Tech Meme

The Information: Sources: OpenAI offered some media companies $1M to $5M per year to license their news articles for AI model training, a tiny amount even for small publishers  —  OpenAI has offered some media firms as little as between $1 million and $5 million annually to license their news articles for use … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Cranz / The Verge: Dell announces the $1,299+ XPS 13, the $1,699+ XPS 14, replacing the XPS 13 Plus, and the $1,899+ XPS 16, offering Intel Core Ultra 7 and 9 and up to a 4TB SSD  —  This might not be the biggest shake-up of the Dell XPS lineup ever, but between some bigger laptops and a total revamping of the XPS portfolio, it feels like a big deal. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Route package data: Amazon had 29% of global online order volume in the two weeks before Christmas, up from 21% in the week of Thanksgiving and Black Friday  —  – Company’s speedy delivery benefited procrastinating shoppers  — Chinese upstarts offer discounts but can’t match arrival times Lees verder op Tech Meme

Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: The US NLRB rules that Alphabet illegally refused to negotiate with a group of YouTube Music contract workers working at Cognizant after they voted to unionize  —  – YouTube Music staff voted to join Alphabet union last year  — Google to appeal, says workers are employees of Cognizant Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rohan Goswami / CNBC: Mobileye stock drops 25% after the self-driving tech company warned that customer orders may fall in Q1 as automakers stocked up during chip shortages  —  – Mobileye shares plunged as much as 25% Thursday after the company warned that customer order numbers would fall short of the year-ago quarter. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: Perplexity, which offers an AI-based “answer engine” with ~10M MAUs to compete with Google, raised $74M at a $520M valuation from IVP, Jeff Bezos, and others  —  Perplexity, with a fraction of Google’s users, raised the largest sum by an internet search startup in recent years Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ana Swanson / New York Times: The White House awards $162M in federal grants to Arizona-based Microchip Technology to expand its Oregon and Colorado facilities, the second CHIPS Act award  —  The Biden administration said its second grant under a new program would help Microchip Technology expand its facilities in Oregon and Colorado. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: LastPass now requires users to set a master password with a minimum of 12 characters, after enforcing the requirement for new accounts or resets in April 2023  —  LastPass notified customers today that they are now required to use complex master passwords with a minimum of 12 characters to increase their accounts’ security. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Top10VPN: Research: deliberate internet shutdowns affected 747M people globally in 2023, with a $9.01B cost; Russia accounted for $4.02B; X was the most blocked platform  —  First published Jan 2, 2020.  Last updated to publish the full 2023 annual report on the cost of internet shutdowns. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Steinberg / Variety: GroupM forms a consortium with Disney, Roku, NBCU, YouTube, and others to push for standardized measurements and ad formats that can be used across streamers  —  One of the nation’s biggest investors of ad dollars wants to push big large streamers to work together when it comes to commercials. Lees verder op Tech Meme