Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Amazon is testing a Buy for Me button powered by agentic AI that will let users purchase products from third-party websites without leaving Amazon’s app  —  Amazon wants to use agentic AI to provide third-party websites with your payment information and shipping details. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Euractiv: France says a second EU response to Trump’s tariffs will cover digital services, including those provided by Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft  —  “We won’t stand idly by, should we be unable to reach a fair deal,” EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič said. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Google DeepMind outlines its approach to AGI safety in four key areas of risk: misuse, misalignment, mistakes, and structural risks, focusing on the first two  —  Google Deepmind has published a comprehensive strategy paper detailing its approach to developing safe artificial general intelligence (AGI). Lees verder op Tech Meme

Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: Intel and TSMC have reached a preliminary agreement for a joint venture to operate Intel’s chipmaking facilities, with TSMC taking a 20% stake  —  Intel’s financial crisis may be over—with support from its biggest rival.  —  Executives from Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Taylor Lorenz / User Mag: YouTube quietly removed “gender identity” from its hate speech policy after Trump took office; Google says enforcement of the policy remains unchanged  —  TariffTokers, Gen Z’s ‘it couple’, Easter potatoes, anti-MAGA hats, Zuck’s D.C. mansion, Amazon’s TikTok bid, Silicon Valley’s cupid … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Nvidia says its custom processor for Nintendo’s Switch 2 has “dedicated RT Cores and Tensor Cores,” enabling DLSS support and real-time ray tracing on Switch 2  —  Nintendo hasn’t revealed the full Switch 2 specs, but Nvidia is providing a few more details about the power of this new console. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Portland-based Hydrolix, a data lake service that offers a repository for log data, raised an $80M Series C led by QED, bringing its total raised to $148M  —  GeekWire’s startup coverage documents the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial scene.  Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: Sources: Oracle told some clients this week that hackers stole old login credentials, the second breach that Oracle acknowledged to clients in the past month  —  – FBI investigating the breach, software company told clients  — Oracle informed health-care customers of separate March hack Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dominic Preston / The Verge: The White House appears to have used an oversimplified calculation that several major AI chatbots recommend to calculate reciprocal tariffs  —  ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude all recommend the same “nonsense” tariff calculation. … When President Donald Trump began yesterday’s announcement … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI says 130M+ ChatGPT users have generated 700M+ images since the feature’s March 25 launch, and India is now the fastest-growing ChatGPT market  —  OpenAI’s new image-generation feature is on track to be one of the company’s most popular product launches ever. Lees verder op Tech Meme