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Kellen Browning / New York Times: Lyft announces Women+ Connect, a feature that prioritizes matching female and nonbinary drivers and riders, falling back to men when no other people are nearby  —  The company said it hoped to improve safety and encourage more female drivers.  —  Lyft said on Tuesday that it was introducing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Max A. Cherney / Reuters: MLCommons’ MLPerf benchmark, based on a 6B-parameter LLM that summarizes CNN articles: Nvidia’s H100s perform best, followed by Intel’s Gaudi2 at ~10% slower  —  An artificial intelligence benchmark group called MLCommons unveiled the results on Monday of new tests that determine how quickly top-of-the-line hardware can run AI models. Lees verder op Tech Meme

SemiAnalysis: A look at the Huawei Kirin 9000S, the impact on Apple, Qualcomm, and MediaTek, SMIC’s 7nm and future 5nm chips, and potential Western responses to curtail China  —  Huawei, SMIC, 7nm, H800, Domestic AI Capabilities, ASML, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Apple, RF Capabilities, Potential Sanctions Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Primack / Axios: Bio: before buying Twitter, Elon Musk promised Jack Dorsey that, if Dorsey ever needed money, Musk would buy Dorsey’s stock at the $54.20/share takeover price  —  Jack Dorsey had second thoughts about supporting Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, so Musk made Dorsey a secret offer he couldn’t refuse … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Primack / Axios: Bio: before the Twitter takeover, Musk promised Jack Dorsey that, if Dorsey ever needed cash, he would buy Dorsey’s Twitter stock at the $54.20 takeover price  —  Jack Dorsey had second thoughts about supporting Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, so Musk made Dorsey a secret offer he couldn’t refuse … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Morgan Meaker / Wired: How Finnish AI startup Metroc, which helps construction companies find projects, uses prison labor paid €1.54/hour to label data, with widespread public support  —  In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Intel plans to sell a 10% stake in IMS Nanofabrication at a $4.3B valuation to TSMC in Q4 2023 while retaining majority ownership of the standalone subsidiary  —  Intel has agreed to sell a 10% stake in IMS Nanofabrication to TSMC for $430 million at a valuation of $4.3 billion. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Salesforce announces Einstein Copilot, an AI chatbot for its apps, launching via a pilot this fall, and its Einstein 1 Platform for leveraging enterprise data  —  Salesforce Inc. today rolled out an artificial intelligence conversational copilot assistant for its applications that can assist users … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Clara Hernanz Lizarraga / Bloomberg: Sources: Inditex races to fix bugs in Zara’s new anti-shoplifting system, which swaps plastic tags for RFID chips; some staff worry about theft becoming easier  —  – RFID technology is supposed to replace hard security tags  — Global rollout of the new hardware was expected in July Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Enfabrica, which sells “hub and spoke” networking chips to scale Nvidia GPU-based AI data centers, raised a $125M Series B led by Atreides Management  —  Enfabrica, a Silicon Valley chip startup working on networking chips for artificial intelligence data centers … Lees verder op Tech Meme