Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Baidu reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$4.7B, vs. ~$4.6B est., and net income up 43% YoY to ~$714M, and awaits Beijing’s approval to roll out its ChatGPT rival  —  – The company reported a larger than projected 15% jump in sales  — It’s riding a bounce-back in advertising from Covid depths Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft releases a public preview of Python in Excel, which will run Python calculations in Azure, first on Windows and then other platforms “at a later date”  —  Microsoft is bringing popular programming language Python to Excel.  A public preview of the feature is available today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Monica Chin / The Verge: Asus ROG Strix Scar X3D review: the $3.7K, 17 gaming laptop outperforms a pricier Intel-powered rival by up to 20% due to its stellar AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D chip  —  AMD proclaimed that its Ryzen 9 7945HX3D would be the world’s fastest mobile gaming chip.  It was right. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces a public preview of Python in Excel, which will run calculations in Microsoft’s Cloud, first on Windows and then other platforms “later”  —  Microsoft is bringing popular programming language Python to Excel.  A public preview of the feature is available today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Meta releases SeamlessM4T, an AI model that can translate and transcribe nearly 100 languages across text and speech, and SeamlessAlign, a translation data set  —  In its quest to develop AI that can understand a range of different dialects, Meta has created an AI model, SeamlessM4T … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Cerby, which manages access to “nonstandard” enterprise apps, like those without modern identity protocols, raised a $17M Series A led by Two Sigma Ventures  —  Bel Lepe, a former Google software engineer, tells me that it always seemed risky to him that there were apps business users needed … Lees verder op Tech Meme