Tech Meme

Josh Sisco / Politico: Sources give an overview of the FTC’s Amazon pursuit: considering challenging the $1.7B iRobot deal, retail antitrust case, dark pattern investigation, and more  —  The Biden administration is planning to take action soon on at least three of its half-dozen investigations of Amazon … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to lay off an additional 9,000 employees, mostly in AWS, PXT, Advertising, and Twitch, after cutting 18,000 jobs in January  —  – Amazon will lay off 9,000 more employees in the coming weeks, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to staff on Monday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Microsoft plans to launch a mobile app store for games as soon as 2024 if the Activision bid is cleared and the EU’s DMA rules for app stores come into effect  —  Xbox boss Phil Spencer says store could launch as soon as next year if regulators clear Activision Blizzard deal Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Netflix plans to launch 40 games in 2023 and has a further 70 in development, after releasing 55 titles since adding games in November 2021  —  Netflix has announced that it has 40 games slated for launch this year and has 70 in development with its partners. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Runway, which helped create Stable Diffusion, announces its Gen 2 system to generate three second snippets of video from prompt words, available via a waitlist  —  Artificial intelligence has made remarkable progress with still images.  For months, services like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carol E. Lee / NBC News: Source: in his upcoming testimony to Congress on March 23, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew plans to reveal TikTok has 150M MAUs in the US, up from 100M in August 2020  —  When TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before Congress on Thursday, he plans to unveil new internal data that suggests … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yoshihiro Sato / Bloomberg: Taiwan’s Ministry of Finance data: chip exports to China and Hong Kong fell 31.3% YoY in February, the worst decline since 2009 and above January’s 27.1% fall  —  Taiwan’s exports of integrated circuit chips to China and Hong Kong fell for a fourth month in February as Washington-Beijing tensions simmer … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bryce Elder / Financial Times: OpenAI’s GPT-4 failed a CFA Institute exam, the finance world’s self-styled toughest test, scoring eight out of 24, despite the answers being available online  —  Artificial intelligence versus arbitrary irrelevance  —  It’s an algorithmic mystery box that inspires fear, awe and derision in equal measure. Lees verder op Tech Meme

ABC News: An interview with Sam Altman on OpenAI’s GPT-4, how “people should be happy” that OpenAI is a “little bit scared of” its tools, misinformation, rivals, and more  —  “This will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed,” he said.  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks with ABC News, Mar. 15, 2023. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Burgess / Wired: How open source intelligence, or OSINT, researchers are using public data to untangle the mystery of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, helping debunk claims  —  Open source intelligence researchers are verifying and debunking opaque claims about who ruptured the gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea. Lees verder op Tech Meme