Tech Meme

Shanti Das / The Guardian: Analysis: child begging livestreams are actively promoted by TikTok’s algorithm and TikTok profits from the content despite having policies against begging  —  Exploitation fears as people in extreme poverty perform stunts and beg for virtual gifts  —  Three young children huddle in front of a camera … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brendan Bordelon / Politico: Lina Khan, Steve Bannon, and others worry the FTC could abandon its Meta antitrust case after Zuckerberg’s concessions to Trump; the trial is set for April 14  —  With a historic antitrust suit looming against Meta, could the company get a reprieve from its new ally in the White House? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is keeping TikTok and other ByteDance apps on its US App Store for at least another 75 days, following assurances from AG Pam Bondi  —  Apple Inc., following assurances from the Trump administration, is keeping TikTok and other apps from ByteDance Ltd. on its US App Store for at least another 75 days. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Z-Wave, popular among smart home enthusiasts, becomes an open-source protocol with a new long-range technology as it seeks Matter support to avoid obsolescence  —  Now an open-source protocol and with a new long-range technology, the path forward for Z-Wave looks clearer, with a little help from Matter. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: How Apple may adjust to the US tariffs; sources: the iPhone 17 Pro’s camera panel will span the width of the phone and will be the same color as the device  —  After years of avoiding iPhone price hikes in the US, Apple could finally be forced to to make increases. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: A look at the US market for humanoids in homes and businesses; PitchBook says investors have poured $7.2B into 50+ startups since 2015, including $1.6B in 2024  —  By getting its humanoids into people’s homes, 1X hopes to gather enormous amounts of data that can show these robots how to handle … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emilia David / VentureBeat: Anthropic’s Alignment Science team: “legibility” or “faithfulness” of reasoning models’ Chain-of-Thought can’t be trusted and models may actively hide reasoning  —  We now live in the era of reasoning AI models where the large language model (LLM) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Analysis: newly announced US tariffs for goods from China could raise the bill of materials for the iPhone 16 Pro with 256GB of storage from ~$550 to ~$850  —  This is what the company pays for components inside its bestselling phone, and how Trump’s China tariffs could raise the bill. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Blanchard / Reuters: Foxconn reports Q1 revenue up 24.2% YoY to $49.5B, driven by AI demand, but says the impact of evolving global political conditions will need “close monitoring”  —  Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, posted its highest first-quarter revenue ever … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post: DeepSeek and Tsinghua University researchers detail an approach combining reasoning methods to let LLMs deliver better and faster results to general queries  —  In collaboration with Tsinghua University, DeepSeek developed a technique combining reasoning methods to guide AI models towards human preferences Lees verder op Tech Meme