Tech Meme

Kenza Bryan / Financial Times: Microsoft to buy 3.5M carbon credits, estimated to be worth about $200M, from Re.green over 25 years to restore parts of Brazil’s Amazon and Atlantic forests  —  Tech giant acquires carbon credits worth around $200mn, as energy usage surges due to generative artificial intelligence Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Google is investing over $1B more in Anthropic, which is also nearing a further $2B funding round from Lightspeed and other VCs at a ~$60B valuation  —  Artificial intelligence group closes in on $60bn valuation  —  Google is making a fresh investment of more than $1bn into OpenAI rival Anthropic … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tsubasa Suruga / Nikkei Asia: DealStreetAsia: Southeast Asian startups raised $4.56B in 2024, down 42% YoY and falling to a fifth of a 2021 peak, as the number of deals fell 10% YoY to 633  —  SINGAPORE — Southeast Asia’s startup funding in 2024 dropped for the third consecutive year, falling to a fifth of the peak it recorded in 2021 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: An internal probe into SoftBank-backed eFishery, one of Indonesia’s most prominent startups, finds the agritech company allegedly faked most of its 2024 sales  —  – EFishery board investigating startup’s sales, profit numbers  — Indonesian firm has raised hundreds of millions of dollars Lees verder op Tech Meme

Becky Bracken / Dark Reading: The Trump administration removed all advisory committee members within the DHS, including those in CISA and CSRB, which was investigating Salt Typhoon  —  In a letter sent today, the acting DHS secretary terminated membership to all advisory boards, including the Cyber Safety Review Board … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: 2025 GDC: 63% of game devs say Meta Quest/Horizon Store is the VR/AR platform that interests them the most, with 59% currently making games for the platform  —  The 2025 GDC survey revealed the impact of industry-wide layoffs in 2024 where one of every 11 game developers lost a job. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: Documents: Google gave Israel access to its latest AI tools from the early weeks of the Israel-Hamas war, directly assisting the Defense Ministry and the IDF  —  The company fulfilled requests from Israel’s military for more access to AI tools, as it sought to compete with Amazon, documents obtained by The Post show. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James O’Donnell / MIT Technology Review: Filing: OpenAI spent $1.76M on lobbying in 2024, up from 2023’s $260K, with focus on the AI Advancement and Reliability Act and the Future of AI Innovation Act  —  OpenAI spent $1.76 million on government lobbying in 2024 and $510,000 in the last three months of the year alone … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Tencent unveils Hunyuan3D 2.0, an AI system that turns single images or text prompts into 3D models in seconds, and open sources it on HuggingFace and GitHub  —  Tencent has unveiled “Hunyuan3D 2.0,” an AI system that turns single images or text descriptions into detailed 3D models within seconds. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: Sources: a deep philosophical rift over how DOGE should operate helped spur Vivek Ramaswamy’s exit, with Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 EO embodying Elon Musk’s vision  —  A deep philosophical rift between the two billionaire leaders of the “Department of Government Efficiency” left Musk to run the group. Lees verder op Tech Meme