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Sources: TikTok restructures its ecommerce business to focus on markets where the service has already been introduced, such as the UK, US, and Southeast Asia (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times) 23-05-2023

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Sources: TikTok restructures its ecommerce business to focus on markets where the service has already been introduced, such as the UK, US, and Southeast Asia  —  Chinese-owned group relocates executives in renewed push of livestream shopping in US and UK  —  TikTok has restructured … Lees verder op Tech Meme

A US district judge dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit against Elon Musk that claimed he cheated shareholders several times in 2022 while buying Twitter (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) 23-05-2023

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: A US district judge dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit against Elon Musk that claimed he cheated shareholders several times in 2022 while buying Twitter  —  A judge dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Elon Musk that claimed he cheated Twitter shareholders several times … Lees verder op Tech Meme

China's Micron ban could allow the government to boost its domestic memory chip industry, a sector where China has a toehold in its competition with the US (New York Times) 23-05-2023

New York Times: China’s Micron ban could allow the government to boost its domestic memory chip industry, a sector where China has a toehold in its competition with the US  —  A Chinese government block on Micron Technology’s memory chips marks how far apart the two economic powers are drifting on tech policy. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: JioMart cuts 1,000+ jobs as part of a larger cost-cutting measure, which will include reducing the 15,000 people wholesale division by two-thirds (The Economic Times) 23-05-2023

The Economic Times: Sources: JioMart cuts 1,000+ jobs as part of a larger cost-cutting measure, which will include reducing the 15,000 people wholesale division by two-thirds  —  Layoffs have now hit Reliance Industries, with its wholesale format JioMart sacking over employees, as per people in the know. Lees verder op Tech Meme

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman, and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever say the world will likely need a regulatory body for superintelligence (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch) 22-05-2023

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman, and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever say the world will likely need a regulatory body for superintelligence  —  AI is developing rapidly enough and the dangers it may pose are clear enough that OpenAI’s leadership believes that the world needs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta unveils open-source AI models the company says can identify 4,000+ languages and produce speech for 1,000+ languages, a 40x and 10x increase, respectively (Rhiannon Williams/MIT Technology Review) 22-05-2023

Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review: Meta unveils open-source AI models the company says can identify 4,000+ languages and produce speech for 1,000+ languages, a 40x and 10x increase, respectively  —  They could help lead to speech apps for many more languages than exist now.  —  Meta has built AI models that can recognize … Lees verder op Tech Meme

An NLRB complaint accuses Amazon of violating US federal labor law at its unionized Staten Island warehouse and Andy Jassy of making illegal anti-union comments (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg) 23-05-2023

Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: An NLRB complaint accuses Amazon of violating US federal labor law at its unionized Staten Island warehouse and Andy Jassy of making illegal anti-union comments  —  Amazon.com Inc. repeatedly violated federal labor law by unilaterally changing policies and terminating union supporters … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: activist investor TCS Capital, which owns 4%+ of Yelp's common stock, urges the recommendation site to explore strategic alternatives, including a sale (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal) 23-05-2023

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Sources: activist investor TCS Capital, which owns 4%+ of Yelp’s common stock, urges the recommendation site to explore strategic alternatives, including a sale  —  TCS Capital Management has built a stake in Yelp and is calling on the service-recommendation site to explore strategic alternatives. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Google expands its AI flood forecasting tool Flood Hub to 460M people, from 20 countries up to 48 hours in advance to 80 countries up to seven days in advance (Yossi Matias/The Keyword) 23-05-2023

Yossi Matias / The Keyword: Google expands its AI flood forecasting tool Flood Hub to 460M people, from 20 countries up to 48 hours in advance to 80 countries up to seven days in advance  —  Flood Hub is expanding to 80 countries, providing forecasting up to 7 days in advance of a flood to 460 million people. Lees verder op Tech Meme

April 2023 email: Blizzard's chief design officer told employees to “prepare to be amazed” by the company's AI image generator trained on assets from its games (Shannon Liao/New York Times) 22-05-2023

Shannon Liao / New York Times: April 2023 email: Blizzard’s chief design officer told employees to “prepare to be amazed” by the company’s AI image generator trained on assets from its games  —  Generative A.I. is already changing how games are made, with Blizzard Entertainment training an image generator … Lees verder op Tech Meme