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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Hugging Face confirms raising a $235M Series D from Salesforce, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and others, bringing its total funding to $395.2M  —  As first reported by The Information, then seemingly verified by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on X (formerly known as Twitter) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emilia David / The Verge: Meta releases Code Llama, a tool built on top of Llama 2 to generate new code and debug human-written work, under the same community license as Llama 2  —  Meta has released a tool called Code Llama, built on top of its Llama 2 large language model, to generate new code and debug human-written work, the company said. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: Filing: T-Mobile plans to cut ~7% of its global staff, or ~5,000 jobs, mostly in corporate and tech; AT&T has cut 74,130 jobs, or 32% of its staff, since 2021  —  T-Mobile USA Inc. is cutting 7% of its staff, part of an effort to rein in costs as the company spends heavily to attract … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dade Hayes / Deadline: WBD plans to launch CNN Max, a 24/7 stream pulled from CNN’s US and international feeds alongside some original content, in “open beta” on September 27 on Max  —  – Netflix Added 2.6M U.S. Subscribers In July, Continuing Advertising Momentum Amid Password-Sharing Crackdown, Study Finds Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Study: in May 2023, ~150K nonconsensual porn deepfakes, with 3.8B total views, appeared on 30 sites, up 9x since 2019, aided by services from big tech companies  —  To stay up and running, deepfake creators rely on products and services from Google, Apple, Amazon, CloudFlare and Microsoft Lees verder op Tech Meme

VideoCardz.com: MSI shares an unlisted video confirming Intel’s upcoming 14th Gen CPUs will see no major core count upgrades and will be 3% faster than 13th Gen CPUs on average  —  MSI unimpressed with 14th Gen Core series  —  MSI made a mistake of sharing an unlisted video which has now leaked out. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: Q&A with Phil Spencer on growing Game Pass, Microsoft’s mobile focus, streaming Starfield and other games on mobile, Xbox generations, console prices, and more  —  Phil Spencer on new hardware, price drops, mid-gen refreshes – and why the company won’t ditch Series S.  —  Interview by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: A vessel should repair the West Africa Cable System, which runs ~10K miles from Europe to Africa, by September, after disruption to all South African networks  —  – Cable-layer vessel Leon Thevenin moored in Cape Town  — Rock fall in Congo Canyon damaged West Africa cable system Lees verder op Tech Meme

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: To comply with the EU DSA, Google plans to expand its Ads Transparency Center and offer more details on EU ad targeting, increase researcher access, and more  —  Google will provide more information on targeted advertisements and give researchers more access to data on how its products work … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: Filings: FTX wants to begin selling, staking, and hedging its crypto holdings, valued at over $3B, and seeks to hire Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy as an advisor  —  The bankrupt exchange wants to return funds to creditors in dollars without denting value.  —  Register Now Lees verder op Tech Meme