Financial Times: Sources: ByteDance plans to spend ~$5.5B to acquire AI chips in China in 2025, double the amount spent in 2024, with ~60% going to Chinese suppliers like Huawei — Chinese owner of video app seeks growth from AI as its social media business comes under pressure in US Lees verder op Tech Meme
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $10.2B and 301.6M global subs, adding 18.9M subs, more than doubling Wall Street estimates; NFLX jumps 14%+ after hours — – Netflix is raising subscription prices in its biggest market — Report marks the end of regular quarterly customer updates Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: StackBlitz, which offers an AI tool to create websites using text prompts, says it’s finalizing raising $83.5M at a $700M valuation, following a $22M Series A — – StackBlitz is set to raise over $80 million from investors — Struggling startup turned around fortunes with AI product Lees verder op Tech Meme
New York Times: Trump grants a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road and a cryptocurrency cult hero, serving a life sentence on money laundering and drug charges — Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Tencent unveils Hunyuan3D 2.0, an AI system that turns single images or text prompts into 3D models in seconds, and open sources it on HuggingFace and GitHub — Tencent has unveiled “Hunyuan3D 2.0,” an AI system that turns single images or text descriptions into detailed 3D models within seconds. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Render, which offers developers cloud services for building, deploying, and running apps and websites, raised an $80M Series C led by Georgian — Developer-focused cloud infrastructure startup Render Services Inc. says it’s ready to disrupt traditional giants such as Amazon Web Services Inc … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Survey of 3,000+ game devs: 11% were laid off in the past year, 58% back unionization, 30% say generative AI is having a negative impact on the industry, more — 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
Bloomberg: Trump says he would be open to Elon Musk or Larry Ellison purchasing TikTok US as part of a joint venture that would give the US government 50% ownership — “I have the right to make a deal,” Trump said at an event alongside Ellison at the White House on Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Tencent unveils Hunyuan3D 2.0, an AI system that turns single images or text prompts into 3D models in seconds, and open sources it on HuggingFace and GitHub — Tencent has unveiled “Hunyuan3D 2.0,” an AI system that turns single images or text descriptions into detailed 3D models within seconds. Lees verder op Tech Meme
New York Times: Trump grants a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road and a cult hero in the cryptocurrency world who was serving a life sentence — Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances. Lees verder op Tech Meme