Bloomberg: US v. Google: DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg testifies that Chrome is worth “upwards of $50B if it went on the market” based on “back-of-the-envelope” math — – DuckDuckGo CEO estimated potential sale price at DOJ hearing — Justice Department has asked that court order Chrome’s sale Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ryan Browne / CNBC: Revolut reports 2024 revenue up 72% YoY to £3.1B, net profit up 149% YoY to £1.1B, and wealth unit revenue up 298% YoY to £506M; its loan book grew 86% to £979M — LONDON — British fintech firm Revolut on Thursday announced it topped $1 billion in annual profit for the first time … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Nathan Vifflin / Reuters: STMicro reports Q1 revenue down 27.3% YoY to $2.52B, below its $2.51B guidance, and projects Q2 revenue down 16.2% YoY to $2.71B, excluding any tariff changes — STMicroelectronics (STMPA.PA) forecast improving sales for the second quarter on Thursday after its first-quarter result … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Naomi Nix / Washington Post: Meta’s Oversight Board rules that two posts disparaging trans women are not hate speech, in the first major test since Meta weakened its rules in January 2025 — Meta’s top public policy officials issued an unexpected warning last year to the company’s Oversight Board: Two upcoming cases … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Reece Rogers / Wired: Q&A with Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, on the SHADES dataset, designed to test AI models for bias in languages beyond English — Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, tells WIRED about a new dataset designed to test AI models for bias in multiple languages. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: İFÖD: Bluesky restricted access to 72 accounts in Turkey at the government’s request; the accounts are available on third-party apps using the AT Protocol — Government censorship has found its way to Bluesky, but there’s currently a loophole thanks to how the social network is structured. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: A look at the collapse of Stenn, an invoice financing startup that got major banks to unwittingly fund millions in suspect payments and was last valued at $900M — Big banks like Citigroup and Natixis thought they were backing a $1 billion fintech darling. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: Microsoft’s 2025 Work Trend Index report, based on a survey of 31,000 people, argues that “Frontier Firms” utilizing agentic AI as digital workers are emerging — As enterprises adopt AI agents and digital workers, companies’ success may depend on the human-agent ratio and how workflows are managed. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Victoria Song / The Verge: Hands-on with Cluely’s “cheat on everything” tool: the AI can’t intuit what the user needs despite being given prior context and takes long to give a response — Tech evangelists have been yammering about “working smarter, not harder” for years. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: Hackers have been using hijacked online brokerage accounts in Japan to drive up penny stocks globally in an illicit $700M trading spree since February 2025 — Criminals target Japanese online trading accounts to drive up penny stocks — Criminals are hijacking online brokerage accounts … Lees verder op Tech Meme