Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, with the ability to “reason over the most complex problems” in fields like programming and physics  —  Google has released what it’s calling a new “reasoning” AI model — but it’s in the experimental stages, and from our brief testing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Allyson Versprille / Bloomberg: The US FAA prohibits drone flights over several parts of New Jersey, as public hysteria over sightings of possible drone activity continues to persist  —  The US Federal Aviation Administration prohibited drone flights over several parts of New Jersey as public hysteria over sightings continues to persist. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Robert Booth / The Guardian: A coalition of newspapers, writers, movie producers, and others rejects UK’s plans to create a copyright exemption for AI companies to train their models  —  Exclusive: Coalition of musicians, photographers and newspapers insist existing copyright laws must be respected Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Insight Partners, which bought Dotmatics for around $629M in 2021, is exploring options for the R&D software maker, including selling it for $5B+  —  – Dotmatics expected to draw interest from strategic suitors  — Scientists use the company’s software in drug research Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adam Mosseri teases an AI editing tool in Instagram powered by Meta’s Movie Gen AI model to change outfits, backgrounds, and more in videos with a text prompt  —  Instagram is planning to introduce a generative AI editing feature next year that will allow users to “change nearly any aspect of your videos.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Decart, which helps organizations train AI models at scale, raised a $32M Series A, sources say at a $500M+ valuation, after a $21M seed in October 2024  —  A young startup that emerged from stealth less than two months ago with big-name backers and bigger ambitions to make a splash in the world of AI is returning to the spotlight. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: An analysis of nearly 4,000 public datasets finds that over 90% of AI training datasets came from Europe and North America, and fewer than 4% came from Africa  —  AI is all about data.  Reams and reams of data are needed to train algorithms to do what we want, and what goes into the AI models determines what comes out. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Smart ring maker Ōura raised a $200M Series D from Fidelity and Dexcom at a $5.2B valuation and says sales doubled in 2024 to ~$500M with 2.5M+ total rings sold  —  Finnish company’s growing popularity has led to its sales more than doubling this year Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: An analysis of nearly 4,000 public datasets finds that over 90% of AI training datasets came from Europe and North America, and fewer than 4% came from Africa  —  AI is all about data.  Reams and reams of data are needed to train algorithms to do what we want, and what goes into the AI models determines what comes out. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chainalysis: In 2024, hackers stole $2.2B in crypto across 303 hacks, up from $1.8B across 282 hacks in 2023; in H1 2024, $1.58B had been stolen, but the pace slowed in H2  —  The Chainalysis 2025 Crypto Crime Report  —  Crypto hacking remains a persistent threat, with four years in the past decade individually seeing … Lees verder op Tech Meme