announced that it has raised $21 million in new funding to build on customer momentum … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Mullin / Wired: Neuralink shows its first brain implant patient, a 29-year-old man paralyzed from the shoulders down, playing online chess using the Neuralink device  —  In a livestream on X, the paralyzed 29-year-old man used his Neuralink brain implant to control a computer. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: BlackRock unveils its first tokenized asset fund, BUIDL, built on the Ethereum network and fully backed by cash, US Treasury bills, and repurchase agreements  —  The asset management giant also made a strategic investment in asset tokenization company Securitize. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based smart ring maker Ultrahuman raised a $35M Series B, with $25M in equity and the rest in debt, from Blume, Steadview Capital, Nexus, and others  —  India’s Ultrahuman is prepping for a growth tear.  Today it’s announcing the close of $35 million in Series B* funding, a mix of equity ($25M) and debt. Lees verder op Tech Meme

NBC News: Sources: after more than six months, the FBI has resumed limited outreach to some US tech companies about foreign propagandists using their platforms  —  The agency put the briefings on pause amid lawsuits and government scrutiny.  —  The FBI has resumed some of its efforts to share information … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: A UK jury finds Jian Wen guilty of laundering bitcoin for a Chinese fugitive allegedly behind a ~$6B fraud in China; police had seized BTC worth $2.2B+ in 2018  —  – Jury finds Jian Wen guilty on one count of money laundering  — Jian helped Chinese fugitive Zhimin Qian launder Bitcoin Lees verder op Tech Meme