Tech Meme

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: AI’s first wave of successful implementation will probably look more like the first wave of computing, which was led by enterprise installations that cut jobs  —  The popular history of technology usually starts with the personal computer, and for good reason: that was the first high tech device that most people ever used. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Teddy Rosenbluth / New York Times: About 15,000 US doctors and assistants are using an AI feature in MyChart, a ubiquitous communications platform at US hospitals, to draft messages for patients  —  Overwhelmed by queries, physicians are turning to artificial intelligence to correspond with patients.  Many have no clue that the replies are software-generated. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: US federal court records show the DOJ has been investigating SAP, IT vendor Carahsoft, and others for potentially conspiring to overcharge government agencies  —  – DOJ investigating billions in purchases from SAP over a decade  — Other companies under scrutiny in civil False Claims Act probe Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: Sources: the FBI is investigating whether China-backed Hone Capital, a US VC firm that invested in 360 US tech startups, allowed Beijing to obtain trade secrets  —  FBI probe into Hone Capital comes after it became the most prolific early investor is US tech start-ups Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rebecca Rainey / Bloomberg Law: The US DOL releases AI & Inclusive Hiring Framework, a set of guidelines to help employers ensure AI doesn’t lead to discrimination for disabled job seekers  —  Search by Topic  —  The US Labor Department rolled out a new website Tuesday to instruct employers and workers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Matsuda / Sifted: London-based Apron, which is aiming to become the financial super app for SMBs, raised a $30M Series B led by Zinal Growth, bringing its total funding to $50.5M  —  Apron CEO Bogdan Uzbekov says the fintech is currently focused on growth over profitability  —  A former product lead at Revolut … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Starks / CyberScoop: CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress over the company’s faulty update that caused a global IT outage, to largely sympathetic House lawmakers  —  House lawmakers struck a sympathetic tone toward the company at a hearing where they nevertheless said nothing like that could happen again. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: Filing: OpenAI agrees to give representatives for authors suing the company access to review its training data to see if OpenAI used authors’ copyrighted works  —  At a secure room in its San Francisco office, representatives for authors suing OpenAI will examine materials that were used to train its AI system. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Wiz is in discussions to sell existing shares at a valuation between $15B and $20B, after abandoning a deal in July to be acquired by Google for $23B  —  Cybersecurity startup Wiz Inc. is in discussions to sell existing shares at a valuation as high as $20 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meir Orbach / CTech: Salesforce agrees to buy Zoomin, an Israeli data management company that makes unstructured data accessible to AI agents  —  The deal comes less than three weeks after the software giant paid $1.9 billion for Own, another Israel-founded company.  —  Salesforce  —  Zoomin  —  Acquisition Lees verder op Tech Meme