Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Meta held talks with Tencent and other Chinese tech companies about selling Quests in China, but Mark Zuckerberg’s past China comments may cause issues  —  Meta is in talks with Tencent to bring Meta’s Quest VR headset to a huge new market, but potential partners worry about Zuckerberg’s past criticisms of China Lees verder op Tech Meme

Julian Lucas / New Yorker: A look at MoMA’s free Never Alone exhibit, which features 35 video games, making MoMA one of very few art museums to build games into its permanent collection  —  After years of neglect, art institutions are coming around to games.  Can they master the controls? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benedict Evans: An analysis of whether generative AI will destroy, displace, create, and accelerate jobs over years like other automation waves, or if this time is different  —  Pretty much everyone in tech agrees that generative AI, Large Language Models and ChatGPT are a generational change … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: A look at uncensored and loosely moderated AI chatbots like WizardLM-Uncensored, Open Assistant, and Falcon, causing polarizing debates on free speech and risks  —  A new generation of chatbots doesn’t have many of the guardrails put in place by companies like Google and OpenAI, presenting new possibilities — and risks. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: A look at Mukesh Ambani’s JioCinema, which had 400M+ viewers on IPL cricket streams, acquired rights from NBC, HBO, and WBD, and is challenging Disney in India  —  Asia’s richest man is on a mission to transform Reliance Industries into a digital group  —  India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Sources detail ByteDance’s book publishing push and uneven playing field concerns; BookScan: 100+ authors with large #BookTok followings had $760M in 2022 sales  —  As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the expense of others. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India’s Jio Platforms unveils a $12 4G phone with mobile payment tech and access to Jio’s video and music streaming, alongside a new $1.5/month 14GB data plan  —  Reliance’s digital arm, Jio Platforms, has unveiled a new mobile handset and associated tariff plans, the latest in a series … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: At a Shanghai event, Chinese chipmakers and suppliers were grim but defiant about US plans to widen export controls; YMTC urged suppliers to show “integrity”  —  Chairman of memory-chip maker YMTC calls on tool makers to ship parts the company ordered before it was blacklisted Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Sources detail ByteDance’s book publishing expansion and concerns over an uneven playing field; BookScan says 100+ large BookTok authors had $760M in 2022 sales  —  As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the expense of others. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: China imposes restrictions on exporting two metals used to make chips and other electronics, starting August 1, which will likely raise costs for manufacturers  —  China imposed restrictions on exporting two metals that are crucial to parts of the semiconductor, telecommunications … Lees verder op Tech Meme