Clive Cookson / Financial Times: Glasgow University spinout Chemify, which uses a computing process to design new molecules with AI before making them in an automated lab, raised $43M  —  Chemify’s technology aims to remove bottleneck of producing molecules in the lab  —  A spinout from Glasgow university has raised $43mn to … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: The Cyberspace Administration of China releases draft rules to curtail smartphone use by minors, although enforcement of the rules remains unclear  —  – Aims to prevent kids from spending too much time on phones  — Beijing has pursued campaigns to alleviate burden on minors Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Pasternack / Fast Company: An interview with Google Jigsaw engineer Lucy Vasserman on how OpenAI and others use Jigsaw’s AI tool Perspective for flagging toxic speech to evaluate LLMs  —  OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are using Jigsaw’s Perspective—designed to moderate toxic human speech—to evaluate their large language models. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Internal Binance data and current and former employees say Chinese users traded ~$90B in crypto assets on the exchange in May 2023, despite China’s crypto ban  —  Retaining its Chinese footprint will be crucial for Binance as it faces a global regulatory crackdown Lees verder op Tech Meme

Caroline O’Donovan / Washington Post: A look at Amazon Fresh’s challenges, including lawsuits, layoffs, and halted projects; a former employee says staff were told 2023 could be “make or break”  —  Lawsuits and layoffs now litter Amazon’s years-long path to conquering the brick-and-mortar grocery store. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware: Bernstein analysts estimate that nearly 10% of servers worldwide are powered by Arm SoCs and 40% of those are in China  —  The rise of Arm-based servers us clear and consistent, Bernstein says.  —  Due to increasing difficulty in obtaining high-performance x86 servers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: The Cyberspace Administration of China releases draft rules to curtail smartphone use by minors, although it is unclear how the rules will be enforced  —  – Aims to prevent kids from spending too much time on phones  — Beijing has pursued campaigns to alleviate burden on minors Lees verder op Tech Meme

Helene Braun / CoinDesk: GameStop plans to remove its iOS and Chrome crypto wallet extensions on November 1 due to “regulatory uncertainty”, about one year after rolling out the service  —  The company will remove its iOS and Chrome wallet extensions on Nov. 1.  —  Leading video game retailer GameStop … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank’s Arm is targeting an IPO at a valuation of between $60B and $70B as soon as September 2023, a sign of bullish interest in AI chips  —  – Chip design firm may raise as much as $10 billion in debut  — Nvidia, Intel are in discussions to be anchor investors Lees verder op Tech Meme