Tech Meme

Simon Willison / Simon Willison’s Weblog: Chinese AI lab DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek-R1, an MIT-licensed model that does well with math, code, and reasoning tasks, alongside other open and distilled models  —  DeepSeek are the Chinese AI lab who dropped the best currently available open weights LLM on Christmas day, DeepSeek v3. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Democratic Republic of Congo lawyers say Belgium has started a criminal probe into allegations that Apple has knowingly sourced “blood minerals” from the DRC  —  Lawyers for DRC allege iPhones and other electronics use minerals supplied by armed groups behind atrocities Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: China suggests it is willing to work with Donald Trump to keep TikTok operating in the US, after previously saying that it would block any forced sale of TikTok  —  Founder of app’s parent, Beijing-based ByteDance, met with Elon Musk last year  —  SINGAPORE—China suggested it was willing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: A look at UK hedge fund Man Group’s ArcticDB, an open-source tool developed internally and used by clients like Bloomberg to analyze stock trading data and more  —  The need to analyze an overwhelming influx of stock data—and to do it fast—pushed Man Group to become its own kind of tech company Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: Meta says it will continue to use its fact checkers outside of the US “for now”, and plans to see how its Community Notes system works in the US before deciding  —  Meta, which said it will replace third-party fact checkers in the US with a community notes system … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: An interview with Broadcom CEO Hock Tan on the backlash from some VMware customers, VMware as a “sovereign” alternative to Big Tech’s cloud services, and more  —  Hock Tan is positioning the tech group’s $69bn software acquisition as a ‘sovereign’ alternative to Big Tech’s cloud services Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: X rolls out a dedicated video tab in the US in the app’s bottom bar, letting users vertically scroll through short videos, after launching a TV app in 2024  —  Social network X is trying to capitalize on the removal of ByteDance apps like TikTok and Lemon8 from U.S. app stores by launching a dedicated vertical video feed. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alan Suderman / Associated Press: Bitcoin passed $108K hours ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, after topping $100K for the first time in December 2024 before falling to ~$90K  —  The price of bitcoin surged to over $109,000 early Monday, just hours ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration … Lees verder op Tech Meme

CBS News: Source: DOGE co-lead Vivek Ramaswamy will leave the task force, as he plans a campaign for Ohio governor; sources: Musk associates undercut Ramaswamy for weeks  —  Vivek Ramaswamy, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The European Commission says Facebook, X, YouTube, and others agreed to an updated code of conduct, first set up in May 2016, over hate speech under the DSA  —  Meta’s (META.O) Facebook, Elon Musk’s X, Google’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube and other tech companies have agreed to do more to tackle online … Lees verder op Tech Meme