Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: SoftBank, which sources say is in talks to invest $15B-$25B in OpenAI and $18B in Stargate, could borrow against its $140B+ Arm stake to fund the investments  —  Japanese conglomerate is in talks to spend up to $43 billion to boost the ChatGPT developer  —  In his newly built palace near Tokyo … Lees verder op Tech Meme

VideoCardz.com: Nvidia updates its PC app and rolls out the new GPU drivers, bringing Multi Frame Generation to RTX 50 Series GPUs and DLSS transformer models to all RTX GPUs  —  NVIDIA DLSS4 released, Override feature now available  —  Following the launch of the GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

William J. Broad / New York Times: A profile of incoming White House OSTP director Michael Kratsios, who lacks a STEM degree and led the American AI Initiative during President Trump’s first term  —  Michael Kratsios, who served in the White House and Defense Department in the first Trump administration, is a policy specialist on artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: The Allen Institute for AI releases Tulu 3 405B, an open source model that it claims outperforms DeepSeek V3 and OpenAI’s GPT-4o on certain benchmarks  —  Move over, DeepSeek.  There’s a new AI champion in town — and they’re American.  —  On Thursday, Ai2, a nonprofit AI research institute based … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Tel Aviv-based Oligo Security, which offers cybersecurity tools for enterprises to monitor their applications, raised a $50M Series B led by Greenfield Partners  —  Cybersecurity startup Oligo Security Ltd. today announced that it has closed a $50 million funding round led by Greenfield Partners. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: US officials are investigating whether DeepSeek bought advanced Nvidia chips from third parties in Singapore, circumventing US restrictions on AI chips  —  – Nvidia says it ‘insists’ that customers comply with laws  — Singapore accounts for about 20% of Nvidia’s revenue Lees verder op Tech Meme

Business Insider: In a leaked recording of an all-hands meeting, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta was slow to respond to TikTok’s rise because “we didn’t think TikTok was social”  —  – Mark Zuckerberg addressed several recent policy changes in a company all-hands meeting on Thursday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Samsung’s 8-layer HBM3E was cleared by Nvidia in December for use in Nvidia’s less powerful AI processors tailored for the Chinese market  —  – Company’s 8-layer HBM3E was cleared by Nvidia in December  — Samsung is still behind SK Hynix, supplier of 12-layer HBM3E Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: Interim co-CEO David Zinsner says Intel has already received $2.2B in federal grants through the CHIPS Act, of the $7.86B awarded to build chips in the US  —  Semiconductor giant Intel Corporation has already received $2.2 billion in federal grants from the U.S. Department of Commerce through … Lees verder op Tech Meme

CRN: Intel says it no longer plans to sell its next-gen Falcon Shores AI accelerator chip, which was set to launch in late 2025, to focus on its Jaguar Shores chip  —  Interim Intel co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus discloses the pivot in its AI data center strategy as Nvidia forges ahead … Lees verder op Tech Meme