Tech Meme

Henry Chandonnet / Fast Company: An interview with Twitch CEO Dan Clancy on competition with YouTube and Kick, exclusivity contracts, content moderation, Twitch’s expansion plans, and more  —  Business leaders are often reluctant to speak about their competition.  It’s rare that you’ll hear Netflix’s Ted Sarandos talk about Disney+ … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Darren Loucaides / Wired: A look at Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s arrest in Paris and its aftermath; a source says more than half of Telegram’s $1B revenue in 2024 came from its ad platform  —  The Russian-born CEO styles himself as a free-speech crusader and a scourge of the surveillance state. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman poaches three Google DeepMind former colleagues, including two who built NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews and worked on Astra  —  Rival companies in fierce battle for talent in race to build powerful artificial intelligence ‘agents’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman poaches three Google DeepMind former colleagues, including two who built NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews and worked on Astra  —  Rival companies in fierce battle for talent in race to build powerful artificial intelligence ‘agents’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikkei Asia: Worldpay: cash will make up 14% of transactions in Asia by 2027, down from 49% in 2019, driven by the adoption of QR codes and other smartphone-based payments  —  SINGAPORE/MUMBAI — Cash is rapidly disappearing in consumer transactions across Asia, replaced by QR codes and other smartphone-based technologies. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: LatticeFlow AI, which measures the regulatory compliance of AI models, says DeepSeek’s R1 ranks the lowest in cybersecurity among leading AI models  —  The model that shocked Silicon Valley by doing more with less might be doing too little on safety.  That could hurt its business prospects. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources say the focus of the AI Action Summit in Paris on February 10 and February 11 will be on seeking a global consensus on AI principles, not new regulation  —  All eyes are on the French capital next week to see if U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration can find common ground … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Patpicha Tanakasempipat / Bloomberg: Thailand cuts power, internet, and fuel supplies to parts of Myanmar suspected of housing online scam centers, ahead of PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s China visit  —  – Move comes ahead of Thai PM’s meeting with Xi Jinping Thursday  — Scam operations in neighboring country hurt tourism, PM says Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: How India kept its satellite internet market closed to Starlink, Amazon, and more, despite poor rural connectivity; a regulator is set to publish rules in 2025  —  As global resistance to Starlink dies down, Elon Musk wants to beam connectivity across the world’s most populous country. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christopher Grimes / Financial Times: Netflix hopes its expansion into live programming boosts its nascent ad business; Bernstein estimates its two NFL games generated up to $180M in US advertising  —  Streaming group hopes boxing, wrestling and other events can also boost nascent advertising business Lees verder op Tech Meme