Financial Times: Survey: 92% of UK undergrad students use AI to help them with their studies, up from 66% a year ago, raising questions about how universities assess their work  —  Rapid spread of technology raises questions about how to assess undergraduate work  —  The number of UK undergraduate students … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Alibaba releases Wan 2.1, a family of open-source AI models for generating images and videos, available globally on Alibaba Cloud’s ModelScope and HuggingFace  —  Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba (9988.HK) said on Wednesday its video- and image-generating artificial intelligence model Wan 2.1 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Faris Mokhtar / Bloomberg: Indonesia says Apple signed a deal to invest in Indonesia and will issue it a permit, paving the way for resuming iPhone 16 sales after a five-month tussle  —  The agreement was announced by Minister for Industry Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita in a media briefing in Jakarta on Wednesday, as reported by Bloomberg Technoz. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikkei Asia: China’s aggressive expansion into mature chips, expected to account for 28% of the market in 2025, is driving prices down to previously unthinkable levels  —  TAIPEI — A “China shock” is coming for the chip industry as the country’s aggressive expansion in older semiconductors … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: DeepSeek, which planned to release R2 in May, now wants it out as early as possible; DeepSeek’s owner High-Flyer built a ~10K A100 GPU cluster in 2021  —  DeepSeek is looking to press home its advantage.  —  The Chinese startup triggered a $1 trillion-plus sell-off in global equities markets … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: A profile of Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, who led the company from trailing eBay and Apple in online sales to becoming the world’s second-largest e-commerce firm  —  The world’s largest retailer has built an Apple-esque corporate campus in Bentonville, is selling Gucci online and is playing nice with Trump. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: in July 2024, Microsoft told top GOP officials that Chinese hackers had accessed the RNC email system for months; the RNC chose not to alert the FBI  —  The previously unreported intrusion came as the Trump campaign was hacked by Iranian operatives Lees verder op Tech Meme