Tech Meme

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Sources: Microsoft plans the next major Windows version for 2024, with an AI-powered Windows Shell, an “advanced Copilot”, natural language search, and more  —  What’s next for Windows?  Microsoft plans next-gen Windows AI release in 2024, plus details on recent changes to the Windows roadmap Lees verder op Tech Meme

Drew Harwell / Washington Post: Apple guidelines now say that US law enforcement can obtain the Apple ID associated with a push notification token via a subpoena; Google requires a court order  —  Apple and Google had been told to keep the practice secret until Sen. Ron Wyden revealed it in a letter Wednesday Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Steve Hotelling, the Apple VP overseeing technologies like touchscreen, health sensors, and Face ID, and one of the inventors of Touch ID, is retiring  —  – Steve Hotelling oversaw many key technologies at Apple  — Executive was a top deputy under hardware boss Johny Srouji Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: MIT spinoff Liquid AI, which aims to build AI systems powered by liquid neural networks, emerges from stealth with a $37.6M seed at a $303M post-money valuation  —  An MIT spinoff co-founded by robotics luminary Daniela Rus aims to build general-purpose AI systems powered by a relatively … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mat Honan / MIT Technology Review: Q&A with Sundar Pichai on Gemini, the leading AI benchmarks, hallucinations, making AI helpful for all, the legal AI landscape, the future of search, and more  —  In an in-depth interview, Pichai predicts: “This will be one of the biggest things we all grapple with for the next decade.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Google posts instructions for restoring files in Google Drive for desktop, after users reported last week that some of their files disappeared from the service  —  Google has a solution for the sync issue that caused files to disappear for some users on Drive for desktop. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, and OpenAI say they plan to use AMD’s new Instinct MI300X GPU; Microsoft plans to offer access to the chips through Azure  —  – Meta, OpenAI, and Microsoft said they will use AMD’s newest AI chip, the Instinct MI300X — a sign that tech companies want alternatives … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: AMD launches Instinct MI300X and MI300A AI accelerators and claims the MI300X delivers up to 1.6x more performance than Nvidia’s H100 HGX in inference workloads  —  AMD’s chiplet strategy comes to fore.  —  AMD launched its Instinct MI300X AI accelerator and the Instinct MI300A … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Diane Bartz / Reuters: In a US appeals court, the FTC argues that a federal judge held the agency to too high a standard when she ruled that Microsoft’s $69B Activision deal was legal  —  U.S. antitrust enforcers will argue on Wednesday that a federal judge got it wrong when she ruled that Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: AMD launches Instinct AI accelerators MI300X and MI300A and claims the MI300X delivers up to 1.6x more performance than Nvidia’s H100 HGX in inference workloads  —  AMD’s chiplet strategy comes to fore.  —  AMD launched its Instinct MI300X AI accelerator and the Instinct MI300A … Lees verder op Tech Meme