Redpoint raises $650M 3 years after its last big early-stage fund

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Techme101

Redpoint Ventures, a San Francisco-based firm that is about a quarter of a century old, has raised a $650 million tenth early-stage, according to a regulatory filing. Redpoint’s new fund matches the size of its prior fund, which was raised just under three years ago. In a market where many venture firms are decreasing their […]

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Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Techme101

A lawyer representing Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday. Claude hallucinated the citation with “an inaccurate title and inaccurate authors,” Anthropic says in the filing, first reported […]

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Fieldstone Bio is building microbes that can sense everything from TNT to arsenic

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Techme101

Fieldstone Bio recently raised $5 million in seed funding.

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S.E.C. Investigating Whether Coinbase Misstated Its User Numbers

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Techme101

The inquiry continued even after the commission dropped a lawsuit accusing Coinbase of illegally marketing digital currencies to the public.

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Does Meta Have a Social Media Monopoly? Here’s What the U.S. Has Argued.

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Techme101

The government showed hundreds of internal documents as it sought to prove that the social media company bought Instagram and WhatsApp to neutralize a threat.

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Startups Weekly: A brighter outlook, but don’t get carried away

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Techme101

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Startup news this week was fairly routine — in a good way: Aside from a minor kerfuffle between Y Combinator and Google, there was no headline-grabbing drama. […]

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TikTok rolls out a new meditation feature to help you get off the app and sleep

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Techme101

TikTok is launching in-app guided meditation exercises, the social network announced on Thursday. The company began testing the meditation exercises with select teens earlier this year and is now making the feature available to all users on its app. The idea behind the feature is to help users improve their sleep quality and encourage them […]

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US Tech Visa Applications Are Being Put Through the Wringer

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Techme101

Silicon Valley’s coveted work visas are under heavy scrutiny from the Trump administration, and immigration lawyers say requests for documentation are increasing.

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Cognichip emerges from stealth with the goal of using generative AI to develop new chips

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Techme101

Chips are a critical component of the AI industry. But new chips don’t hit the market with the same speed as new AI models and products do. Cognichip has a lofty goal of creating a foundational AI model that can help bring new chips to market faster. San Francisco-based Cognichip is working to build a […]

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Google rolls out new AI and accessibility features to Android and Chrome

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Techme101

Google announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out new AI and accessibility features to Android and Chrome. Most notably, TalkBack, Android’s screen reader, now lets you ask Gemini about what’s in images and what’s on your screen. Last year, Google brought Gemini’s capabilities to TalkBack to give people who are blind or have low vision […]

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