Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Chinese President Xi meets with Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, and more, signaling Beijing’s support for the long-marginalized sector  —  – Meeting signals a more supportive stance toward private firms  — Xi’s presence marks a potentially powerful endorsement Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: A look at the OpenEuroLLM project, a partnership among 20 EU organizations to develop open-source LLMs that support all EU languages, with a budget of €37.4M  —  Large language models (LLMs) landed on Europe’s digital sovereignty agenda with a bang last week, as news emerged of a new program … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Wall Street banks led by Morgan Stanley have offloaded almost all of Elon Musk’s $12.5B in loans used to buy Twitter, and now hold $1B+ in X debt  —  Investor perception of debt has changed since Donald Trump’s election victory  —  Wall Street banks have rid themselves of almost … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: A look at the OpenEuroLLM project, a partnership among 20 EU organizations to develop open-source LLMs that support all EU languages, with a budget of €37.4M  —  Large language models (LLMs) landed on Europe’s digital sovereignty agenda with a bang last week, as news emerged of a new program … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Barnett / The Guardian: An interview with Nadia Odunayo on building Goodreads alternative StoryGraph, remaining bootstrapped, reaching 3.8M active users, not allowing DMs, and more  —  Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Match Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth says Match is using AI in its apps, like Tinder, to detect men’s “off-color” messages and drive “behavioral change”  —  Online dating group is using the technology to detect ‘off-colour’ messages, says safety chief Yoel Roth Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Tencent is testing using DeepSeek for search in its messaging app Weixin, while Baidu plans to fully connect its search engine to DeepSeek and its Ernie LLM  —  Tencent said on Sunday its (0700.HK) Weixin messaging app, China’s largest, is allowing some users to search via DeepSeek’s artificial … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Max Tani / Semafor: Documents: the NYT greenlights using select internal and external AI tools for editorial and product staff, including from OpenAI, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft  —  The Scoop  —  The New York Times is greenlighting the use of AI for its product and editorial staff, saying that internal tools … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Madeline Coleman / New York Times: A look at “sim racing”, Formula One world champion Max Verstappen’s passion for the competitive esport, and his efforts to get sim drivers into physical racing  —  Race teams always look up and down the motorsports ladder to identify rising stars. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: A look at the OpenEuroLLM project, a partnership among 20 EU organizations to develop open-source LLMs that support all EU languages, with a budget of €37.4M  —  Large language models (LLMs) landed on Europe’s digital sovereignty agenda with a bang last week, as news emerged of a new program … Lees verder op Tech Meme