Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft is helping finance AMD’s expansion into AI chips and working with the chipmaker on Athena, Microsoft’s homegrown processor for AI workloads  —  Microsoft Corp. is working with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on the chipmaker’s expansion into artificial intelligence processors … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Discord plans to drop the four-digit tag after its usernames to make it “easier to connect” with others and force most users to pick a username with an @ prefix  —  Discord is taking away the four-digit tag that it puts after its usernames as it looks to make it “easier to connect” with other users. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research release StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating AI systems like GitHub Copilot, as part of their BigCode project  —  AI startup Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research, ServiceNow’s R&D division, have released StarCoder, a free alternative … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Shopify sells its logistics unit to supply chain tech company Flexport, after building the operation for years and acquiring Deliverr for $2.1B in May 2022  —  – Shopify is selling its logistics unit to supply chain technology company Flexport.  — The Canadian e-commerce company … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alf Wilkinson / Financial Times: A Finder.com experiment using ChatGPT to pick 38 stocks finds the portfolio rose 4.9% over eight weeks, compared to an average 0.8% loss for 10 popular UK funds  —  Theoretical fund of 38 stocks do better than 10 most popular funds on Interactive Investor, finds finder.com  —  Latest news on ETFs Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ilya Banares / Bloomberg: Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 25% YoY to $1.5B, vs. $1.43B est., GMV up 15% YoY to $49.6B, vs. $47.7B est., and plans to cut ~20% of its staff; SHOP jumps 20%+  —  Shopify Inc. cut jobs for the second time in less than a year and agreed to sell the majority of its logistics business … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jemima Kelly / Financial Times: Twitter’s Community Notes is changing fact-checking by avoiding the term and using a crowdsourced consensus, a model for a fairer and more transparent approach  —  The strength of the platform’s Community Notes feature is that it works through consensus  —  I think I might have let out an audible groan … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard Lawler / The Verge: Google releases a brief teaser video showing off the Pixel Fold, confirming that it will be officially revealed on May 10 during the Google I/O 2023 event  —  / This is Google’s first foldable phone.  More details are coming at Google I/O on May 10th. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meir Orbach / CTech: Israel-based Novidea, which sells software for every aspect of insurance, raised a $50M Series C led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $90M  —  Using an open API architecture, Novidea’s software platform enables brokers, agents, and MGAs to modernize and manage the customer insurance journey Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Salesforce announces SlackGPT, which will let users and developers build AI-driven experiences on the platform, and plans to incorporate EinsteinGPT into Slack  —  Slack has evolved from a pure communications platform to one that enables companies to link directly to enterprise applications without having … Lees verder op Tech Meme