Reuters: Paris AI summit: US VP JD Vance warns the EU that excessive AI regulation could strangle the tech and rejects content moderation as “authoritarian censorship” — U.S. Vice President JD Vance warned Europeans on Tuesday that what he called their excessive regulation … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Wall Street Journal: At the AI Action Summit in Paris, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the bloc plans to mobilize €200B to invest in AI to catch the US and China — The announcement underscores efforts from the EU to position itself as a key player in the AI race Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: How TSMC and Taiwan are rushing to avoid Trump’s tariffs, as TSMC’s board meets in Arizona for the first time; Trump has said TSMC “stole” the US’ chip business — US president’s complaints threaten top chipmaker’s business model and east Asian country’s security Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: A profile of Tom Krause, the CEO of Cloud Software Group, which runs government software security company Citrix, as he works with DOGE to cut federal staff — Tech CEO Tom Krause dismissed engineers and slashed expenses after the remote-work company’s leveraged buyout. His company says defenses improved. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Dan Mangan / CNBC: An Alabama man pleads guilty over the SIM-swap hack of the US SEC’s X account, which falsely claimed in January 2024 that the agency had approved bitcoin ETFs — An Alabama man pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C., in connection with last year’s hack of the U.S. Securities … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Lyft says it will launch a fleet of robotaxis using Intel’s Mobileye self-driving tech in Dallas “as soon as 2026”, and scale to “thousands” in more markets — Lyft is working with Mobileye and Japanese conglomerate Marubeni to manage the fleet. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Karoline Kan / Bloomberg: Huawei’s Watch D2 sees a sales bump in China after users discovered it can be registered as a medical device, letting them purchase the D2 via medical insurance — After the launch of Huawei’s new Watch D2 smartwatch in November, buyers discovered they can charge it to their medical insurance rather than paying for it themselves. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Steve Nadis / Quanta Magazine: In a January paper, three computer scientists presented a faster hash table, one of the oldest data structures, disproving a 40-year-old data science conjecture — Together, Krapivin (now a graduate student at the University of Cambridge), Farach-Colton (now at New York University) … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: Cybereason CEO Eric Gan sues investors Steven Mnuchin and SoftBank Vision Fund, alleging they put Cybereason at risk of bankruptcy by blocking fundraising plans — – Firm faces bankruptcy unless it raises money fast, CEO says — SoftBank fund says lawsuit has ‘no merit,’ will fight claims Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: Nineteen US states are weighing bills to put public money into crypto; Michigan and Wisconsin already have crypto in their public employees’ retirement funds — Nineteen U.S. states are weighing bills to put public money into digital assets, some of them similar to the federal pursuit of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. Lees verder op Tech Meme