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Studio executives embraced Silicon Valley's magical thinking of hypergrowth and disruption for the past 10 years, only to slash worker pay as the boom times end (Brian Merchant/Los Angeles Times) 23-07-2023

Brian Merchant / Los Angeles Times: Studio executives embraced Silicon Valley’s magical thinking of hypergrowth and disruption for the past 10 years, only to slash worker pay as the boom times end  —  In one respect, the actors and writers of Hollywood uniting on the picket lines in a historic, industry-shaking strike is a tale as old as time … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elon Musk tweets “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand” and “if a good enough X logo is posted tonight… we'll make go live worldwide tomorrow” (Reuters) 23-07-2023

Reuters: Elon Musk tweets “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand” and “if a good enough X logo is posted tonight… we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow”  —  Elon Musk said on Sunday he was looking to change Twitter’s logo, tweeting: “And soon we shall bid adieu … Lees verder op Tech Meme

An analysis of eight AI commitments made by OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection to the White House, and their potential impact (Kevin Roose/New York Times) 23-07-2023

Kevin Roose / New York Times: An analysis of eight AI commitments made by OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection to the White House, and their potential impact  —  Seven leading A.I. companies made eight promises about what they’ll do with their technology.  Our columnist sizes up their potential impact. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Profiles of eight former Google research scientists who co-authored the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is All You Need” that paved the way for the rise of LLMs (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times) 23-07-2023

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Profiles of eight former Google research scientists who co-authored the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is All You Need” that paved the way for the rise of LLMs  —  Their paper paved the way for the rise of large language models.  But all have since left the Silicon Valley giant Lees verder op Tech Meme

Similarweb: by May-end, daily downloads for ByteDance's social media app Lemon8 fell to 6.7% of its March peak; the app hit the US App Store's top 10 in March (Caiwei Chen/Rest of World) 23-07-2023

Caiwei Chen / Rest of World: Similarweb: by May-end, daily downloads for ByteDance’s social media app Lemon8 fell to 6.7% of its March peak; the app hit the US App Store’s top 10 in March  —  Users complain the ByteDance app feels inorganic and curated, prioritizing the needs of influencers over ordinary people. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elon Musk tweets “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand” and “if a good enough X logo is posted tonight… we'll make go live worldwide tomorrow” (Rishabh Jaiswal/Reuters) 23-07-2023

Rishabh Jaiswal / Reuters: Elon Musk tweets “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand” and “if a good enough X logo is posted tonight… we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow”  —  Elon Musk said he was looking to change Twitter’s logo, tweeting: “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds. Lees verder op Tech Meme