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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 (Morgan Meaker/Wired) 12-09-2023

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

Sources describe Apollo's Yahoo turnaround efforts, including layoffs, asset sales, and new partnerships; Yahoo is on pace to generate $7B in 2023 gross revenue (Rachel Graf/The Information) 12-09-2023

Rachel Graf / The Information: Sources describe Apollo’s Yahoo turnaround efforts, including layoffs, asset sales, and new partnerships; Yahoo is on pace to generate $7B in 2023 gross revenue  —  When speaking about the company he inherited in September 2021, Jim Lanzone is remarkably blunt. Lees verder op Tech Meme

A live blog of the US et al v. Google trial, which starts today, as the DOJ prepares to argue the company illegally protected its internet search monopoly (New York Times) 12-09-2023

New York Times: A live blog of the US et al v. Google trial, which starts today, as the DOJ prepares to argue the company illegally protected its internet search monopoly  —  Here is the latest on the Google antitrust trial.  Opening statements are underway in a major antitrust case against Google … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amazon announces a service that lets its 2M merchants deliver inventory directly to physical retail stores and warehouses, rolling out broadly later in 2023 (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg) 12-09-2023

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Amazon announces a service that lets its 2M merchants deliver inventory directly to physical retail stores and warehouses, rolling out broadly later in 2023  —  – Service brings inventory to stores instead of shoppers’ homes … Amazon on Tuesday announced that the service … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lyft announces Women+ Connect, a feature that helps match female drivers with female passengers; riders can still match with men when no women are available (Kellen Browning/New York Times) 12-09-2023

Kellen Browning / New York Times: Lyft announces Women+ Connect, a feature that helps match female drivers with female passengers; riders can still match with men when no women are available  —  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

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 (Morgan Meaker/Wired) 12-09-2023

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

Intel agrees to sell a 10% stake in IMS Nanofabrication to TSMC, valuing IMS at $4.3B, and will retain majority ownership of the standalone subsidiary (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat) 12-09-2023

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Intel agrees to sell a 10% stake in IMS Nanofabrication to TSMC, valuing IMS at $4.3B, and will retain 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

Intel announces Thunderbolt 5, offering up to 120 Gbps bandwidth, support for DisplayPort 2.1, USB v4, USB 3 20G, and PCIe Gen4, and up to 240W charging support (VideoCardz.com) 12-09-2023

VideoCardz.com: Intel announces Thunderbolt 5, offering up to 120 Gbps bandwidth, support for DisplayPort 2.1, USB v4, USB 3 20G, and PCIe Gen4, and up to 240W charging support  —  Thunderbolt 5 offers up to 3x the speed over Thunderbolt 4  —  Intel has revealed its newest iteration of the Thunderbolt technology. Lees verder op Tech Meme

MLCommons' MLPerf benchmark, based on a 6B-parameter LLM that summarizes CNN articles, finds Nvidia's H100s performed best, closely followed by Intel's Gaudi2 (Max A. Cherney/Reuters) 12-09-2023

Max A. Cherney / Reuters: MLCommons’ MLPerf benchmark, based on a 6B-parameter LLM that summarizes CNN articles, finds Nvidia’s H100s performed best, closely followed by Intel’s Gaudi2  —  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

Salesforce announces Einstein Copilot, an AI chatbot for its apps, launching via pilot later in fall, part of its new Einstein 1 Platform (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE) 12-09-2023

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