Tech Meme

Newcomer: Internal presentation by Microsoft’s CFO Amy Hood: number of users for Copilot has been flat over the past year with ~20M weekly users, as ChatGPT grew to 400M  —  Mustafa Suleyman hasn’t delivered the turnaround he was hired to bring  —  At Microsoft’s annual executive huddle last month … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft makes Recall available to all Copilot+ PCs, along with a new AI-powered Windows search and Click to Do, which works like Google’s Circle to Search  —  Microsoft’s Click to Do image and text tool is also rolling out today. … We knew Microsoft was about to launch Recall for real this time … Lees verder op Tech Meme

John Revill / Reuters: Swiss National Bank says cryptocurrencies failed to meet its currency reserve standards, as a referendum campaign seeks to require SNB to hold bitcoin reserves  —  The head of the Swiss National Bank said on Friday that cryptocurrencies failed to meet the institution’s currency reserve standards … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: CB Insights: fintech startups globally raised a combined $10.3B in Q1, the highest since Q1 2023; 19 US fintech startups have raised over $50M in 2025 so far  —  After a sluggish couple of years, fintech appears to be making a comeback.  —  In the first quarter of 2025 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: the US pushed back against EU’s AI code of practice; the code is voluntary, still being finalized, and aims to help companies comply with the AI Act  —  US President Donald Trump’s administration is putting pressure on Europe to ditch a rulebook that would compel developers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: Docs: X’s data licensing and subscriptions revenue grew 32% YoY to $91M in February, ad revenue grew 4% YoY to $146M; Twitter had $4.5B in ad revenue in 2021  —  Elon Musk’s X Holdings Corp. is evolving from a social media platform powered by mainstream advertisers to one betting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

CNN: Temu and Shein raise prices ahead of de minimis tariff exemption expiring on May 2 and urged customers to make purchases prior to April 25 to avoid 120% tariffs  —  New York CNN —  —  “Cheap goods” sold on Temu and Shein aren’t as cheap as they were 24 hours ago. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Leo Schwartz / Fortune: Nous, which plans to launch an AI training system on Solana using people’s idle computing power, raised a $50M Series A, a source says at a $1B token valuation  —  Training AI models requires a massive amount of computing power.  —  The crypto industry has been fighting to get a piece … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Baidu CEO Robin Li says demand for text-based models like DeepSeek’s is “shrinking” and claims its model had a higher propensity for “hallucinations”  —  Search group’s chief makes rare criticism of China’s generative artificial intelligence darling Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Tencent Music is in advanced talks to buy Chinese podcasting startup Ximalaya in a $2.4B deal  —  An agreement could be reached as soon as the coming weeks, the people said.  —  Talks are ongoing and no final decisions have been made, the people said. Lees verder op Tech Meme