Tech Meme

Ayush Tiwari / Scroll.in: A look at the online scam industry in Southeast Asia and how Indians became its targets; 2,358 Indians were rescued from scam compounds between 2022 and 2024  —  Essential background on how the online scam industry sprung up and evolved – and how Indians became its targets. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: DeepSeek is supercharging the debate over how much US companies should share about their AI breakthroughs, many of which have been detailed in scientific papers  —  DeepSeek is supercharging the debate over how much companies should share their AI knowledge Lees verder op Tech Meme

Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: Instagram and Facebook, which blocked news links in Canada, are hosting hundreds of scam ads pretending to be from news outlets ahead of Canadian elections  —  – Images of public figures and billionaire used in fake ads  — Bogus ads fuel foreign interference fear before election Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: MLCommons and Hugging Face release Unsupervised People’s Speech, a dataset for AI research containing more than 1M hours of audio spanning at least 89 languages  —  MLCommons, a nonprofit AI safety working group, has teamed up with AI dev platform Hugging Face to release … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: California DMV: a total of 4.5M autonomous vehicle test miles were logged in 2024, down 50% YoY, with driverless testing falling 83% YoY to just 552,895 miles  —  Tech companies developing self-driving vehicle technology have tapped the brakes on testing on California’s public roads … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: Appfigures: DeepSeek has topped the list of the most downloaded mobile apps across 140 markets, with India accounting for 15.6% of all downloads since launch  —  – The chatbot is most-downloaded app across Android and iPhone  — Chinese startup has upended thinking about AI development Lees verder op Tech Meme

MK Manoylov / The Block: Web3 domain infrastructure firm D3 Global raised a $25M Series A led by Paradigm, and plans to launch a decentralized network called Doma Protocol  —  – D3 Global is building tools for domain-based lending, fractional ownership, digital identity and other financial use cases. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Daniel Kuhn / The Block: Coinbase acquires Spindl, the on-chain advertising platform founded by Antonio Garcia-Martinez, an ex-Facebook staffer and the author of the book Chaos Monkeys  —  – Coinbase has acquired Spindl, the onchain advertising platform founded by famous tech commentator Antonio Garcia-Martinez. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Information: OpenAI told some shareholders ChatGPT had 15.5M paid subscribers in 2024, up from 5.8M in 2023, and usage of OpenAI’s API increased seven times  —  Paid subscribers to ChatGPT nearly tripled to 15.5 million last year from 5.8 million a year earlier, OpenAI recently told some shareholders … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: When asked in an AMA if OpenAI would release model weights and research, Sam Altman said “we are discussing” and “it’s also not our current highest priority”  —  CEO of the ChatGPT maker says his company has been ‘on the wrong side of history’ with open-source software Lees verder op Tech Meme