Sunday, March 30, 2025

Cambridge, UK-based Camgraphic, which is developing graphene-based photonics chips for AI, HPC, autonomous cars, and other applications, raised a €25M Series A (Maya Dharampal-Hornby/Sifted)

Maya Dharampal-Hornby / Sifted:
Cambridge, UK-based Camgraphic, which is developing graphene-based photonics chips for AI, HPC, autonomous cars, and other applications, raised a €25M Series A  —  The money will be used to develop the startup's R&D operations in Pisa and establish a pilot manufacturing line in Milan



As ChatGPT's Studio Ghibli-style images going viral sparks a debate, AI may not devalue human-created art and may even elevate it by fueling a creation economy (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
As ChatGPT's Studio Ghibli-style images going viral sparks a debate, AI may not devalue human-created art and may even elevate it by fueling a creation economy  —  There are fundamental questions likely without good answers; let's focus on how this needs to work for everyone



A look at inZOI, a new life simulation game by South Korean studio Krafton that aims to appeal to players in Asia, where The Sims never gained popularity (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
A look at inZOI, a new life simulation game by South Korean studio Krafton that aims to appeal to players in Asia, where The Sims never gained popularity  —  inZOI, a new life-simulation video game, gets more realistic and more multicultural  —  Most people have fantasized about inhabiting someone else's life.



Dyna Robotics, which is building AI-powered robots to help businesses automate repetitive tasks like chopping food, emerged from stealth with a $23.5M seed (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

Sharon Goldman / Fortune:
Dyna Robotics, which is building AI-powered robots to help businesses automate repetitive tasks like chopping food, emerged from stealth with a $23.5M seed  —  When Instacart acquired Lindon Gao's self-checkout shopping startup, Caper AI, for $350 million in 2021, it marked a big win …



Saturday, March 29, 2025

Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year (Arfa Javaid/Financial Express)

Arfa Javaid / Financial Express:
Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year  —  Repli CEO Amjad Masad said that since AI will take over coders in future, one should not waste time on studying coding now.



Sources: TSMC, Intel, and other chipmakers have slowed their expansions in Japan and Malaysia due to lackluster demand for older chips and tariff uncertainties (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia:
Sources: TSMC, Intel, and other chipmakers have slowed their expansions in Japan and Malaysia due to lackluster demand for older chips and tariff uncertainties  —  TAIPEI — Leading chipmakers and packagers including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Intel have slowed the pace …



US tech companies are racing to establish more and bigger offshore campuses in India, fully staffed with highly skilled professionals in cities like Bengaluru (New York Times)

New York Times:
US tech companies are racing to establish more and bigger offshore campuses in India, fully staffed with highly skilled professionals in cities like Bengaluru  —  An abundance of motivated young professionals is luring American businesses to base their global operations in Indian cities.



World History Encyclopedia, the second most visited history site, says its traffic fell 25% in Nov. 2024 after AI search tools began presenting its information (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
World History Encyclopedia, the second most visited history site, says its traffic fell 25% in Nov. 2024 after AI search tools began presenting its information  —  World History Encyclopedia CEO Jan van der Crabben saw his site show up in Google's AI Overviews and ChatGPT.  Then traffic dropped 25%.



Elon Musk's X and xAI all-stock merger broke Wall Street's usual rules, with the same advisers, Morgan Stanley and Sullivan & Cromwell, working on both sides (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal : Elon Musk's X and xAI all-stock merger broke Wall Street's usual rules, with the same advisers, Morgan Stan...