Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Baidu rolls out Ernie 4.5 Turbo and X1 Turbo, new versions of its flagship foundation and reasoning models, as it looks to take on Alibaba’s Qwen and DeepSeek  —  The Chinese search engine leader rolled out Ernie 4.5 Turbo and Ernie X1 Turbo, the latest versions of its flagship foundation … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Charlotte Yang / Bloomberg: JD.com’s costly bid to challenge Meituan in food delivery, while the latter enters the e-commerce space, has led to a loss of ~$70B in combined market value  —  While much of the world is focused on a volatile international trade war, two of China’s largest internet companies are inflicting greater damage on each other at home. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Apple plans to move assembly of all US-sold iPhones, ~60M/year, to India by the end of 2026, as President Trump’s trade war pushes a pivot from China  —  FT Exclusive: Tech giant plans to shift assembly as soon as next year in response to Donald Trump’s trade war Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Adobe says Firefly users can now generate images using OpenAI’s GPT, Google’s Imagen 3 and Veo 2, and Flux 1.1 Pro, in addition to its own Firefly image models  —  Adobe (ADBE.O) said on Thursday it is adding image-generation artificial intelligence models from OpenAI and Alphabet’s Google … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Danny Goodwin / Search Engine Land: YouTube is testing a new AI Overviews carousel in its search results for queries focused on products and location information, for some US Premium subscribers  —  YouTube’s AI Overviews test could reshape how users find videos.  Will it boost discovery or cut into views for creators and brands? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: the US is conducting a criminal antitrust probe into TP-Link’s pricing strategies and whether the router maker represents a national security threat  —  Beyond pricing, a focus of the inquiry is also whether the company’s growing US market share represents a threat to national security … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Davey Alba / Bloomberg: Source: Alphabet’s Q1 profit was boosted by $8B in unrealized gains from an investment in SpaceX; Alphabet has been a major SpaceX investor since at least 2015  —  That company is Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp., according to a person familiar with the matter. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Netflix rolls out subtitles with just spoken dialog, without audio cues or speaker names, and says ~50% of US viewing hours happen with subtitles or captions on  —  The new option drops sound descriptions and speaker names from subtitles. … Netflix is rolling out a new subtitle option that shows just spoken dialogue. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Facebook will reduce the reach of accounts sharing spammy content and make them ineligible for monetization, after Zuckerberg promised a return to “OG Facebook”  —  Facebook will begin lowering the reach of accounts sharing spammy content and making them ineligible for monetization, Meta announced on Thursday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan announces changes, including an engineering refocus, reductions in unnecessary bureaucracy and workforce, and four-day-per-week RTO policy  —  Today is Intel’s Q1 2025 earnings call, and the first we’re truly hearing from new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who took over the company on March 18th. Lees verder op Tech Meme