Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Email: Foursquare lays off 105 employees as the company seeks to “streamline” its operations; source: the layoffs represent about 25% of the company’s employees  —  Foursquare, the location-focused outfit that in 2020 merged with Factual, another location-focused outfit … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: AI startup Cohere’s nonprofit research arm Cohere for AI open sources the weights of Aya 23, a family of multilingual 8B- and 35B-parameter language models  —  Today, Cohere for AI (C4AI), the non-profit research arm of Canadian enterprise AI startup Cohere, announced the open weights release of Aya 23 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Ukrainian officials say Russia is deploying more advanced tech to disrupt Starlink, raising questions about its reliability against sophisticated adversaries  —  Russia has deployed advanced tech to interfere with Elon Musk’s satellite internet service, Ukrainian officials said … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s 3.5%+ stake in the company grew from ~$3B to $90B+ in five years, as the stock grew 28x, including more than doubling so far in 2024  —  Five years ago, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang owned a stake in his chipmaker worth roughly $3 billion. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg: PE firm Hg agrees to buy AuditBoard, a risk and compliance cloud software provider for large businesses, at $3B+ including debt  —  Hg has agreed to buy AuditBoard in a deal valuing the risk management software provider at more than $3 billion including debt. Lees verder op Tech Meme