Tech Meme

River Davis / Wall Street Journal: A look at Woven Planet, Toyota’s ambitious software unit that was renamed Woven by Toyota after struggling to connect with the changing goals of its parent  —  Toyota needed software expertise, but making a startup mentality mesh with an 86-year-old giant proved challenging.  Now it’s trying a new way. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Josh Ye / Reuters: Alibaba unveils Tongyi Qianwen 2, an LLM with “hundreds of billions” of parameters and eight models for entertainment, finance, healthcare, and legal industries  —  Chinese technology giant Alibaba (9988.HK) said on Tuesday it has updated its artificial intelligence (AI) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple says “all presenters, locations, and drone footage” in the pre-recorded “Scary Fast” event video were shot on an iPhone 15 Pro Max  —  Apple today held a short and unusual special event to introduce a new generation of MacBook Pro and iMac with M3 chip. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: Alibaba is pressuring Tmall and Taobao merchants to offer rock-bottom prices during Singles Day, which ends on November 11, or risk losing traffic  —  China’s Alibaba (9988.HK) is pressuring merchants to offer rock-bottom prices on its marketplaces in this year’s Singles Day extravaganza … Lees verder op Tech Meme

John Davidson / Australian Financial Review: Andrew Ng, who taught Sam Altman at Stanford and co-founded Google Brain, says Big Tech is lying about AI extinction to trigger heavier regulation of rivals  —  Key Points  — Big Tech wants tough AI rules that would make life hard for small competitors Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Indian opposition leaders say Apple warned more than six of them of state-backed iPhone attacks; Apple confirms the notification but did not attribute the hacks  —  Apple has warned over a half dozen Indian politicians, other members of political parties and journalists of their iPhones … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Filings: China’s Big Fund invests $1.99B in DRAM maker Changxin Xinqiao, or 33.15% of its total registered capital, part of plans to build 12-inch memory wafers  —  China’s state-backed chip investment fund has invested 14.56 billion yuan ($1.99 billion) in a memory chip company called Changxin Xinqiao, records showed. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Taiwan’s Powerchip plans to build a $5.3B chip facility in northeast Japan with financing from SBI and Japan, aiming to produce 40nm to 55nm chips by 2027  —  – Initial investment to be $2.8 billion on automotive chip plant  — Move bolsters Japan’s domestic chip manufacturing capacity Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple says “All presenters, locations, and drone footage” in the pre-recorded “Scary Fast” event video were shot on an iPhone 15 Pro Max  —  Apple today held a short and unusual special event to introduce a new generation of MacBook Pro and iMac with M3 chip. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple says “All presenters, locations, and drone footage” in the pre-recorded “Scary Fast” event video were shot on an iPhone 15 Pro Max  —  Apple today held a short and unusual special event to introduce a new generation of MacBook Pro and iMac with M3 chip. Lees verder op Tech Meme