Tech Meme

Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: Ampere: streamers will spend $8.5B on sports rights across 17 countries in 2023, up 64% YoY; DAZN accounted for 54% of streamers’ 2022 sports rights spending  —  Subscription OTT services’ global spend on sports rights in 17 major markets around the world will reach $8.5 billion in 2023 — up 64% versus 2022, projects Ampere Analysis. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company signed a binding, 10-year contract to bring Call of Duty games to Nintendo consoles on the same day as Xbox  —  Microsoft’s deal with Nintendo to bring “Call of Duty” games to Nintendo systems — if Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion acquisition … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Pranshu Verma / Washington Post: A January 2023 survey of 300 HR leaders at US companies revealed that 98% of them say software and algorithms will help them make layoff decisions this year  —  As layoffs ravage the tech industry, algorithms once used to help hire could now be deciding who gets cut Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India and Singapore link their digital payment systems, UPI and PayNow, to enable instant payments between the two countries with an initial cap of S$1K per day  —  India and Singapore have linked their digital payments systems, UPI and PayNow, to enable instant and low-cost fund transfers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Osato Avan-Nomayo / The Block: FTX Japan will resume crypto and fiat withdrawals from February 21, 2023 through its crypto exchange Liquid Japan; FTX acquired Liquid in 2022  —  – FTX Japan will begin processing withdrawals for customers from tomorrow.  — The company is also looking to resume other business operations. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bhavya Dilipkumar / Moneycontrol: Mumbai-based Mintoak, which lets banks deploy and scale services like payments and lending to their SMB customers, raised a $20M Series A led by PayPal Ventures  —  The startup plans to use the raised capital to ramp up its tech stack and double down on the existing product portfolio. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Will Knight / Wired: A look at Eric Schmidt-backed startup Ishtari, which uses machine learning to virtually assemble and test war machines from computer models of each component  —  The former Google CEO is on a mission to rewire the US military with cutting-edge artificial intelligence to take on China. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Beijing’s IT bureau plans to support AI startups building ChatGPT-like models and says 1,048 core AI companies, or 29% of China’s total, are located in Beijing  —  China’s capital Beijing will support leading enterprises in building large artificial intelligence (AI) models that can challenge ChatGPT … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg: US prosecutors say Sam Bankman-Fried used a VPN on two recent occasions, raising concerns over his internet usage after a judge rejected an encrypted chat deal  —  US prosecutors said their discovery that Sam Bankman-Fried used a virtual private network to access the internet … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Neeva expands its AI search tool NeevaAI, which provides real-time info with citations, to logged-in users in Europe and Canada, after a US launch in January  —  Challenger search engine Neeva wants to replace the familiar “10 blue links” in search results with something more fitting for the modern AI age. Lees verder op Tech Meme