Tech Meme

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

Don Clark / New York Times: A look at the challenges facing Arm, expected to start trading on September 14 at a $52B valuation, including a huge array of clients and geopolitical tensions  —  The SoftBank-owned company, which for decades has defined how mobile phones operate, is grappling with geopolitical … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: A profile of Thierry Breton, as the EU prepares to enforce the DSA and DMA, giving the bloc unprecedented regulatory power over big American tech companies  —  Thierry Breton is a proponent of more regulation — and rules that boost EU companies. … The 68-year-old Frenchman was suppressing a smile … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: The White House says eight more companies, including Salesforce, Nvidia, Palantir, IBM, and Stability, are signing its voluntary AI pledge, for 15 in total  —  15 companies, ranging from Photoshop creator Adobe to ChatGPT maker OpenAI, have now taken the voluntary commitments Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: California’s Senate passes a bill that requires a human safety operator in self-driving trucks on public roads; the bill now needs the governor’s approval  —  In a blow to the autonomous trucking industry, the California Senate passed a bill Monday that requires a trained human safety operator … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ian King / Bloomberg: Investor video: Arm CEO Rene Haas outlines a pivot toward complex design work on specific products, a “purpose-built approach” to address the needs of clients  —  – SoftBank-owned chip designer has shifted its strategy  — Arm stock offering is set to get underway later this week Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: TikTok begins rolling out TikTok Shop to all US users, adding a home screen Shop button that sends users to a marketplace, and already has 200K+ sellers  —  The company is beginning to introduce TikTok Shop to all of the app’s users in the U.S., hoping to add a major new revenue stream. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Browne / CNBC: UK digital bank Monzo launches Investments, letting users invest as little as £1 in BlackRock-picked funds, its first foray into the investment market  —  – British digital bank Monzo has launched a feature that lets users invest with as little as £1. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Sources: in a first, Apple plans to make the India-built iPhone 15 available in the country and some other regions on the global sales debut day  —  – Devices from India to debut at same time as China-made ones  — IPhone 15 marks a milestone for India’s electronics ambitions Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steven Levy / Wired: Q&A with Sundar Pichai on 25 years of Google, competition in AI, ChatGPT in Bing, DeepMind and Google Brain, AI chips, staff’s bureaucracy complaints, and more  —  The tech giant is 25 years old.  In a chatbot war.  On trial for antitrust.  But its CEO says Google is good for 25 more. Lees verder op Tech Meme