Tech Meme

Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: Data from crypto security company Coinkite shows that 78 listed companies globally are following Strategy’s example in buying bitcoin to hold in place of cash  —  Firms buy ‘kryptonite for short sellers’ as they try to emulate US software group’s success  —  Software business-turned-bitcoin … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Edison: despite Spotify’s video push, only two of the top 10 US podcasts post videos on Spotify; 37 of the top 50 US podcasts regularly post videos on YouTube  —  Popular programs like New Heights and Club Shay Shay have yet to put their videos on the streaming service  —  Hello, and welcome back to Soundbite. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: A look at WikiTok, a site that lets users vertically swipe through an endless stream of random Wikipedia article stubs without an algorithm that tracks the user  —  On Wednesday, a New York-based app developer named Isaac Gemal debuted a new site called WikiTok, where users can vertically swipe through … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: T-Mobile’s satellite texting feature, currently in beta and powered by SpaceX’s Starlink, will cost customers $15/month starting in July for users on most plans  —  – Anticipated upgrade goes into a free beta period until July … The service is in beta mode now and users can sign up online to participate … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alice Robb / Bloomberg: A look at the debate over how much authors should get paid for licensing books to train AI; Microsoft offered HarperCollins $5K/title, of which authors get 50%  —  Most experts agree that tech companies should pay creators whose work is used to train artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Macron announces that companies have agreed to invest €109B in AI projects in France in the coming years, saying it’s France’s equivalent to Stargate for the US  —  French president speaks ahead of AI summit in Paris involving executives such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: TrendForce: China’s share of global mature node manufacturing capacity in 2024 was 34%, vs. Taiwan’s 43%; China’s share is forecasted to exceed Taiwan’s by 2027  —  When Taiwan’s Powerchip Technology entered a deal with the eastern Chinese city of Hefei in 2015 to set up a new chip foundry … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: How DeepSeek’s R1 led to more chatbots’ “chains of thought” being shown to users; an expert says seeing a chatbot’s supposed inner monologue can trigger empathy  —  How Chinese start-up DeepSeek triggered a rush to launch chatbots that “reason.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Macron announces that companies have agreed to invest €109B in AI projects in France in the coming years, saying it’s France’s equivalent to Stargate for the US  —  French president speaks ahead of AI summit in Paris involving executives such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: T-Mobile’s satellite texting feature, currently in beta and powered by Starlink, will cost customers $15/month starting in July for users on most plans  —  – Anticipated upgrade goes into a free beta period until July … The service is in beta mode now and users can sign up online to participate … Lees verder op Tech Meme