Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google rolls out new Search, Maps, and Gemini features to help users plan vacations, including trip idea updates to AI Overviews and hotel price drop alerts  —  Google is rolling out a slew of new features — some powered by AI — across Search, Maps, and Gemini that are designed to help people plan their summer vacations. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dominic Preston / The Verge: Xiaomi’s Poco unveils the £649+ F7 Ultra, with a 6.67 display, Snapdragon 8 Elite, a triple rear camera, 120W wired charging, and IP68, and the £499+ F7 Pro  —  Its first ‘Ultra’ phone has a triple rear camera, fast charging, and IP68 protection. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Client notice: Chinese server maker H3C warns of potential shortages of Nvidia H20 chips, the most advanced AI chips available in China under US export rules  —  One of China’s largest server makers, H3C, has flagged potential shortages of Nvidia’s H20 chip, the most advanced AI processor … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Pat Gelsinger says TSMC’s pledge to invest $100B+ in US chip manufacturing will do little to restore the US’ chipmaking leadership as R&D will remain in Taiwan  —  Pat Gelsinger, who has taken on role at venture capital firm, says US must boost R&D to gain ‘semiconductor leadership’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Information: Source: Nvidia is in advanced talks to acquire Lepton AI, which rents Nvidia GPU servers, for several hundred million dollars; Lepton raised $11M in 2023  —  Nvidia is in advanced talks to buy Lepton AI, a two-year-old startup that rents out servers powered by Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: After OpenAI released a new ChatGPT image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns  —  It’s only been a day since ChatGPT’s new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: Meta VP of Asia Pacific Dan Neary is leaving for personal reasons; the Singapore-based executive joined in 2013, and Meta now has ~1.1B users in the region  —  Dan Neary, the company’s vice president for the region, assumed the role in 2013 and oversaw the rapid expansion of the company’s user base … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Casey Muratori / Computer, Enhance!: Q&A with Mike Clark, the chief architect of AMD’s Zen microarchitecture, on x86, ARM, CPUs vs GPUs, Zen 4 to Zen 5, software developers, and more  —  Zen is one of the most important microarchitectures in the history of the x86 ecosystem.  Not only is it the reigning champion in many x64 benchmarks … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: A leaked Chinese dataset on “public opinion work” reveals 133,000 entries fed into an LLM designed to automatically flag content deemed sensitive by China  —  A complaint about poverty in rural China.  A news report about a corrupt Communist Party member. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: An EU confidential decision, now public, shows the EU pressed Meta to create a separate version of Facebook Marketplace or let users access rival services  —  In the confidential decision from November made public on Wednesday, regulators also urged Meta to not use non-public data … Lees verder op Tech Meme