Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Broadcom has informally explored a bid for Intel’s chip design and marketing unit, but only if it could secure a partner for Intel’s foundry business  —  Broadcom has interest in Intel’s chip-design business, while TSMC is looking at the company’s factories Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi about his move from Expedia to Uber, getting out of the self-driving market, Uber becoming an aggregator, and more  —  This week’s Stratechery Interview is with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.  Khosrowshahi started his career on Wall Street, before going to work for Barry Diller at IAC. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: How Walmart’s investment in tech, including an AI tool to plan worker shifts, helped it take on Amazon, with 18% of its ~$680B revenue in 2024 generated online  —  A decade ago, its huge stores looked outdated as online sales grew.  Now they are pulling in more customers than ever Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: Sources: Lightspeed returned $8B from current and active funds in the past five years; its most recent fund with more than 1x DPI was its $500M fund in 2016  —  I’ve got my hands on slides from Lightspeed’s $7 billion fundraising effort  —  Lightspeed Venture Partners … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sophie Alexander / Bloomberg: Sources: DOGE is sending termination notices to USDS staff who worked as IT experts for the US government since the Obama era; USDS has been renamed as DOGE  —  Elon Musk’s DOGE team is sending termination notices to staffers at the US Digital Service, a group of federal IT workers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: As JD Vance chastised the EU for its AI regulation, 12+ US states are considering algorithmic discrimination bills that look strikingly similar to EU’s AI Act  —  The AI regulation onslaught  —  Introduction  —  At the AI Action Summit in Paris this week, Vice President J.D. Vance delivered a broadly optimistic message on AI. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans to refresh the Vision Pro with Apple Intelligence, a new Spatial content app, and a revamped guest mode in visionOS 2.4, as early as April  —  – Company seeks to boost interest in headset with new features  — Move marks the first device expansion for Apple Intelligence Lees verder op Tech Meme

Thomas Claburn / The Register: Hector Martin, lead of Asahi Linux distribution for Apple Silicon, resigns, citing burnout, demanding users, and Linus Torvalds’s handling of Rust integration  —  I fought the Torv and … the Torv won  —  Hector Martin, project lead of Asahi Linux, resigned that project early Friday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pan / Bloomberg: Industry executives say US crypto miners are facing delays receiving new equipment from Bitmain and other Chinese suppliers due to heightened customs scrutiny  —  – Bitmain rakes in billions of dollars from mining machine sales  — The Beijing-based company is also a leading AI chip developer Lees verder op Tech Meme

J. Edward Moreno / Sherwood News: Analysis: consumers spent $259.1B on Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash in 2024, up 19% from $218.5B in 2023, with $162.8B on Uber, $80.2B on DoorDash, and $16.1B on Lyft  —  Lyft and DoorDash just reported their first years with net profits.  Instacart is likely next. Lees verder op Tech Meme