Guy Chazan / Financial Times: Germany’s finance minister says there is no money in the country’s budget to meet Intel’s demand for €10B in subsidies for its €17B plant in Magdeburg, Germany  —  Christian Lindner’s refusal to meet US chipmaker’s financial demands causes split within government Lees verder op Tech Meme

Simon Parkin / The Guardian: An interview with Philip Rosedale, who launched the online world Second Life in 2003 and says his vision predates Neal Stephenson’s 1992 coinage of “metaverse”  —  Mark Zuckerberg’s grand vision for an online existence has been laughed off as a corporate folly. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Guy Chazan / Financial Times: Germany’s finance minister says there is no money in the country’s budget to meet Intel’s demand for €10B in subsidies for its €17B plant in Magdeburg, Germany  —  Christian Lindner’s refusal to meet US chipmaker’s financial demands causes split within government Lees verder op Tech Meme

Noah Smith / Noahpinion: Trying to shape AI tech to protect jobs is a bad idea since no one can predict which technologies will augment humans and which will simply replace their labor  —  Instead, we should empower workers and create mechanisms for redistribution.  —  I’ve been to a number of meetings and panels recently … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Guy Chazan / Financial Times: Germany’s finance minister says there is no money in the country’s budget to meet Intel’s demand for €10B in subsidies for its €17B plant in Magdeburg, Germany  —  Christian Lindner’s refusal to meet US chipmaker’s financial demands causes split within government Lees verder op Tech Meme

Guy Chazan / Financial Times: Germany’s finance minister says there is no money in the country’s budget to meet Intel’s demand for €10B in subsidies for its €17B plant in Magdeburg, Germany  —  Christian Lindner’s refusal to meet US chipmaker’s financial demands causes split within government Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Primack / Axios: a16z to open a crypto-focused London office and is leading a $43M investment in UK-based Gensyn, which offers a decentralized compute network for training AI  —  America’s largest investor in crypto startups believes that the industry’s future may be across the pond, and is opening … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Guy Chazan / Financial Times: Germany’s finance minister says there is no money in the country’s budget to meet Intel’s demand for €10B in subsidies for its €17B plant in Magdeburg, Germany  —  Christian Lindner’s refusal to meet US chipmaker’s financial demands causes split within government Lees verder op Tech Meme