Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Trump’s EO to protect the dollar bars any further work on a CBDC and aligns the government’s interests with those of stablecoin issuers like Tether and Circle  —  – US crypto czar sees potential for extending dollar dominance  — USDT, USDC account for almost 90% of total stablecoin value Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Uber denies setting fares based on phone models in India, after a government body alleged Uber and Ola use differential pricing for Android and iOS users  —  Uber (UBER.N) said it does not set ride prices based on a user’s phone model, shortly after an Indian government body alleged … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Industry insiders say DeepSeek’s focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it’s willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits  —  Hedge fund billionaire Liang Wenfeng builds model on tight budget despite US attempt to halt China’s high-tech ambitions Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kate Clark / Bloomberg: Source: Lightspeed has invested a total of $2.2B in AI deals, excluding the $2B Anthropic funding round it is leading, and is close to raising a $7B fund  —  The 25-year-old venture capital firm is embracing tech’s new era of enormous artificial intelligence deals Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jiahui Huang / Wall Street Journal: Chinese self-driving company WeRide aims to make more inroads overseas in 2025; WeRide operates in nine countries and secured new deals in Switzerland and Japan  —  WeRide already operates driverless vehicles in 30 cities across nine countries  —  Chinese autonomous-driving company WeRide … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Simon Willison / Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI updates ChatGPT’s Canvas feature with o1 model support and HTML and React code rendering, making it a direct competitor to Claude’s Artifacts  —  Talk about burying the lede!  The ability to render HTML leapfrogs Canvas into being a direct competitor to Claude Artifacts … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kate Clark / Bloomberg: Source: Lightspeed has invested a total of $2.2B in AI deals, excluding the $2B Anthropic funding round it’s leading and is close to raising a $7B fund  —  The 25-year-old venture capital firm is embracing tech’s new era of enormous artificial intelligence deals Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta’s Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones  —  If you hadn’t heard, there’s a new AI star in town: DeepSeek, the subsidiary of Hong Kong-based quantitative analysis … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Filing: Character AI says 1A protects it from liability in a lawsuit that claims a teen committed suicide after becoming emotionally attached to a chatbot  —  Character AI, a platform that lets users engage in roleplay with AI chatbots, has filed a motion to dismiss a case brought … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: UnitedHealth says the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit in February 2024 affected ~190M people, nearly double its previous estimate of 100M  —  UnitedHealth has confirmed the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit last February affected around 190 million people in America — nearly double previous estimates. Lees verder op Tech Meme