Tech Meme

Peter Kafka / Vox: Executives at G/O Media, which owns Gizmodo, Jezebel, and others, say the company plans to publish more AI-generated stories despite its botched first attempts  —  Why G/O Media thinks we should have more stories written by bots.  —  In early July, managers at G/O media … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Inti Landauro / Reuters: Spain’s antitrust watchdog fines Amazon and Apple a combined €194.1M for colluding to limit the sale of Apple devices from competitors on Amazon’s Spanish sites  —  Spain’s antitrust watchdog CNMC on Tuesday said it had imposed fines worth 194 million euros ($218.2 million) in total on Amazon … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Meta updates Threads for iOS with a Follows tab, letting users see only posts from followed accounts, built-in translations for other languages, and more  —  It’s been two weeks since Meta launched Threads, its new microblogging social network.  And while version 1.0 was a pretty solid release … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maria Heeter / The Information: Sources: Nvidia is nearing an investment in cloud compute service Lambda Labs, in a deal that could total $300M, after taking a large equity stake in CoreWeave  —  Nvidia is known for its stranglehold over the market for the data center chips that power ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence software. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Delaware-based Wing Cloud, which develops the open-source programming language Winglang for building cloud-native apps, launches out of stealth with a $20M seed  —  Cloud-native programming language startup Wing Cloud Ltd. is exiting stealth mode today armed with a hefty $20 million in seed funding. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: A report by the Ada Lovelace Institute warns that the UK’s approach to AI safety lacks credibility and makes 18 recommendations for improving government plans  —  The UK government has been trying to cultivate an image of itself as an international mover-and-shaker in the nascent field … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Qualcomm and Meta announce that Llama 2 will run on Qualcomm chips on phones and PCs starting in 2024  —  – Qualcomm and Meta will enable the social networking company’s so-called new large language model, Llama 2, to run on Qualcomm chips on phones and PCs starting in 2024 Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maria Heeter / The Information: Sources: Nvidia is nearing an investment in cloud compute service Lambda Labs in a deal that could total $300M, after taking a $100M equity stake in CoreWeave  —  Nvidia is known for its stranglehold over the market for the data center chips that power ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence software. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Will Shanklin / Engadget: Microsoft announces Copilot for Microsoft 365 will cost $30 per user for business accounts, and launches Bing Chat Enterprise, offering corporate-level privacy  —  A version of Bing Chat with corporate-level privacy is also rolling out in preview.  —  At the Microsoft Inspire partner event today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Inti Landauro / Reuters: Spain’s antitrust watchdog fines Amazon and Apple a combined €194M for limiting the sale of devices from Apple and competitors on Amazon’s Spanish sites  —  Spain’s antitrust watchdog CNMC on Tuesday said it had imposed fines worth 194 million euros ($218.2 million) in total on Amazon … Lees verder op Tech Meme