Tech Meme

Thomas Escritt / Reuters: A German court rules that X must provide researchers access to data for tracking misinformation and disinformation ahead of Germany’s national election  —  Elon Musk’s social media platform X must release information enabling researchers to track the spread of election-swaying information on the network, a German court ruled on Friday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Uber’s stock jumps 7%+ after Bill Ackman disclosed that his hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management owns 30.3M shares; Pershing started buying in January  —  Bill Ackman said his hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management owns 30.3 million shares of Uber Technologies Inc. … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Billy Perrigo / Time: YouGov: 87% of Britons would back a law requiring developers to prove their AI tools are safe before release and 60% support banning “smarter-than-human” models  —  Even as Silicon Valley races to build more powerful artificial intelligence models, public opinion on the other side … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Meta and UNESCO launch the Language Technology Partner Program to collect speech recordings and transcriptions to aid the development of openly available AI  —  Meta is launching a new program in partnership with UNESCO to collect speech recordings and transcriptions the company said will help … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: WBD took $300M in gaming writedowns in 2024; current and former staff blame a lack of a strong, cohesive vision during former games chief David Haddad’s tenure  —  Last year, Warner Bros. Discovery took $300 million in losses on gaming.  The near future is rife with additional challenges. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Google edited Gemini’s response in a Super Bowl commercial to remove an incorrect statistic about Gouda cheese, regurgitated from seeming SEO-optimized blogs  —  Gemini’s response no longer says that Gouda makes up ’50 to 60 percent of the world’s cheese consumption.’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of $20B+, up from a $5B valuation from its September funding round  —  Safe Superintelligence, an artificial intelligence startup co-founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever last year … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dominique Vidalon / Reuters: Paris prosecutors open a probe into X over alleged algorithmic distortions, after an MP’s complaint that X was using biased algorithms  —  Paris prosecutors have opened a probe into Elon Musk’s X social media over alleged algorithmic distortions, Franceinfo reports on Friday, citing the prosecutors’ office. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta reported a combined $246B capex in 2024, up 63% YoY from $151B, and forecast that their 2025 spending could exceed $320B  —  Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Alphabet forecast massive capital expenditure despite investor concerns about returns and DeepSeek Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: the UK used Snoopers’ Charter to send a “technical capability notice” to Apple; notice recipients aren’t allowed to warn users of weakened security  —  British government orders US tech group to grant secret access to its customers’ accounts Lees verder op Tech Meme