Reuters: Sources: ByteDance has earmarked over $20.6B in capital expenditure for 2025, with about half of the amount on AI-related infrastructure outside China — ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, has earmarked over 150 billion yuan ($20.64 billion) in capital expenditure for this year … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Brave Search rolls out Rerank to let users boost or downgrade domains from their search results through thumbs up or thumbs down buttons — Brave Search has introduced a new feature called Rerank, which allows users to define search results ordering preferences and set specific sites rank higher. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Ramp launches Ramp Treasury, letting businesses store cash in a business account and earn 2.5% or in a money market fund for potentially higher yields — Over the years, Ramp has built a name for itself in the corporate card and expense management space. It’s branched out into travel … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Umar Shakir / The Verge: Google changes how visible URLs show up on mobile search results globally, dropping the “breadcrumbs” that show the hierarchy of a webpage’s URL — Google is changing the way visible URLs show up on mobile search results worldwide. Search results since 2009 have shown … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: ChatGPT suffered a major outage on January 23 and OpenAI’s API also experienced downtime, after disruptions in December; OpenAI says it has fixed both issues — OpenAI’s AI chatbot platform, ChatGPT, suffered a major outage Thursday. — Early this morning, ChatGPT users started reporting … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kevin Roose / New York Times: CAIS and Scale AI release “Humanity’s Last Exam”, which they claim is the hardest- AI test yet, consisting of ~3,000 multiple-choice and short answer questions — If you’re looking for a new reason to be nervous about artificial intelligence, try this: Some of the smartest humans … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Hugging Face releases SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M, claiming they can analyze images, short videos, and text on “constrained devices” with under ~1GB of RAM — A team at AI dev platform Hugging Face has released what they’re claiming are the smallest AI models that can analyze images, short videos, and text. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Munir Ahmed / Associated Press: Pakistan’s parliament passes a controversial bill giving the government sweeping controls on social media, including prison terms for spreading “disinformation” — Pakistan’s lower house of parliament on Thursday passed a controversial bill that will give the government sweeping controls … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Justin Sink / Bloomberg: Fox News interview: Donald Trump downplays TikTok’s national security risk, saying China makes smartphones, PCs, and more, and “isn’t that a bigger threat?” — President Donald Trump downplayed the national security risk posed by TikTok in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Andy Greenberg / Wired: Researchers detail Subaru’s now-fixed web vulnerabilities that would’ve let them unlock and start millions of Subarus via Starlink in the US, Canada, and Japan — Now-fixed web bugs allowed hackers to remotely unlock and start millions of Subarus. More disturbingly, they could also access … Lees verder op Tech Meme