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Techmeme - 2025-07-03T22:30:42-04:00

Tel Aviv-based Wonderful, which develops customer support AI agents for businesses in non-English speaking countries, raised a $34M seed led by Index Ventures (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal) - 2025-07-03T22:30:01-04:00

Sources: Samsung is delaying completion of its Texas fab due to a lack of customers; the plant was meant to come online in 2024 before being pushed to 2026 (Nikkei Asia) - 2025-07-03T21:30:01-04:00

FOIA docs: the Trump administration claimed broad authority to nullify laws in letters to tech firms releasing them of legal liability related to the TikTok ban (Charlie Savage/New York Times) - 2025-07-03T19:45:01-04:00

Counterpoint Research: Apple's iPhone sales in China grew 8% YoY in Q2 2025, the first time Apple has recorded growth in China since Q2 2023 (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC) - 2025-07-03T18:55:02-04:00

Daniel Gross is leaving Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he co-founded with Ilya Sutskever, to join Meta's new superintelligence lab (Bloomberg) - 2025-07-03T17:50:01-04:00

Sources: Meta offers to buy ~49% of Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross's VC fund NFDG; about half of NFDG's first fund of ~$1.1B, raised in 2023, has been invested (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal) - 2025-07-03T17:10:01-04:00

London-based Hived, which offers an AI-based logistics and parcel delivery service, raised a $42M Series B led by NordicNinja (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE) - 2025-07-03T16:45:00-04:00

How Trump's One Big, Beautiful Bill, which was approved by Congress, could cost the US the AI race by handicapping efforts to meet data center power demands (Jordan Blum/Fortune) - 2025-07-03T16:15:00-04:00

Google rolls out its Veo 3 video generation model to Google's AI Pro subscribers in more than 159 countries, with a cap of three videos per day (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) - 2025-07-03T15:35:01-04:00

Founders Fund-backed Ondo Finance and Pantera Capital launch a $250M fund to invest in real-world asset tokenization projects via equity stakes and tokens (Lucinda Shen/Axios) - 2025-07-03T14:50:01-04:00

Sources: in 2024, Apple explored a cloud service renting its own chips to developers; it spends ~$7B per year on renting Nvidia chips from AWS and Google (Aaron Tilley/The Information) - 2025-07-03T14:10:01-04:00

Ilya Sutskever becomes CEO of SSI, with co-founder Daniel Levy as president; the technical team will continue reporting to Sutskever (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) - 2025-07-03T13:50:00-04:00

CoreWeave receives Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra servers built by Dell, becoming the first cloud provider to install systems based on Nvidia's latest AI chips (Kif Leswing/CNBC) - 2025-07-03T12:55:01-04:00

Austin-based Ambiq Micro, which makes ultra-low power chips, files for an IPO and reports an $8.3M net loss on $15.7M in revenue in the three months to March 31 (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg) - 2025-07-03T12:20:01-04:00

An interview with X VP of Product Keith Coleman about plans to let developers program AI agents to propose Community Notes, the old system, and more (Will Oremus/Washington Post) - 2025-07-03T11:45:01-04:00