Bloomberg: After a massive privacy backlash in 2011, Google’s Street View cameras returned to Germany in June, taking new photos of its 20 largest cities — – Street View will start updating Germany’s 20 largest cities — Google Street View’s cameras have returned to Germany more than a decade … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ian King / Bloomberg: Texas Instruments reports Q2 revenue down 13% YoY to $4.53B, beating estimates of $4.35B, and forecasts lukewarm Q3 revenue as the global chip slump continues — – Shares slip after chipmaker delivers quarterly report — Automotive field is bright spot for company suffering slowdown Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Twitter changes its handle from @twitter to @X, Twitter Blue to @XBlue, @TwitterSupport to @Support, and more; the previous @X owner now uses @x12345678998765 — Twitter has changed its official handle to @X as part of the ongoing rebranding. As a result, the original @Twitter handle is now inactive … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Emilia David / The Verge: GitHub, Hugging Face, Creative Commons, and others write a paper for EU policymakers encouraging support for open-source AI models ahead of the final EU AI Act — In a paper sent to EU policymakers, a group of companies, including GitHub, Hugging Face, Creative Commons, and others … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Anto Antony / Bloomberg: A profile of Indian edtech giant Byju’s CEO Byju Raveendran, who has been in crisis mode for months but hopes to raise a $1B equity investment as soon as August — – Indian firm has struggled to overcome issues with liquidity — US investors accused Byju’s of hiding half a billion dollars Lees verder op Tech Meme
George Hammond / Financial Times: Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI launch the Frontier Model Forum, aiming to ensure “the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models” — Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI team up to establish best practices but critics argue they want to avoid regulation Lees verder op Tech Meme
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority: Evan Blass leaks over a dozen images ahead of Samsung Unpacked, showing the Galaxy Z Fold 5, Z Flip 5, new Galaxy Watch 6, Galaxy Tab S9 tablets, and more — All we need to know at this stage is pricing and availability details. — • — TL;DR — A long-time leaker has posted … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Josh Ye / Reuters: Alibaba plans to let business customers use Meta’s Llama 2 to build apps, the first Chinese company to do so; companies with <700M MAUs can use Llama for free — Alibaba’s (9988.HK) cloud computing division said it has become the first Chinese enterprise to support Meta’s (META.O) … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Richard Waters / Financial Times: An interview with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky on generative AI, the Microsoft-OpenAI deal, competition among cloud providers offering generative AI services, and more — Head of Amazon Web Services says Microsoft and OpenAI are not way ahead — there will be choice and competition Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ben Tarnoff / The Guardian: A profile of Joseph Weizenbaum, who created the first chatbot in 1966 but turned against AI, believing the computer revolution constricted our humanity — Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans Lees verder op Tech Meme