Tech Meme

Vishal Chawla / The Block: NFT platform Recur plans to shut down by November 16, 2023, less than two years after raising a $50M Series A, and tells owners to move NFT metadata to the IPFS  —  – NFT platform Recur has decided to close less than two years after raising $50 million in a Series A funding round. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Monica Chin / The Verge: LG Gram Style (2023) review: 120Hz OLED, bold color-changing body, and lightweight, but limited power, poor thermal management and trackpad, and bendy chassis  —  At this point, I feel like people who want to buy an LG Gram know exactly what they’re getting.  Grams are made to travel. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Titcomb / Telegraph: Sources: the UK is in talks with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel to buy up to £100M in GPUs for a national “AI Research Resource”; some officials want to spend far more  —  Effort fuels prime minister’s ambitions to make Britain a global leader in the field Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: As Big Tech companies compel employees to return to the office, Atlassian, Airbnb, Dropbox, Twilio, and others remain steadfast backers of remote work  —  – Some tech companies still see benefit of work-from-home policy  — Move runs counter to effort to revive US office comeback Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Reisner / The Atlantic: Analysis: Books3, a dataset used to train Meta’s Llama, BloombergGPT, and EleutherAI’s GPT-J, contains 170K+ books from authors like Stephen King and Junot Díaz  —  One of the most troubling issues around generative AI is simple: It’s being made in secret. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Instacart, Databricks, and Socure are considered candidates to launch IPOs in 2024, as Arm’s forthcoming IPO provides a good test of investor sentiment  —  Instacart, Databricks and Socure are among the private tech companies reconsidering a stock market flotation Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kavish Harjai / Associated Press: The US announces $667M in new grants and loans for 37 new recipients to expand rural broadband infrastructure, after allocating $771.4M in April and June 2023  —  The Biden administration on Monday continued its push toward internet-for-all by 2030, announcing about $667 million in new grants … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Meta plans to launch a web version of Threads early this week, addressing a longstanding wish list item; Adam Mosseri confirmed testing the web app  —  Meta Platforms plans to launch a web version of microblogging app Threads early this week, the biggest new feature to be introduced … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A look at the potential impact of the EU DSA and DMA on Big Tech; some say the effect could be as severe as Great Depression-era laws that reined in US banks  —  Google, Meta Platforms and others are set to face regulations that resemble the detail and sweep of those imposed on banks Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Titcomb / Telegraph: Sources: the UK is in talks with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel to buy up to £100M in GPUs for a national “AI Research Resource”; some officials want to spend far more  —  Effort fuels prime minister’s ambitions to make Britain a global leader in the field Lees verder op Tech Meme