Tech Meme

Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET: Adobe outlines agentic AI features coming to Photoshop, Acrobat, Premiere Pro, and more, including one-click context-aware edits and agents to analyze documents  —  Agentic AI is the hottest AI topic because it takes AI assistance as we know it a step further, actually carrying out tasks for users. Lees verder op Tech Meme

NPR: Sources: after Jensen Huang went to Mar-a-Lago last week, the White House reversed course on Nvidia H20 export restrictions to China, in the works for months  —  When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attended a $1 million-a-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago last week, a chip known as the H20 may have been on his mind. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Canalys: Global shipments of personal computers rose 9.4% YoY in Q1, driven by OEMs ramping up US deliveries in anticipation of the first round of Trump’s tariffs  —  According to the latest data from Canalys, now part of Omdia, total shipments of desktops, notebooks and workstations grew 9.4% to 62.7 million units in Q1 2025. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Samsung and Google plan to launch Ballie, a soccer-ball-shaped home robot “like a personal BB-8” that uses AI and can project video onto walls, in summer 2025  —  Samsung Electronics Co. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are partnering to launch the Ballie, a soccer-ball-shaped home robot … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Levingston / Financial Times: Private equity firm EQT sells a €3B stake in Swedish enterprise software company IFS to investors like the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, valuing IFS at €15B  —  Deal brings in Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board as investors Lees verder op Tech Meme

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Sources and a document: Amazon canceled orders for multiple products made in China and other Asian countries after Trump’s April 2 global tariffs announcement  —  The orders for beach chairs, scooters, air conditioners and other merchandise from multiple Amazon vendors were halted … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Google Cloud Next, DeepMind, AWS, offering 200+ AI models, training and inference costs, efficient training, and more  —  “We’ve been working on contingency plans for quite a while,” Kurian says on Tariffs.  —  ∙ Paid Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Amazon is weighing a $15B warehouse expansion plan for nearly 80 new US logistics facilities that would reverse its post-pandemic construction slowdown  —  The e-commerce company is asking potential capital partners to submit proposals, the people said, asking not to be identified citing private information. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikkei Asia: Source: Nintendo has decided to postpone the Switch 2’s release in China, an apparent response to the country’s tight controls targeting the gaming industry  —  GUANGZHOU/OSAKA — Nintendo has decided to postpone the release of its Switch 2 gaming device in China, Nikkei has learned … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Autonomous delivery startup Nuro raised a $106M Series E at a $6B valuation, down from $8.6B in 2021 after its $600M Series D, taking its total funding to $2.2B  —  After months of hearty marketing efforts and large-scale technology demos across the U.S., Nuro has secured $106 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme