Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple has halted work on a project to build an iPhone hardware subscription service, which had been in development since 2022 and set to launch then  —  – Much-delayed program had been in development since around 2022  — Company also shut down Pay Later offering earlier this year Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: Intel announces the first updates to address Arrow Lake’s gaming performance issues, fixing four of the five root causes, and plans a final update for January  —  Time to test.  —  Intel announced that its first wave of updates to address the gaming performance issues plaguing the Arrow Lake processors is now available. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Source: Perplexity raised $500M led by Institutional Venture Partners at a $9B valuation earlier in December, up from a $3B valuation in June 2024  —  The company’s valuation has tripled since June. … The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners and completed earlier this month … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: Chinese self-driving trucking company TuSimple rebrands to CreateAI, in a pivot to generative AI for video games and animation, and debuts its first model, Ruyi  —  Embattled Chinese autonomous trucking company TuSimple has rebranded to CreateAI, focusing on video games and animation, the company announced Thursday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Elon Musk has tapped Steve Davis, who oversaw Twitter’s cost-cutting, former US CTO Michael Kratsios, and others to interview potential DOGE candidates  —  – Executive from Boring, ex-Trump aide help in hiring push  — Musk’s DOGE initiative seeks to cut government spending, size Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ian King / Bloomberg: Micron reports Q1 revenue up 84% YoY to $8.71B, in line with est., Q2 revenue forecast below est. due to sluggish phone and PC demand; MU drops 15%+ after hours  —  – Strong AI growth isn’t offsetting a slowdown elsewhere  — Micron CEO cites weakness in consumer-oriented markets Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: GitHub offers Copilot in VS Code for free with 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month; GitHub now has 150M developers, up from 100M in early 2023  —  Microsoft-owned GitHub today announced a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hayden Field / CNBC: OpenAI debuts a way to talk to ChatGPT by dialing 1-800-CHATGPT for 15 minutes of free access per month in the US or messaging the number via WhatsApp globally  —  OpenAI on Wednesday rolled out a new way to talk to its viral chatbot: 1-800-CHATGPT.  —  By dialing the U.S. number … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Quinn / CBS News: SCOTUS says it will hear a challenge from TikTok, ByteDance, and TikTok users on January 10 to the law that could lead to the US banning the app on January 19  —  Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will take up a challenge to a new law that could lead to a ban on TikTok in the U.S. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Will Judd / Eurogamer.net: Sony details the PS5 Pro’s specs, including an AMD RDNA 2-based GPU with 16.7TF of performance and ray tracing improvements, and announces an AMD partnership  —  Plus: what this all means for future PlayStation hardware.  —  When Sony revealed the PlayStation 5 Pro, it did so in a very different manner … Lees verder op Tech Meme