Tech Meme

Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Ant Group unveils a financial LLM for wealth management and insurance services, powering two tools: Zhixiaobao, for consumers, and Zhixiaozhu, for professionals  —  – Firm uses ChatGPT-like tech to power two financial apps  — Joins race against Baidu, Tencent for artificial intelligence Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Reliance’s Jio Platforms and Nvidia partner to build an LLM trained on India’s languages and AI cloud infrastructure that outperforms India’s top supercomputer  —  Reliance Industries’s Jio Platforms has partnered with GPU giant Nvidia to work on building a large language model that is trained … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: Local media: Turkey sentences Faruk Fatih Özer, the CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, to 11,196+ years; 400K+ users of Thodex lost $2B+ in crypto deposits  —  Thodex was one of Turkey’s largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: A look at Microsoft’s device-agnostic game streaming model; sources say Microsoft prototyped a cloud-focused Xbox handheld, but its cloud gaming work has slowed  —  With Steam Deck competitors on the rise, Microsoft has been focused on phones for Xbox Cloud Gaming so far. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: SAP acquires Germany-based startup LeanIX, which sells tools that map out companies’ IT architecture, sources say for $1.2B+; LeanIX had raised almost $120M  —  As companies look to stave off technical debt, a process of aging systems limiting a company’s ability to modernize … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Square says the company has resolved a day-long outage that has left some small business owners unable to access their accounts or process credit card payments  —  Fintech giant Square says its services are coming back online after a day-long outage left small business owners unable to process payments. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: What to expect from Apple’s “Wonderlust” event on September 12: four iPhone 15 models with USB-C, the Apple Watch Series 9 with a new chip and sensors, and more  —  Company will spotlight titanium iPhone 15 Pro and cameras, switch to USB-C chargers and faster smartwatches. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: Local media: Turkey sentences Faruk Fatih Özer, the CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, to 11,196+ years; 400K+ users of Thodex lost $2B+ in crypto deposits  —  Thodex was one of Turkey’s largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Turkey-based grocery delivery startup Getir is raising $500M from Mubadala, Michael Moritz, and others at a $2.5B valuation, vs. $11.8B in March 2022  —  Istanbul-based grocery app company, which had been valued at nearly $12bn in early 2022, raises $500mn Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Reliance’s Jio Platforms partners with Nvidia to build AI cloud infrastructure and work on building an LLM trained on India’s diverse languages  —  Reliance Industries’s Jio Platforms has partnered with GPU giant Nvidia to work on building a large language model that is trained on India’s diverse languages … Lees verder op Tech Meme