Tech Meme

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: As AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and other cloud providers face pressure to meet AI demand, Dell, Qualcomm, and other on-premises hardware providers see an opening  —  Traditional cloud infrastructure wasn’t designed to support large-scale artificial intelligence.  Hyperscalers are quickly working to rebuild it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cecilia Kang / New York Times: Critics say FTC Chair Lina Khan’s take-it-to-the-courts strategy is flawed, ahead of a House Judiciary Committee hearing to “examine mismanagement of the FTC”  —  Lina Khan has said a fear of defeat should not deter the agency from suing big tech companies. Lees verder op Tech Meme

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

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Twitter’s best defense against Threads may be to refocus on news and reactions from people you follow, leaving growth via algorithmic feeds to Threads  —  If you’re only going to tweet once every 11 years, then you better make it count; the best way to do just that is to pull off a well-executed meme: Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Collective, a financial management service for freelancers offering bookkeeping, payroll, and tax tools, raised $50M, bringing its total funding to $82M  —  Collective, a platform and advisory team that provides bookkeeping, payroll and tax advice to freelancers, today announced it raised $50 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Salesforce plans its first price hike in seven years by ~9% for some products like Tableau and Sales Cloud, effective August 2023 for new and existing customers  —  Salesforce Inc. is raising prices for the first time in seven years after introducing artificial intelligence features. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Linux distribution company SUSE says it’s creating a hard fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and plans to invest $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 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Threads can avoid Google+’s failure by not simply relying on the scale of Meta’s existing products, but by giving users a compelling reason to keep coming back  —  Mark Zuckerberg has used Meta’s might to push Threads to a fast start — but that may only work up to a point. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: A breakdown of Elon Musk’s misguided complaint against law firm Wachtell, which received $90M from Twitter for forcing Musk to complete the $44B Twitter deal  —  Oh Elon  —  Disclosure!  A long time ago I used to work as a very junior mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: A US district judge dismissed a suit by r/WallStreetBets founder Jaime Rogozinski who accused Reddit of wrongly banning him as the community’s moderator in 2020  —  A U.S. judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit in which the founder of WallStreetBets, which helped ignite investors’ fascination with … Lees verder op Tech Meme