Rebecca Rubin / Variety: The Super Mario Bros. Movie box office crosses $1B globally, becoming the most financially successful video game movie ever — “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” is officially the first film of the year to cross the coveted $1 billion milestone at the global box office. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Davey Alba / Bloomberg: NewsGuard finds 49 websites populated by generative AI posing as news outlets with generic names like News Live 79; some feature falsehoods and programmatic ads — The news-rating group NewsGuard has found dozens of news websites generated by AI chatbots proliferating online … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Cade Metz / New York Times: An interview with AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who recently left Google after over a decade to speak about AI’s risks, on regrets, quitting the company, and more — For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: Earnings from Meta, Amazon, Google, and Intel were better than expected, sparking hope that the post-pandemic hangover is fading, but sales growth still lags — Shares rise on better-than-expected results, but growth lags behind what Microsoft, Amazon and Google did in past Lees verder op Tech Meme
Drew Harwell / Washington Post: A profile of Will Wilkerson, a former Truth Social VP who blew the whistle, turned over 150K documents to the SEC and investigators, and now works at Starbucks — The former high-ranking executive of Trump’s media company says he’s shared 150,000 internal documents with federal investigators. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ivan Levingston / Financial Times: Sources: Istanbul-based grocery delivery startup Getir is in talks to acquire German rival Flink, which also is seeking to raise ~$100M at a $1B+ valuation — Discussions come as consolidation accelerates in one of the pandemic’s hottest tech sectors — Grocery delivery app pioneer Getir … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Forbes: Bhutan has quietly been mining bitcoin since 2019, becoming the second country after El Salvador known to have a state-run mine, and is planning a 100 MW mine — The Himalayan kingdom confirmed it has been running a bitcoin mining operation as mystery surrounds the scale of its earlier cryptocurrency investments. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Reuters: Arm confidentially filed with regulators for a US IPO; sources say Arm seeks to raise between $8B-$10B on the Nasdaq, which is expected to be 2023’s largest IPO — SoftBank Group Corp’s (9984.T) chip maker Arm Ltd has filed with regulators confidentially for a U.S. stock market listing … Lees verder op Tech Meme
New York Times: As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing screenwriters and actors seek to regulate the use of AI-produced material — As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing writers and actors seek limits on artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Financial Times: Carmakers raise concerns over Chinese companies, led by Huawei, filing a deluge of standard essential patents for the tech to access 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi networks — Led by Huawei, Chinese groups are filing patents around the tech that enables products to access the internet Lees verder op Tech Meme