Tech Meme

Will Knight / Wired: Norway-based 1X, which is developing humanoid robots, raised a $23.5M Series A2 led by the OpenAI Startup Fund with participation from Tiger Global and others  —  Autonomous machines are still too clumsy for delicate tasks.  But humans can operate mechanical arms from afar, turning physical labor into remote work. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Erin Woo / The Information: Source: Elon Musk offers Twitter staff stock grants at a ~$20B valuation which, with a $13B debt, implies a $33B enterprise value, ~11x 2023’s projected revenue  —  Elon Musk offered Twitter employees stock grants at a valuation of roughly $20 billion, said a person familiar with an email Musk sent to staff … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on AI’s iPhone moment, the DGX Cloud service, the US’ export controls, Nvidia’s position in the stack in an LLM world, and more  —  I first spoke with Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang after last March’s GTC conference, and again after last fall’s GTC … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adam Morgan McCarthy / The Block: The hacker of DeFi lending protocol Euler Finance has returned 58,737 ETH, worth ~$102M, from the 96K ETH stolen in a flash-loan attack on March 13; EUL up 27%+  —  – The Euler hacker has returned 58,737 ETH from the 96,000 ETH stolen.  — They previously returned 3,000 ETH. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo: How Meta could sidestep ATT’s impairments by launching a mobile games store, as Apple reportedly prepares multiple app store support on iOS due to the EU’s DMA  —  This week, Microsoft declared that it will launch a mobile games app store on both iOS and Android next year, should its acquisition of Activision Blizzard be approved. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Microsoft releases Windows 10 Snip & Sketch and Windows 11 Snipping Tool updates to fix the “aCropalypse” bug used to reveal info edited out in some screenshots  —  Microsoft released an emergency security update for the Windows 10 and Windows 11 Snipping tool to fix the Acropalypse privacy vulnerability. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stratechery: Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on AI’s iPhone moment, the DGX Cloud service, the US’ export controls, Nvidia’s position in the stack in an LLM world, and more  —  I first spoke with Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang after last March’s GTC conference, and again after last fall’s GTC … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chloe Xiang / VICE: Microsoft researchers claim GPT-4 showed early signs of AGI and performance close to human levels in tasks spanning coding, medicine, law, psychology, and more  —  The eyebrow-raising claim from Microsoft—which is banking on GPT putting it ahead of Google—contrasts with the model’s clear limitations. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yoel Roth / Techdirt: Some national security concerns about TikTok are valid, but a forced sale of its US operations may undermine the company’s ability to fight adversarial threats  —  from the when-government-demands-backfire dept  —  Back in August 2020, the Trump White House issued an executive order purporting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: In his first visit since 2020, Tim Cook praises Apple’s “symbiotic kind of relationship” with China, amid the company’s moves to diversify from the country  —  Chief executive’s visit comes despite rising trade and geopolitical tensions between Beijing and US Lees verder op Tech Meme