Tech Meme

Steven Levy / Wired: Interviews with Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, and other executives about Anthropic’s origin, Claude, why DeepSeek isn’t a threat, reaching AGI safely, more  —  The brother goes on vision quests.  The sister is a former English major.  Together, they defected from OpenAI, started Anthropic … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: AppLovin hires a law firm to investigate short sellers’ allegations that the mobile ad company’s ad performance numbers are fraudulent  —  It followed a Muddy Waters report released on Thursday that alleged that AppLovin was misappropriating data and violating some of its platform partners’ terms of service … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google starts offering user choice billing in the UK, initially to non-game developers, says 90%+ of developers are satisfied with Google Play’s native billing  —  Google said today that it will start offering user choice billing in the U.K., giving Google Play developers the ability to use … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: An appeals court agrees with India’s antitrust regulator that Google’s app store billing policy was unfair and restrictive but cuts the fine from $110M to $25M  —  An appeals court Friday agreed with India’s antitrust regulator that Google’s app store billing policy was unfair and restrictive for developers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Wynn / The Block: Crypto.com says the US SEC won’t pursue enforcement action; Crypto.com sued the SEC in October after receiving a Wells notice signaling potential charges  —  – Crypto.com said that the SEC will not file an enforcement action against the company.  — Crypto.com sued the SEC in October … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority says it intends to begin authorizing new crypto firms in 2026 after it designs a more stringent regulatory regime  —  The FCA’s intention is to create new rules for a more stringent regulatory regime, its director of payments said.  —  What to know: Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Court documents: India criticizes Elon Musk’s X for wrongly labeling an official website, used to notify tech firms of harmful content, as a “censorship portal”  —  India has criticised Elon Musk’s X for wrongly labelling as a “censorship portal” an official website … Lees verder op Tech Meme

CNBC: CoreWeave raised $1.5B in its IPO, selling ~37.5M shares at $40 each, down from a planned 49M shares at $47-$55; source: Nvidia anchored with a ~$250M order  —  CoreWeave on Thursday priced shares at $40 in the company’s IPO, raising $1.5 billion in the biggest U.S. tech offering since 2021, CNBC has confirmed. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sheon Han / Wired: How Paul Ginsparg, a Cornell University physics professor, created the digital repository arXiv nearly 35 years ago to help researchers share their preprints  —  Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv.  Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Taiwan is investigating 11 Chinese tech firms, including SMIC, which is being probed for allegedly poaching engineers to access the island’s advanced chip tech  —  Taiwan is investigating whether China’s leading chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. illegally poached local engineers … Lees verder op Tech Meme