Tech Meme

Scott Rosenberg / Axios: Anthropic debuts Anthropic Economic Index to track AI’s impact by analyzing Claude usage data, showing AI use leans 57% for augmentation vs. 43% for automation  —  The more information AI makers share with the world, the better we’ll be able to understand how the new technology is changing our lives. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Mangan / CNBC: An Alabama man pleads guilty in relation to the SIM-swap hack of the US SEC’s X account, to falsely claim in January 2024 the agency had approved bitcoin ETFs  —  An Alabama man pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C., in connection with last year’s hack of the U.S. Securities … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Google brings NotebookLM Plus, its AI research assistant tier with higher usage limits, to Google One AI Premium subscribers, and debuts a 50% student discount  —  Google has expanded NotebookLM Plus, a paid version of its AI-based note-taking and research assistant, to individual users subscribed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan O’Shea / Fierce Electronics: Netherlands-based NXP Semiconductors announces a $307M deal to acquire US-based Kinara, which makes NPUs and related software for edge AI applications  —  NXP Semiconductors Neural Processing Unit edge AI artificial intelligence (AI)  —  NXP Semiconductors announced its third acquisition … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Umar Shakir / The Verge: Google Maps now shows “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico” for users in the US; users in Mexico see “Gulf of Mexico”, and everyone else sees both names  —  Google has officially renamed the Gulf of Mexico for US users. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: Nineteen US states have bills weighing putting public money into crypto; Michigan and Wisconsin already have crypto in their public employees’ retirement funds  —  Nineteen U.S. states are weighing bills to put public money into digital assets, some of them similar to the federal pursuit of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Investors led by Elon Musk make an unsolicited $97.4B bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating Sam Altman’s plans to convert to a for-profit  —  Unsolicited offer complicates Sam Altman’s plans to convert OpenAI to a for-profit company — A consortium of investors led … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: on February 7, DOGE staff gained access to all the CFPB’s data systems, which hold potentially competitive info that may be useful to X’s payments push  —  Government-efficiency team’s initial ‘read-only’ access expanded quickly to encompass closely guarded data, internal emails say Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says DeepSeek’s $5.6M training cost claim is “exaggerated and a little bit misleading” and a “fraction of the total cost”  —  DeepSeek Ramps Up Hiring for Arcane AI Field as Ambitions Swell  —  Mistral CEO Plans to Raise More Funds to Back AI Data Center Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: Nineteen US states have bills to invest public money in crypto, many focus on retirement funds; MI, WI already have crypto in public employees’ retirement funds  —  Nineteen U.S. states are weighing bills to put public money into digital assets, some of them similar to the federal pursuit of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. Lees verder op Tech Meme