Ari Levy / CNBC: Instacart shares open up 40% on Nasdaq at $42, valuing the grocery delivery company at about $14B — – Instacart is the first notable venture-backed tech company to hit the U.S. public market since December 2021. — The grocery delivery company, once valued at $39 billion … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: UK’s parliament passes the Online Safety Bill, paving the way for Royal Assent and the bill becoming law in the coming days — Controversial UK legislation that brings in a new regime of content moderation rules for online platforms and services — establishing the comms watchdog Ofcom … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Justine Calma / The Verge: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative plans to build an AI GPU cluster of 1,000+ Nvidia H100 GPUs to run “openly available” models of human cells for medical research — Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s foundation is funding the construction of a massive computing system for medical research. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Tom Warren / The Verge: What to expect from Microsoft’s special NYC event: Surface Laptop Studio 2, Surface Go 4, and Laptop Go 3, and AI updates for Windows, Surface, Office, and Bing — Microsoft is holding a “special event” in New York City later this week where it’s expected to debut three new Surface devices … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Crowdstrike confirms acquiring Bionic, which analyzes a company’s tech and IT to find vulnerabilities, sources say for $350M; Bionic has raised ~$82M in total — Update: Crowdstrike has now officially confirmed the deal. As we previously reported, Crowdstrike will merge Bionic’s tech with its Falcon product. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Matt Day / Bloomberg: Amazon announces a new version of Just Walk Out for clothing retailers, using RFID tags to track apparel; the grocery version relies on ceiling-mounted cameras — – Latest iteration uses RFID tags and readers to track apparel — Some retailers have balked at using Just Walk Out system Lees verder op Tech Meme
Greg Bensinger / Reuters: Interviews with 15 current and former employees at Amazon’s Lab126 hardware unit describe low morale due to layoffs and fears of a weak development pipeline — Some workers within Amazon’s (AMZN.O) once-storied hardware division – responsible for popular devices like the Kindle reader … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Austin-based HiddenLayer, which focuses on hardening the security of AI models used by companies, raised a $50M Series A led by M12 and Moore Strategic Ventures — HiddenLayer, a security startup focused on protecting AI systems from adversarial attacks, today announced that it raised $50 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Clive Cookson / Financial Times: Google DeepMind details its new AlphaMissense AI, which predicts if mutations in human genes are likely to be harmful, an example of AI accelerating diagnosis — First example of artificial intelligence helping to accelerate diagnosis of diseases caused by genetic variants Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sean Hollister / The Verge: Intel announces Meteor Lake, its first chips to use its new chiplet architecture, offering CPUs using the Intel 4 process node, ahead of a December 14 “launch” — For many months, Intel has spared no opportunity to remind us that its Meteor Lake chips would be the ones to watch … Lees verder op Tech Meme