Tech Meme

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: Google updates Bard with support for 43 more languages, including Arabic, and releases the chatbot in Europe and Brazil after adding new privacy features  —  Latest version to also include a privacy hub for all users  —  Google is betting a new version of its artificial-intelligence chatbot will say hallo … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikkei Asia: Sony plans to spend ~$2.13B on gaming R&D for the FY ending March 2024, accounting for ~40% of its total R&D expenditure and surpassing electronics and chips  —  Japan electronics giant to ramp up live-game titles to catch up to Microsoft  —  Sony is aiming for 60% of game development costs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Meta plans to release a commercial version of LLaMA imminently and will make the AI model more widely available and customizable by companies  —  Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google are surging ahead in Silicon Valley development race  —  Meta is poised to release a commercial version … Lees verder op Tech Meme

DigiTimes: Intel’s Habana launched its Gaudi 2 AI processor in China on July 11, to be used by Inspur and other Chinese cloud providers, despite US export controls  —  As the US seeks to tighten export controls on AI chips to China, Intel held a press conference in Beijing on the July 11 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: In June, the US State Department told Microsoft that its emails in Azure were hacked; attackers stole a Microsoft key and hacked ~25 organizations’ emails  —  The State Department discovered the Microsoft vulnerability, which affected unclassified government systems, last month Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Apple adds bilingual support to Siri, starting with Indic languages like Hindi and Telugu; Google Assistant got multilingual support in 2018 and Alexa in 2019  —  Apple released its first set of public beta versions of iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma on Wednesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dinesh Nair / Bloomberg: PE firm CapVest agrees to acquire UK-based Kerridge, which provides ERP software to clients globally, from Accel-KKR; sources say the deal is valued at over $1B  —  Private equity firm CapVest Partners has agreed to acquire UK software provider Kerridge Commercial Systems Ltd. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Meta is poised to release a commercial version of LLaMA imminently and plans to make the AI model more widely available and customizable by companies  —  Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google are surging ahead in Silicon Valley development race  —  Meta is poised to release … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex W. Palmer / New York Times: A look at the US Bureau of Industry and Security, which employs ~350, had a $140M+ budget in 2022, and is a key tool in cutting China off from advanced chips  —  The Biden administration thinks it can preserve America’s technological primacy by cutting China off from advanced computer chips. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Experts in Taiwan worry China could influence TikTok content ahead of the presidential election in January 2024; officials banned TikTok from government devices  —  Scroll through TikTok in Taiwan, and you’ll find a rolling stream of videos covering the heated campaign for next January’s presidential election. Lees verder op Tech Meme