Tech Meme

Bloomberg: A profile of French health insurer Alan’s CEO Jean Charles Samuelian-Werve, a Mistral board member who claims credit for securing most of Mistral’s backers  —  Arthur Mensch is the public face of French AI champion Mistral, but another startup’s CEO has been critical to its $6 billion valuation Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Some Japanese stocks drop amid DeepSeek anxiety: Advantest, an Nvidia supplier of testing equipment, drops 7%+ and datacenter cable company Fujikura drops 9%+  —  Japan’s chip-related shares including Advantest Corp. tumbled as Chinese AI startup DeepSeek gained traction … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: DeepSeek’s iOS app is now #1 on the App Store’s Top Free Apps chart in the US, just ahead of ChatGPT  —  Since Chinese AI company DeepSeek released an open version of its reasoning model R1 at the beginning of this week, many in the tech industry have been making grand pronouncements … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Court filing: Indian digital news firms, including NDTV, Network18, and Hindustan Times, join a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, first filed by ANI in 2024  —  Digital news units of Indian billionaires Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani, and other outlets like the Indian Express and the Hindustan Times … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A look at China’s booming crypto market, with Chinese traders using VPNs, overseas shell companies, and peer-to-peer networks to circumvent China’s crackdown  —  Recent court cases reveal how middlemen are facilitating a booming trade, eluding a crackdown  —  Three years ago … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi: DeepSeek’s use of commodity, disconnected hardware and open-source design is enough of a shot at AI hyper scaling that it could be “the way things will go”  —  DeepSeek was certain to happen.  The only unknown was who was going to do it.  The choices were a startup or someone outside … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Brazil’s data protection authority ruled that Tools for Humanity, co-founded by Sam Altman, must stop offering compensation for iris scans in the country  —  Brazil’s data protection authority has ordered Tools for Humanity, co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, to stop offering iris scan compensation in the country. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Some Japanese stocks drop amid DeepSeek anxiety; Advantest, an Nvidia supplier of testing equipment, drops 7%+; datacenter cable company Fujikura drops 9%+  —  Japan’s chip-related shares including Advantest Corp. tumbled as Chinese AI startup DeepSeek gained traction, raising concern the app … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hayden Field / CNBC: Source: Perplexity AI revises its TikTok US merger proposal, which now allows for the US government to own up to 50% of the new company upon a future IPO  —  Perplexity AI on Sunday revised the merger proposal it had submitted to TikTok parent ByteDance.  The proposal, which would create … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Brazil’s data protection authority ruled that Tools for Humanity, cofounded by Sam Altman, must stop offering compensation for iris scans in the country  —  Brazil’s data protection authority has ordered Tools for Humanity, co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, to stop offering iris scan compensation in the country. Lees verder op Tech Meme