Tech Meme

Alison Sider / Wall Street Journal: Pete Buttigieg warns of possible air travel disruption ahead of a July 1 cutoff for airlines to retrofit equipment to avoid 5G interference or face restrictions  —  Airlines have until July 1 to update equipment or face restrictions on landing in poor visibility conditions Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Databricks agrees to acquire generative AI startup MosaicML in a ~$1.3B deal closing in Q2; MosaicML launched in 2021, raised $64M, and has 62 employees  —  The deal aims at connecting businesses’ data with services to help them build their own, cheaper language models, Databricks CEO says Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: While the FTC’s Amazon case raises fair points in isolation, Prime overall is overwhelmingly positive for users and the FTC seems oblivious to the trade-offs  —  It was Friday morning, and I needed sunglasses — specifically the nerdy ones that fit on top of a pair of subscription glasses. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: IBM plans to acquire cloud IT management startup Apptio for $4.6B in cash from Vista Equity Partners, which paid $1.94B to take Apptio private in 2018  —  As cloud architecture continues to more ubiquitous among organizations, increasingly what is more apparent is that many organizations … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: A profile of Korean chip engineer Choi Jin-seok, who embarked on a quixotic mission to lead China’s industry after his career stalled and faces IP theft charges  —  In 2006, a Korean engineer called Choi Jin-seok achieved a feat that earned him the nickname “master of semiconductor yield”. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hope King / Axios: Amazon plans to build a local delivery network in 23 states by tapping thousands of small US businesses, such as bodegas and florists, to deliver packages  —  Amazon plans to tap thousands of U.S. small businesses, from bodegas to florists, to deliver its packages by the end of the year, Axios is first to report. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A look at Harry and Meghan’s Hollywood flop in streaming’s era of slower growth; sources: Netflix is unlikely to renew their $100M deal, which runs through 2025  —  They arrived three years ago with royal star power amid a streaming boom, but have notched more cancellations and rejections than produced shows Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Japan announces a $6.3B deal to buy and privatize JSR, a maker of photoresists that controls the global supply of key chipmaking chemicals with two other firms  —  Japan’s government unveiled a $6.3 billion deal to buy out and privatize JSR Corp., taking direct control of the world leader … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin J. Delaney / Charter: Q&A with Microsoft’s Jared Spataro on AI tools advancing knowledge work, increasing worker creativity, being “usefully wrong”, automating work away, and more  —  Microsoft over the past few years has released some of the most interesting research about how people work … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: As the use of AI-generated ads in political campaigns increases globally, consultants, election researchers, and lawmakers push for setting up new guardrails  —  Gaps in campaign rules allow politicians to spread images and messaging generated by increasingly powerful artificial intelligence technology. Lees verder op Tech Meme