Wall Street Journal: Sources: Jack Ma remains active in deciding Alibaba’s strategy and engineered its split from overseas, telling executives the move would make the company nimble  —  Globe-trotting billionaire, in calls to executives, used his influence to push company’s plans to split into six groups Lees verder op Tech Meme

Qianer Liu / Financial Times: Sources: YMTC expects to begin production at a new plant in H2 2024 by relying more on domestic suppliers, boosting China’s chip self-sufficiency efforts  —  Memory-chip maker to rely on local equipment suppliers for 2024 manufacturing plans  —  Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mimi Billing / Sifted: Agreena, which uses AI-based monitoring by satellite imagery to let farmers earn carbon credits, raised a €46M Series B, after a €20M Series A in 2022  —  The startup helps European farmers reduce carbon emissions and trade in carbon credits  —  While fingers are being pointed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google says it has updated Bard by incorporating some of its PaLm models to better answer math and logic questions, with coding capabilities coming soon  —  To date, Bard has used LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), which is focused on conversational dialogue … Lees verder op Tech Meme