Tech Meme

Megan Sauer / CNBC: An interview with Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow, which was acquired by Prosus for $1.8B in 2021, on his plans to donate half his net worth and more  —  Plenty of wealthy people plan to donate most of their fortunes to philanthropic causes.  Jeff Atwood says he’ll actually do it within the next five years. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: A look at UK hedge fund Man Group’s ArcticDB, an open-source tool used internally and by customers like Bloomberg to analyze daily stock trading data and more  —  The need to analyze an overwhelming influx of stock data—and to do it fast—pushed Man Group to become its own kind of tech company Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adam Kucharski / Bloomberg: A 2024 study of 205 randomly chosen Community Notes on X about COVID-19 vaccines found that 97% of the notes were accurate and ~50% cited high-quality sources  —  Crowdsourcing accuracy online is complicated.  But Community Notes, when used correctly, can be a valuable tool. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Axios: Sources: a top AI compay may soon unveil a breakthrough in AI super-agents for complex human tasks; Sam Altman set up a briefing for US officials on January 30  —  – Build from scratch: Imagine telling your agent, “Build me new payment software.” … – Make sense of chaos … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wes Davis / The Verge: TikTok restores its service in the US after reaching an “agreement with our service providers” and thanks Donald Trump “for providing the necessary clarity”  —  The company said this afternoon that it is “in the process of restoring service” and thanked President-elect Trump for … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Politico: CoinGecko: despite tanking, Trump’s memecoin, with a $55B+ market cap, is the 21st most valuable cryptocurrency; some in crypto call the coin a “horrible look”  —  Trump’s memecoin has taken off since debuting late Friday night.  Not everyone in crypto is thrilled. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Google Play and Apple’s App Store still aren’t offering TikTok in the US; Senator Tom Cotton warns of “ruinous liability”, as Trump says there’s “no liability”  —  TikTok announced on Sunday that it’s “in the process of restoring service,” but the app is still unavailable in the App Store and Google Play. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Meta unveils Edits, a video editing app coming in February on iOS and soon on Android, after app stores removed CapCut as part of the US divest-or-ban law  —  Meta today announced a new video editing app called Edits, after ByteDance’s video editing app CapCut was removed from Apple’s App Store … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Khadija Alam / Rest of World: Analysis: Chinese AI researchers produced ~46K collaborative papers with their US counterparts over the past decade, followed by ~19K with researchers in the UK  —  Over the past 10 years, the U.S. and China have been the most frequent partners in AI research. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Spotify’s Head of Editorial Sulinna Ong, whose team curates thousands of playlists and discovers new artists to complement Spotify’s algorithms  —  Spotify is known for its algorithmic recommendations, but Sulinna Ong brings a human touch to finding new hits Lees verder op Tech Meme