Financial Times: Sources: the EU will impose minimal fines on Apple and Meta next week, far below the DMA’s 10% of global turnover cap, to avoid tensions with President Trump  —  Brussels to push ahead with enforcing digital rules on Big Tech groups but with low financial penalties for breaches Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy on working at Bell Labs and Google, building Neeva, Snowflake’s business model and its approach to AI, and more  —  This week’s Stratechery Interview is with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy.  Ramaswamy started his career at Bell Labs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: PUBG developer Krafton acquires a “north of 75% stake” in Pune-based gaming studio Nautilus Mobile for $14M in an all-cash deal, its first acquisition in India  —  Krafton, South Korea’s gaming giant known for titles including PUBG: Battlegrounds and Battlegrounds Mobile India … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Wilson / Fast Company: A look at Archetype, whose AI model Newton is trained to analyze output from sensors monitoring the physical world, including cities and factories  —  What happens when you feed an AI countless scientific readings?  It learns physics, and how the world itself works. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Satviki Sanjay / Bloomberg: EY: Indians collectively spent 1.1T hours on their smartphones in 2024, averaging five hours daily, with ~70% of the time on social media, gaming, and videos  —  Indians collectively spent 1.1 trillion hours staring at their smartphones in 2024, according to management consultant EY … Lees verder op Tech Meme