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Boone Ashworth / Wired: A profile of Watch Duty creator John Clarke Mills, who wants the fire-tracking app to become a one-stop shop for information during any disaster  —  Watch Duty proved indispensable during the recent LA wildfires.  John Mills, the app’s creator, wants it to be the one place to go for tracking disasters. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: Q&A with Google’s Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer on Google’s path to AGI, future of Moore’s Law and TPUs, inference scaling, open research, and more  —  Two of Gemini’s co-leads on Google’s path to AGI  —  This week I welcome on the show two of the most important technologists ever, in any field. Lees verder op Tech Meme

J. Edward Moreno / Sherwood News: Analysis: consumers spent $259.1B on Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash in 2024, up 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.  —  For a long time … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank-backed eFishery, Indonesia’s high-profile agritech startup, cuts over 1,000 jobs, or ~90% of its workforce, and weighs a potential liquidation  —  – Indonesia’s high-profile agritech startup cuts over 1,000 jobs  — Company unraveling after allegedly faking most of its revenue Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: Sources: Lightspeed, whose bets include Wiz, Anthropic, and Stripe, returned $8B from current and active funds in the past five years, with $3B+ coming in 2024  —  I’ve got my hands on slides from Lightspeed’s $7 billion fundraising effort  —  Lightspeed Venture Partners … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pan / Bloomberg: Industry executives say US crypto miners are facing delays in receiving new equipment from Bitmain and other Chinese suppliers amid 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

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Tether acquires a minority stake in the iconic Italian football club Juventus, as part of a broader push to integrate digital assets into sports franchises  —  Tether Holdings SA de CV said it’s acquired a minority stake in Juventus Football Club SpA, as one of crypto’s most valuable companies continues … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lauren Faith Lau / Bloomberg: DeepSeek’s rise has turned the spotlight on its hometown, Hangzhou, the capital of the Zhejiang province, which has earmarked ~$13.7B to fund tech companies  —  Plus: The struggle over improving 7-Eleven, and how Silicon Valley swung to Trump. … There’s Shenzhen, whose designation … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Perplexity releases Deep Research, offering five queries daily to free users and 500 to subscribers, available now on the web and soon on iOS, Android, and Mac  —  Perplexity shattered the artificial intelligence market’s status quo today by launching Deep Research, a tool … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: The website of President Trump’s World Liberty Financial shows the crypto project sold 24B+ of its 25B WLFI tokens after a slow start, implying sales of $1.25B  —  – The project has sold more than 24 billion tokens so far  — Chinese crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun is a project investor Lees verder op Tech Meme