Tech Meme

Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo: Report: 79% of 475 AI experts believe current public perceptions of AI do not match R&D realities, while 76% said scaling current approaches will not yield AGI  —  An extensive report on the future of AI research indicated that there’s skepticism about current approaches to AGI. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: South Korea-based Wrtn, a free-to-use AI platform with 5M+ users aggregating LLMs like GPT-4, Stable Diffusion 3, and Claude 3, raised a $56M Series B extension  —  Existing backers BRV Capital Management and Capstone Partners participated in the so-called extension round … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Japan earmarks up to ~$5.4B in additional aid for chipmaker Rapidus, which aims to begin mass production of 2nm chips in 2027, a highly ambitious target  —  Japan is preparing as much as ¥802.5 billion ($5.4 billion) in additional aid for chip startup Rapidus Corp. … Lees verder op Tech Meme

CNBC: After Trump signed an EO to end the government’s DEI programs, tech firms like Google are rebranding DEI efforts, using terms like “learning” or “hiring”  —  After Google scrapped its diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, hiring aspirations in February … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dia Rekhi / The Economic Times: Sources: Foxconn plans to assemble 25M to 30M iPhones in India in 2025, up from ~12M in 2024, and is conducting production trials at its new Bengaluru plant  —  Foxconn has also been conducting limited trials at its Bengaluru campus in the last three-four months, signalling swift progress … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources detail tensions between Apple and Elon Musk’s SpaceX over efforts to expand satellite cellphone services  —  The iPhone maker and SpaceX are competing in the race to eliminate cellphone dead spots, a rift that is set to intensify  —  Apple is clashing with Elon Musk in its push … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Counterpoint Research: Global foldable smartphone shipments increased by just 2.9% YoY in 2024, and shipments are expected to decline by about 4% YoY in 2025  —  – 2024 saw the global foldable market growing at a comparatively flat annual rate of 2.9%.  — Samsung and OPPO’s unusually weak Q4 negatively impacted broader market dynamics. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bethan Staton / Financial Times: Many LinkedIn users put part-time job-level effort to maintain their pages; LinkedIn: 85% of FTSE 100 CEOs have a presence on the platform, up from 12% in 2023  —  More users are chasing high follower counts as the professional network expands its reach  —  Soon after lawyer Paul Verrico posted … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ernie Smith / Tedium: Apple’s current enterprise offerings are built for single machines and have complex virtualization rules, saddling high-end users with inefficient remote setups  —  Whether it was trying to or not, Apple exposed a huge flaw with its pitch to professional video editors with a new Severance promotional video. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Ethereum is struggling to keep the interest of investors and developers, having fallen out of step in an industry transformed by the embrace of Donald Trump  —  Vitalik Buterin was long viewed as the wunderkind of the cryptocurrency world.  —  The gawky, playful founder of Ethereum … Lees verder op Tech Meme