Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: ASML CEO Peter Wennink plans to step down in April 2024 after over 10 years at the chip equipment giant, replaced by industry veteran Christophe Fouquet  —  Europe’s largest tech company names Christophe Fouquet as successor  —  Peter Wennink, chief executive of chipmaking equipment manufacturer ASML … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lim Yu Qian / CoinGecko: Study: around 2,127 Web3 games became inactive in the past five years, representing 75.5% of the 2,817 that were launched in the same period  —  How Many Web3 Games Have Failed?  —  Around 2,127 web3 games have failed in the last five years since the GameFi niche emerged, representing 75.5% of the 2,817 web3 games launched. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Elon Musk calls his November 15 X post a mistake that “handed a loaded gun to those who hate me and arguably to those who are antisemitic”, for which he’s sorry  —  I should in retrospect not have replied to that one person and should have written in greater length what i meant. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: OpenAI adds Microsoft as a non-voting observer on the nonprofit board that controls OpenAI, and makes Sam Altman’s return as CEO official  —  Sam Altman is officially OpenAI’s CEO again.  —  Just before Thanksgiving, the company said it had reached a deal in principle for him to return, and now it’s done. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emilia David / The Verge: At re:Invent, AWS unveils Model Evaluation on Bedrock in preview to help companies evaluate AI models before use, with human testers involved in the process  —  Amazon wants users to evaluate AI models better and encourage more humans to be involved in the process. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Q&A with Sam Altman on his firing, returning to OpenAI, improving its governance, Q*, lessons from the saga, and more; Altman does not say why he was fired  —  “Clearly our governance structure had a problem,” according to Altman. … When OpenAI’s board asked Sam Altman to return … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kim Masters / The Hollywood Reporter: Former associates of Linda Yaccarino describe her as difficult and volatile but hardworking, and say high self-regard made her think she could manage Elon Musk  —  The former NBCUniversal ad sales chief thought she could manage the mercurial Elon Musk.  Her former colleagues are baffled at the result … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Qianer Liu / Financial Times: Interviews with dozens of industry insiders and experts reveal Huawei’s and SMIC’s efforts to build advanced chips and maintain marketshare despite US sanctions  —  The inside story of how the country’s flagship tech company kept its edge in the semiconductor war despite sanctions Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rafaela Lindeberg / Bloomberg: How Swedish battery maker Northvolt uses AI at its Skellefteå factory to help speed up EV battery making, led by former Apple AI researcher Siddharth Khullar  —  – Machine-learning experts implement AI in production, research  — Push could reduce testing latency in some areas by 50% Lees verder op Tech Meme