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Walmart partners with Alphabet's Wing to test drone deliveries of up to six miles at two stores in the Dallas area, dropping off food and household essentials (Brendan Case/Bloomberg) 24-08-2023

Brendan Case / Bloomberg: Walmart partners with Alphabet’s Wing to test drone deliveries of up to six miles at two stores in the Dallas area, dropping off food and household essentials  —  – Project boosts aerial range capabilities for the retailer  — Service will be offered at two stores in the Dallas area Lees verder op Tech Meme

Enkele buien KNMI : 24-08-2023

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Enkele buien Verwachting voor vandaag en morgen Waarschuwingen Er komen geen waarschuwingen voor. Vanmiddag schijnt af en toe de zon, maar trekken ook nog enkele buien over het land, plaatselijk met onweer. De temperatuur loopt uiteen van 20°C aan zee tot 25°C plaatselijk in het binnenland. Er staat een zwakke tot matige wind uit zuidelijke richtingen.Vanavond is het wisselend bewolkt en is er nog plaatselijk kans op een enkele (onweers)bui. De wind is zwak tot matig uit uiteenlopende richtingen. Komende nacht is er plaatselijk kans op een enkele bui, mogelijk met onweer. Plaatselijk kan mist voorkomen. De minimumtemperatuur komt uit… Lees verder »Enkele buien KNMI : 24-08-2023

How LLMs for chat turned AI into a general-purpose information-processing tool, as AI undergoes a transformation much like how chips gave rise to CPUs and GPUs (Haomiao Huang/Ars Technica) 24-08-2023

Haomiao Huang / Ars Technica: How LLMs for chat turned AI into a general-purpose information-processing tool, as AI undergoes a transformation much like how chips gave rise to CPUs and GPUs  —  Until recently, AI models were specialized tools.  Modern LLMs are different.  —  The chief technology officer … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hugging Face confirms raising a $235M Series D from Salesforce, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and others, bringing its total funding to $395.2M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) 24-08-2023

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Hugging Face confirms raising a $235M Series D from Salesforce, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and others, bringing its total funding to $395.2M  —  As first reported by The Information, then seemingly verified by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on X (formerly known as Twitter) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Canada-based LemFi, which offers remittances and other payment services for immigrants worldwide, raised a $33M Series A, bringing its total funding to ~$34M (Abraham Augustine/TechCabal) 24-08-2023

Abraham Augustine / TechCabal: Canada-based LemFi, which offers remittances and other payment services for immigrants worldwide, raised a $33M Series A, bringing its total funding to ~$34M  —  On the back of successfully serving African migrants in Canada and the UK, LemFi has raised $33 million in Series A funding … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta releases Code Llama, a tool built on top of Llama 2 to generate new code and debug human-written work, under the same community license as Llama 2 (Emilia David/The Verge) 24-08-2023

Emilia David / The Verge: Meta releases Code Llama, a tool built on top of Llama 2 to generate new code and debug human-written work, under the same community license as Llama 2  —  Meta has released a tool called Code Llama, built on top of its Llama 2 large language model, to generate new code and debug human-written work, the company said. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filing: T-Mobile plans to cut ~7% of its global staff, or ~5,000 jobs, mostly in corporate and tech; AT&T has cut 74,130 jobs, or 32% of its staff, since 2021 (Scott Moritz/Bloomberg) 24-08-2023

Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: Filing: T-Mobile plans to cut ~7% of its global staff, or ~5,000 jobs, mostly in corporate and tech; AT&T has cut 74,130 jobs, or 32% of its staff, since 2021  —  T-Mobile USA Inc. is cutting 7% of its staff, part of an effort to rein in costs as the company spends heavily to attract … Lees verder op Tech Meme