Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Trump Media & Technology Group SPAC partner DWA’s filing: Truth Social lost $73M on just $3.7M in net sales since its early 2022 launch and lost $23M in H1 2023  —  The company that TMTG is planned to merge with, DWAC, broke out the surprising results in a securities filing Monday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joshua Rothman / New Yorker: A profile of Geoffrey Hinton, who argues that LLMs like GPT can comprehend the meanings of words and learn how the world works by analyzing human writing  —  Geoffrey Hinton has spent a lifetime teaching computers to learn.  Now he worries that artificial brains are better than ours. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Julie Satow / New York Times: Hochatown, a tiny town in Oklahoma that gets ~50K visitors to its 2,400+ cabins on weekends, highlights the “Airbnb effect” of rentals exploding in rural areas  —  In a rural corner of Oklahoma, rustic cabins have been replaced by $1 million rental homes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Kim / Bloomberg: South Korea’s memory chip exports increased for the first time in 16 months, recording a 1% YoY increase in October after declining 18% YoY in September  —  South Korea’s memory-chip exports increased in October for the first time in 16 months, offering more evidence for the revival of demand for the country’s most important products. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tonya Riley / Bloomberg Law: In a letter to Chuck Schumer, over 30 civil liberties and privacy groups urge the Senate to not renew FISA’s Section 702, set to expire on December 31, 2023  —  More than 30 civil liberties and privacy groups wrote to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday urging … Lees verder op Tech Meme