Tech Meme

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Senior YouTube staff express concerns over Shorts drawing away audiences from long-form videos, which produce more revenue but may be “dying out” as a format  —  Concerns raised that TikTok rival is drawing audiences away from the platform’s longer-form videos Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yiwen Lu / New York Times: The SF Fire Department says two Cruise driverless taxis blocked an ambulance carrying a patient who later died at a hospital; Cruise claims it was not at fault  —  Two Cruise taxis delayed an ambulance carrying a car accident victim to a hospital, a department report said.  The company said it was not at fault. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Clayton / BBC: EU study: social media companies have failed to stop pro-Russian disinformation and the “reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts” grew further in 2023  —  Social media companies have failed to stop “large-scale” Russian disinformation campaigns since the invasion of Ukraine, the EU has said. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: California Forever, the company backed by tech billionaires that intends to build a city in the Bay Area’s Solano County, unveils a website explaining its plans  —  A former Goldman Sachs trader moved to the Bay Area to make it in tech.  He ended up buying rural land with money from some of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest people. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: X updated its privacy policy to let the company use data X collects to train its AI models; Musk says X may use “just public data, not DMs or anything private”  —  X’s recently updated privacy policy informed its users it would now collect biometric data as well as users’ job … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: A look at AI chatbots from Baidu, ByteDance, and other Chinese companies, rolled out publicly after China’s approval, and how they deal with sensitive content  —  China has approved the first batch of AI chatbots for public rollout, and I tested them out.  But first…  Test time Lees verder op Tech Meme

Echo Wang / Reuters: Sources: Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, Intel, Samsung, AMD, Synopsys, and others plan to invest between $25M and $100M each in Arm’s IPO; Amazon decided against  —  Customers of Arm Holdings Ltd including Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O), Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Arm looks to target its IPO at a $50B to $55B valuation, well below the $64B valuation implied by SoftBank’s acquisition of a 25% Arm stake in August  —  Arm plans to start meeting with prospective investors as early as Tuesday  —  British chip designer Arm Ltd. is eyeing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft plans to deprecate WordPad, automatically included with Windows since 1995, via a future Windows update, as it’s no longer under active development  —  Microsoft announced today that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it’s no longer under active development … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Filing: Walmart spent $3.5B in H1 2023 to fix PhonePe shareholder liabilities and buy Flipkart shares from Tiger Global and others, growing its stake to ~80%  —  Walmart has spent $3.5 billion this year to acquire shares from certain Flipkart stakeholders and resolve liabilities … Lees verder op Tech Meme