Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Fluidstack, which wants to build a €10B AI data center in France as part of Macron’s €109B data center pledge, is in talks to raise a ~$200M Series A  —  – UK company part of Macron’s €109 billion data center pledge  — Startup has ordered shipment of Nvidia’s new Blackwell chips Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank VF and others marked up ByteDance’s valuation to $400B+; SoftBank puts zero value on TikTok’s US operations but factored in AI business Doubao  —  – DeepSeek-driven China tech rally set to buoy ByteDance value  — Value tops $400 billion even as US TikTok unit marked at zero Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steve Lohr / New York Times: Software engineers, academics, and analysts say AI coding tools will likely start an evolution rather than an extinction, pushing developers to learn new skills  —  A.I. tools from Microsoft and other companies are helping write code, placing software engineers at the forefront of the technology’s potential to disrupt the work force. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ian Duncan / Washington Post: Sources: the US NHTSA is losing ~10% of its workforce via firings and buyout offers, including nearly half of a small team that regulates autonomous vehicles  —  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is losing about 10 percent of its workforce through firings and buyout offers, according to people briefed on the cuts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Sources: EU antitrust regulators are set to charge Google for breaching the DMA after proposed changes to its search results failed to address concerns  —  EU antitrust regulators are set to charge Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google with breaching EU rules aimed at checking the power of Big Tech … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: ZachXBT: crypto exchange Bybit has experienced $1.46B worth of “suspicious outflows”; Bybit CEO confirms hacker took control of cold ETH wallet  —  Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has experienced $1.46 billion worth of “suspicious outflows,” according to blockchain sleuth ZachXBT. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wired: How Breeze Liu, an advocate for digital abuse victims, got Microsoft to scrub 142 nonconsensual explicit images of herself from Azure after months of struggle  —  Breeze Liu has been a prominent advocate for victims.  But even she struggled to scrub nonconsensual intimate images and videos of herself from the web. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: On Alibaba’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Eddie Wu calls the pursuit of AGI the company’s “primary objective”, saying “our first and foremost goal is to pursue AGI”  —  “Our first and foremost goal is to pursue AGI,” Eddie Wu told investors on a call after the company reported results that surpassed analyst estimates. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gergely Orosz / The Pragmatic Engineer: A look at the potential reasons why software developer job listings on Indeed hit a five-year low in January, down 35% from January 2020, including AI’s impact  —  Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter.  In every issue, I cover topics related to Big Tech … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ian Duncan / Washington Post: Sources: the NHTSA is losing about 10% of its workforce through firings and buyout offers, including half of a small team that regulates autonomous vehicles  —  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is losing about 10 percent of its workforce through firings and buyout offers, according to people briefed on the cuts. Lees verder op Tech Meme