Tech Meme

Hayden Field / CNBC: Q&A with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on AI’s business uses, Biden’s EO, rolling out WatsonX in July 2023, growing IBM’s AI business, falling behind in AI, and more  —  – IBM is angling hard for an AI comeback story, and CEO Arvind Krishna is counting on a recent pivot to enterprise AI tools in order to get there. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner says the “goal in firing Sam [Altman] was to strengthen OpenAI”, but declines to say why she and others voted to fire him  —  In an interview, AI academic Helen Toner explains her posture in OpenAI’s power struggle Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: A US judge sentences Gene Levoff, the ex-Apple lawyer who pled guilty to insider trading from 2011 to 2016, to four years of probation; Apple fired him in 2018  —  – Gene Levoff was sentenced to four years of probation Thursday  — Judge said the Stanford Law graduate already lost his career Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Toronto-based ContactMonkey, which offers an internal communications tool that integrates with Outlook, Gmail, and more, raised a $55M Series A led by Updata  —  Email is quite profitable, as it turns out.  Or rather, email communications software is.  —  Today, ContactMonkey … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: X rolls out xAI’s snarky, anti-woke chatbot Grok to X Premium+ users; X CEO Linda Yaccarino describes Grok as “the ultimate ride or die”  —  Select users with X Premium Plus received access to the AI starting Thursday.  —  Elon Musk’s snarky, anti-woke chatbot, Grok … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta rolls out tags on Threads, offering support for multiple words and spaces, and no # symbol; posts can only have one tag and the tag view is the search view  —  Tags — basically hashtags with a twist — are now rolling out globally on Threads, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon tells customers that the company plans to stop accepting Venmo as a payment method on January 10, 2024, after rolling out Venmo support in October 2022  —  – Amazon will no longer allow users to pay with Venmo beginning Jan. 10, according to a notice sent to users. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Users say Google’s Gemini Pro is loath to comment on potentially controversial news topics, fails to get basic facts right, and struggles with some coding tasks  —  This week, Google took the wraps off of Gemini, its new flagship generative AI model meant to power a range of products … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: TSMC and Arizona labor unions reach a deal covering foreign workers and more, to resolve labor disputes that have dogged TSMC’s fab construction site in Phoenix  —  – Agreement covers workforce training, safety, foreign workers  — TSMC widely expected to get federal money for $40 billion site Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Meta announces Purple Llama, an initiative to promote responsible AI development by offering tools and evaluations for safely building open generative AI models  —  Meta Platforms Inc. is looking to promote the responsible development of artificial intelligence systems with a new initiative called Purple Llama. Lees verder op Tech Meme