Tech Meme

Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: A look at a lawsuit from 64 families against Snap that alleges Snapchat’s design is responsible for connecting teens to dealers selling counterfeit drugs  —  “I’m a survivor, and that’s bad for you, CEO of Snapchat, because, uh, uh, uh …” Michael Brewer can’t finish his sentence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / India Dispatch: Sensor Tower: Indian quick commerce startup Zepto had 31M MAUs in Nov. 2024, up from 6M in May 2022; Blinkit had 30M MAUs in Nov. 2024, up from 28M in May 2022  —  Quick-commerce rivals Zomato-owned Blinkit and Zepto are neck-and-neck in India’s instant delivery market … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: Researchers at Anthropic, Oxford, Stanford, and MATS create Best-of-N Jailbreaking, a black-box algorithm that jailbreaks frontier AI systems across modalities  —  Anthropic created an AI jailbreaking algorithm that keeps tweaking prompts until it gets a harmful response. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: Report: Alibaba splits the team developing apps for its AI chatbot Qianwen from the team that builds its LLM, following similar moves by ByteDance and Baidu  —  It follows similar moves by ByteDance and Baidu, which have divided their AI research and application teams to tackle a competitive market Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Dealogic data: the global M&A activity in the tech sector in 2024 jumped 20%+ YoY to $534B, accounting for the largest share of the total $3.45T in M&A activity  —  Bankers expect global deal volumes to surpass $4 trillion next year, the highest in four years, buoyed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jody Godoy / Reuters: As part of its remedies proposal, Google would make its Android agreements with OEMs non-exclusive and allow them to unbundle Play Store from Chrome and Search  —  Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google proposed on Friday a loosening of its agreements with Apple (AAPL.O) and others to set Google … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword: Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ’s search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms  —  We will appeal the Court’s decision but the process requires that we first file proposed remedies.  This is a case about contracts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Google calls DOJ’s proposed Chrome sale “extreme” and at odds with the law, urging the judge to take caution to avoid stifling innovation and future investment  —  – Justice Department seeking forced sale in antitrust case  — DC federal court to hold hearing on remedy proposals in April Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Intel shortlists buyout firms for the next round of bidding for its Altera unit, including Francisco Partners, Silver Lake, and Lattice Semiconductor  —  – Company asks suitors to submit formalized bids by late January  — Intel is without a permanent CEO after Pat Gelsinger ousted Lees verder op Tech Meme

Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI’s GPT-5, codenamed Orion, is behind schedule and faces technical hurdles, including high computing costs and limited high-quality training data  —  OpenAI has run into problem after problem on its new artificial-intelligence project, code-named Orion Lees verder op Tech Meme