Tech Meme

Kenrick Cai / Forbes: A profile of Alexandr Wang, a co-founder of Scale AI, which outsources ~240K workers via its subsidiary Remotasks to label the data used to train AI systems  —  Alexandr Wang briefly became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at 24 by supplying artificial intelligence companies with the one thing they all need: humans. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: FTX’s attorneys say the company recovered $7.3B in liquid assets and is considering using creditors’ holdings to reopen the exchange; FTX’s FTT token jumps 70%+  —  FTT jumped 55%.  —  Featured SpeakerBrett Harrison  —  Founder and CEOArchitect  —  Don’t miss “FTX: What Happened” … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google releases Android 14 Beta 1 for Pixel devices, with sharesheet custom actions, a more prominent back arrow, per-app language preferences, and more  —  Google’s Android development cycle runs on a rather predictable cadence these days.  Today, after two developer previews … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: IBM explores selling its weather unit in a deal that could be valued at $1B+; IBM reportedly paid $2B+ for The Weather Company’s digital assets in 2015  —  Weather.com owner could fetch more than $1 billion in a sale  —  International Business Machines Corp. is exploring a sale … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Filings: SoftBank has sold ~$7.2B worth of Alibaba shares in 2023, reducing its stake in the Chinese company to just 3.8%, after a record $29B selldown in 2022  —  Japanese investor makes $7.2bn from forward sales of shares in Chinese ecommerce group as lucrative partnership wanes Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Fung / CNN: Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs a bill requiring that social media companies verify new users’ ages and get a parent’s consent for users under 18  —  Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed a sweeping bill imposing a minimum age limit for social media usage … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: NYC-based Cybersyn, a data-as-a-service startup that aims to make economic data more accessible, emerges from stealth with a $62.9M Series A led by Snowflake  —  Cybersyn, a New York-based company offering data-as-a-service for enterprises, today emerged from stealth with $62.9 million in Series A funding. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Glynn / BBC: Twitter changes its label on the main BBC account from “Government Funded Media” to “Publicly funded media”, after the broadcaster called the label inaccurate  —  Twitter has changed a label on the main BBC account, saying it is “publicly-funded” instead of … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: NPR decides to “no longer be active on Twitter” after the platform took “actions that undermine our credibility” by implying NPR is not editorially independent  —  The broadcaster said that the label undermined its credibility “by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: LinkedIn announces free identity verification via company email for all users globally and via a government ID and phone number for US users using CLEAR  —  LinkedIn is introducing new ways to verify your identity and where you work, the company announced on Wednesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme