Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: The UK renames its AI Safety Institute to AI Security Institute in a pivot to cybersecurity, and is exploring ways to use Anthropic’s Claude in public services  —  The U.K. government wants to make a hard pivot into boosting its economy and industry with AI, and as part of that … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: Arm is recruiting executives from its own customers in a push to sell its own chips, and is competing against Qualcomm to sell data center CPUs to Meta  —  Arm (O9Ty.F) has begun recruiting from its own customers and competing against them for deals as it pushes toward selling its own chips … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI removes “warning” messages in ChatGPT that indicated when content might violate its terms of service, to cut down on “gratuitous/unexplainable denials”  —  OpenAI says it has removed the “warning” messages in its AI-powered chatbot platform, ChatGPT … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google’s Gemini can now recall and “reference past chats for more tailored help”; the feature is rolling out in English for Advanced subscribers  —  Google today is rolling out a new Gemini app feature for Advanced subscribers that can recall and “reference past chats for more tailored help.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: Coinbase reports Q4 revenue up 138% YoY to $2.27B, vs. $1.88B est., transaction revenue up 194% to $1.56B, vs. $1.29B est., and trading volume up 185% to $439B  —  Coinbase Thursday reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter results and its biggest quarterly revenue in three years … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Todd Spangler / Variety: Roku reports Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to $1.2B, vs. $1.15B est., a net loss of $35.5M, and streaming households up 12% YoY to 89.8M; ROKU jumps 10%+ after hours  —  Roku overdelivered for the fourth quarter of 2024, boosting revenue 22% and narrowing its net loss to beat Wall Street expectations. Lees verder op Tech Meme

J. Edward Moreno / Sherwood News: Airbnb Q4: revenue up 12% YoY to $2.48B, Nights and Experiences Booked up 12%, Gross Booking Value up 13% to $17.6B vs. $17.2B est.; ABNB jumps 13%+ after hours  —  Consumers spent more than $81 billion on Airbnb in 2024.  —  12m  —  Short-term rental giant Airbnb reported quarterly results … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chainalysis: In 2024, crypto scams received at least $9.9B on-chain, up 40% YoY and likely a record; scams marketplace Huione Guarantee received $376M+ in crypto in 2024  —  The Chainalysis Crypto Crime Report  —  In 2024, cryptocurrency scams received at least $9.9 billion on-chain … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: Meta says it will let classified ad firms in Europe pay to place their listings on Facebook Marketplace, after a pilot with eBay, following the EU’s €798M fine  —  – Company was fined €798 million by EU for abusing dominance  — Move to open up Facebook Marketplace will come with costs Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Arm plans to launch its own chip, expected to be a CPU for servers in large data centers, this year after securing Meta as one of its first customers  —  Move by SoftBank-owned chip designer threatens to upend the balance of power in the $700bn semiconductor industry Lees verder op Tech Meme