Tech Meme

Alan Rappeport / New York Times: The IRS says it has started using AI to investigate complex cases of tax evasion at multibillion-dollar partnerships, large hedge funds, PE groups, and others  —  The tax agency is opening examinations into large hedge funds, private equity groups, real estate investors and law firms. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: Local media: Turkey sentences Faruk Fatih Özer, the CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, to 11,196+ years; 400K+ users of Thodex lost $2B+ in crypto deposits  —  Thodex was one of Turkey’s largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: Local media: Turkey sentences Faruk Fatih Özer, the CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, to 11,196+ years; 400K+ users of Thodex lost $2B+ in crypto deposits  —  Thodex was one of Turkey’s largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: A look at Microsoft’s device-agnostic game streaming model; sources say Microsoft prototyped a cloud-focused Xbox handheld, but its cloud gaming work has slowed  —  With Steam Deck competitors on the rise, Microsoft has been focused on phones for Xbox Cloud Gaming so far. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: SAP acquires Germany-based startup LeanIX, which sells tools that map out companies’ IT architecture, sources say for $1.2B+; LeanIX had raised almost $120M  —  As companies look to stave off technical debt, a process of aging systems limiting a company’s ability to modernize … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Ant Group unveils a financial LLM for wealth management and insurance services, powering two tools: Zhixiaobao, for consumers, and Zhixiaozhu, for professionals  —  – Firm uses ChatGPT-like tech to power two financial apps  — Joins race against Baidu, Tencent for artificial intelligence Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Reliance’s Jio Platforms and Nvidia partner to build an LLM trained on India’s languages and AI cloud infrastructure that outperforms India’s top supercomputer  —  Reliance Industries’s Jio Platforms has partnered with GPU giant Nvidia to work on building a large language model that is trained … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Reliance’s Jio Platforms partners with Nvidia to build AI cloud infrastructure and work on building an LLM trained on India’s diverse languages  —  Reliance Industries’s Jio Platforms has partnered with GPU giant Nvidia to work on building a large language model that is trained on India’s diverse languages … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard Lai / Engadget: Huawei debuts the Mate 60 Pro+ and the Mate X5 foldable, both likely powered by Huawei’s mysterious HiSilicon Kirin 9000S; sources say the phones are 5G devices  —  The Mate 60 Pro+ and Mate X5 are likely based on Huawei’s locally-made chip.  —  Following Huawei’s surprise launch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: X updates its TOS to ban scraping and crawling without “prior written consent”, effective September 29, likely to stop companies training AI models on its data  —  Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, has updated its terms of service to prohibit scraping and crawling — likely to fend off any AI models training on its data. Lees verder op Tech Meme