Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple tested an app to help people with prediabetes manage their food intake and make lifestyle changes, as part of its push into blood-sugar features  —  – Company explores products that can counter diabetes epidemic  — Work comes as Apple makes progress on no-prick technology Lees verder op Tech Meme

André Beganski / Decrypt: Arkham Intelligence: hackers returned $19.3M of $20M+ worth of crypto they stole from US government-controlled wallet on Thursday  —  A government-controlled wallet that had been drained of $20 million on Thursday received most of its funds back Friday, adding another layer of mystery … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Filing: Satya Nadella earned $79.1M during the FY ending June 30, up from $48.5M a year ago; compensation was reduced by $5M+ due to Microsoft’s security issues  —  WATCH NOW  —  Microsoft gave CEO Satya Nadella a pay raise for the 2024 fiscal year of more than $30 million. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the AI-powered search engine now serves 100M queries each week; in July, Perplexity said it was serving 250M per month  —  Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of Perplexity, says that the AI-powered search engine is now performing 100 million queries each week. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: LinkedIn says it has verified 55M+ users for free, the most verified individual human identities of any social network, to combat AI-fueled misinformation  —  LinkedIn has verified more than 55 million of its users, for free, in order to combat the spread of misinformation fueled by the rise … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Waymo closed a $5.6B Series C led by Alphabet to expand its robotaxi service in and beyond LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix, bringing its total funding to $11.1B  —  Waymo has closed a $5.6 billion funding round to expand its robotaxi service in and beyond Los Angeles, San Francisco and Phoenix, where it operates today. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Replying to an X post linking to a report on OpenAI planning to launch its next frontier model Orion by December, Sam Altman says “fake news out of control”  —  The Verge last night published an exclusive and seemingly well researched and sourced report (it’s great in my opinion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ramsay Hodgson / Financial Times: Microsoft launches Black Ops 6, the first Call of Duty game to debut on Xbox Game Pass, in the biggest test of its gaming strategy since acquiring Activision  —  Tech giant hopes ‘Black Ops 6’ will boost Game Pass subscription service as Xbox sales decline  —  Microsoft is seeking to boost … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard Waters / Financial Times: A look at the dispute between Arm and Qualcomm, whose relationship soured after Qualcomm became one of the main opponents to Nvidia’s attempted Arm acquisition  —  A licensing dispute clouds an important chip industry partnership  —  On paper, Arm and Qualcomm look like natural allies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Q&A with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on AI slop, the company’s partnerships with Google and OpenAI, content moderation during an election year, and more  —  What makes Reddit a gold mine for AI models, he says, is all of the human-led content on its variety of forums Lees verder op Tech Meme