09:54 Open VLD-Kamerlid Vincent Van Quickenborne roept de regering op goed na te denken over het nieuwe krantencontract. ‘Men moet zich afvragen wat beter is: een buitenlandse concurrent van Bpost subsidiër…Lees verder op De Tijd
Shira Ovide / Washington Post: Many local US police departments are fearmongering by issuing warnings on the privacy risk of the iPhone’s NameDrop feature, used to wirelessly share contacts — Some police departments have said the new iPhone feature is risky. Don’t worry about it. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Matt Levine / Bloomberg: How OpenAI’s leadership chaos points to lingering governance issues and could affect its business prospects ahead of fundraising at an $86B valuation — Also Binance’s guilty plea and Finnish electricity prices. — OpenAI — Ten days ago OpenAI was worth $86 billion. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Casey Newton / Platformer: Sources: OpenAI’s board mulled adding Bret Taylor after three members resigned earlier in 2023, but lacked consensus, and never got any letter warning about Q* — A new board and a promised investigation could threaten Altman’s happy ending — On the surface, the OpenAI team that showed … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Dan Robinson / The Register: Omdia: Meta and Microsoft are expected to receive 150K Nvidia H100 GPUs each by the end of 2023, three times as many as Google, Amazon, or Oracle — Less is more, as hyper heterogeneous computing heats up — Server unit shipments for 2023 could crash by up to 20 percent on last year, despite revenue growing. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $42B in 2023, down from $85B in 2022; just seven unicorns are expected in 2023, vs. 48 in 2022 and 108 in 2021 — The downturn in the technology sector — dragged by inflation, higher interest rates and geopolitical events — continues to persist … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg: SenseTime’s shares fell as much as 9.7% in Hong Kong, after a short seller accused the AI company of inflating its revenue; SenseTime refutes the allegations — – Report is ‘without merit’, Shanghai-based AI developer says — Company is building a ChatGPT-like conversation bot for China Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ron Miller / TechCrunch: AWS announces three new serverless offerings designed to help customers manage their Aurora, Elastic Cache, and Redshift deployments — Amazon kicked off AWS re:Invent, its annual customer conference, in Las Vegas tonight with a few new serverless offerings designed to make it easier to manage Aurora … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Samidha Sharma / The Economic Times: Q&A with Jeff Dean, chief scientist of Google DeepMind and Google Research, on Bard’s launch, the Gemini LLM, DeepMind-Brain merger, AI misinformation, and more — In an interview with ETtech, Jeff Dean, chief scientist, Google DeepMind and Google Research, spoke about playing catch … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kashmir Hill / New York Times: A look at a woman’s struggle to get her Google account restored after her 7-year-old son made a YouTube video that got her locked out of all her Google accounts — Google has a zero-tolerance policy for child abuse content. The scanning process can sometimes go awry and tar innocent individuals as abusers. Lees verder op Tech Meme