Bloomberg: A look at Osaka-based Fuso Chemical, which supplies 90%+ of the silica to polish wafers, sinking deeper into debt by refusing to raise its prices to cover capex  —  – Fuso Chemical says lifting prices would be betraying customers  — Osaka firm dominates in chip silica but struggles with capex Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Generative AI video startup Runway ML partners with Getty Images on a new AI video model available in the coming months for use in Hollywood and advertising  —  Runway ML, the New York City video AI startup backed by Google and Nvidia, continues to entrench itself in the marketplace of the future. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Mistral AI is in the final stages of raising €450M in a round valuing the OpenAI rival around $2B; a16z is in talks to provide €200M in funding  —  – French AI startup is set to raise about €450 million in round  — Adviser Cedric O is among insiders set to sell partial stakes Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: 23andMe says hackers stole the ancestry data of 6.9M of its 14M customers, via a breach first disclosed in October 2023, by leveraging access to ~14K accounts  —  On Friday, genetic testing company 23andMe announced that hackers accessed the personal data of 0.1% of customers, or about 14,000 individuals. Lees verder op Tech Meme