Alyssa Meyers / Marketing Brew: Audible is “conducting limited testing” of ads in audiobooks; non-members may hear up to eight ads in 24 hours for “access to a limited set of Audible titles”  —  Audible confirmed it’s currently testing audiobook ads, and Spotify seems to be eyeing the possibility. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anton Shilov / AnandTech: Synopsys claims to launch the first full-stack AI-powered EDA suite that covers all stages of chip design, including architecture, design, and manufacturing  —  Synopsys has introduced the industry’s first full-stack AI-powered suite of electronic design automation tools that covers all stages … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chloe Xiang / VICE: Some signatories of the open letter to pause AI training walk back their positions, others turned out to be fake, and many experts disagree with its proposal  —  The letter has been signed by Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Andrew Yang, and leading AI researchers, but many experts and even signatories disagreed. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Blake Brittain / Reuters: Apple wins a US appeal to uphold a patent tribunal’s ruling over two of VirnetX’s VPN patents, invalidating a $502.8M patent infringement verdict from 2020  —  Apple Inc (AAPL.O) convinced a U.S. appeals court on Thursday to uphold a patent tribunal’s ruling that could imperil a $502 million verdict … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: Q&A with Vinod Khosla on how AI could “free humanity from the need to work”, seeing the AI future early, his OpenAI investment, AI and geopolitics, and more  —  At nearly 70, Vinod Khosla is an elder statesman in Silicon Valley but he’s been on top of the most cutting-edge trends, including artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme