Mathieu Pollet / Politico: Huawei says it “terminated the employment of two individuals” from April 1 and suspended a third from April 2 in response to the EU corruption scandal  —  Chinese tech giant is at the center of Belgian investigation into wrongdoing.  —  BRUSSELS — Huawei has fired two employees … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Will Knight / Wired: Stanford’s 2025 AI index: China files more AI patents than the US, but US companies produced 40 frontier models, compared to 15 from China and three from Europe  —  New research from Stanford suggests artificial intelligence isn’t ruled by just OpenAI and Google, as competition increases across the US, China, and France. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: Sources and an APK teardown: OpenAI is testing watermarks for images generated via ChatGPT’s free account; whether OpenAI rolls the feature out is unclear  —  OpenAI is reportedly testing a new “watermark” for the Image Generation model, which is a part of the ChatGPT 4o model. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Source: AI coding startup Cursor, which has helped permeate “vibe coding”, hit 1M+ DAUs in March 2025, driven largely by word-of-mouth growth  —  Word-of-mouth growth has helped turn a 60-person startup into one of the early hits of the generative AI era. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Tobin / Reuters: Filing: the UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal confirms Apple is appealing against a UK order to create a “back door” in its Advanced Data Protection service  —  Apple (AAPL.O) is appealing against a British government order to create a “back door” to its encrypted cloud storage systems … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katie Roof / Bloomberg: SignalFire raised a $1B+ fund to bet on early-stage AI startups, taking its AUM to $3B, and plans to use AI to spot market trends to help portfolio companies  —  With the new funds SignalFire will focus on AI — and use it too.  —  Venture capital firm SignalFire has raised over a $1 billion … Lees verder op Tech Meme