Tech Meme

Eri Sugiura / Financial Times: Huawei and Ericsson renew a multiyear global patent cross-licensing deal for 5G and other tech; Huawei owns 20% of global 5G patents, the most of any company  —  Agreement gives Chinese group a boost after being subject to bans in Europe and the US  —  Huawei has sealed a multiyear patent … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Forbes: Sources: EvolutionaryScale, founded by members of Meta’s recently axed protein-folding team to build LLMs for biology, raised a $40M+ seed at a $200M valuation  —  Former Meta researchers who developed an AI language model for biology have launched a new startup and raised at least $40 million, Forbes has learned. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Oliver Roeder / Financial Times: A look at Smallville, a virtual village populated by AI chatbots, built by Stanford and Google researchers to create a society with “believable human behavior”  —  Giving digital agents ‘memory streams’ produced surprising results  —  John Lin is a small-town pharmacist who takes great pride in his work. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Singer / New York Times: Despite cheating and misinformation fears, some US schools that once raced to block AI chatbot access are now encouraging teachers and students to use them  —  Some districts that once raced to block A.I. chatbots are now trying to embrace them.  —  For decades, Walla Walla High School … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: A profile of New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, is valued at ~$2B, and has 700 clients, including Microsoft and Inflection AI  —  It’s not just Nvidia.  There is another big winner of the AI boom—and it’s now competing with some of the world’s most valuable companies. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ana Paula Pereira / Cointelegraph: Nansen: ~90% of PYUSD is held in issuer Paxos Trust’s wallets, indicating a “lack of demand from crypto users” for PayPal’s stablecoin that launched on August 7  —  PayPal’s stablecoin debut raised hopes for broader adoption and an introduction of cryptocurrencies to the masses. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joe Wituschek / BGR: X launches its job posting feature X Hiring in beta for verified organizations, allowing them to “organically reach millions of relevant candidates”  —  Who goes to LinkedIn to look for a job?  Nah, those days are over.  X is the new place to find your next employer. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Baker-White / Forbes: Sources: Oracle employees reviewing TikTok’s source code sit at desks beneath cameras controlled by TikTok, a requirement that came from the Chinese government  —  Under a draft agreement between ByteDance and CFIUS, Oracle would be TikTok’s partner — and a government proctor. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube offers insights meant to guide Shorts creators, including how the Shorts algorithm differs from long-form YouTube’s algorithm and what counts as a view  —  YouTube this week put out a new video meant to address creators’ questions over its short-form video platform, YouTube Shorts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eri Sugiura / Financial Times: Huawei and Ericsson renew a multiyear global patent cross-licensing deal for 5G and other technologies; Huawei owns 20% of global 5G patents  —  Agreement gives Chinese group a boost after being subject to bans in Europe and the US  —  Huawei has sealed a multiyear patent cross-licensing deal … Lees verder op Tech Meme