Tech Meme

Daniel Stenberg / daniel.haxx.se: Daniel Stenberg, founder of open-source project curl, says easy access to LLMs is resulting in junk AI-assisted bug reports, wasting developer time and energy  —  I have held back on writing anything about AI or how we (not) use AI for development in the curl factory.  Now I can’t hold back anymore. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Filing: MobiKwik, a Peak XV-backed Indian payments and digital wallet provider, seeks to raise ~$84.2M in an IPO, and plans to raise ~$16M in a pre-IPO round  —  Indian financial services startup MobiKwik seeks to raise about $84.2 million through issue of new shares in an initial public offering … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lim Hui Jie / CNBC: Alibaba-backed Chinese lidar maker RoboSense raised $126.14M in its Hong Kong IPO, with the stock falling 2% on its debut  —  – Robosense, a Chinese developer of laser imaging, detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors for self-driving cars, announced January that it had raised HK$985.12 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: Legal experts offer mixed opinions about how earlier copyright and fair use cases could affect The New York Times’ case against OpenAI and Microsoft  —  A lawsuit accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of violating the New York Times’s copyright.  But the law is anything but clear. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kotaro Hosokawa / Nikkei Asia: SK Hynix was second behind Samsung Electronics in the Korea Exchange’s market cap ranking at the end of 2023, with its market cap rising 89% to ~$78B in 2023  —  Battery-related company valuations fall as EV sales lag expectations  —  SK Hynix produced the biggest jump in market cap among … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post: China’s newly created National Data Administration unveils a three-year action plan to boost the country’s economy by growing its data sector by 20% every year  —  China’s newly established data administration, an agency created by Beijing to make data an effective production factor … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: What to expect at CES 2024: laptops with Intel’s new Core Ultra chips, TVs with AI processing, AI-powered smart home devices and appliances, and more  —  No single event of the year delivers more tech news than CES.  The annual trade show is the starting point for each year in tech … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: Data from the Department of Labor shows the US IT sector grew by only 700 jobs over 2023, down from 267,000 jobs added in 2022, despite the AI boom  —  Despite business and investor hype around generative AI last year, information-technology hiring slumped as companies laid off workers and sought to cut costs Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Filing: MobiKwik, a Peak XV-backed Indian fintech startup, seeks to raise about $84.2M in an IPO in India, and plans to raise about $16M in a pre-IPO round  —  Indian financial services startup MobiKwik seeks to raise about $84.2 million through issue of new shares in an initial public offering … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lim Hui Jie / CNBC: Alibaba-backed Chinese lidar maker RoboSense raised $126.14M in its Hong Kong IPO by offering 22.9M shares at HK$43 each, with the stock falling 2% on its debut  —  – Robosense, a Chinese developer of laser imaging, detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors for self-driving cars … Lees verder op Tech Meme