Tech Meme

New York Times: China’s Micron ban could allow the government to boost its domestic memory chip industry, a sector where China has a toehold in its competition with the US  —  A Chinese government block on Micron Technology’s memory chips marks how far apart the two economic powers are drifting on tech policy. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Economic Times: Sources: JioMart cuts 1,000+ jobs as part of a larger cost-cutting measure, which will include reducing the 15,000 people wholesale division by two-thirds  —  Layoffs have now hit Reliance Industries, with its wholesale format JioMart sacking over employees, as per people in the know. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Sources: activist investor TCS Capital, which owns 4%+ of Yelp’s common stock, urges the recommendation site to explore strategic alternatives, including a sale  —  TCS Capital Management has built a stake in Yelp and is calling on the service-recommendation site to explore strategic alternatives. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yossi Matias / The Keyword: Google expands its AI flood forecasting tool Flood Hub to 460M people, from 20 countries up to 48 hours in advance to 80 countries up to seven days in advance  —  Flood Hub is expanding to 80 countries, providing forecasting up to 7 days in advance of a flood to 460 million people. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shannon Liao / New York Times: April 2023 email: Blizzard’s chief design officer told employees to “prepare to be amazed” by the company’s AI image generator trained on assets from its games  —  Generative A.I. is already changing how games are made, with Blizzard Entertainment training an image generator … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wired: Leaked responses from 20 countries to an EU proposal show the majority favor some form of scanning encrypted messages, with Spain wanting an EU-wide E2EE ban  —  In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country’s officials said it is “imperative that we have access to the data.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bobby Allyn / NPR: TikTok sues Montana over its new law intending to ban the app, citing the First Amendment, the state’s lack of authority on national security issues, and more  —  TikTok has filed a federal lawsuit against Montana after the state passed a law last week intended to ban the app from being downloaded within its borders. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman, and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever say the world will likely need a regulatory body for superintelligence  —  AI is developing rapidly enough and the dangers it may pose are clear enough that OpenAI’s leadership believes that the world needs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review: Meta unveils open-source AI models the company says can identify 4,000+ languages and produce speech for 1,000+ languages, a 40x and 10x increase, respectively  —  They could help lead to speech apps for many more languages than exist now.  —  Meta has built AI models that can recognize … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: An NLRB complaint accuses Amazon of violating US federal labor law at its unionized Staten Island warehouse and Andy Jassy of making illegal anti-union comments  —  Amazon.com Inc. repeatedly violated federal labor law by unilaterally changing policies and terminating union supporters … Lees verder op Tech Meme