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

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Alibaba, Huawei, and Tencent each run more Southeast Asia availability zones than AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, and are investing hundreds of millions of dollars  —  China’s Alibaba, Huawei and Tencent are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in developing markets including Thailand, Indonesia Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Klepper / Associated Press: Google’s Jigsaw plans to test video ads in Germany to “prebunk” misinformation, after promising results with a pilot project in Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia  —  After seeing promising results in Eastern Europe, Google will initiate a new campaign in Germany that aims to make people … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: E-book pirate site Z-Library relaunches with unique domain names for each user, after the US DOJ seized 200+ domain names connected to the site in November 2022  —  The U.S. Government’s crackdown against Z-Library late last year aimed to wipe out the pirate library for good. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: Amazon’s Zoox says its fully autonomous vehicle carried staff between its two main buildings in Foster City, California on public roads for the first time  —  Zoox Inc., the self-driving startup owned by Amazon.com Inc., carried passengers in its fully autonomous vehicle on public roads for the first time. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India-based insurance marketplace InsuranceDekho raised a $150M Series A led by Goldman and TVS, including ~$40M debt, a source says at a $475M-$500M valuation  —  The Indian insurance platform InsuranceDekho has raised $150 million in a Series A funding round as the more than a decade old firm eyes merger … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Former Gemini Trust Chief Operating Officer Noah Perlman joined Binance in January 2023 as its chief compliance officer, in time for a US regulatory squeeze  —  Gemini Trust’s former Chief Operating Officer Noah Perlman has started as the chief compliance officer for Binance … 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

Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: Bigscreen unveils Bigscreen Beyond, a $999 PC-powered wired VR headset with two OLED 2560×2560 displays, a 127g visor, and SteamVR Tracking, shipping in Q3 2023  —  Darshan Shankar, the founder of VR’s leading Internet-powered platform for watching movies together … Lees verder op Tech Meme