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, allowing it to be purchased 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

Bloomberg: Cybereason CEO sues investors Steven Mnuchin and SoftBank Vision Fund, accusing them of putting Cybereason at risk of bankruptcy by blocking fund raising 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

The Logic: Source: Shopify tells support staff to give “no comment” if merchant clients asked about Kanye West using its tech to sell a T-shirt with a Nazi swastika  —  One former Shopify employee told The Logic it was ‘heartbreaking to see your life’s work perverted by full-on friggin’ Nazis’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Hill: In response to the $97.4B OpenAI bid, Sam Altman says on X “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want”; Elon Musk replies “swindler”  —  OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman appeared to shut down a reported offer from an investor group led … Lees verder op Tech Meme

CNBC: Investors behind the $97.4B OpenAI bid include xAI, Baron Capital, Valor, Atreides, Vy Capital, Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, and an investment vehicle led by Ari Emanuel  —  Elon Musk is leading a group of investors in offering to buy control of OpenAI for $97.4 billion, CNBC confirmed. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anna Washenko / Engadget: Discord unveils Ignore, a feature that lets users hide new messages, DMs, server notifications, profiles, and activity from selected users without alerting them  —  Take a break from other accounts without alerting them.  —  Social platform Discord announced a new feature today called Ignore. 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

Kalley Huang / The Information: Memo: Meta’s privacy teams will have less authority to delay product launches and Meta will review prior decisions, as some practices have become “risk-averse”  —  Meta Platforms has erected guardrails around how it develops new products over the past decade to better protect … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Scott Rosenberg / Axios: Anthropic debuts Anthropic Economic Index to track AI’s impact by analyzing Claude usage data, showing AI use leans 57% for augmentation vs. 43% for automation  —  The more information AI makers share with the world, the better we’ll be able to understand how the new technology is changing our lives. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Mangan / CNBC: An Alabama man pleads guilty in relation to the SIM-swap hack of the US SEC’s X account, to falsely claim in January 2024 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