Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Emails: Google employee no. 8 Urs Holzle will step back from management after 24 years, becoming an “individual contributor” amid a shakeup at Google Cloud — – Employee No. 8 Urs Holzle will step back from management after 24 years, CNBC has learned. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Prolific, which stress tests AI models through its network of 120K human participants, raised £25M co-led by Partech and Oxford Science Enterprises — AI, when it works well, can feel like magic, but all too often AI-based systems don’t work as they should … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sheila Chiang / CNBC: Temasek says it does not plan to invest in crypto companies due to regulatory uncertainty; the firm wrote down its $275M FTX investment to zero in November 2022 — – Temasek is not currently looking to invest in crypto firms, following a $275 million FTX loss. — “There’s a lot of regulatory uncertainty in this environment. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Financial Times: Sources: SoftBank-owned Arm is in talks to bring in Nvidia as an anchor investor while it presses ahead with plans for a New York IPO as soon as September — World’s most valuable semiconductor group discusses acquiring stake in SoftBank-owned chip designer ahead of New York listing Lees verder op Tech Meme
New York Times: Microsoft says Chinese hackers gained access to US government email accounts and had access to some accounts for a month before the breach was detected — The hack, by a Chinese group that the company said was intent on conducting espionage, went undetected for a month. — Reporting from Washington Lees verder op Tech Meme
Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: As AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and other cloud providers face pressure to meet AI demand, Dell, Qualcomm, and other on-premises hardware providers see an opening — Traditional cloud infrastructure wasn’t designed to support large-scale artificial intelligence. Hyperscalers are quickly working to rebuild it. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Twitter’s best defense against Threads may be to refocus on news and reactions from people you follow, leaving growth via algorithmic feeds to Threads — If you’re only going to tweet once every 11 years, then you better make it count; the best way to do just that is to pull off a well-executed meme: Lees verder op Tech Meme
Cecilia Kang / New York Times: Critics say FTC Chair Lina Khan’s take-it-to-the-courts strategy is flawed, ahead of a House Judiciary Committee hearing to “examine mismanagement of the FTC” — Lina Khan has said a fear of defeat should not deter the agency from suing big tech companies. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Catherine Thorbecke / CNN: A California law firm launches a class-action suit against Google, alleging user data scraping sans consent for AI training, after a similar suit against OpenAI — Google was hit with a wide-ranging lawsuit on Tuesday alleging the tech giant scraped data from millions of users without … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Collective, a financial management service for freelancers offering bookkeeping, payroll, and tax tools, raised $50M, bringing its total funding to $82M — Collective, a platform and advisory team that provides bookkeeping, payroll and tax advice to freelancers, today announced it raised $50 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme