Tech Meme

Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: AWS VP Swami Sivasubramanian says thousands of customers, including Sony and Ryanair, have tried its AI services suite Bedrock ahead of a wider roll out “soon”  —  Amazon.com’s (AMZN.O) cloud division has drawn thousands of customers to try out its service vying with Microsoft … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicro reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $4.33B, beating estimates of $4.29B, and inventory rose to 126 days, up from 104 in Q2 2022  —  – Revenue revenue rose 13% to $4.33 billion in second quarter  — Inventory rose to 126 days at the end of the quarter Lees verder op Tech Meme

Morgan Meaker / Wired: As Israel enacts controversial judicial reforms, many tech companies are protesting or distancing themselves from the country, moving money and HQs overseas  —  As protests rage over Israel’s controversial reforms to the supreme court, many tech companies have been moving their money and headquarters offshore. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based AutogenAI, which offers generative AI tools to write bids and pitches, raised $22.3M; a source says the valuation was in the “hundreds of millions”  —  Business is regularly won and lost on the strength of a proposal.  Now, a startup out of London called AutogenAI … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: A postmortem of Neeva, which tried to build a faster, simpler, and ad-free search engine, and how default search engine choices reinforce Google’s dominance  —  A couple of ex-Googlers set out to create the search engine of the future.  They built something faster, simpler, and ad-free. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Netflix is reworking its tech deal with Microsoft for its ad tier to reduce the revenue guarantee and has discussed selling ads through other partners  —  Streamer asks for patience as it tries to jump-start $6.99 a month ad tier  —  Netflix is restructuring its advertising partnership … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisyah Llewellyn / Al Jazeera: Indonesia restricts X.com, which now redirects to twitter.com after Twitter rebranding to X, as the domain had been previously used by porn and gambling sites  —  Medan, Indonesia – Elon Musk’s aspirations for X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, have hit a stumbling block … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept: Netflix lists a $300K to $900K-a-year ML product manager job that points to its plans to use AI to “create great content”, as actors strike for AI protections  —  Rob Delaney said, “My melodious voice?  My broad shoulders and dancer’s undulating buttocks?  I decide how those are used! Lees verder op Tech Meme

Morgan Meaker / Wired: Amid Israel’s controversial judicial reforms, many tech companies are protesting or distancing themselves from the country, moving money and their HQs overseas  —  As protests rage over Israel’s controversial reforms to the supreme court, many tech companies have been moving their money and headquarters offshore. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: The US DOJ informed a federal judge that Sam Bankman-Fried won’t face the campaign finance charge, which wasn’t part of an extradition document with The Bahamas  —  The Justice Department said late Wednesday that the campaign finance charge was not included in an extradition document with The Bahamas … Lees verder op Tech Meme