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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

Financial Times: Sources: Google is investing over $1B more in Anthropic, which is also nearing a further $2B funding round from Lightspeed and other VCs at a ~$60B valuation  —  Artificial intelligence group closes in on $60bn valuation  —  Google is making a fresh investment of more than $1bn into OpenAI rival Anthropic … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tsubasa Suruga / Nikkei Asia: DealStreetAsia: Southeast Asian startups raised $4.56B in 2024, down 42% YoY and falling to a fifth of a 2021 peak, as the number of deals fell 10% YoY to 633  —  SINGAPORE — Southeast Asia’s startup funding in 2024 dropped for the third consecutive year, falling to a fifth of the peak it recorded in 2021 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: An internal probe into SoftBank-backed eFishery, one of Indonesia’s most prominent startups, finds the agritech company allegedly faked most of its 2024 sales  —  – EFishery board investigating startup’s sales, profit numbers  — Indonesian firm has raised hundreds of millions of dollars Lees verder op Tech Meme

Becky Bracken / Dark Reading: The Trump administration removed all advisory committee members within the DHS, including those in CISA and CSRB, which was investigating Salt Typhoon  —  In a letter sent today, the acting DHS secretary terminated membership to all advisory boards, including the Cyber Safety Review Board … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: 2025 GDC: 63% of game devs say Meta Quest/Horizon Store is the VR/AR platform that interests them the most, with 59% currently making games for the platform  —  The 2025 GDC survey revealed the impact of industry-wide layoffs in 2024 where one of every 11 game developers lost a job. Lees verder op Tech Meme