Tech Meme

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The European Commission opens an in-depth probe into Adobe’s $20B Figma deal, after a preliminary review triggered concerns that it may reduce competition  —  Adobe’s (ADBE.O) $20 billion bid for cloud-based designer platform Figma could reduce competition in global markets … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Developer logs: Apple is testing an M3 Max chip with a 16-core CPU, a 40-core GPU, and 48GB of RAM, in a MacBook Pro that’s expected to debut in 2024  —  – The chip has 16 central processing cores and 40 for graphics  — Company is testing flurry of new Macs as it seeks sales boost Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: Palantir reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $533.3M, vs. $532.4M est., adjusted operating income of $135M, vs. $121.5M est., and authorizes a $1B share buyback  —  “We have a good chance at becoming the most important software company in the world,” Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp told Bloomberg during an interview Monday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Meta disbanded the team behind its protein-folding AI project ESMFold this spring, prioritizing commercial AI products over blue-sky research  —  Move to terminate scientific project comes as Facebook parent prioritises moneymaking AI products over blue-sky research Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Goldberg / New York Times: Zoom, known for helping millions of people work from home, asks its employees living within 50 miles of an office to work in person at least two days per week  —  The tech company that helped millions of people work from home is finally tired of its employees being far away. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: OpenAI details GPTBot, which the company uses to crawl the web for data to improve its AI models, and how site admins can opt out using robots.txt  —  Learn more about OpenAI’s web crawler, GPTBot, and how to restrict or limit its access to your website content. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Niket Nishant / Reuters: Neuralink, the brain-computer interface startup Elon Musk co-founded, raised a $280M Series D led by Founders Fund, after a reported ~$5B valuation in June 2023  —  Elon Musk’s brain chip startup Neuralink has raised $280 million in a funding round led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Microsoft says Bing Chat, which is only available in products like its Edge browser and Bing app, is coming “soon” to third-party browsers, including on mobile  —  In late July, Microsoft confirmed its ChatGPT-like Bing Chat was testing in third-party browsers like Chrome and Safari … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: OpenAI details GPTBot, which the company uses to crawl the web for data to improve its AI models, and how site admins can use the robots.txt file to opt out  —  Learn more about OpenAI’s web crawler, GPTBot, and how to restrict or limit its access to your website content. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Martin Matishak / The Record: The White House unveils cyber initiatives to bolster K-12 schools’ defenses, including up to $200M over three years from the FCC, amid rising ransomware attacks  —  The Biden administration on Monday will announce a host of federal and private industry initiatives to strengthen the digital defenses … Lees verder op Tech Meme