Greg Bensinger / Reuters: Interviews with 15 current and former employees at Amazon’s Lab126 hardware unit describe low morale due to layoffs and fears of a weak development pipeline  —  Some workers within Amazon’s (AMZN.O) once-storied hardware division – responsible for popular devices like the Kindle reader … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Day / Bloomberg: Amazon announces a new version of Just Walk Out for clothing retailers, using RFID tags to track apparel; the grocery version relies on ceiling-mounted cameras  —  – Latest iteration uses RFID tags and readers to track apparel  — Some retailers have balked at using Just Walk Out system Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Crowdstrike confirms acquiring Bionic, which analyzes a company’s tech and IT to find vulnerabilities, sources say for $350M; Bionic has raised ~$82M in total  —  Update: Crowdstrike has now officially confirmed the deal.  As we previously reported, Crowdstrike will merge Bionic’s tech with its Falcon product. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: What to expect from Microsoft’s special NYC event: Surface Laptop Studio 2, Surface Go 4, and Laptop Go 3, and AI updates for Windows, Surface, Office, and Bing  —  Microsoft is holding a “special event” in New York City later this week where it’s expected to debut three new Surface devices … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Justine Calma / The Verge: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative plans to build an AI GPU cluster of 1,000+ Nvidia H100 GPUs to run “openly available” models of human cells for medical research  —  Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s foundation is funding the construction of a massive computing system for medical research. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Intel announces Meteor Lake, its first chips to use its new chiplet architecture, offering CPUs using the Intel 4 process node, ahead of a December 14 “launch”  —  For many months, Intel has spared no opportunity to remind us that its Meteor Lake chips would be the ones to watch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Clive Cookson / Financial Times: Google DeepMind details its new AlphaMissense AI, which predicts if mutations in human genes are likely to be harmful, an example of AI accelerating diagnosis  —  First example of artificial intelligence helping to accelerate diagnosis of diseases caused by genetic variants Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Austin-based HiddenLayer, which focuses on hardening the security of AI models used by companies, raised a $50M Series A led by M12 and Moore Strategic Ventures  —  HiddenLayer, a security startup focused on protecting AI systems from adversarial attacks, today announced that it raised $50 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kerry Flynn / Axios: Electrify Video Partners, whose model is to acquire 50% to 100% of a YouTube creator’s business, raised $85M from Capital D and says the startup is profitable  —  – Kerry Flynn, author of Axios Pro: Media Deals  —  Exit Content Preview  —  Electrify Video Partners has raised $85 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Raleigh-based Pryon, which offers chatbots for searching through data, raised a $100M Series B, ~80% from Thomas Tull’s fund, sources say at a $500M+ valuation  —  – North Carolina startup valued at more than $500 million  — Pryon’s CEO founded Yap, Amazon’s first AI-related acquisition Lees verder op Tech Meme