Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: SoftBank is in talks to invest $15B to $25B in OpenAI on top of its $15B+ commitment to Stargate; the deal would make SoftBank OpenAI’s biggest backer  —  Deal would make Japanese group biggest financial backer in ChatGPT maker  —  SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $25bn into OpenAI … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Julia Alexander / Posting Nexus: How Epic is transforming Fortnite into a content platform, paying $350M to creators in 2024; 36.5% of the total playtime was spent in games made by creators  —  What are creator made islands competing for players’ attention if nothing but decentralized channels in a centralized ecosystem? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Todd Woody / Bloomberg: A look at FathomVerse, a mobile game that helps scientists identify deep sea creatures by using players’ contributions to train AI for underwater robots  —  Nearly a dozen miles off the California coast on a foggy October morning, a crane lifts a boxy yellow robot off the deck … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: During his confirmation hearing for Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick called the CHIPS Act an “excellent down payment” but pledged to review binding awards  —  – Trump has said he prefers tariffs for luring chipmakers to US  — Lutnick called the Chips Act an ‘excellent down payment’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Mistral AI, seen as Europe’s great hope for AI, is losing ground to US rivals and being overshadowed by DeepSeek; sources say its ARR is in the tens of millions  —  Mistral AI was hailed as a potential global leader in the technology.  But it has lost ground to US rivals — and now China’s emerging star Lees verder op Tech Meme

Google Workspace Updates: Google announces new Gemini features for Google Sheets, letting Workspace users ask Gemini to generate static charts, analyze data, and more  —  What’s changing  —  Building data visualizations and identifying trends in data is a critical business function, however it can be time consuming and oftentimes overwhelming. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: During his confirmation hearing for Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick called the CHIPS Act an “excellent down payment” but pledged to review binding awards  —  – Trump has said he prefers tariffs for luring chipmakers to US  — Lutnick called the Chips Act an ‘excellent down payment’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Satya Nadella says Microsoft’s AI business has surpassed an annual revenue run rate of $13B, up 175% YoY, as the company faces new scrutiny over AI spending  —  Microsoft says it’s generating revenue from its artificial intelligence products and services at a rate of $13 billion annually … Lees verder op Tech Meme

NewsGuard’s Reality Check: NewsGuard: with news-related prompts, DeepSeek’s chatbot repeated false claims 30% of the time and provided non-answers 53% of the time, giving an 83% fail rate  —  The new Chinese AI tool finished tied for 10th of 11 chatbots tested  —  Special Report  —  Chinese artificial intelligence … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Microsoft: Microsoft reports Q2 revenue up 12% YoY to $69.6B, Microsoft 365 Commercial products and cloud services revenue up 15% YoY, and net income up 10% YoY to $24.1B  —  Microsoft Cloud and AI Strength Drives Second Quarter Results  —  REDMOND, Wash. — January 29, 2025 — Microsoft Corp. today announced … Lees verder op Tech Meme