Bloomberg: Preqin data: Southeast Asia’s AI startups raised just $1.7B across 122 deals so far in 2024, out of ~$20B across 1,845 deals for the whole Asia-Pacific region  —  – While global tech expands in the region, its startups languish  — Its homegrown tech industry risks falling behind in AI Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: How Britannica survived the Wikipedia era by changing itself into a maker of education software and AI agents, as it reportedly weighs an IPO at a $1B valuation  —  The encyclopedia maker could have become a casualty of the Wikipedia era.  But it has remade itself into a digital learning giant that is weighing going public. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Esha Dey / Bloomberg: Tesla’s shares are up 73% since Election Day, as several analysts see the Trump administration easing rules for self-driving tech, benefiting Tesla’s ambitions  —  – Stock was down 2% before election, gains 73% since Trump’s win  — ‘Hard to imagine an upside’ from here: Wisdomtree’s Gannatti Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool’s errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing  —  Investment, more than export controls, will keep the U.S. ahead of Beijing, Commerce secretary says Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paresh Dave / Wired: Google says it wouldn’t force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy  —  Google dominated the last era of search.  Now the company and the US Justice Department are battling over how to set a fair playing field for generative AI. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Satviki Sanjay / Bloomberg: A look at India’s quick food delivery market as Swiggy and Zomato enter the sector; report: online food delivery market in India to reach $15B by March 2029  —  – Zomato, Swiggy among those who now have quick food delivery  — Some social media users have voiced concerns on food quality Lees verder op Tech Meme

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: Exploring the scaling challenges of transformer-based LLMs in efficiently processing large amounts of text, as well as potential solutions, such as RAG systems  —  Large language models represent text using tokens, each of which is a few characters.  Short words are represented by a single token … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: The US NHTSA suggests easing rules allowing for fully driverless cars and urges companies operating driverless cars to share more data for greater transparency  —  But there’s a twist: the agency wants self-driving car companies to cough up more data. Lees verder op Tech Meme