Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: SoftBank-owned Arm is in talks to add Nvidia as an anchor investor while the company presses ahead with plans for a New York IPO as soon as September  —  World’s most valuable semiconductor group discusses acquiring stake in SoftBank-owned chip designer ahead of New York listing Lees verder op Tech Meme

Catherine Thorbecke / CNN: A California law firm launches a class-action suit against Google, alleging user data scraping without consent for AI training, after a similar OpenAI suit  —  Google was hit with a wide-ranging lawsuit on Tuesday alleging the tech giant scraped data from millions of users without their consent … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Linux distribution company SUSE plans to create a hard fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, investing $10M into the project over the coming years  —  A storm is brewing in open-source land that could change the Linux distro landscape  —  Today, SUSE announced that it is creating a hard fork … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Noam Cohen / Bloomberg: A look at Wikipedia in Russia after the Ukraine invasion, where the service remains popular, and Kremlin-compliant upstart Ruwiki, led by a long-service editor  —  When a group of armed mercenaries seized a Russian regional capital and began marching toward Moscow in late June, verified information was hard to come by. Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Kirton / Reuters: Research: Huawei is plotting a return to the US 5G smartphone market by the end of 2023 using its own chip design tools and SMIC’s chipmaking process  —  – US-sanctioned giant likely to produce 5G chips domestically  — Chips expected to use Huawei EDA tools and SMIC production Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Prolific, which stress tests AI models through its network of 120K human participants, raised £25M co-led by Partech and Oxford Science Enterprises  —  AI, when it works well, can feel like magic, but all too often AI-based systems don’t work as they should … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Gabriel Simon / Bloomberg: Indian IT giant Wipro plans to spend $1B over the next three years to train its 250K employees in AI and integrate the technology into its product offerings  —  Wipro Ltd., the Indian outsourcing provider, plans to spend $1 billion to train its 250,000 employees in artificial intelligence … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Prolific, which stress tests AI models through its network of 120K human participants, raised £25M co-led by Partech and Oxford Science Enterprises  —  AI, when it works well, can feel like magic, but all too often AI-based systems don’t work as they should … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sheila Chiang / CNBC: Temasek does not plan to invest in crypto companies due to regulatory uncertainty; the company wrote down its $275M FTX investment to zero in November 2022  —  – Temasek is not currently looking to invest in crypto firms, following a $275 million FTX loss.  — “There’s a lot of regulatory uncertainty in this environment. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Prolific, which stress tests AI models through its network of 120K human participants, raised £25M co-led by Partech and Oxford Science Enterprises  —  AI, when it works well, can feel like magic, but all too often AI-based systems don’t work as they should … Lees verder op Tech Meme