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How Apple built a supply chain in China over two decades, spending billions and embedding staff in factories, creating a dependence before US tensions escalated (Patrick McGee/Financial Times) 17-01-2023

Patrick McGee / Financial Times: How Apple built a supply chain in China over two decades, spending billions and embedding staff in factories, creating a dependence before US tensions escalated  —  The company spent two decades and billions of dollars building a supply chain of unprecedented sophistication.  Now, a reckoning is coming Lees verder op Tech Meme

CryptoSlam and Forkast.News plan to merge and become Forkast Labs, offering news and data for crypto investors; both are portfolio companies of Animoca Brands (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg) 17-01-2023

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: CryptoSlam and Forkast.News plan to merge and become Forkast Labs, offering news and data for crypto investors; both are portfolio companies of Animoca Brands  —  Animoca Brands Corp. founder Yat Siu helped engineer the merger of two startups his firm backed, aiming to create a data … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Study: China led the US in AI research output and quality in 2021, producing ~43,000 papers, roughly twice as many as the US, and 7,401 of the most-cited papers (Nikkei Asia) 16-01-2023

Nikkei Asia: Study: China led the US in AI research output and quality in 2021, producing ~43,000 papers, roughly twice as many as the US, and 7,401 of the most-cited papers  —  Tencent, Alibaba and Huawei among the top 10 companies by output  —  TOKYO/BEIJING — China is the undisputed champion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

A look at Elon Musk's options to meet his $13B debt obligations after the Twitter buyout; sources say the first interest installment could be due by January-end (Financial Times) 17-01-2023

Financial Times: A look at Elon Musk’s options to meet his $13B debt obligations after the Twitter buyout; sources say the first interest installment could be due by January-end  —  Billionaire faces tough choices to meet financial obligations of takeover financed by $13bn debt Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Foxconn appoints Michael Chiang as the head of its iPhone assembly business, replacing longtime leader Wang Charng-yang, after a tough year in China (Debby Wu/Bloomberg) 17-01-2023

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Sources: Foxconn appoints Michael Chiang as the head of its iPhone assembly business, replacing longtime leader Wang Charng-yang, after a tough year in China  —  Key Apple Inc. manufacturing partner Foxconn Technology Group has appointed a new boss for its iPhone assembly business … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Scammers on Amazon are selling fake 16TB portable SSDs for ~$100 by hijacking listings like pillow covers, keeping the reviews, and then listing new products (Josh Hendrickson/Review Geek) 17-01-2023

Josh Hendrickson / Review Geek: Scammers on Amazon are selling fake 16TB portable SSDs for ~$100 by hijacking listings like pillow covers, keeping the reviews, and then listing new products  —  When it comes to portable hard drives, bigger is usually better.  You want lots of space for photos, videos, or anything else. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samsung announces the ISOCELL HP2, a 200-megapixel, 1/1.3-inch smartphone camera sensor with pixel binning, which could debut in the upcoming Galaxy S23 Ultra (Ben Schoon/9to5Google) 17-01-2023

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Samsung announces the ISOCELL HP2, a 200-megapixel, 1/1.3-inch smartphone camera sensor with pixel binning, which could debut in the upcoming Galaxy S23 Ultra  —  Just a couple of weeks ahead of the full launch, Samsung just officially announced the 200MP camera that will make its debut in the Galaxy S23 Ultra. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: activist investor Ryan Cohen has built a stake worth hundreds of millions of dollars in Alibaba and is pushing the company to accelerate stock buybacks (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal) 17-01-2023

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Sources: activist investor Ryan Cohen has built a stake worth hundreds of millions of dollars in Alibaba and is pushing the company to accelerate stock buybacks  —  Cohen first contacted the Chinese e-commerce giant’s board in August to say he saw the company’s shares as undervalued Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wikimedia says the UK's Online Safety Bill was designed for social media and a proposed change, expected Tuesday, would limit Wikipedia's freedom of expression (Chris Vallance/BBC) 17-01-2023

Chris Vallance / BBC: Wikimedia says the UK’s Online Safety Bill was designed for social media and a proposed change, expected Tuesday, would limit Wikipedia’s freedom of expression  —  Wikipedia should be treated differently to the big social media firms in the Online Safety Bill, a leading member of its foundation says. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Microsoft makes its Azure OpenAI Service, announced in 2021, broadly available, giving users access to the GPT-3.5 language model, DALL-E 2, and ChatGPT “soon” (Dina Bass/Bloomberg) 17-01-2023

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Microsoft makes its Azure OpenAI Service, announced in 2021, broadly available, giving users access to the GPT-3.5 language model, DALL-E 2, and ChatGPT “soon”  —  Microsoft Corp. said it will add OpenAI’s viral artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT to its cloud-based Azure service … Lees verder op Tech Meme