Tech Meme

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Sam Altman briefed US policymakers on the need to invest heavily in physical infrastructure with Stargate to support AI development, citing the rise of DeepSeek  —  OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman briefed US policymakers on the need to continue investing heavily in physical infrastructure … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft makes OpenAI’s o1 model, branded as “Think Deeper”, free for all Copilot users, after launching it in October as a paid Copilot Pro feature  —  Think Deeper first launched in October as a paid Copilot Pro feature, but it’s now free.  —  Think Deeper first launched … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Motif, which is building cloud-native 3D computer-aided architecture design tools with AI features, raised $46M in seed and Series A funding  —  Talk to many architects, and they’ll likely tell you that Autodesk’s software, including AutoCAD and Revit, has been indispensable to their work for decades. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to make Facebook “way more culturally influential than it is today” and he is focused on returning to “OG Facebook” in 2025  —  Yesterday Meta reported its quarterly earnings, and amid sharing updates on Threads, Instagram, and yes … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Microsoft’s stock fell 5%+ after saying it expects revenues for the current quarter to range between $67.7B and $68.7B, compared to $69.78B est.  —  Microsoft shares dropped more than 6% after issuing weak current-quarter guidance after the bell Wednesday.  —  The software giant topped … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft unveils Intel-powered Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 for businesses, both Copilot+ PCs starting at $1500, or $500 more than Qualcomm variants  —  Along with a new USB 4 dock, the Surface devices are designed for businesses.  —  Along with a new USB 4 dock, the Surface devices are designed for businesses. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mistral AI: Mistral launches Small 3, a latency-optimized 24B-parameter model that it says is competitive with larger models such as Llama 3.3 70B or Qwen 32B  —  Apache 2.0, 81% MMLU, 150 tokens/s  —  Today we’re introducing Mistral Small 3, a latency-optimized 24B-parameter model released under the Apache 2.0 license. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Europol and German law enforcement arrest two suspects and seize 17 servers to take down Cracked and Nulled, two of the largest hacking forums with 10M+ users  —  Europol and German law enforcement confirmed the arrest of two suspects and the seizure of 17 servers in Operation Talent … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Rutherford / Engadget: Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra review: excellent screen, performance, and battery life, slimmer bezels, and new 50MP UW sensor, but no S Pen Air actions and pricey  —  Samsung’s latest flagship lacks new hardware, aside from a refreshed chip and ultra-wide sensor. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: French startup Formance, which offers an open source, programmable financial ledger and other services, raised a $21M Series A co-led by PayPal and Portage  —  If you talk to a fintech entrepreneur about their business, chances are they’ll end up talking about ledger issues at some point. Lees verder op Tech Meme