Tech Meme

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: Ubisoft lowers its FY 2024-25 bookings forecast to €1.95B, vs. €2.42B est., and delays Assassin’s Creed Shadows to February 14, 2025; UBI closes down 4.52%  —  Ubisoft Entertainment SA updated its financial targets as it delayed the hotly-anticipated Assassin’s Creed Shadows video … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Over 100 companies, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, signed the EU’s AI Pact for “voluntary pledges” before the AI Act; Apple and Meta did not  —  The European Commission has revealed a list of the first 100-plus signatories to the AI Pact … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Welch / The Verge: Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 review: lighter and comfortable with improved ANC and transparency, but underwhelming Gemini Live and no high-quality Bluetooth codecs  —  With a slew of improvements led by a far more comfortable design, Google’s latest earbuds are a compelling upgrade for Pixel owners. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ian King / Bloomberg: Micron reports Q4 revenue up 93% YoY to $7.75B, vs. $7.66B est., forecasts Q1 revenue and profit above estimates, helped by AI demand; MU jumps 13%+ after hours  —  – Company’s high-bandwidth memory helps train AI systems  — Forecast for sales and profit comes in well ahead of estimates Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hayden Field / CNBC: OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says she’s leaving the company after six and a half years “because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration”  —  OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati said Wednesday she is leaving the company after six and a half years. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Mangan / CNBC: The FTC announces a crackdown on “deceptive AI claims and schemes” by companies including legal services firm DoNotPay, which claimed to offer a “robot lawyer”  —  The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced a crackdown on what the regulator called … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: Sam Altman will receive equity in OpenAI for the first time, as it plans to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation  —  ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is working on a plan to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation that will no longer … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adi Robertson / The Verge: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will likely strike “certain partnerships” for AI training content, but some publishers may be overestimating their content’s value  —  ‘If they demanded that we don’t use their content, then we just wouldn’t use their content.’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Meta’s Orion AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, Threads, X, downranking political content, mental health, AI regulation, and more  —  Meta’s CEO on his first pair of AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, why he’s done with politics, and more. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kylie Robison / The Verge: A live blog of Meta Connect 2024, where the company announced its first AR glasses, a cheaper Quest 3S headset, Llama 3.2, and more  —  Over the past year, Meta has made a big push to integrate AI features into the platforms it owns: whether it be through its ChatGPT rival, Meta AI … Lees verder op Tech Meme