Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: EchoStar co-founder Charlie Ergen strikes a deal to merge Dish and EchoStar, a move aimed at getting the funds for a wireless network to rival AT&T and Verizon  —  Deal aims to give Dish the financial flexibility it needs to compete in the next generation of wireless Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: Stability AI launches StableCode, an LLM that generates code based on open-source BigCode project’s data, supporting Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, C, and C++  —  Stability AI is well known for its Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation model, but that’s not all the generative AI startup is interested in developing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google debuts Project IDX, an AI-enabled browser-based dev environment that uses Visual Studio Code Open Source and integrates with Google’s PaLM 2-based Codey  —  Google today announced the launch of Project IDX, its foray into offering an AI-enabled browser-based development environment … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ian King / Bloomberg: Nvidia announces the Grace Hopper Superchip, a combination GPU and CPU relying on high-bandwidth memory 3, or HBM3e, expected to enter production in Q2 2024  —  – Company is upgrading lineup that fueled $1 trillion valuation  — New chip could make it harder for rivals like AMD to catch up Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Data management company Rubrik acquires Laminar, which helps companies manage public cloud data security, sources say for around $200M to $250M  —  Cybersecurity startups, in particular those hatched in Israel, have been getting scooped up a rapid pace by larger tech companies looking to bolt … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hugh Son / CNBC: The SEC fines 11 Wall Street firms $289M total for poor recordkeeping by using apps including Signal, WhatsApp, and iMessage; CFTC fines four banks $260M total  —  – U.S. regulators on Tuesday announced a combined $549 million in penalties against Wall Street firms that failed to maintain electronic records of employee communications. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: WhatsApp introduces screen sharing during video calls, rolling out gradually on Android, iOS, and Windows, and support for Landscape mode on video calls  —  WhatsApp today introduced screen sharing as its latest feature to enhance the video calling experience on its platform … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jeff Kosseff / Wired: Unlike in Gonzalez v. Google, SCOTUS in the next year can’t just punt the NetChoice cases challenging social media content moderation laws in Texas and Florida  —  Forget Gonzalez v. Google.  There’s another dispute that will come before the justices in the next year and this time they will … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Nvidia announces AI Workbench, letting users create, test, and tweak LLMs from Hugging Face and others on local workstations before utilizing cloud resources  —  Timed to coincide with SIGGRAPH, the annual AI academic conference, Nvidia this morning announced a new platform designed to let users create … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: Stability AI launches StableCode, a code generation LLM based on data from the open-source BigCode project, supporting Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, C, and C++  —  Stability AI is well known for its Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation model, but that’s not all the generative AI startup is interested in developing. Lees verder op Tech Meme