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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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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