Tech Meme

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Synergy: enterprise cloud spending in Q1 grew 19% YoY to $63B, down from a 32% growth in Q1 2022; Amazon, Microsoft, and Google accounted for 63% of spending  —  As expected, companies are continuing to cut back on their cloud spend where possible, as tech budgets continue to get careful scrutiny. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: The US sentences ex-Apple worker Dhirendra Prasad to three years and orders him to pay $19M+ for stealing ~$17M from Apple via parts supplier kickbacks and more  —  A former Apple employee has been sentenced to three years in prison and must pay back over $19 million in restitution … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Reddit begins testing Discord-like chat channels in 25 volunteer subreddits with fewer than 100K members and plans to let moderators manage chat functionality  —  Reddit announced Thursday that it is testing Discord-like chat channels with select subreddits. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: A profile of Sarah Cardell, the UK CMA’s CEO who played a key role in shaping the mergers policy that led to the agency blocking Microsoft’s Activision takeover  —  Former corporate lawyer has attracted the ire of the US group by blocking its $75bn acquisition of Activision Lees verder op Tech Meme

Blake Brittain / Reuters: Filing: Triller agrees to pay Sony Music $4.5M+ to settle claims that Triller breached a 2016 contract covering its use of musicians’ songs on the platform  —  TikTok rival Triller Inc has agreed to pay Sony Music Entertainment (6758.T) more than $4.5 million to resolve claims that Triller breached … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kelvin Chan / Associated Press: ChatGPT is again available in Italy, after OpenAI met data watchdog’s demands, including a form for EU users to object to having their data used for training  —  ChatGPT’s maker said Friday that the artificial intelligence chatbot is available again in Italy after the company met the demands … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: Solana’s SOL token is up ~125% since December 31, outperforming bitcoin’s 78% rally, as the blockchain tries to move past its association with Sam Bankman-Fried  —  The SOL token of the Solana blockchain has more than doubled this year, outperforming Bitcoin, as the project tries to move past … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: EU lawmakers push forward an AI Act draft, which includes requiring companies deploying generative AI tools to disclose copyrighted material used for training  —  Companies deploying generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, will have to disclose any copyrighted material used to develop their systems … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Sources: Elon Musk shut off OpenAI’s access to Twitter’s data in December, believing that $2M a year licensing fee that OpenAI was paying wasn’t enough  —  The billionaire plans to compete with OpenAI, the ChatGPT developer he helped found, while calling out the potential harms of artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steve Dent / Engadget: Sony reports Q4 revenue up 30% YoY to ~$22.7B, and 6.3M PS5 sales, up from 2M YoY; Sony has sold 19.1M PS5s in FY 2022 and 38.4M PS5s in total since launch  —  Now that it’s solved its supply shortages, Sony is seeing a lot of pent-up demand for PlayStation 5 consoles. Lees verder op Tech Meme