Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: The International Olympic Committee adds Fortnite to its Olympic Esports Series under the “sport shooting” discipline, after previously declining “killer games”  —  Five years after the IOC criticised shooters.  —  News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-chief Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Weeks / The Block: A look at Art Blocks, an NFT marketplace for generative art that enforces 5% royalty fees and whose sales fell from $587M in August 2021 to $6.5M in April 2023  —  – Volumes have fallen steeply for Art Blocks, the generative art platform that boomed in the last crypto bull run. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk has latched onto “unregretted user-minutes”, a metric for Twitter’s success that he hasn’t defined, after taking issue with mDAUs during his takeover  —  Six months into running the social-media company, the billionaire is talking about his own metric of success Lees verder op Tech Meme

Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: Pepecoin, a meme coin launched in April 2023, has a $1B+ market cap despite concentrated ownership concerns; Arkham: a trader turned $263 into ~$12.8M in profit  —  A pseudonymous crypto trader bought trillions of the meme coin three weeks ago on UniSwap for $263, and still holds about $9 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Patrick Kulp / Emerging Tech Brew: Q&A with Marissa Mayer on her startup Sunshine, which makes an AI app to organize contacts, what she could have done differently at Yahoo, AI’s future, and more  —  The former Yahoo chief says she wishes she had acquired Hulu instead of Tumblr.  —  After a decades-long career … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register: The organizers of DEF CON AI Village, set to run from August 10 to August 13, 2023, say they will host “thousands” of people to find bugs and biases in LLMs  —  Can’t wait to see how these AI models hold up against a weekend of red-teaming by infosec’s village people Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Ingram / NBC News: Two OpenAI contractors, one of them earning $15 per hour, speak about their work labeling the text and photos used to train the company’s products, like ChatGPT  —  Two OpenAI contractors spoke to NBC News about their work training the system behind ChatGPT. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple says emerging markets like India, where the iPhone has a small market share, are ready to take off, which could add “a lot of switchers” to its ecosystem  —  Apple is turning its attention to emerging markets at a time when growth is slowing at home. Lees verder op Tech Meme