Tech Meme

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Salesforce renames its AI toolset to AI Cloud, plans to roll out new AI features in the summer, and doubles its generative AI fund announced in March to $500M  —  Salesforce Inc. is elevating new generative artificial intelligence features in its products and doubling its investment … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: India investigates reports of a breach at a portal with the data of 1B+ COVID-19 vaccine recipients; Telegram removes a bot letting users pull individuals’ data  —  India’s government is investigating reports that a health ministry portal containing personal data from anyone in the country … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Reddit experiences an outage as many users report trouble accessing the service; meanwhile, thousands of subreddits have gone dark to protest API changes  —  Reddit is experiencing some issues for many on Monday, with the outage happening the same day as thousands of subreddits going dark to protest the site’s new API pricing terms. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Helene Braun / CoinDesk: Robinhood reports crypto trading volumes fell 68% YoY to $2.1B in May 2023, daily average trading revenue down 53% YoY, and MAUs fell 28% YoY to 10.6M  —  The trading platform recently delisted three tokens that were classified as securities in the SEC’s lawsuit against Coinbase and Binance. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Salesforce renames its AI tools portfolio to AI Cloud, plans to roll out AI features in summer, and doubles its generative AI fund, announced in March, to $500M  —  Salesforce Inc. is elevating new generative artificial intelligence features in its products and doubling its investment … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tristan Cross / The Guardian: A writer who learned to code after losing his job reflects on AI chatbots, which repackage ideas and lack lateral thinking, and why humans are irreplaceable  —  Silicon Valley wants to make us believe humans are predictable and our skills replaceable.  I’ve learned that’s nonsense Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: India investigates reports of a breach at a portal with COVID-19 vaccine recipients’ data, affecting 1B+ citizens; Telegram removes a bot that pulled the data  —  India’s government is investigating reports that a health ministry portal containing personal data from anyone in the country … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Monica Chin / The Verge: MacBook Air (15-inch) review: big screen, thin and light chassis, excellent trackpad, keyboard, performance, and battery, but limited ports and upgradability  —  Apple’s first big-screened MacBook Air addresses a long-standing need in the company’s laptop lineup.  And it comes with zero surprises and no sticker shock. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: As geopolitical tensions rise, foreign investors sell stock in Bilibili, Alibaba, Tencent, and other Chinese tech companies and pull back on startup funding  —  Geopolitical tension and poor economic recovery drive stock price falls and funding shortages  —  Chinese online entertainment … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Burgess / Wired: Documents detail new prison-monitoring tech, tracking inmates’ location, heartbeats, and more, developed by Talitrix and used in Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail  —  Documents WIRED obtained detail new prison-monitoring technology that keeps tabs on inmates’ location, heartbeats, and more. Lees verder op Tech Meme