Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple abandons budget smartphone market with the iPhone 16e; sources: M4 MacBook Air may launch in March, Apple may integrate modem into the main CPU eventually  —  Last week, Apple introduced the long-awaited successor to the iPhone SE: the iPhone 16e.  In doing so, it all but abandoned the budget smartphone market. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bert Hubert’s writings: As the Trump administration neuters the PCLOB and reviews the EO behind the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, the EU should stop moving to US clouds  —  We used to think that grieving went through five stages: denial, protest, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Alibaba pledges to invest more than $53B on AI infrastructure, including new data centers, over the next three years  —  – The e-commerce firm is angling to become an AI company  — CEO Eddie Wu aspires for Alibaba to become an AI leader … The internet company co-founded by Jack Ma plans … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wes Davis / The Verge: xAI confirms Grok briefly had “Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation” as a public-facing instruction for its responses  —  The system prompt for Musk’s chatbot was changed by an employee to block the results. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wes Davis / The Verge: xAI confirms Grok briefly had “Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation” in a public-facing system prompt for its responses  —  The system prompt for Musk’s chatbot was changed by an employee to block the results. Lees verder op Tech Meme