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Copenhagen’s Good Tape raises €600k and becomes independent from Zetland; Zendesk co-founder joins board

Good Tape, the Copenhagen-based AI transcription company, has raised €600k from Nordic Makers, an investment group founded by former unicorn founders that invests its own capital in early-stage Nordic…

  • Copenhagen AI transcription startup Good Tape raises €600k
  • Former Zendesk co-founder Alexander Aghassipour leads investment
  • Good Tape becomes independent from Zetland media outlet

Culture

Thriller has steam to spare, but story slogs

Based on a 2018 book by hugely popular, wildly polarizing author Colleen Hoover (whose novels It Ends with Us, Regretting You and Reminders of Him have also been made into […]

  • Film marketed as sexy psychological thriller
  • Slow pacing and unconvincing characters
  • Dakota Johnson enjoys role despite weak script

AI

Time for AI guardrails is right now

The genie is most definitely out of the bottle. And while there’s little chance of putting it back in, we should be very concerned that the people who released it […]

  • AI guardrails urgently needed as AI develops own decision-making
  • Recent breaches show AI agents hacking government systems
  • U.S. President Trump backs unrestricted AI development

Tech

GCTU, ManyTek International LLC sign pact

The Ghana Communication Technology University (GCTU) and ManyTek International LLC have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen digital skills development, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), applied research and industry collaboration.

Tech

Micron Closes In on SK hynix in Global DRAM Race

The race for second place in the global DRAM market is heating up, with the gap between the second- and third-ranked competitors narrowing to just 1 percentage point.

  • Micron surges to third place with 24% market share, closing gap to 1% behind SK hynix
  • SK hynix's market share drops 4 percentage points, while Micron increases 2 percentage points
  • Micron's revenue grows fivefold, gross margin improves by 2.2 percentage points

Tech

Hundreds of Thousands of Nvidia AI Chips Smuggled Into China Via Asia

A major hole has emerged in the United States’ stringent export control regime targeting China’s semiconductor sector. Hundreds of thousands of Nvidia’s high-performance artificial intelligence (AI)…

  • Hundreds of thousands of Nvidia AI chips smuggled into China via Southeast Asia and Taiwan.
  • U.S. authorities estimate 115,000 Nvidia chips equivalent to export restrictions entered China.
  • Smuggling brokers exploited distribution networks and inadequate due diligence checks.

AI

DeepSeek, Huawei Join Forces to Challenge Nvidia’s CUDA Dominance

Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has joined forces with Huawei to release its own programming tools designed to rival Nvidia’s software ecosystem, CUDA.

  • DeepSeek partners with Huawei to challenge Nvidia's CUDA platform.
  • TileLang, an open-source programming language, simplifies AI development on Huawei's Ascend chips.
  • DeepSeek and Huawei optimize 128-chip Ascend 950 configuration for AI tasks.
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