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Q&A with Brex co-CEO Henrique Dubugras on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, launching Brex travel to compete with SAP Concur and Navan, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge) 05-04-2023

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Brex co-CEO Henrique Dubugras on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, launching Brex travel to compete with SAP Concur and Navan, and more  —  Everybody hates Concur.  Brex wants to replace it. … Brex is what you might call a neobank — not a traditional bank but, rather … Lees verder op Tech Meme

As AI chatbots explode, Helsinki-based Silo AI and other European startups race to improve responses in languages other than English, like German and Arabic (Financial Times) 05-04-2023

Financial Times: As AI chatbots explode, Helsinki-based Silo AI and other European startups race to improve responses in languages other than English, like German and Arabic  —  Companies aim to improve response quality after criticism of reliance on small group of mostly US participants Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ofcom says AWS, Azure, and Google may be limiting competition in the UK cloud computing market after a review since October 2022 and refers the case to the CMA (Katharine Gemmell/Bloomberg) 05-04-2023

Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: Ofcom says AWS, Azure, and Google may be limiting competition in the UK cloud computing market after a review since October 2022 and refers the case to the CMA  —  Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s cloud services could be limiting competition in the UK’s cloud sector … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Foxconn reports Q1 revenue rose 3.9% YoY to ~$48B, March revenue fell 21.1% YoY to ~$13B due to lower consumer electronics demand, and predicts weaker Q2 sales (Reuters) 05-04-2023

Reuters: Foxconn reports Q1 revenue rose 3.9% YoY to ~$48B, March revenue fell 21.1% YoY to ~$13B due to lower consumer electronics demand, and predicts weaker Q2 sales  —  Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker and major iPhone assembler for Apple Inc (AAPL.O) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

MobileCoin says Chief Product Officer Bob Lee has died, remembering him as “a force of nature” who helped “birth Android and CashApp” as the first Square CTO (Anne VanderMey/Bloomberg) 05-04-2023

Anne VanderMey / Bloomberg: MobileCoin says Chief Product Officer Bob Lee has died, remembering him as “a force of nature” who helped “birth Android and CashApp” as the first Square CTO  —  Bob Lee, the chief product officer of crypto startup MobileCoin Inc., has died, the company said. Lees verder op Tech Meme

How surveillance industry blog IPVM ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war after investigating Hikvision's and Dahua's mass face recognition systems (Amos Zeeberg/Wired) 05-04-2023

Amos Zeeberg / Wired: How surveillance industry blog IPVM ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war after investigating Hikvision’s and Dahua’s mass face recognition systems  —  Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Google claims its 4th-gen TPU-based supercomputers, used for AI training, are up to 1.7x faster and 1.9x more power-efficient than Nvidia's A100 systems (Stephen Nellis/Reuters) 05-04-2023

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Google claims its 4th-gen TPU-based supercomputers, used for AI training, are up to 1.7x faster and 1.9x more power-efficient than Nvidia’s A100 systems  —  Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday released new details about the supercomputers it uses to train its artificial intelligence models … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Biden says tech companies have a responsibility to ensure AI products are safe before making them public and whether AI is dangerous remains to be seen (Jeff Mason/Reuters) 05-04-2023

Jeff Mason / Reuters: Biden says tech companies have a responsibility to ensure AI products are safe before making them public and whether AI is dangerous remains to be seen  —  U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday it remains to be seen whether artificial intelligence is dangerous, but underscored … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Piper Sandler survey of 5,690 US teens in February: 29% owned a VR device, but of those, 14% used it weekly, flat compared to fall 2022, and 4% used it daily (Kif Leswing/CNBC) 05-04-2023

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Piper Sandler survey of 5,690 US teens in February: 29% owned a VR device, but of those, 14% used it weekly, flat compared to fall 2022, and 4% used it daily  —  – Virtual reality hasn’t caught on with American teens, according to a new survey from Piper Sandler released on Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Chinese regulators have slowed merger approvals of deals by US firms, asking some to make products that they sell in other countries available in China (Wall Street Journal) 05-04-2023

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Chinese regulators have slowed merger approvals of deals by US firms, asking some to make products that they sell in other countries available in China  —  The U.S. encouraged China to set up a robust antitrust regime.  Now, Beijing is holding back its required green light for mergers … Lees verder op Tech Meme