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Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Seattle-based Rhythms, which plans to use AI to analyze companies’ patterns, such as monthly reviews and weekly meetings, comes out of stealth with a $26M seed  —  GeekWire’s in-depth startup coverage tells the stories of the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial scene. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon tests a $9.99/month grocery subscription service for Prime members, offering unlimited Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh grocery delivery on orders over $35  —  – Amazon is betting members of its Prime program will want to pay a separate monthly fee for unlimited grocery delivery on some orders. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Ganesh Venkataramanan, who led Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer project for five years, left Tesla in November; Tesla executive Peter Bannon now leads Dojo  —  Venkataramanan, who has lead the Dojo project for the last five years, left the company last month, the people said … 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 provide specifics on why she fired him  —  In an interview, AI academic Helen Toner explains her posture in OpenAI’s power struggle Lees verder op Tech Meme

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon tests a $9.99/month grocery subscription service for Prime members, with unlimited grocery delivery from Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh on orders over $35  —  – Amazon is betting members of its Prime program will want to pay a separate monthly fee for unlimited grocery delivery on some orders. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Ganesh Venkataramanan, who led Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer project for five years, left Tesla last month; Tesla executive Peter Bannon now leads Dojo  —  Venkataramanan, who has lead the Dojo project for the last five years, left the company last month, the people said … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Users say Google’s Gemini Pro is loathe to comment on some 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 and services including Bard, Google’s ChatGPT competitor. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Montenegro Justice Minister Andrej Milovic has privately said he plans to extradite Do Kwon to the US rather than South Korea to face criminal charges  —  Alexander Osipovich and Marko Vešović  —  Montenegro’s top justice official has privately said he plans … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Users say Google’s Gemini Pro is loathe to comment on some controversial news topics, fails to get basic facts right, and struggles with basic coding functions  —  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

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Microsoft announces a major security leadership reshuffle as part of its Secure Future Initiative, replacing Bret Arsenault with Igor Tsyganskiy as Global CISO  —  Microsoft Corp. has announced a significant shakeup of its security team, with its long-time leader being put into a new role … Lees verder op Tech Meme