Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Elon Musk says production of Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus is affected by China’s recent restrictions on exports of rare earth minerals used in magnets  —  Speaking on the company’s earnings call on Tuesday, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said production was impacted by the “magnet issue”. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Noxtua, which develops AI tech to research, analyze, and draft legal documents, raised an €80.7M Series B led by C.H. Beck, Germany’s leading legal publisher  —  Back in 2020, Xayn was a privacy-based, on-device AI startup designed specifically for smartphones. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: A look at New Mexico’s efforts to become a quantum computing hub through partnerships between the state, its universities, and national labs and companies  —  Partnerships between the state, its universities and its national labs demonstrate the Mountain West’s ambitions in quantum technology Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: Meta’s Oversight Board says Meta’s new hate speech policies were “announced hastily” in January, asks the company to assess the impact on vulnerable user groups  —  Meta’s Oversight Board, the independent group created to help Meta with content moderation decisions … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Connor Jones / The Register: UN says the ~$40B cybercrime call center industry, tied to East and Southeast Asian crime syndicates, is expanding globally to regions with weak governance  —  What used to be a serious issue mainly in Southeast Asia is now the world’s problem  —  Scam call centers are metastasizing worldwide … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew R. Chow / Time: Study: models like OpenAI’s o3 outperform expert virologists in wet lab problem-solving, which might accelerate research but could also be abused by bad actors  —  A new study claims that AI models like ChatGPT and Claude now outperform PhD-level virologists in problem-solving in wet labs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Broderick / Wired: A week after a hack, 4chan remains down, apparently pushed off the internet by rival hackers; its toxic legacy carries on across social platforms and culture  —  It’s likely that there will never be a site like 4chan again.  But everything now—from X and YouTube to global politics—seems to carry its toxic legacy. Lees verder op Tech Meme

TechCrunch: Sources: Cursor maker Anysphere has reached ~$300M in ARR and declined an acquisition offer from OpenAI, which now aims to buy rival Windsurf, with $100M in ARR  —  Anysphere, maker of AI coding assistant Cursor, is growing so quickly that it’s not in the market to be sold, even to OpenAI … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikkei Asia: Source: ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent asked Nvidia to ship ~1M H20s, ideally by the end of May, but the actual number delivered fell short due to new US curbs  —  TAIPEI/HONG KONG — China’s top internet companies have stockpiled billions of dollars’ worth of Nvidia’s H20 artificial intelligence chips … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Connor Jones / The Register: UN says the ~$40B cyber crime call center industry, tied to East and Southeast Asian crime syndicates, are expanding globally to regions with weak governance  —  What used to be a serious issue mainly in Southeast Asia is now the world’s problem  —  Scam call centers are metastasizing worldwide … Lees verder op Tech Meme