Bradley Hope / Wired: A profile of Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan, the chess-obsessed intelligence chief who oversees UAE’s $1.5T sovereign wealth and wants to make UAE an AI superpower  —  Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan—the UAE’s chess-obsessed, jiujitsu-loving intelligence chief—controls vast sums of sovereign wealth. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matthew Ball / MatthewBall.co: An in-depth look at the state of video gaming in 2025, including why gaming soared from 2011-2021 then stalled, China’s global rise, and mobile gaming growth  —  Please note, this deck is in Early Access and will release in PDF shortly.  There are two versions below based on your preference … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Synthesia, a London-based B2B startup building products around highly realistic AI avatar technology, raised a $180M Series D led by NEA at a $2.1B valuation  —  As the world continues to work through how to handle the explosion of deepfake content online, it seems that not all AI-created videos are stirring controversy. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sifted: Report: UK startups raised €16.4B in 2024, Germany raised €9.4B, France raised €7.1B; investment in French AI startups grew from €1B in 2023 to €1.9B in 2024  —  Investment in French artificial intelligence companies almost doubled last year but still lags behind … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Tether plans to relocate its corporate entity and subsidiaries to El Salvador after obtaining a digital asset service provider license in the country  —  – Company and all subsidiaries will relocate to El Salvador  — Stablecoin firm incorporated in the British Virgin Islands Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikkei Asia: Analysis: the ten leading chip companies cut their fiscal 2024 capex by a combined $9.5B from initial plans due to a weakening demand for smartphones and EVs  —  TOKYO/SEOUL — The 10 leading global semiconductor companies are cutting capital spending from initial plans in the face … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: PUBG developer Krafton, whose Seoul-listed shares are up more than 70% since early 2024, plans to invest over $136M in 2025 in more than a dozen game studios  —  – Krafton CEO sets aside $136 million for new studio investments  — Company working with Nvidia on AI-powered game characters Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: LemFi, a financial and payment services platform designed for immigrants that claims to have over 1M active users, raised a $53M Series B led by Highland Europe  —  For many emerging market economies, remittances have become a lifeline.  Inflows surpassed $669 billion in 2023 … Lees verder op Tech Meme