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

CyberScoop: Experts say Donald Trump and others pushing for stronger US cyber offense must clarify if escalation is a proper response to recent Chinese cyber breaches  —  Learn more.  —  In recent months, incoming Trump administration national security adviser Mike Waltz and some lawmakers have suggested … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Information: Sources: TikTok plans to block access to its app for US users on Jan. 19 unless SCOTUS stops the ban; one source says a pop-up message will give users more info  —  TikTok plans to shut off its app for U.S. users on Sunday, the day a federal law will ban the app, unless the Supreme Court intervenes … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Laura Bratton / Yahoo Finance: Quantum computing stocks rebound after a massive sell-off fueled by skeptical comments from Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg about the timeline for the tech  —  Quantum computing stocks rebounded Tuesday afternoon after a massive sell-off fueled by Big Tech CEOs expressing skepticism … 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

Reuters: Apple and Amazon fight off a UK lawsuit filed on behalf of ~36M consumers alleging they colluded to bar most resellers of Apple and Beats products on Amazon  —  Apple (AAPL.O) and Amazon (AMZN.O) have successfully fought off a mass lawsuit in Britain over alleged collusion between the tech giants … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Elmsford, NY-based quantum computing startup SEEQC raised a $30M Series A extension co-led by Booz Allen and NordicNinja, following a $22.4M Series A in 2020  —  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may have said that “very useful quantum computers” are probably still 20 years away … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNET: Red Hat acquires Neural Magic, which has built tools to boost generative AI inference workloads and raised $50M from a16z and others, for an undisclosed sum  —  Red Hat, the IBM-owned open-source software giant, has completed its acquisition of Neural Magic, a pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) optimization startup. 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