Tech Meme

Wired: Pig butchering operations that are offshoots of the Southeast Asian activity have emerged in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and West Africa  —  Scamming operations that once originated in Southeast Asia are now proliferating around the world, likely raking in billions of dollars in the process. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple nears production of an updated iPhone SE with a design that drops the home button and plans a new iPad mini this year and iPad Air models in 2025  —  – New SE will use modernized design to entice budget shoppers  — Company also preparing iPad mini for this year, Air for 2025 Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma, who spent years as a doctoral fellow at Google before joining OpenAI’s founding team as a research scientist  —  Durk Kingma, one of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, today announced that he’ll be joining Anthropic. Lees verder op Tech Meme

TechCrunch: Sources: 11x.ai, which makes AI sales reps, raised a $50M Series B led by a16z, valuing it at ~$350M; source: a $24M Series A earlier in 2024 valued it at $90M  —  11x.ai, a startup that develops AI-powered sales development bots, has secured roughly $50 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has learned. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rick Whiting / CRN: DataPelago launches from stealth with a “universal data processing engine” for “accelerated computing” workloads, with $47M in seed and Series A funding  —  DataPelago says its new technology provides a data processing boost for advanced analytics and AI applications … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Will Knight / Wired: Q&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on the company’s AI agent progress, like transacting with third parties on users’ behalf, which is still a ways off  —  Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is overseeing an overhaul that gives Copilot an empathetic voice, the ability to see, and more advanced reasoning skills. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Threads now gives users 15 minutes to edit posts and lets users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse see who follows them and likes their posts  —  Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday that users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Fortune: Sources say many OpenAI staff thought that o1 was not ready to be unveiled, and then-CTO Mira Murati was often stuck in the middle of arguments between teams  —  When OpenAI debuted its latest AI model, GPT4-o, in a slick live webcast this past May, it was Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: OpenAI debuts a public beta of its Realtime API to quickly make speech-to-speech features, a way to use images to fine-tune GPT-4o uses via its API, and more  —  It’s been a tumultuous week for OpenAI, full of executive departures and major fundraising developments, but the startup back at it … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: The US NLRB issues a complaint accusing Apple of violating employees’ rights to organize and advocate for better working conditions via allegedly unlawful rules  —  A U.S. labor board issued a complaint accusing Apple (AAPL.O) of violating employees’ rights to organize and advocate … Lees verder op Tech Meme