Tech Meme

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The EU commission approves Nvidia’s acquisition of Israeli AI workload management startup Run:ai, saying the takeover raises no competition concerns in the EU  —  – EU says the deal won’t hamper competition in key market  — Run:ai has been a close collaborator with Nvidia since 2020 Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bobby Allyn / NPR: Q&A with Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant on what led to the country’s under-16 social media ban, enforcement, unintended consequences, more  —  Australia passed one of the strictest internet crackdowns in the world last month, banning children under 16 from being on social media or opening new accounts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Crypto executives worry that the EU’s MiCA, which puts stringent conditions on crypto exchanges to list stablecoins like USDT, will drain liquidity from markets  —  – Executives are concerned that removing USDT will sap liquidity  —  European Union cryptoasset regulations set to take full force … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: SAP promoted a team lead accused by five female staff of targeting female subordinates, raising concerns about company culture and workplace discrimination  —  Women who worked for a team lead at the tech giant’s Signavio unit say that the company failed to address complaints of bullying and discrimination. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sony’s shares in Japan surged 50%+ from an August low to reach its new all-time high since 2000 last week, as investors are bullish on its gaming growth in 2025  —  – Next year ‘one of the greatest’ for video games: Smithers  — M&A and good management boost stock’s appeal: Janus Henderson Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: SAP promoted a team lead five female staff allege has a pattern of targeting female reports, raising questions about its culture and workplace discrimination  —  Women who worked for a team lead at the tech giant’s Signavio unit say that the company failed to address complaints of bullying and discrimination. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sony shares surged ~50% from an August trough to reach an all-time high last week, as investors are bullish on Sony’s gaming business growth in 2025  —  – Next year ‘one of the greatest’ for video games: Smithers  — M&A and good management boost stock’s appeal: Janus Henderson Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yantoultra Ngui / Reuters: Singapore-based bolttech, a B2B2C startup that offers “embedded” insurance products, raised a $100M+ Series C led by Dragon Fund at a $2.1B valuation  —  Singapore-headquartered insurance technology firm bolttech has raised more than $100 million in its latest funding round … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Sources: Anysphere, developer of GitHub Copilot rival Cursor, raised a $100M Series B at a $2.6B valuation, up from a $400M valuation in August 2024  —  Anysphere, the developer of AI-powered coding assistant Cursor, raised $100 million Series B at a post-money valuation of $2.6 billion, according to sources with knowledge of the deal. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: Apple researchers say the company’s open-source ReDrafter method on Nvidia GPUs led to a 2.7x speed increase in generated tokens per second for greedy encoding  —  Apple’s latest machine learning research could make creating models for Apple Intelligence faster, by coming up with a technique … Lees verder op Tech Meme