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Techmeme - 2026-03-12T07:10:57-04:00

Israeli-Dutch startup Wonderful AI, which offers AI agents that can handle customer conversations across voice, chat, and more, raised $150M at a $2B valuation (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-12T07:10:01-04:00

Google Research launches Groundsource, a geo-tagged time series dataset created by using Gemini to extract 2.6M flood events from 5M historical news articles (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch) - 2026-03-12T06:50:03-04:00

Sources: India plans to unveil a ~$10.8B fund aimed at bolstering domestic chipmaking, including subsidizing chip design projects and manufacturing equipment (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-12T06:35:01-04:00

IDS and ADRN study: 11 African governments spent $2B+ on Chinese-built surveillance tech that recognizes faces and monitors movements; Nigeria spent $470M (Kaamil Ahmed/The Guardian) - 2026-03-12T06:15:00-04:00

Axiom Math, which uses AI and the Lean language to verify code in much the same way that mathematicians prove math problems, raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation (Cade Metz/New York Times) - 2026-03-12T05:55:01-04:00

Microsoft is pushing for more Africans to adopt its AI tools as it competes with DeepSeek: training 3M people, partnering with telecom MTN to sell 365, and more (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-12T05:40:02-04:00

Chinese brain-computer interface startup Gestala raised $21.6M co-led by Guosheng Capital and Dalton Venture at a $100M to $200M valuation, per CEO Phoenix Peng (Kate Park/TechCrunch) - 2026-03-12T05:00:14-04:00

Sources: Alibaba-backed PixVerse, which develops AI video generation tools, raised a $300M Series C led by CDH; the company says the round values it at $1B+ (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-12T04:35:03-04:00

Bernstein: 42% of China's 20K+ humanoid robot shipments in 2025 were for learning and R&D; data collection and human-robot interaction services each made up 19% (Ryan McMorrow/Financial Times) - 2026-03-12T04:15:05-04:00

Mastercard unveils a Crypto Partner Program with 85+ companies, including Binance, PayPal, and Ripple, to link blockchain tech with its payments infrastructure (CoinDesk) - 2026-03-12T03:55:01-04:00

How Amazon pushes employees to integrate AI across their workload despite their concerns that the company's "half-baked" tools are creating more work (Varsha Bansal/The Guardian) - 2026-03-12T03:10:02-04:00

Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began with Windows on ARM, which to this day is still held back by Microsoft's commitment to x86 compatibility (Steven Sinofsky/Hardcore Software) - 2026-03-12T02:55:01-04:00

IDC: Motorola holds 50% of the foldable market in the US and 55% in Latin America, ahead of Samsung and Google; Motorola only holds 13% of the European market (Will Sattelberg/9to5Google) - 2026-03-12T02:45:01-04:00

A small cottage industry offering OpenClaw installation services and preconfigured hardware emerges in China as the tool becomes the country's latest tech craze (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review) - 2026-03-12T02:35:09-04:00

Apple updates iOS and iPadOS for older devices, including iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2, and iPod touch (7th gen), to address the Coruna exploit disclosed last week (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac) - 2026-03-12T02:05:01-04:00