Bloomberg: Telecoms plan to repair the West Africa Cable System, which runs ~16,000 km from Europe to Africa, by September, after disruptions at 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’s DSA, Google plans to expand its Ads Transparency Center and offer more info on EU targeted ads, give researchers more 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: Court 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
Haomiao Huang / Ars Technica: How LLMs for chat turned AI into a general-purpose information-processing tool, as AI undergoes a transformation much like how chips gave rise to CPUs and GPUs — Until recently, AI models were specialized tools. Modern LLMs are different. — The chief technology officer … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Abraham Augustine / TechCabal: Canada-based LemFi, which offers remittances and other payment services for immigrants worldwide, raised a $33M Series A, bringing its total funding to ~$34M — On the back of successfully serving African migrants in Canada and the UK, LemFi has raised $33 million in Series A funding … Lees verder op Tech Meme
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
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
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
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
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