Tech Meme

Washington Post: The EU AI Act includes restrictions for foundation models, with some proprietary models classified as having “systemic risk” subjected to additional obligations  —  The regulation paves the way for what could become a global standard to classify risk, enforce transparency … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Malaysia’s YTL Power partners with Nvidia in a $4.3B investment deal to create AI infrastructure in the country, including building a supercomputer in Malaysia  —  Malaysian conglomerate YTL’s utilities unit (YTLP.KL) will partner with U.S technology giant Nvidia (NVDA.O) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Axel Springer ends a deal to pre-install its Upday news aggregator on Samsung devices and plans to relaunch Upday in 2024 as an AI-driven “trend news generator”  —  Axel Springer is shutting down the news outlet Upday, the German publishing giant said on Friday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cory Weinberg / The Information: a16z-backed D2iQ, a cloud infrastructure startup formerly known as Mesosphere, is shutting down; D2iQ raised $250M and was valued at $775M in 2018  —  Andreessen Horowitz-backed D2iQ, a cloud infrastructure startup formerly known as Mesosphere and which was once popular with software developers, is shutting down. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amelia Pollard / Bloomberg: Near Intelligence, which provides data insights to companies, files for bankruptcy with plans to sell itself; Near went public via a SPAC merger in 2022  —  – Company, listed on the Nasdaq in March, plans to sell itself  — Lender Blue Torch to provide opening bid and financing Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Tencent’s Lightspeed LA studio reveals Last Sentinel, an ambitious console game by GTA veteran Steve Martin and part of Tencent’s push to create IP from scratch  —  – Lightspeed LA reveals ‘Last Sentinel’ at The Game Awards  — AAA game sets the stage in a futuristic, cyberpunk Tokyo Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adam Satariano / New York Times: The EU reaches a deal on the AI Act, a comprehensive attempt to limit the use of the technology; the law still needs to go through a few steps for approval  —  The agreement over the A.I. Act solidifies one of the world’s first comprehensive attempts to limit the use of artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is reorganizing its hardware engineering group as Tang Tan, its VP in charge of iPhone and Watch product design, plans to leave in February 2024  —  – Tang Tan is set to leave the tech company in February  — Departure will spur changes at hardware engineering group Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: As Beeper Mini experiences an outage, Beeper CEO Eric Migicovsky says that “all data indicates” Apple found a way to cut off the app’s ability to function  —  Was it too good to be true?  Beeper, the startup that reverse engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: Sources: complaints from some senior OpenAI leaders that Sam Altman had been psychologically abusive were a major factor in the board’s decision to fire Altman  —  The senior employees described Altman as psychologically abusive, creating chaos at the artificial-intelligence start-up … Lees verder op Tech Meme