Tech Meme

Scott Rosenberg / Axios: Anthropic launches Anthropic Economic Index to track AI’s impact by analyzing Claude usage data, showing 57% of AI use leans toward augmentation vs. 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

Kevin Roose / New York Times: Paris AI summit takeaways: Europe has regulation regrets, AI doomsayers have lost ground, and policymakers can’t seem to grasp how soon powerful AI could arrive  —  At times, Kevin Roose writes, it feels like he is watching policymakers on horseback trying to install seatbelts on a passing Lamborghini. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A group of investors led by Elon Musk makes an unsolicited $97.4B offer to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating Sam Altman’s plans for OpenAI  —  Unsolicited offer complicates Sam Altman’s plans to convert OpenAI to a for-profit company — A consortium of investors led … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: late on Friday night DOGE staffers gained access to all of the CFPB’s data systems, which hold confidential info potentially pertaining to X’s rivals  —  Government-efficiency team’s initial ‘read-only’ access expanded quickly to encompass closely guarded data, internal emails say Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan O’Shea / Fierce Electronics: NXP Semiconductors announces a $307M deal to acquire Kinara, which makes NPUs and related software for edge AI applications  —  NXP Semiconductors Neural Processing Unit edge AI artificial intelligence (AI)  —  NXP Semiconductors announced its third acquisition in as many months … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Lyft says it will launch a fleet of robotaxis, using self-driving tech from Intel’s Mobileye, in Dallas “as soon as 2026”  —  Lyft is working with Mobileye and Japanese conglomerate Marubeni to manage the fleet.  —  Lyft is working with Mobileye and Japanese conglomerate Marubeni to manage the fleet. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kalley Huang / The Information: A memo at Meta states privacy teams will have less authority to delay products and previous privacy decisions will be reviewed, as some are overly “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 launches the Anthropic Economic Index to track AI’s impact by analyzing anonymized Claude usage data, showing 57% of AI use leans toward augmentation  —  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

Bloomberg: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says DeepSeek’s $6M training cost claim is “exaggerated and a little bit misleading” and a “fraction of the total cost”  —  The notion that China’s DeepSeek spent under $6 million to develop its artificial intelligence system is … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anna Washenko / Engadget: Discord announces Ignore, letting users hide any 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