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Techmeme - 2025-04-03T14:05:45-04:00

YouTube quietly removed "gender identity" from its hate speech policy after Trump took office; Google says enforcement of the policy remains unchanged (Taylor Lorenz/User Mag) - 2025-04-03T14:05:00-04:00

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