Financial Times: Staff and analysts: the ~$43B FIS-Worldpay deal suffered from incompatibility, Worldpay’s slow response to changing user needs, and more, resulting in the split  —  Integration was difficult but the deal itself had always been misguided  —  Since it was founded by former UK policeman Nick Ogden … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elizabeth Weil / New York Magazine: A profile of Emily M. Bender, a computational linguist at the University of Washington who co-wrote a paper in 2020 to illustrate what LLMs can and cannot do  —  Nobody likes an I-told-you-so.  But before Microsoft’s Bing started cranking out creepy love letters; before Meta’s Galactica spewed racist rants … Lees verder op Tech Meme

John Gruber / Daring Fireball: After Twitter cut off API access, Tapbots and The Iconfactory update Tweetbot and Twitterrific, asking subscribers to consider declining prorated refunds  —  Long story short: If you’re a subscriber to either Tweetbot or Twitterrific, you can help them out with three simple steps: Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Paris-based Sesamm, which uses NLP to generate insights helping companies adhere to their ESG goals, raised a €35M Series B2, taking its total funding to €50.5M  —  Sesamm, a French startup that helps financial firms and corporates adhere to their ESG goals by using natural language processing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

CoinDesk: Filing: crypto-friendly US bank Silvergate delays its annual report, citing investigations from regulators, Congress, and the DOJ; SI plunges 30%+  —  Shares fell over 10% in after-hours trading.  —  Christy Goldsmith Romero … Commissioner  —  U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Lees verder op Tech Meme