Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: Together AI, which helps pre-train and fine-tune open source foundation models more efficiently, raised a $102.5M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins  —  I spoke with Together AI CEO Vipul Ved Prakash  —  Together AI, a startup that’s helping companies pre-train and fine-tune open source foundation models … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Peel / Financial Times: Google DeepMind finds 2.2M crystal structures using GNoME, more than 45x larger than all substances ever found, and plans to make 381K available to scientists  —  Work shows power of AI to improve real-world technology in fields from renewable energy to advanced computation Lees verder op Tech Meme

Raphael Satter / Reuters: Elliptic and Corvus Insurance: the “Black Basta” ransomware group, suspected of being a Conti offshoot, extorted at least $107M in bitcoin since early 2022  —  A cyber extortion gang suspected of being an offshoot of the notorious Russian Conti group of hackers has raked … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Google releases an emergency security update to fix Chrome’s sixth zero-day in 2023, related to the Skia open-source 2D graphics library and found by Google TAG  —  Google has fixed the sixth Chrome zero-day vulnerability this year in an emergency security update released today to counter ongoing exploitation in attacks. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Variety: Robert De Niro criticizes Apple and the Gotham Awards, after sources say Apple cut part of his speech slamming Donald Trump, which he read anyway from his phone  —  The “Killers of the Flower Moon” actor was gearing up to slam Donald Trump at Monday’s Gotham Awards, but when he took the stage … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal: Spotify launches Spotify Wrapped 2023, adding a Me in 2023 feature that assigns users one of 12 themes to describe their listening habits, on mobile and desktop  —  The listening recap, available Wednesday, takes over social media every year  —  It’s the time of year many people have been anxiously awaiting: Spotify Wrapped season. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steven J. Horowitz / Variety: Spotify reveals 2023’s most-streamed artists, albums, songs, and podcasts: Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny, Miley Cyrus’ Flowers, The Joe Rogan Experience, and more  —  Spotify has revealed its annual Wrapped campaign for 2023, announcing the top-streamed artists, albums, songs and podcasts … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wayne Ma / The Information: Sources: Apple pays Arm under 30 cents per device to license Arm’s IP, the lowest rate among Arm’s smartphone customers; Apple accounts for <5% of Arm's sales  —  In 2017, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son gathered a group of executives from Arm Holdings, the British chip designer SoftBank had just bought … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: After the mass layoffs in late 2022 and early 2023, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta continue to make small staff cuts to keep tight control on costs  —  Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta are making strategic trims even as they rebound from the tech downturn Lees verder op Tech Meme