Tech Meme

Reuters: Foxconn reports Q2 revenue down 14% YoY to ~$40.9B, net profit down 1% YoY to ~$1B, beating analyst estimates of ~$801M, and issues a cautious H2 2023 outlook  —  Apple (AAPL.O) supplier Foxconn (2317.TW) beat estimates for second-quarter earnings on Monday thanks to a booming artificial intelligence sector … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Prachir Singh / Counterpoint Research: Mobile phone shipments crossed 2B cumulative units under the “Make in India” initiative between 2014 and 2022, a 23% CAGR, for 98% of local shipments in 2022  —  – India’s mobile phone production grew at a CAGR of 23% during 2014-2022 to cross a cumulative 2bn units. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Graham-Harrison / The Guardian: In Taiwan, Douyin, Xiaohongshu, and other lifestyle and shopping apps are increasingly becoming part of China’s information war, aided by a shared language  —  Lifestyle and shopping apps are the latest weapons in Beijing’s information war against its neighbour  —  Emma Graham-Harrison and Chi-Hui Lin in Taichung Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lorena O’Neil / Rolling Stone: A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say we need to take the problems and risks seriously today  —  Today the risks of artificial intelligence are clear — but the warning signs have been there all along  —  T  —  IMNIT GEBRU DIDN’T set out to work in AI. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: How Unilever, Siemens, Maersk, and other big companies are using AI to negotiate contracts, find new suppliers, and navigate other complex supply chain issues  —  Geopolitical tensions and new laws requiring companies to monitor environmental and human rights abuses in their supply networks drive interest Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joyce Lee / Reuters: Anthropic raised $100M from South Korea-based SK Telecom, which also invested in Anthropic in May 2023, as the two aim to build a telco-focused multilingual LLM  —  South Korea’s largest telco SK Telecom (017670.KS) said it will invest $100 million in U.S. artificial intelligence firm Anthropic … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Streitfeld / New York Times: A look at publishers’ legal fight against the Internet Archive’s book lending program; the Internet Archive agreed to drop the publishers’ “full book catalogs”  —  In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library.  Publishers sued. Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Streitfeld / New York Times: A look at publishers’ legal fight against the Internet Archive’s book lending program; the parties reached a deal Friday to remove some books from the archive  —  In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library.  Publishers sued. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: Generative AI could be a dud, so we shouldn’t build around the premise that the tech is world-changing, which in hindsight may turn out to have been unrealistic  —  With the possible exception of the quick to rise and quick to fall alleged room-temperature superconductor LK-99 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Q&A with an FBI agent on targeting and taking down DDoS-for-hire sites, why Christmas is the busiest DDoS time, how attacks have changed over 10 years, and more  —  In an interview at Black Hat, FBI agents explain how they target and take down DDoS-for-hire sites Lees verder op Tech Meme