Techmeme: Celestial AI, which offers optical interconnect tech for compute, memory, and data transmission, raised a $100M Series B, bringing its total funding to $165M+ (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Techmeme: Autonomous trucking company TuSimple aims to sell its US business; CEO Cheng Lu says the plan is not the result of pressure due to CFIUS' review of the company (Alan Ohnsman/Forbes)
Twitch streamer reveals disturbing harassment and swatting attempts by ex mod - Dexerto
Techmeme: Threads' early growth decisively proved the demand for a new text-based conversation app that could fully supplant Twitter's role in shaping public conversation (Casey Newton/Platformer)
Techmeme: Netflix increases its free cash flow estimate for 2023 from $3.5B to $5B, citing “lower cash content spend” due to the strikes and “timing of production starts” (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
Techmeme: A review of Ivory, a new Mastodon iOS app from Tapbots, maker of the now-defunct Tweetbot: an inspired design, Tweetbot-like gestures, custom filters, and more (Federico Viticci/MacStories)
Techmeme: Unity apologizes and says games made with Unity Personal will be exempt from its Runtime Fee, which will only apply to games made with Unity versions from 2024 (Bryant Francis/Game Developer)