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A look at chip design companies like Oppstar that aim to push Malaysia, the world’s sixth-largest semiconductor exporter, to the higher end of the value chain (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)
Tsubasa Suruga / Nikkei Asia: A look at chip design companies like Oppstar that aim to push Malaysia, the world's…
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A profile of NYC-based Nanotronics, which has raised $162M and is making modular chipmaking plants that can be assembled on site and be functional within a year (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: A profile of NYC-based Nanotronics, which has raised $162M and is making modular chipmaking…
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A look at Udio, which was founded by four former DeepMind employees in December 2023 and launched a product on April 11 that generates songs from text prompts (Brian Hiatt/Rolling Stone)
Brian Hiatt / Rolling Stone: A look at Udio, which was founded by four former DeepMind employees in December 2023…
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Ola shuts down in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, six years after expanding to international markets, to focus on its India expansion ahead of an IPO (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Ola shuts down in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, six years after expanding to international…
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How tech advances inspire one company to upskill entire communities
(BPT) - How can you assess the impact of a technological advancement like AI, which has raced at lightning speed…
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Platform Science, which provides connected vehicle tools for enterprise fleets, raised $125M from 8VC, Prologis, and others, taking its total funding to $309M (Grace Sharkey/FreightWaves)
Grace Sharkey / FreightWaves: Platform Science, which provides connected vehicle tools for enterprise fleets, raised $125M from 8VC, Prologis, and…
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Sources: Applied Materials may scale back or cancel plans to open a $4B R&D facility in Silicon Valley due to a lack of government funding (Shira Stein/San Francisco Chronicle)
Shira Stein / San Francisco Chronicle: Sources: Applied Materials may scale back or cancel plans to open a $4B R&D…
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Elon Musk says X is “lifting all restrictions” it imposed in Brazil after a court ruling to block “certain popular accounts” and is defying the court’s ruling (Anthony Boadle/Reuters)
Anthony Boadle / Reuters: Elon Musk says X is “lifting all restrictions” it imposed in Brazil after a court ruling…
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A look at OnlyFans AI chatbot startups, which are replacing some low-wage workers with bots trained on creators’ chats to mimic their dirty talk and upselling (Alexandra Sternlicht/Fortune)
Alexandra Sternlicht / Fortune: A look at OnlyFans AI chatbot startups, which are replacing some low-wage workers with bots trained…
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CB Insights: global VC investment in fintech fell 16% QoQ to $7.3B over 904 deals in Q1 2024, the lowest amount of funding the sector has seen since 2017 (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: CB Insights: global VC investment in fintech fell 16% QoQ to $7.3B over 904 deals…
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