Tech Meme

Harry McCracken / Fast Company: Flipboard launches Surf, an app to create custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, in beta on iOS, Android, and iPadOS  —  Fourteen years ago, when the iPad was new and bursting with unfulfilled promise, an app called Flipboard debuted. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Amazon recently pushed back RTO dates for some staff in Austin, Dallas, and Phoenix by as much as four months, citing a lack of office space  —  – Company is struggling to find space in at least seven cities  — Start dates are being pushed back as much as four months Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Quinn / CBS News: SCOTUS says it will hear a challenge on January 10 to a new law that could lead to a TikTok ban in the US, ahead of the law taking effect on January 19  —  Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will take up a challenge to a new law that could lead to a ban on TikTok in the U.S. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: Data center operator Vultr raised $333M led by LuminArx, with participation from AMD and others, at a $3.5B valuation, its first outside funding round  —  AMD’s investment is part of how the chip giant plans to make a dent in the artificial intelligence chip market dominated by Nvidia Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: Amazon unveils new packaging for its Echo, Kindle, and Fire TV products, including removing plastic, less paper and ink, and using more recycled fibers  —  In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Bureau, which offers tools to prevent user identity fraud, raised a $30M Series B led by Sorenson Capital, a source says at a ~$150M valuation  —  Cybersecurity startup Bureau has secured $30 million in a funding round led by Sorenson Capital to expand its presence in new markets, it said on Wednesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Q&A with Microsoft Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI Sarah Bird on generative AI, its impact on work, Copilots, OpenAI, AGI, AI agents, bias, and more  —  Chief product officer of ‘responsible AI’ says the focus needs to be on augmenting — not replicating — human capabilities Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: US officials are investigating Chinese router maker TP-Link, which has an estimated 65% US market share, and could ban the sale of its routers in 2025  —  TP-Link is the bestselling router on Amazon—and has been linked to Chinese cyberattacks  —  U.S. authorities are investigating whether … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Omdia estimates Microsoft bought 485K of Nvidia’s Hopper GPUs in 2024, ByteDance and Tencent bought ~230K each, Meta bought 225K, and Tesla/xAI bought ~200K  —  OpenAI’s biggest backer buys nearly half a million GPUs this year in global race to build artificial intelligence systems Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: SandboxAQ, which aims to apply quantum tech and techniques to AI, raised $300M from Alger, Yann LeCun, and others at a $5.6B valuation to recruit more engineers  —  – Former Alphabet division focuses on quantum and AI tech  — CEO Jack Hidary staffing up with more Ph.D.s and engineers Lees verder op Tech Meme