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Techmeme - 2025-04-03T13:25:46-04:00

Nvidia says its custom processor for Nintendo's Switch 2 has "dedicated RT Cores and Tensor Cores," enabling DLSS support and real-time ray tracing on Switch 2 (Jay Peters/The Verge) - 2025-04-03T13:25:00-04:00

Portland-based Hydrolix, a data lake service that offers a repository for log data, raised an $80M Series C led by QED, bringing its total raised to $148M (Taylor Soper/GeekWire) - 2025-04-03T12:50:00-04:00

Sources: Oracle told some clients this week that hackers stole old login credentials, the second breach that Oracle acknowledged to clients in the past month (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg) - 2025-04-03T12:05:04-04:00

The White House appears to have used an oversimplified calculation that several major AI chatbots recommend to calculate reciprocal tariffs (Dominic Preston/The Verge) - 2025-04-03T11:55:02-04:00

OpenAI says 130M+ ChatGPT users have generated 700M+ images since the feature's March 25 launch, and India is now the fastest-growing ChatGPT market (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - 2025-04-03T11:40:01-04:00

Unframe, which helps enterprises deploy tailored AI products for any use case within hours, comes out of stealth with $50M from Bessemer, TLV, Craft, and others (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE) - 2025-04-03T10:35:00-04:00

Bitcoin fell ~5% to ~$81K, ether dropped 7%, and Solana fell 13% after President Trump unveiled new tariffs; Coinbase's and MicroStrategy's shares are down 6%+ (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC) - 2025-04-03T09:30:02-04:00

AI video startup Runway raised $308M led by General Atlantic, sources say at a $3B+ valuation, and plans to hire more filmmakers, screenwriters, and others (Bloomberg) - 2025-04-03T09:20:01-04:00

Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on: larger than the Switch but not uncomfortable, flagship games show off the system well, and the Joy-Con's mouse-like mode is precise (Andrew Webster/The Verge) - 2025-04-03T09:10:01-04:00

Intel unveils a new slogan, "That's the power of Intel Inside", bringing back its Intel Inside theme from 1991; its current marketing focuses on its Core series (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware) - 2025-04-03T08:40:01-04:00

Sources: Ireland's DPC will fine TikTok €500M+ before the end of April for illegally shipping European users' data to China, after a lengthy GDPR investigation (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg) - 2025-04-03T07:50:03-04:00

Plaid raised $575M at a $6.1B valuation, below its peak $13B+ valuation in 2021, mostly to cover employees' tax bills for those converting RSUs to common stock (Financial Times) - 2025-04-03T07:15:02-04:00

Sources: Microsoft has halted talks for, or delayed development of, data center projects in Indonesia, the UK, Australia, Illinois, North Dakota, and Wisconsin (Bloomberg) - 2025-04-03T06:40:01-04:00

PDD-owned Pinduoduo says it plans to allocate ~$13.76B over the next three years to support its merchants, following other Chinese e-commerce companies' efforts (Tracy Qu/Wall Street Journal) - 2025-04-03T06:25:02-04:00

President Trump's tariffs are set to disrupt the Bitcoin mining sector, as many of the largest miners are based in the US and the supply chain is rooted in Asia (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg) - 2025-04-03T06:10:01-04:00