Tech Meme

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: BeReal replaces its Discovery feed with a Friends of Friends feed, adds pinned profile posts and mentions, and says the app is holding steady at ~20M DAUs  —  BeReal is trying to be real.  And if we’re being real, what’s the point of that Discovery feed, anyway? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Harry McCracken / Fast Company: Interviews with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, CTO Kevin Scott, and other executives on AI, investment in AI over the past decade, Office Copilots, Bing, and more  —  “In general, I get excited by new things,” says the CEO.  The story of a transformative moment that’s been a decade in the making. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: Interviews with 30+ of Elon Musk’s colleagues and others detail his growing international power, childhood, career, politics, role in the Ukraine war, and more  —  How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Titcomb / Telegraph: Sources: the UK is in talks with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel to buy up to £100M in GPUs for a national “AI Research Resource”; some officials want to spend far more  —  Effort fuels prime minister’s ambitions to make Britain a global leader in the field Lees verder op Tech Meme

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: YouTube is working with Universal Music Group to explore the use of music in AI programs and ways to pay artists whose work is used to make AI-generated content  —  YouTube has recruited Frank Sinatra’s estate and other Universal Music Group UMG .39%increase; green up pointing triangle acts … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dana Hull / Bloomberg: A notice from Maine’s AG says Tesla’s May 2023 data breach impacted 75,735 people, included employee-related records, and was a result of “insider wrongdoing”  —  – Data breach included employee-related records, Maine AG says  — Tesla says two former employees shared info with Handelsblatt Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vishal Chawla / The Block: NFT platform Recur plans to shut down by November 16, 2023, less than two years after raising a $50M Series A, and tells owners to move NFT metadata to the IPFS  —  – NFT platform Recur has decided to close less than two years after raising $50 million in a Series A funding round. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Monica Chin / The Verge: LG Gram Style (2023) review: 120Hz OLED, bold color-changing body, and lightweight, but limited power, poor thermal management and trackpad, and bendy chassis  —  At this point, I feel like people who want to buy an LG Gram know exactly what they’re getting.  Grams are made to travel. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Titcomb / Telegraph: Sources: the UK is in talks with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel to buy up to £100M in GPUs for a national “AI Research Resource”; some officials want to spend far more  —  Effort fuels prime minister’s ambitions to make Britain a global leader in the field Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Instacart, Databricks, and Socure are considered candidates to launch IPOs in 2024, as Arm’s forthcoming IPO provides a good test of investor sentiment  —  Instacart, Databricks and Socure are among the private tech companies reconsidering a stock market flotation Lees verder op Tech Meme