Tech Meme

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Samsung launches a $99 S Pen Creator Edition in the US, offering a larger, Apple Pencil-like design while lacking many S Pen smart features, like Air Commands  —  The S Pen has been a key selling point of many of Samsung’s products over the years, and the company is now debuting a … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: Baidu ordered AI chips from Huawei in 2023 to shift away from Nvidia; a source says Baidu ordered 1,600 Ascend 910B chips, worth ~$62M, for 200 servers  —  Baidu (9888.HK) ordered artificial intelligence chips from Huawei (HWT.UL) this year, two people familiar with the matter said … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: X CEO Linda Yaccarino is leaning on her media industry experience to pitch jittery advertisers, including meeting executives from the NFL and the NBA  —  Media veteran drums up video deals with NFL, NBA and others as ‘training wheels’ for nervous brands Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: Google Photos’ Magic Editor will now refuse to edit photos of ID cards, human faces and body parts, receipts, and other images of personally identifiable info  —  Magic Editor cannot edit human faces and body parts, photos of ID cards, receipts, and more.  —  • Lees verder op Tech Meme

Naomi Nix / Washington Post: Ahead of ex-Meta consultant Arturo Béjar’s Senate testimony, internal documents and sources detail debates over fostering growth while protecting young users  —  A former engineering and product leader at Meta is expected to testify in Congress about how Meta ignored warnings about youth safety Lees verder op Tech Meme

Will Schmitt / Financial Times: LG’s AI unit and Qraft launch the LG Qraft AI-Powered US Large-Cap Core ETF on the NYSE, using LG’s forecasting tool to rebalance the portfolio every four weeks  —  Conglomerate is partnering with SoftBank-backed quantitative manager to test a large-cap fund  —  Latest news on ETFs Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Volante, which offers low-code payments tools used by 150 major banks and other institutions, raised $66M in equity and debt, taking its total funding to $116M  —  “Digital transformation” among enterprises hasn’t happened with quite the gusto that people predicted it would a few years ago. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: The Tech Coalition, including Discord, Google, Meta, Roblox, Snap, and Twitch, announce Lantern to help share “signals” on child sexual exploitation and abuse  —  The Tech Coalition, the group of tech companies developing approaches and policies to combat online child sexual exploitation … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Naomi Nix / Washington Post: Ahead of ex-Meta consultant Arturo Béjar’s Senate testimony, internal documents and sources detail debates over fostering growth while protecting young users  —  A former engineering and product leader at Meta is expected to testify in Congress about how Meta ignored warnings about youth safety Lees verder op Tech Meme

Josh Ye / Reuters: Sources: Pico plans to cut “hundreds” of jobs and undertake its biggest overhaul since ByteDance acquired the VR unit in 2021, as global headset demand weakens  —  ByteDance’s virtual reality (VR) arm Pico will cut jobs and undertake its biggest overhaul since it was acquired … Lees verder op Tech Meme