Tech Meme

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The EC says Facebook, X, YouTube, and others agreed to an updated, voluntary code of conduct, first set up in May 2016, over hate speech under the DSA  —  Meta’s (META.O) Facebook, Elon Musk’s X, Google’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube and other tech companies have agreed to do more to tackle online hate speech under … Lees verder op Tech Meme

CBS News: DOGE co-lead Vivek Ramaswamy is leaving the task force; sources say he plans a campaign for Ohio governor and Musk associates undercut him for weeks  —  Vivek Ramaswamy, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with entrepreneur Elon Musk … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hafiz Rashid / New Republic: During a speech following Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk appeared to deliver two Roman salutes, associated with Nazism, to the crowd  —  During a speech at Capitol One Arena Monday following Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk appeared to deliver a Roman salute not once, but twice. Lees verder op Tech Meme

PYMNTS.com: Stuttgart-based robotics startup Sereact, which develops Vision Language Action Models and whose customers include BMW and Daimler Truck, raised a $26M Series A  —  German tech company Sereact has raised $26 million for its AI-powered robotics efforts.  —  The company’s Series A round … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Metropolis, an AI-powered parking service, acquires Oosto, formerly known as AnyVision, for just $125M in stock, well under the $380M it raised over the years  —  The general hype around all things AI is not lifting all boats, as certain startups continue to struggle and look for exits. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Copeland / The Block: A memecoin named Official Barron Trump hit a $460M market cap before falling 95%; a Pump.fun user behind it has debuted other unofficial coins called “official”  —  – A memecoin called Official Barron Trump rose to a $460 million market cap on speculation that it might have been launched by Barron Trump himself. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Simon Willison / Simon Willison’s Weblog: Chinese AI lab DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek-R1, an MIT-licensed model that does well with math, code, and reasoning tasks, alongside other open and distilled models  —  DeepSeek are the Chinese AI lab who dropped the best currently available open weights LLM on Christmas day, DeepSeek v3. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Democratic Republic of Congo lawyers say Belgium has started a criminal probe into allegations that Apple has knowingly sourced “blood minerals” from the DRC  —  Lawyers for DRC allege iPhones and other electronics use minerals supplied by armed groups behind atrocities Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: China suggests it is willing to work with Donald Trump to keep TikTok operating in the US, after previously saying that it would block any forced sale of TikTok  —  Founder of app’s parent, Beijing-based ByteDance, met with Elon Musk last year  —  SINGAPORE—China suggested it was willing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: A look at UK hedge fund Man Group’s ArcticDB, an open-source tool developed internally and used by clients like Bloomberg to analyze stock trading data and more  —  The need to analyze an overwhelming influx of stock data—and to do it fast—pushed Man Group to become its own kind of tech company Lees verder op Tech Meme