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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

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

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

Financial Times: An in-depth look at how Google’s Transformer model, developed by eight researchers in 2017, radically sped up and augmented how computers understand language  —  Over the past few years, we have taken a gigantic leap forward in our decades-long quest to build intelligent machines: the advent of the large language model, or LLM. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Clara Hernanz Lizarraga / Bloomberg: Sources: Inditex races to fix bugs in Zara’s new anti-shoplifting system, based on RFID, to replace plastic tags; some staff worry over 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 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