Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: DeepSeek’s iOS app is now #1 on the “Top Free Apps” chart in Apple’s App Store 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
The Information: Sources: Meta set up four war rooms to analyze DeepSeek’s tech, two focusing on how High-Flyer reduced training costs, one on what data High-Flyer may have used — Artificial intelligence researchers at Meta Platforms have been in panic mode. In recent days, leaders of some of the company’s … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Wall Street Journal: Betting data from Illinois, New Jersey, and Colorado shows how parlays are driving revenue growth for FanDuel, DraftKings, and other US sports betting companies — Parlays, the tough-to-win multipart wagers with tantalizing payouts, are bringing in casual and newbie gamblers, and betting companies are making a killing Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jeffrey Emanuel / YouTubeTranscriptOptimizer: A bear case for Nvidia: competition from hardware startups, inference-heavy “reasoning” models, DeepSeek’s training and inference efficiency breakthroughs, more — As someone who spent ~10 years working as a generalist investment analyst at various long/short hedge funds … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Hall of Impossible Dreams: A look at the growing prevalence of LLM-written posts that have been backdated and attributed to human authors on Physics Forums, which was founded in 2001 — What Internet Will Look Like in the Future — cripes does anybody remember Google People — Does anybody remember PhysicsForums? Lees verder op Tech Meme
Reuters: Trump denies talks with Oracle about a TikTok deal, says “I have spoken to many people about TikTok” and expects a decision in the next 30 days — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he was in talks with multiple people over buying TikTok and would likely have a decision … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia: Chinese esports companies, including Tencent and Huya, face growth challenges in China, the world’s biggest esports market; the industry earned ~$3.8B in 2024 — BEIJING — One chilly Saturday evening late last year, 33,000 people gathered at Beijing Workers’ Stadium to watch … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Rest of World: Major Chinese social media apps have mastered the “shoppertainment” experience, blending social media with shopping, that Western competitors struggle to match — Addictive algorithms fuse social networking with shopping and entertainment. — In the days leading … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Martin Matishak / The Record: Sources: US State Dept.’s freeze on foreign aid applies to a bureau that uses cyber diplomacy to fight threats and pursues international norms for emerging tech — The U.S. State Department’s move to halt nearly all existing foreign assistance applies to the programs and funds … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Brian Armstrong / @brian_armstrong: CEO Brian Armstrong says Coinbase needs to rethink its listing process for new tokens to keep up with “~1m tokens a week being created now, and growing” — We need to rethink our listing process at @coinbase given there are ~1m tokens a week being created now, and growing. High quality problem to have, but evaluating each one by one is no longer feasible. And regulators need to understand that applying for approval for each one is Lees verder op Tech Meme