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Inflection AI, founded by Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman, and Karén Simonyan, debuts Pi, a chatbot that's more sounding board than “repackaged Wikipedia answer” (Alex Konrad/Forbes) 02-05-2023

Alex Konrad / Forbes: Inflection AI, founded by Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman, and Karén Simonyan, debuts Pi, a chatbot that’s more sounding board than “repackaged Wikipedia answer”  —  Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of the year-old startup that’s already raised $225 million and claims to run … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Q&A with Nick Denton, Jonah Peretti, and also Ben Smith, whose book Traffic details the rise and fall of BuzzFeed and Gawker, on digital media and its reckoning (Peter Kafka/Vox) 03-05-2023

Peter Kafka / Vox: Q&A with Nick Denton, Jonah Peretti, and also Ben Smith, whose book Traffic details the rise and fall of BuzzFeed and Gawker, on digital media and its reckoning  —  A conversation with two media pioneers — plus Ben Smith, whose new book chronicles their rise and fall. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The EU's Digital Markets Act becomes applicable today, after entering into force in November 2022; enforcement on gatekeepers is not expected until spring 2024 (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch) 03-05-2023

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: The EU’s Digital Markets Act becomes applicable today, after entering into force in November 2022; enforcement on gatekeepers is not expected until spring 2024  —  GAFAM giants will have marked their calendars today as the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Union’s plan to curb … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Europol, the FBI, and others take down the dark web Monopoly Market, arrest 288 vendors and customers, and seize €50.8M in cash and crypto and 850kg of drugs (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer) 02-05-2023

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Europol, the FBI, and others take down the dark web Monopoly Market, arrest 288 vendors and customers, and seize €50.8M in cash and crypto and 850kg of drugs  —  An international law enforcement operation codenamed ‘SpecTor’ has arrested 288 dark web vendors and customers worldwide … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Inflection AI, founded by Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman, and Karén Simonyan, debuts Pi, a chatbot that's more sounding board than “repackaged Wikipedia answer” (Alex Konrad/Forbes) 02-05-2023

Alex Konrad / Forbes: Inflection AI, founded by Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman, and Karén Simonyan, debuts Pi, a chatbot that’s more sounding board than “repackaged Wikipedia answer”  —  Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of the year-old startup that’s already raised $225 million and claims to run … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources and memo: TikTok Head of Safety Eric Han is leaving the company on May 12; Han played a key role in a separate entity TikTok created to avoid a US ban (Alex Heath/The Verge) 02-05-2023

Alex Heath / The Verge: Sources and memo: TikTok Head of Safety Eric Han is leaving the company on May 12; Han played a key role in a separate entity TikTok created to avoid a US ban  —  TikTok’s head of trust and safety for the US, Eric Han, is leaving the company on May 12th, according to two people familiar … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Toronto-based NLP and chatbot startup Cohere is close to securing $250M from backers including Nvidia and Salesforce at a ~$2B post-money valuation (George Hammond/Financial Times) 02-05-2023

George Hammond / Financial Times: Sources: Toronto-based NLP and chatbot startup Cohere is close to securing $250M from backers including Nvidia and Salesforce at a ~$2B post-money valuation  —  Round with potential backers including Nvidia and Salesforce will give it a valuation of about $2bn Lees verder op Tech Meme

AMD reports Q1 revenue down 9% YoY to $5.35B, vs. $5.3B est., a $139M net loss, Client revenue down 65% YoY to $739M, and Q2 guidance below est.; AMD drops 5%+ (Kif Leswing/CNBC) 02-05-2023

Kif Leswing / CNBC: AMD reports Q1 revenue down 9% YoY to $5.35B, vs. $5.3B est., a $139M net loss, Client revenue down 65% YoY to $739M, and Q2 guidance below est.; AMD drops 5%+  —  – AMD’s report comes as the PC industry is in a deep slump, with shipments dropping 30% in the first quarter, according to IDC. Lees verder op Tech Meme