Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft is helping finance AMD’s AI chip expansion and working with the chipmaker on Microsoft’s own processor for AI workloads, codenamed Athena  —  Microsoft Corp. is working with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on the chipmaker’s expansion into artificial intelligence processors … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: Mozilla expands its Mastodon instance to private beta with strict content moderation rules, saying it is “not building another self-declared ‘neutral’ platform”  —  If you want to be a member of Mozilla.Social, Mozilla’s new Mastodon instance, you’re not allowed to harass other users. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: The CJEU clarifies GDPR compensation and data access rights, including saying that there is no non-material damage threshold to confer a right to compensation  —  The European Union’s top court has handed down a couple of notable rulings today in the arena of data protection. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: Sources: Google, a prolific publisher of AI papers, plans to share them only after the research work is turned into products, due to competition with OpenAI  —  For years the tech giant published scientific research that helped jump-start its competitors.  But now it’s lurched into defensive mode. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft is helping finance AMD’s expansion into AI chips and working with the chipmaker on Athena, Microsoft’s homegrown processor for AI workloads  —  Microsoft Corp. is working with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on the chipmaker’s expansion into artificial intelligence processors … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Discord plans to drop the four-digit tag after its usernames to make it “easier to connect” with others and force most users to pick a username with an @ prefix  —  Discord is taking away the four-digit tag that it puts after its usernames as it looks to make it “easier to connect” with other users. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research release StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating AI systems like GitHub Copilot, as part of their BigCode project  —  AI startup Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research, ServiceNow’s R&D division, have released StarCoder, a free alternative … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Shopify sells its logistics unit to supply chain tech company Flexport, after building the operation for years and acquiring Deliverr for $2.1B in May 2022  —  – Shopify is selling its logistics unit to supply chain technology company Flexport.  — The Canadian e-commerce company … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ilya Banares / Bloomberg: Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 25% YoY to $1.5B, vs. $1.43B est., GMV up 15% YoY to $49.6B, vs. $47.7B est., and plans to cut ~20% of its staff; SHOP jumps 20%+  —  Shopify Inc. cut jobs for the second time in less than a year and agreed to sell the majority of its logistics business … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jemima Kelly / Financial Times: Twitter’s Community Notes is changing fact-checking by avoiding the term and using a crowdsourced consensus, a model for a fairer and more transparent approach  —  The strength of the platform’s Community Notes feature is that it works through consensus  —  I think I might have let out an audible groan … Lees verder op Tech Meme