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Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Google claims its 4th-gen TPU-based supercomputers it uses for AI training are up to 1.7x faster and 1.9x more power-efficient than Nvidia’s A100-based 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

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Strivacity, which helps companies build secure customer login flows and identity management, raised a $20M Series A2 led by SignalFire  —  Identity and access security issues are increasingly top of mind for companies.  According to a recent Verizon survey, 61% of all breaches now involve credentials … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ethan Shanfeld / Variety: Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto says “mobile apps will not be the primary path of future Mario games” after two moderately successful but dwindling iOS games  —  As Nintendo takes its shot at the box office with “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” the first animated film featuring … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: Twitter’s new API tiers are useless for researchers; the $100/month plan is much worse than the old free plan, and the $42K-$210K/month plans are too expensive  —  Access to Twitter’s API has been mostly free to researchers for more than a decade.  So how does $210,000 a month sound? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Everstream Analytics, a provider of predictive insights for supply chain management, raised a $50M Series B co-led by Morgan Stanley’s 1GT Fund and StepStone  —  Just short of a year after raising $24 million from backers including DHL, Everstream Analytics, a company that provides predictive insights … Lees verder op Tech Meme

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

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Piper Sandler survey of 5,690 US teens in February 2023: 29% owned a VR device, but of those, 14% used it weekly, flat vs. fall 2022, and only 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

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: A look at BloombergGPT, an LLM announced on March 30 and trained on general purpose datasets and Bloomberg’s archives of news, filings, financial docs, and more  —  The news and data giant has — with a relatively small team — built a generative AI that it says outperforms the competition on its own specific information needs. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Charlize Alcaraz / BetaKit: Canada’s privacy commissioner launches an investigation into OpenAI in response to a complaint alleging the non-consensual collection and use of personal data  —  The Canadian privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into OpenAI, the company behind the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexander Martin / The Record: The FBI and over a dozen global partners seize Genesis Market, one of the top cyber fraud forums that sold stolen credentials and tools to weaponize that data  —  Genesis Market was seized on Tuesday in an FBI-led operation involving more than a dozen international partners … Lees verder op Tech Meme