Tech Meme

Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal: Sources: TSMC is pushing back on some “unacceptable” conditions the US imposed on chip-factory subsidies, as the company seeks up to $15B in government support  —  With construction under way in Arizona, Taiwanese semiconductor maker calls some aid terms unacceptable Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Snap expands its revenue share program to add creators with 50K+ followers and 25M+ monthly views, and says its TikTok rival Spotlight has 350M monthly users  —  Snapchat is rolling out additional features to help creators get noticed and make a living.  —  Over a year ago … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Stability AI debuts StableLM, its first suite of instruction-following LLMs, in alpha, starting with 3B and 7B parameters, with 15B to 65B versions to follow  —  Stability AI, the startup behind the generative AI art tool Stable Diffusion, today open-sourced a suite of text-generating AI models intended … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Google released Bard despite staff concerns; one employee called the chatbot “a pathological liar” and one said its answers may cause “injury or death”  —  Shortly before Google introduced Bard, its AI chatbot, to the public in March, it asked employees to test the tool. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Ditto, which offers a database to let developers sync data P2P across mobile and edge devices, emerges from stealth with a $45M Series A led by Acrew Capital  —  Many apps today assume that data lives in only one location, typically a single cloud database.  But the reality is more complex. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Snap expands its My AI chatbot to all users for free and says My AI can now be added to group chats and recommend AR filters, with photo generation coming soon  —  The OpenAI-powered chatbot is also being added to group chats, gaining the ability to make recommendations for things like AR filters … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: Source: Meta plans to cut or relocate its London-based Instagram employees; Adam Mosseri, who relocated to London in 2022, plans to move back to the US  —  Meta Platforms Inc. is planning to cut or relocate its London-based Instagram employees, according to a person familiar with the matter. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Google released Bard despite internal concerns; some employees called the chatbot “a pathological liar” whose answers may result in “injury or death”  —  Shortly before Google introduced Bard, its AI chatbot, to the public in March, it asked employees to test the tool. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Sources: Microsoft plans to release its first ARM-powered Surface Go, the Surface Go 4, in 2023, and is working on a smaller Surface Pro with an 11-inch display  —  Microsoft plans wave of smaller 2-in-1 Windows tablets.  —  What you need to know  — Microsoft is planning to ship the Surface Go 4 with ARM for the first time. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Toby Sterling / Reuters: ASML reports Q1 revenue up 91% YoY to €6.74B, vs. €6.31B est., and net income up 181% YoY to €1.96B, vs. €1.62B est., and expects 2023 demand to exceed capacity  —  ASML Holding NV (ASML.AS) beat first-quarter earnings forecasts on Wednesday on continued strong demand … Lees verder op Tech Meme