Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: JD.com unveils ChatRhino LLM for enterprise use and plans to introduce the tool internally in ecommerce and other areas before expanding to clients in H1 2024  —  China’s second-largest e-commerce platform JD.com Inc. unveiled a large language model for enterprise use, joining domestic peers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple launches Tap to Pay on iPhone in the UK, starting with Revolut and Tyl by NatWest as the first platforms, following the US, Australia, and Taiwan  —  Apple has announced the launch of Tap to Pay on iPhone in the United Kingdom, allowing independent sellers, small merchants … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Commission-free investing platform Public.com launches in the UK, the Robinhood rival’s first expansion outside the US, letting investors trade 5K+ US stocks  —  Commission-free investing platform Public.com is launching in the UK, marking the Robinhood rival’s first expansion outside its American home market. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: In June, the US State Department told Microsoft that its emails in Azure were hacked; attackers stole a Microsoft key and hacked ~25 organizations’ emails  —  The State Department discovered the Microsoft vulnerability, which affected unclassified government systems, last month Lees verder op Tech Meme

DigiTimes: Intel’s Habana launched its Gaudi 2 AI processor in China on July 11, to be used by Inspur and other Chinese cloud providers, despite US export controls  —  As the US seeks to tighten export controls on AI chips to China, Intel held a press conference in Beijing on the July 11 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Meta plans to release a commercial version of LLaMA imminently and will make the AI model more widely available and customizable by companies  —  Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google are surging ahead in Silicon Valley development race  —  Meta is poised to release a commercial version … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikkei Asia: Sony plans to spend ~$2.13B on gaming R&D for the FY ending March 2024, accounting for ~40% of its total R&D expenditure and surpassing electronics and chips  —  Japan electronics giant to ramp up live-game titles to catch up to Microsoft  —  Sony is aiming for 60% of game development costs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: Google updates Bard with support for 43 more languages, including Arabic, and releases the chatbot in Europe and Brazil after adding new privacy features  —  Latest version to also include a privacy hub for all users  —  Google is betting a new version of its artificial-intelligence chatbot will say hallo … Lees verder op Tech Meme