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Sources: Sequoia's China spin off HongShan is seeking global business opportunities and investments for its portfolio companies, as China's economy slows down (Financial Times) 12-10-2023

Financial Times: Sources: Sequoia’s China spin off HongShan is seeking global business opportunities and investments for its portfolio companies, as China’s economy slows down  —  Venture capital firm’s head Neil Shen seeks investments and business opportunities for his Chinese portfolio companies Lees verder op Tech Meme

Automattic adds the ActivityPub feature to WordPress.com hosted sites, allowing site owners to tie into fediverse platforms including Mastodon (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) 12-10-2023

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Automattic adds the ActivityPub feature to WordPress.com hosted sites, allowing site owners to tie into fediverse platforms including Mastodon  —  Earlier this year, WordPress.com owner Automattic acquired a plugin that allowed WordPress blogs to be followed in the fediverse … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: OpenAI plans to introduce major updates for developers on November 6, including memory storage to its tools and vision capabilities to analyze images (Reuters) 12-10-2023

Reuters: Sources: OpenAI plans to introduce major updates for developers on November 6, including memory storage to its tools and vision capabilities to analyze images  —  OpenAI plans to introduce major updates for developers next month to make it cheaper and faster to build software applications based … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Internal memo: NPR traffic loss has been negligible in the six months since it left Twitter, after the platform labeled NPR “US state-affiliated media” (Gabe Bullard/Nieman Reports) 12-10-2023

Gabe Bullard / Nieman Reports: Internal memo: NPR traffic loss has been negligible in the six months since it left Twitter, after the platform labeled NPR “US state-affiliated media”  —  The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn’t worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cleanlab, which offers automated data curation tools to increase the accuracy of data used by AI, raised a $25M Series A at a $100M valuation (Alex Konrad/Forbes) 12-10-2023

Alex Konrad / Forbes: Cleanlab, which offers automated data curation tools to increase the accuracy of data used by AI, raised a $25M Series A at a $100M valuation  —  The startup based on a popular open-source project for fixing data problems in AI models now counts cloud heavyweight Databricks as an investor and partner. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adobe previews Project Res Up, an experimental AI tool that upscales low-resolution GIFs and videos, taking the 1947 film The Red House from 480×360 to 1280×960 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) 11-10-2023

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe previews Project Res Up, an experimental AI tool that upscales low-resolution GIFs and videos, taking the 1947 film The Red House from 480×360 to 1280×960  —  Adobe has developed an experimental AI-powered upscaling tool that greatly improves the quality of low-resolution GIFs and video footage. Lees verder op Tech Meme

US v. SBF: Caroline Ellison says SBF asked her to create false balance sheets to hide debt, he considered offering FTX shares to the Saudi crown prince, more (Bloomberg) 11-10-2023

Bloomberg: US v. SBF: Caroline Ellison says SBF asked her to create false balance sheets to hide debt, he considered offering FTX shares to the Saudi crown prince, more  —  – Ellison takes witness stand for second day at SBF trial  — Prosecutors look at events from 2022 when crypto prices fell Lees verder op Tech Meme

Microsoft plans to deprecate VBScript and make the programming language an on-demand feature in future Windows releases before its eventual removal from the OS (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) 11-10-2023

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft plans to deprecate VBScript and make the programming language an on-demand feature in future Windows releases before its eventual removal from the OS  —  Microsoft is planning to phase out VBScript in future Windows releases after 30 years of use, making it an on-demand feature until it is removed. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bernstein estimates Google pays Apple $18B to $20B per year, or 14% to 16% of Apple's operating profit, to be the default search engine; the US DOJ says ~$10B (Paul Kunert/The Register) 11-10-2023

Paul Kunert / The Register: Bernstein estimates Google pays Apple $18B to $20B per year, or 14% to 16% of Apple’s operating profit, to be the default search engine; the US DOJ says ~$10B  —  Bernstein estimates value of agreement, warns it and similar deals may end if DoJ wins antitrust case Lees verder op Tech Meme

Microsoft receives Notices of Proposed Adjustment from the IRS for an additional $28.9B tax payment; Microsoft plans to appeal, a process expected to take years (Jake Piazza/CNBC) 11-10-2023

Jake Piazza / CNBC: Microsoft receives Notices of Proposed Adjustment from the IRS for an additional $28.9B tax payment; Microsoft plans to appeal, a process expected to take years  —  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella arrives at federal court on October 2, 2023 in Washington, DC.  Nadella is testifying … Lees verder op Tech Meme