Bloomberg: Sources: several key ex-Arm staff in China depart for Borui Jingxin, a local government-backed chip design firm, worrying Arm investors over future China sales  —  – A Shenzhen government agency backs startup Borui Jingxin  — Arm China investors are concerned Borui could divert revenue Lees verder op Tech Meme

Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: Hands-on with Best Take for Pixel 8, which uses AI to replace people’s faces, a fun camera tool that worryingly helps AI standardize what happiness looks like  —  A new AI function called Best Take in Google’s Pixel 8 lets you replace people’s faces, saving memories of moments that never actually happened. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Noema: Current advanced LLMs from OpenAI and others have many flaws but they will, decades from now, be recognized as the first true examples of AGI, similar to ENIAC  —  Today’s most advanced AI models have many flaws, but decades from now, they will be recognized as the first true examples of artificial general intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Instagram head Adam Mosseri reiterates Threads’ position on hard news, saying that Threads does not intend to “amplify” news because it’s currently “too risky”  —  Instagram’s new Twitter-like app Threads is not prepared to truly challenge Elon Musk’s X … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Singapore’s biggest tech hopes, Grab, Sea, and Razer, have stumbled, which may show why VCs were premature in calling Singapore the “Silicon Valley of Asia”  —  The rough journey of an Uber-like ride-hailing company helps explain why the island nation has struggled to become Asia’s Silicon Valley. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok updates its $6M Effect Creator Rewards fund to add lower eligibility rules, a revamped payout model, and a lower threshold to start collecting rewards  —  TikTok is updating its Effect Creator Rewards program with lower eligibility requirements, a revamped payout model … Lees verder op Tech Meme