Will Knight / Wired: Norway-based 1X, which is developing humanoid robots, raised a $23.5M Series A2 led by the OpenAI Startup Fund with participation from Tiger Global and others  —  Autonomous machines are still too clumsy for delicate tasks.  But humans can operate mechanical arms from afar, turning physical labor into remote work. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adam Morgan McCarthy / The Block: The hacker of DeFi lending protocol Euler Finance has returned 58,737 ETH, worth ~$102M, from the 96K ETH stolen in a flash-loan attack on March 13; EUL up 27%+  —  – The Euler hacker has returned 58,737 ETH from the 96,000 ETH stolen.  — They previously returned 3,000 ETH. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo: How Meta could sidestep ATT’s impairments by launching a mobile games store, as Apple reportedly prepares multiple app store support on iOS due to the EU’s DMA  —  This week, Microsoft declared that it will launch a mobile games app store on both iOS and Android next year, should its acquisition of Activision Blizzard be approved. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft threatened to cut rivals’ Bing search index access over its use in their AI chat tools and warned at least two that they violated its terms  —  Microsoft Corp. has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Irregular Ideas: LLMs will remove scholarly, creative, and economic software creation barriers, marking the industry’s Gutenberg moment to unleash the next great technology wave  —  There is immense hyperbole about recent developments in artificial intelligence, especially Large Language Models like ChatGPT. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: In his first visit since 2020, Tim Cook praises Apple’s “symbiotic kind of relationship” with China, amid the company’s moves to diversify from the country  —  Chief executive’s visit comes despite rising trade and geopolitical tensions between Beijing and US Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yoel Roth / Techdirt: Some national security concerns about TikTok are valid, but a forced sale of its US operations may undermine the company’s ability to fight adversarial threats  —  from the when-government-demands-backfire dept  —  Back in August 2020, the Trump White House issued an executive order purporting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chloe Xiang / VICE: Microsoft researchers claim GPT-4 showed early signs of AGI and performance close to human levels in tasks spanning coding, medicine, law, psychology, and more  —  The eyebrow-raising claim from Microsoft—which is banking on GPT putting it ahead of Google—contrasts with the model’s clear limitations. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stratechery: Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on AI’s iPhone moment, the DGX Cloud service, the US’ export controls, Nvidia’s position in the stack in an LLM world, and more  —  I first spoke with Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang after last March’s GTC conference, and again after last fall’s GTC … Lees verder op Tech Meme