Tech Meme

Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: Data from crypto security company Coinkite shows 78 listed companies globally are following MicroStrategy’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

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Christie’s plans to hold its first AI art auction beginning February 20; critics say the sale elevates AI tools trained on artists’ works without their consent  —  Fine art auction house, Christie’s, has sold AI-generated art before.  But soon, it plans to hold its first show dedicated solely … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adam Starkey / Metro.co.uk: Take-Two estimates that 94M+ current generation consoles, excluding Nintendo Switch, were sold as of November 2024, implying sales of ~28.5M for Xbox Series X/S  —  Sales figures from Take-Two have unintentionally revealed the divide between the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, and it isn’t looking good for Microsoft. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: PitchBook: almost 66% of VC funding in Europe came from abroad in 2024; no European company with €100B+ in market cap has been built from scratch in 30 years  —  A fractured system is frustrating businesses and hurting the economy.  —  The natural location for UK payments firm Zilch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: PitchBook: almost 66% of VC funding in Europe came from abroad in 2024; no European company with €100B+ in market cap has been built from scratch in 30 years  —  A fractured system is frustrating businesses and hurting the economy.  —  The natural location for UK payments firm Zilch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: PitchBook: almost 66% of VC funding in Europe came from abroad in 2024; no European company with €100B+ in market cap has been built from scratch in 30 years  —  A fractured system is frustrating businesses and hurting the economy.  —  The natural location for UK payments firm Zilch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: PitchBook: almost 66% of VC funding in Europe came from abroad in 2024; no European company with €100B+ in market cap has been built from scratch in 30 years  —  A fractured system is frustrating businesses and hurting the economy.  —  The natural location for UK payments firm Zilch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Viola Zhou / Rest of World: DeepSeek recruiting recent graduates from China’s top universities reflects a growing trend among the country’s top AI talent to pursue opportunities at home  —  Young Chinese engineers focus on homegrown innovation, drawn by fewer visa hurdles and the chance to build a future on their own terms. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: PitchBook: almost 66% of VC funding in Europe came from abroad in 2024; no European company with €100B+ in market cap has been built from scratch in 30 years  —  A fractured system is frustrating businesses and hurting the economy.  —  The natural location for UK payments firm Zilch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review: Meta shares work on a system that uses a magnetic scanner and a deep neural network to analyze brain signals and identify which keys people pressed while typing  —  Back in 2017, Facebook unveiled plans for a brain-reading hat that you could use to text just by thinking. Lees verder op Tech Meme