Tech Meme

Zach Vallese / CNBC: Cloudflare Radar: TikTok has nearly bounced back to its original traffic levels after usage fell 85% when the app temporarily shut down on January 19  —  TikTok has nearly bounced back to its original traffic levels after usage fell 85% when the app temporarily shut down earlier this month, according to Cloudflare Radar. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: A close look at DeepSeek, which is estimated to have access to ~50K Hopper GPUs, a total server capex of ~$1.3B, and a GPU spend of $500M+ over its history  —  The DeepSeek Narrative Takes the World by Storm  —  DeepSeek took the world by storm.  For the last week, DeepSeek has been the only topic … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: Kalshi plans to let users buy into its prediction markets directly from brokerages, says it now has 908 active contracts, up from 691 on Election Day  —  The platform, which recently hired Donald Trump Jr. as an adviser, is seeking to tap Wall Street to expand its potential customer base. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Todd Spangler / Variety: Adobe Chief Strategy Officer Scott Belsky leaves the company to join A24 film studio as a partner; he co-founded Behance, which Adobe acquired for $150M in 2012  —  Belsky is an entrepreneur, author and creator who in 2006 founded Behance, an online platform that is used by more than 50 million professionals … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sonne / New York Times: Experts say the Kremlin’s throttling of YouTube is driving Russians to state-controlled platforms; Google data shows Russian traffic to YouTube is down ~66% YoY  —  The Kremlin is trying to cripple YouTube in Russia, internet experts say, pushing some people to state-controlled domestic alternatives. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Costas Mourselas / Financial Times: Investor letter: Elliott Management warns the White House’s embrace of crypto is helping fuel a speculative mania that “could wreak havoc” when prices collapse  —  Supporting digital assets that could marginalise the dollar is ‘dangerous’, investor letter says Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: SoftBank, which sources say is in talks to invest $15B-$25B in OpenAI and $18B in Stargate, could borrow against its $140B+ Arm stake to fund the investments  —  Japanese conglomerate is in talks to spend up to $43 billion to boost the ChatGPT developer  —  In his newly built palace near Tokyo … Lees verder op Tech Meme

William J. Broad / New York Times: A profile of incoming White House OSTP director Michael Kratsios, who lacks a STEM degree and led the American AI Initiative during President Trump’s first term  —  Michael Kratsios, who served in the White House and Defense Department in the first Trump administration, is a policy specialist on artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

VideoCardz.com: Nvidia updates its PC app and rolls out the new GPU drivers, bringing Multi Frame Generation to RTX 50 Series GPUs and DLSS transformer models to all RTX GPUs  —  NVIDIA DLSS4 released, Override feature now available  —  Following the launch of the GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: The Allen Institute for AI releases Tulu 3 405B, an open source model that it claims outperforms DeepSeek V3 and OpenAI’s GPT-4o on certain benchmarks  —  Move over, DeepSeek.  There’s a new AI champion in town — and they’re American.  —  On Thursday, Ai2, a nonprofit AI research institute based … Lees verder op Tech Meme