Tech Meme

Kenza Bryan / Financial Times: Microsoft plans to buy 3.5M carbon credits, estimated to be worth ~$200M, from Re.green over 25 years to restore parts of Brazil’s Amazon and Atlantic forests  —  Tech giant acquires carbon credits worth around $200mn, as energy usage surges due to generative artificial intelligence Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: Sources: a deep philosophical rift over how DOGE should operate spurred Vivek Ramaswamy’s exit, with Donald Trump’s January 20 EO embodying Elon Musk’s vision  —  A deep philosophical rift between the two billionaire leaders of the “Department of Government Efficiency” left Musk to run the group. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Quant trading firm XTX, managing $250B+ in daily trades, plans to invest €1B+ on five data centers in Finland to support its growing use of machine learning  —  – Billionaire’s quant firm plans five data centers in Finland  — The move bucks trend of relying on third-party infrastructure Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rest of World: Eager to attract investments, politicians in Brazil, India, and other non-Western nations with nascent AI regulations have warmly welcomed major AI companies  —  Big AI companies have come out hard against comprehensive regulatory efforts in the West — but are receiving a warm welcome from leaders in many other countries. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Quant trading firm XTX, managing $250B+ in daily trades, plans to invest €1B+ on five data centers in Finland to support its growing use of machine learning  —  – Billionaire’s quant firm plans five data centers in Finland  — The move bucks trend of relying on third-party infrastructure Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Quant trading firm XTX, managing $250B+ in daily trades, plans to invest €1B+ on five data centers in Finland to support its growing use of machine learning  —  – Billionaire’s quant firm plans five data centers in Finland  — The move bucks trend of relying on third-party infrastructure Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Some crypto executives fear investor backlash over $TRUMP and $MELANIA memecoins; CoinMarketCap reports most $TRUMP trading is concentrated on Asian exchanges  —  Industry trying to rebuild its reputation frets over potential conflicts of interest and investor losses Lees verder op Tech Meme

TechCrunch: Truecaller rolls out real-time caller ID to its ~750K iOS subscribers, who account for 40% of its revenue; Truecaller has 2.6M+ paying subscribers in total  —  Popular caller ID app Truecaller has long left iPhone users at a disadvantage by not offering the caller information in real-time … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Louise Matsakis / Wired: Days before TikTok briefly went dark, Instagram and Facebook made design tweaks, released new features, and ran ads promoting its apps as TikTok alternatives  —  In the days before TikTok went dark, Instagram and Facebook released a flurry of new features and ran advertisements promoting its platforms as a comparable alternative. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kenza Bryan / Financial Times: Microsoft to buy 3.5M carbon credits, estimated to be worth about $200M, from Re.green over 25 years to restore parts of Brazil’s Amazon and Atlantic forests  —  Tech giant acquires carbon credits worth around $200mn, as energy usage surges due to generative artificial intelligence Lees verder op Tech Meme