Tech Meme

Brendan Case / Bloomberg: Walmart partners with Alphabet’s Wing to test drone deliveries of up to six miles at two stores in the Dallas area, dropping off food and household essentials  —  – Project boosts aerial range capabilities for the retailer  — Service will be offered at two stores in the Dallas area Lees verder op Tech Meme

Haomiao Huang / Ars Technica: How LLMs for chat turned AI into a general-purpose information-processing tool, as AI undergoes a transformation much like how chips gave rise to CPUs and GPUs  —  Until recently, AI models were specialized tools.  Modern LLMs are different.  —  The chief technology officer … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abraham Augustine / TechCabal: Canada-based LemFi, which offers remittances and other payment services for immigrants worldwide, raised a $33M Series A, bringing its total funding to ~$34M  —  On the back of successfully serving African migrants in Canada and the UK, LemFi has raised $33 million in Series A funding … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Hugging Face confirms raising a $235M Series D from Salesforce, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and others, bringing its total funding to $395.2M  —  As first reported by The Information, then seemingly verified by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on X (formerly known as Twitter) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: Filing: T-Mobile plans to cut ~7% of its global staff, or ~5,000 jobs, mostly in corporate and tech; AT&T has cut 74,130 jobs, or 32% of its staff, since 2021  —  T-Mobile USA Inc. is cutting 7% of its staff, part of an effort to rein in costs as the company spends heavily to attract … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emilia David / The Verge: Meta releases Code Llama, a tool built on top of Llama 2 to generate new code and debug human-written work, under the same community license as Llama 2  —  Meta has released a tool called Code Llama, built on top of its Llama 2 large language model, to generate new code and debug human-written work, the company said. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dade Hayes / Deadline: WBD plans to launch CNN Max, a 24/7 stream pulled from CNN’s US and international feeds alongside some original content, in “open beta” on September 27 on Max  —  – Netflix Added 2.6M U.S. Subscribers In July, Continuing Advertising Momentum Amid Password-Sharing Crackdown, Study Finds Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Study: in May 2023, ~150K nonconsensual porn deepfakes, with 3.8B total views, appeared on 30 sites, up 9x since 2019, aided by services from big tech companies  —  To stay up and running, deepfake creators rely on products and services from Google, Apple, Amazon, CloudFlare and Microsoft Lees verder op Tech Meme

VideoCardz.com: MSI shares an unlisted video confirming Intel’s upcoming 14th Gen CPUs will see no major core count upgrades and will be 3% faster than 13th Gen CPUs on average  —  MSI unimpressed with 14th Gen Core series  —  MSI made a mistake of sharing an unlisted video which has now leaked out. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: Q&A with Phil Spencer on growing Game Pass, Microsoft’s mobile focus, streaming Starfield and other games on mobile, Xbox generations, console prices, and more  —  Phil Spencer on new hardware, price drops, mid-gen refreshes – and why the company won’t ditch Series S.  —  Interview by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief Lees verder op Tech Meme