Techmeme
March 22, 2025, 12:45 PM

Top News

Eliza Gkritsi / Politico:
X suspends several accounts belonging to opposition figures in Turkey, amid extensive protests sparked by the arrest of President Erdogan's main political rival  —  Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations.  —  Elon Musk's social media platform X …
Dan Primack / Axios:
Financial Times:
Filings review: Builder.ai, which raised $450M from Microsoft and others, used an auditor with links to founder Sachin Duggal; Duggal resigned as CEO last month  —  Findings related to one of UK's best-funded tech start-ups raises alarm with corporate governance experts
Reuters:
Sources: The Bot Company, co-founded by ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt to make AI-powered household robots, raised $150M at a $2B valuation, up from $550M in May 2024  —  Kyle Vogt, former CEO of self-driving car company Cruise, has raised $150 million in a new funding round led by Greenoaks …
More: Tech in Asia
Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review:
OpenAI, in partnership with MIT, releases its first study on how ChatGPT use affects emotional well-being, including differences in how men and women respond  —  OpenAI says over 400 million people use ChatGPT every week.  But how does interacting with it affect us?  Does it make us more or less lonely?
Bloomberg:
A profile of Jed McCaleb, the billionaire who was behind Mt. Gox and XRP, as his aerospace startup Vast looks to build a private space station with SpaceX  —  Crafting and launching a space station that can keep humans alive comfortably in orbit is no easy feat.  —  Jed McCaleb made a fortune in cryptocurrency.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
A profile of Lisa Su, as AMD vies for a bigger chunk of the AI market; CTO Mark Papermaster says AMD had $5B in AI chip sales in 2024, up from $100M in 2023  —  When Lisa Su became CEO of Advanced Micro Devices in late 2014, the company was in dire straits and on the brink of potential bankruptcy.
More: The Motley FoolBluesky: @amartenX: @sal19LinkedIn: Sarah Currie and Salvador Rodriguez
Paul Liu / The Keyword:
Google says its test removing European news content for 1% of users in eight EU countries found that there was no change to Search ad revenue due to the removal  —  Google ran an experiment to understand the value of European news content.  The data shows people visited Google …

Sponsor Posts

Tribe AI:
State of AI: Adoption, Challenges and Recommendations  —  Examining the current state of AI, the key challenges organizations face, and practical recommendations for utilizing AI integration alongside other best practices.
SignalFire:
SignalFire raises another $1 billion to back applied AI startups  —  We build AI too.  It tracks 650M tech employees so we can help companies with recruiting and GTM across enterprise, infra, healthcare, security, and consumer.
Zoho:
5 low-cost strategies to grow your ecommerce  —  This is a guest post by Ani Asatryan, Senior Content Writer of Ucraft.The best-kept secrets in ecommerce aren't secret at all—they're hiding in plain sight.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data  —  Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.

Featured Podcasts

Techmeme Ride Home:
The Prompt Engineer That Never Was...
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe to Techmeme Ride Home.
Grit:
From White House to Wall Street: David Rubenstein
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Lenny's Podcast:
Inside monday.com's transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Hard Fork:
Is Google Breaking Up? + Seasteading Is Back + Tool Time
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
The Logan Bartlett Show:
Blake Scholl (Founder and CEO, Boom Supersonic) on Why Supersonic Flight Failed & How Boom is Bringing it Back
A podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett, an investor at Redpoint Ventures, covering tech with industry insiders.
Subscribe to The Logan Bartlett Show.
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:45 PM ET, March 22, 2025.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.

More News

David Pan / Bloomberg:

Earlier Picks

Gael Cooper / CNET:
More: PCMag, DoorDash, Futurism, Fast Company, The Western Journal, The US Sun, WUSA, Sherwood News, Newsweek, Newsweek, UnHerd, Barstool Sports, Newsweek, TODAY.com, Pocket-lint, The Daily Wire, CBS News on YouTube, Washington Post, One America News Network, CBS News, Chicago Sun Times, The Hill, FOX 32 Chicago, The Hill, Eater, NBC10 Philadelphia, Gizmodo, CNN, Reuters, National Review, Axios, Not the Bee, The Paypers, and Fox Business
Kylie Robison / The Verge: