Tech Meme

Benjamin Parkin / Financial Times: Indian fantasy sports and online gaming startups including Dream11 receive notices from tax authorities demanding hundreds of millions of dollars in back taxes  —  Gaming companies receive demands for hundreds of millions of dollars  —  Indian tax authorities have sent notices to fantasy sports … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: X CEO Linda Yaccarino claims 90% of the top 100 advertisers “returned to the platform in the past 12 weeks alone” and that X will be profitable by early 2024  —  According to X CEO Linda Yaccarino, the company formerly known as Twitter will be profitable by early 2024. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin Roose / New York Times: Hands-on with ChatGPT’s image recognition and voice features: image recognition isn’t perfect and refuses to discuss faces, voice is fluid and natural, and more  —  The image-recognition feature could have many uses, and the voice feature is even more intriguing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Meta’s celebrity AIs are generated AI animations built from filming the 28 people they represent; Meta would not comment on how the celebrities were compensated  —  Actors are in the middle of a major, protracted battle with Hollywood over what role AI will be playing in the future of entertainment … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: A US Senate staffer says officials told lawmakers that Chinese hackers who breached Microsoft’s email system stole 60K emails from ten State Department accounts  —  Chinese hackers who breached Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) email platform this year managed to steal tens of thousands of emails … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Canalys: Q2 smartphone sales in North America fell 22% YoY, with Apple down 20% and Samsung down 27%; Google’s sales rose 59% YoY and market share doubled to 4%  —  North American sales are bad for everyone, except, miraculously, Google.  —  Canalys has some gruesome new numbers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Erin Woo / The Information: Sources: X is cutting ~50% of its global team devoted to limiting disinformation and election fraud, less than a month after saying it would expand the team  —  Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, is cutting around half of the global team devoted to limiting disinformation and election fraud … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Paris-based Mistral AI makes its first LLM, Mistral 7B, that it claims outperforms open models with up to 13B parameters, free to use without restrictions  —  The most popular language models out there may be accessed via API, but open models — as far as that term can be taken seriously — are gaining ground. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan plans to retire in March 2024; Ryan joined Sony in 1994, just before the first PlayStation debuted  —  Jim Ryan, president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, is stepping down after almost 30 years with the company. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: Epic Games asks SCOTUS to review a judge’s 2021 ruling that Apple’s App Store doesn’t violate antitrust laws; SCOTUS may decide by 2024 whether to take the case  —  Epic’s request is the latest in a long-running battle between the maker of Fortnite and Apple over the way the iPhone maker runs its marketplace. Lees verder op Tech Meme