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Pepecoin, a meme coin launched in April 2023, has a $1B+ market cap despite concentrated ownership concerns; Arkham: a trader turned $263 into ~$12.8M in profit (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk) 07-05-2023

Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: Pepecoin, a meme coin launched in April 2023, has a $1B+ market cap despite concentrated ownership concerns; Arkham: a trader turned $263 into ~$12.8M in profit  —  A pseudonymous crypto trader bought trillions of the meme coin three weeks ago on UniSwap for $263, and still holds about $9 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elon Musk has latched onto “unregretted user-minutes”, a metric for Twitter's success that he hasn't defined, after taking issue with mDAUs during his takeover (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal) 07-05-2023

Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk has latched onto “unregretted user-minutes”, a metric for Twitter’s success that he hasn’t defined, after taking issue with mDAUs during his takeover  —  Six months into running the social-media company, the billionaire is talking about his own metric of success Lees verder op Tech Meme

A look at Art Blocks, an NFT marketplace for generative art that enforces 5% royalty fees and whose sales fell from $587M in August 2021 to $6.5M in April 2023 (Ryan Weeks/The Block) 07-05-2023

Ryan Weeks / The Block: A look at Art Blocks, an NFT marketplace for generative art that enforces 5% royalty fees and whose sales fell from $587M in August 2021 to $6.5M in April 2023  —  – Volumes have fallen steeply for Art Blocks, the generative art platform that boomed in the last crypto bull run. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The International Olympic Committee adds Fortnite to its Olympic Esports Series under the “sport shooting” discipline, after previously declining “killer games” (Tom Phillips/Eurogamer.net) 07-05-2023

Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: The International Olympic Committee adds Fortnite to its Olympic Esports Series under the “sport shooting” discipline, after previously declining “killer games”  —  Five years after the IOC criticised shooters.  —  News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-chief Lees verder op Tech Meme

Research papers and staff interviews detail the workarounds of Chinese companies like Huawei, Baidu, and Alibaba to develop AI systems without the latest chips (Wall Street Journal) 07-05-2023

Wall Street Journal: Research papers and staff interviews detail the workarounds of Chinese companies like Huawei, Baidu, and Alibaba to develop AI systems without the latest chips  —  Research in China on workarounds, such as using software to leverage less powerful chips, is accelerating Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emerging markets like India, where iPhone has a low market share, are starting to take off for Apple, attracting a lot of switchers to its ecosystem (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) 07-05-2023

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Emerging markets like India, where iPhone has a low market share, are starting to take off for Apple, attracting a lot of switchers to its ecosystem  —  Apple is turning its attention to emerging markets at a time when growth is slowing at home.  Also: Power On is now on Discord … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Two OpenAI contractors, one of them earning $15 per hour, speak about their work labeling the training data used for the company's products, like ChatGPT (David Ingram/NBC News) 07-05-2023

David Ingram / NBC News: Two OpenAI contractors, one of them earning $15 per hour, speak about their work labeling the training data used for the company’s products, like ChatGPT  —  Two OpenAI contractors spoke to NBC News about their work training the system behind ChatGPT.  —  Alexej Savreux, a 34-year-old in Kansas City … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The organizers of DEF CON AI Village, set to run from August 10 to 13 this year, say they will host “thousands” of people to find bugs and biases in LLMs (Jessica Lyons Hardcastle/The Register) 07-05-2023

Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register: The organizers of DEF CON AI Village, set to run from August 10 to 13 this year, say they will host “thousands” of people to find bugs and biases in LLMs  —  Can’t wait to see how these AI models hold up against a weekend of red-teaming by infosec’s village people Lees verder op Tech Meme

Q&A with Marissa Mayer on her startup Sunshine that makes an AI-based contacts organizer, what she could have done differently at Yahoo, AI's future, and more (Patrick Kulp/Emerging Tech Brew) 07-05-2023

Patrick Kulp / Emerging Tech Brew: Q&A with Marissa Mayer on her startup Sunshine that makes an AI-based contacts organizer, what she could have done differently at Yahoo, AI’s future, and more  —  The former Yahoo chief says she wishes she had acquired Hulu instead of Tumblr.  —  After a decades-long career … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Pepecoin, a meme coin launched in April, has a $1B+ market cap despite concerns about concentrated ownership; Arkham: a trader turned $263 into $3.8M in profits (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk) 07-05-2023

Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: Pepecoin, a meme coin launched in April, has a $1B+ market cap despite concerns about concentrated ownership; Arkham: a trader turned $263 into $3.8M in profits  —  A pseudonymous crypto trader bought trillions of the meme coin three weeks ago on UniSwap for $263, and still holds about $9 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme