Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: In a Reddit AMA, Sam Altman admitted that DeepSeek has lessened OpenAI’s lead and said OpenAI has been “on the wrong side of history” in terms of open sourcing  —  To cap off a day of product releases, OpenAI researchers, engineers, and executives, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India announces a new $1.15B Fund of Funds for startups with an “expanded scope” compared to previous initiatives, and extends tax benefits for startups  —  India announced a new $1.15 billion Fund of Funds for startups on Saturday while unveiling sweeping regulatory reforms … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: In a Reddit AMA, Sam Altman admitted that DeepSeek has lessened OpenAI’s lead and said OpenAI has been “on the wrong side of history” concerning open sourcing  —  To cap off a day of product releases, OpenAI researchers, engineers, and executives, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ayush Tiwari / Scroll.in: A look at the online scam industry in Southeast Asia and how Indians became its targets; 2,358 Indians were rescued from scam compounds between 2022 and 2024  —  Essential background on how the online scam industry sprung up and evolved – and how Indians became its targets. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: DeepSeek is supercharging the debate over how much US companies should share about their AI breakthroughs, many of which have been detailed in scientific papers  —  DeepSeek is supercharging the debate over how much companies should share their AI knowledge Lees verder op Tech Meme

Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: Instagram and Facebook, which blocked news links in Canada, are hosting hundreds of scam ads pretending to be from news outlets ahead of Canadian elections  —  – Images of public figures and billionaire used in fake ads  — Bogus ads fuel foreign interference fear before election Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: MLCommons and Hugging Face release Unsupervised People’s Speech, a dataset for AI research containing more than 1M hours of audio spanning at least 89 languages  —  MLCommons, a nonprofit AI safety working group, has teamed up with AI dev platform Hugging Face to release … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: California DMV: a total of 4.5M autonomous vehicle test miles were logged in 2024, down 50% YoY, with driverless testing falling 83% YoY to just 552,895 miles  —  Tech companies developing self-driving vehicle technology have tapped the brakes on testing on California’s public roads … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: Appfigures: DeepSeek has topped the list of the most downloaded mobile apps across 140 markets, with India accounting for 15.6% of all downloads since launch  —  – The chatbot is most-downloaded app across Android and iPhone  — Chinese startup has upended thinking about AI development Lees verder op Tech Meme

MK Manoylov / The Block: Web3 domain infrastructure firm D3 Global raised a $25M Series A led by Paradigm, and plans to launch a decentralized network called Doma Protocol  —  – D3 Global is building tools for domain-based lending, fractional ownership, digital identity and other financial use cases. Lees verder op Tech Meme