Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Apple and its suppliers aim to make 50M+ iPhones annually in India in two to three years, which would account for a quarter of global iPhone production  —  Supplier Foxconn plans to build more factories and give India a production role once limited mostly to China Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steven Levy / Wired: A look at NotebookLM and how author Steven Johnson, now a full-time Google employee for over a year, helped the company create the app  —  Author Steven Johnson helped Google create an app that can analyze a writer’s research material and help them extract and explore the key themes.  Maybe too well. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google launches the Gemini Pro-powered NotebookLM, demoed at I/O 2023 as an “AI-first notebook” that pulls information from users’ documents, in the US  —  At I/O 2023 in May, Google demoed an “AI-first notebook” that was originally called Project Tailwind. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times: A UK class action lawsuit against Vodafone, EE, Three UK, and O2, filed last week, accuses them of overcharging ~4.8M customers over 16 years and seeks £3.3B  —  Vodafone, EE, Three and O2 are accused of levying ‘loyalty penalties’ on customers  —  The biggest UK mobile phone operators … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: A look at Grok responses Elon Musk has highlighted on X shows an AI chatbot whose unfunny, “edgy”, pointlessly offensive humor feels forced and try-hard  —  Fine.  Let’s talk about xAI, which is getting funded to the tune of $1 billion or whatever. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Amazon sues an “international fraud organization” for allegedly stealing millions of dollars in merchandise from the company through a series of refund scams  —  – Shoppers took gaming consoles, smartphones, tires and gold  — Scammers live in US, five other countries, according to suit Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times: A UK class action lawsuit against Vodafone, EE, Three UK, and O2, filed last week, accuses them of overcharging ~4.8M customers over 16 years and seeks £3.3B  —  Vodafone, EE, Three and O2 are accused of levying ‘loyalty penalties’ on customers  —  The biggest UK mobile phone operators … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Megha Mandavia / Wall Street Journal: India’s powerful and independent labor movement presents a challenge for Apple in its ambitions to diversify its production away from China  —  India’s moment as a manufacturing hub is here but to truly capitalize on that, it needs labor market reforms  —  India is front and center … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Allison Johnson / The Verge: Mobile network companies have backed themselves into a corner by racing to roll out 5G, taking on piles of debt with few returns to show for their investments  —  Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything.  But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times: A UK class action lawsuit against Vodafone, EE, Three UK, and O2, filed last week, accuses them of overcharging ~4.8M customers over 16 years and seeks £3.3B  —  Vodafone, EE, Three and O2 are accused of levying ‘loyalty penalties’ on customers  —  The biggest UK mobile phone operators … Lees verder op Tech Meme