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Temasek says it does not plan to invest in crypto companies due to regulatory uncertainty; the firm wrote down its $275M FTX investment to zero in November 2022 (Sheila Chiang/CNBC) 12-07-2023

Sheila Chiang / CNBC: Temasek says it does not plan to invest in crypto companies due to regulatory uncertainty; the firm wrote down its $275M FTX investment to zero in November 2022  —  – Temasek is not currently looking to invest in crypto firms, following a $275 million FTX loss.  — “There’s a lot of regulatory uncertainty in this environment. Lees verder op Tech Meme

London-based Prolific, which stress tests AI models through its network of 120K human participants, raised £25M co-led by Partech and Oxford Science Enterprises (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) 12-07-2023

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Prolific, which stress tests AI models through its network of 120K human participants, raised £25M co-led by Partech and Oxford Science Enterprises  —  AI, when it works well, can feel like magic, but all too often AI-based systems don’t work as they should … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emails: Google employee no. 8 Urs Holzle will step back from management after 24 years, becoming an “individual contributor” amid a shakeup at Google Cloud (Jennifer Elias/CNBC) 12-07-2023

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Emails: Google employee no. 8 Urs Holzle will step back from management after 24 years, becoming an “individual contributor” amid a shakeup at Google Cloud  —  – Employee No. 8 Urs Holzle will step back from management after 24 years, CNBC has learned. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Research firms say Huawei is plotting a return to the US 5G smartphone market by the end of 2023 using its own chip design tools and SMIC's chipmaking process (David Kirton/Reuters) 12-07-2023

David Kirton / Reuters: Research firms say Huawei is plotting a return to the US 5G smartphone market by the end of 2023 using its own chip design tools and SMIC’s chipmaking process  —  – US-sanctioned giant likely to produce 5G chips domestically  — Chips expected to use Huawei EDA tools and SMIC production Lees verder op Tech Meme

As AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and other cloud providers face pressure to meet AI demand, Dell, Qualcomm, and other on-premises hardware providers see an opening (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal) 12-07-2023

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: As AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and other cloud providers face pressure to meet AI demand, Dell, Qualcomm, and other on-premises hardware providers see an opening  —  Traditional cloud infrastructure wasn’t designed to support large-scale artificial intelligence.  Hyperscalers are quickly working to rebuild it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Twitter's best defense against Threads may be to refocus on news and reactions from people you follow, leaving growth via algorithmic feeds to Threads (Ben Thompson/Stratechery) 12-07-2023

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Twitter’s best defense against Threads may be to refocus on news and reactions from people you follow, leaving growth via algorithmic feeds to Threads  —  If you’re only going to tweet once every 11 years, then you better make it count; the best way to do just that is to pull off a well-executed meme: Lees verder op Tech Meme

A California law firm launches a class-action suit against Google, alleging user data scraping sans consent for AI training, after a similar suit against OpenAI (Catherine Thorbecke/CNN) 12-07-2023

Catherine Thorbecke / CNN: A California law firm launches a class-action suit against Google, alleging user data scraping sans consent for AI training, after a similar suit against OpenAI  —  Google was hit with a wide-ranging lawsuit on Tuesday alleging the tech giant scraped data from millions of users without … Lees verder op Tech Meme