Ryan Browne / CNBC: ASML reports Q4 net profit of €2.69B on €9.26B net sales, net bookings up 169% QoQ to €7.09B, and expects 2025 net sales of €30B to €35B, up from €28.3B in 2024 — Dutch semiconductor giant ASML on Wednesday reported a big jump in fourth-quarter net bookings … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Reed Albergotti / Semafor: The US could encourage future DeepSeeks to happen inside the US by funding the NAIRR, a pilot project providing compute power to university-level researchers — Now What? — THE SCENE — More than two weeks before the recent market meltdown, OpenAI’s head of global policy Chris Lehane told … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5-Max, an AI model which the company claims “outperforms … almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B” — Chinese tech company Alibaba (9988.HK) on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ryan Browne / CNBC: ASML reports Q4 net profit of €2.69B on €9.26B net sales, net bookings up 169% QoQ to €7.09B, and expects 2025 net sales of €30B to €35B, up from €28.3B in 2024 — Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML on Wednesday reported better-than-expected net sales and profit results for the fourth quarter. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: Crypto risk modeling firm Gauntlet estimates the $TRUMP memecoin has generated at least $11.4M in fees for entities linked to President Trump since its launch — – Official Trump cryptocurrency was launched before inauguration — Token surged to more than $14 billion in value after its debut Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ryan Knappenberger / Courthouse News Service: A US federal judge denied a motion by Apple to intervene as a defendant in the remedy trial of the DOJ vs. Google case, saying Apple’s motion was untimely — U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Apple had waited too long to file their motion and granting the company’s request … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Financial Times: OpenAI says it had seen some evidence that DeepSeek used “distillation” to train its open-source competitor by using outputs from OpenAI’s proprietary models — White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft Lees verder op Tech Meme
@newsfromgoogle: Google says “Sensitive is simply used in our internal systems for countries that see different official names in Maps”, after adding the US to that list — @CNBC This report is misleading. “Sensitive” is simply used in our internal systems for countries that see different official names in Maps (like a different name for a body of water) — that’s all there is to it. This is common & includes dozens of countries. Adding the U.S. & Mexico Lees verder op Tech Meme
promptfoo: DeepSeek-R1 refuses to answer ~85% of 1,360 prompts on sensitive topics in China, but the restrictions can be bypassed via simple jailbreaking — DeepSeek-R1 is a blockbuster open-source model that is now at the top of the U.S. App Store. — As a Chinese company, DeepSeek is beholden to CCP policy. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jyoti Mann / Business Insider: In an internal memo, Andrew Bosworth says Meta’s Reality Labs beat nearly all its sales and user targets for 2024, growing sales “>40% YoY overall” — – Meta’s Reality Labs exceeded nearly all its 2024 sales and user targets, an internal memo said. Lees verder op Tech Meme