Tech Meme

Hugh Son / CNBC: The SEC fines 11 Wall Street firms $289M total for poor recordkeeping by using apps including Signal, WhatsApp, and iMessage; CFTC fines four banks $260M total  —  – U.S. regulators on Tuesday announced a combined $549 million in penalties against Wall Street firms that failed to maintain electronic records of employee communications. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: WhatsApp introduces screen sharing during video calls, rolling out gradually on Android, iOS, and Windows, and support for Landscape mode on video calls  —  WhatsApp today introduced screen sharing as its latest feature to enhance the video calling experience on its platform … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Nvidia announces AI Workbench, letting users create, test, and tweak LLMs from Hugging Face and others on local workstations before utilizing cloud resources  —  Timed to coincide with SIGGRAPH, the annual AI academic conference, Nvidia this morning announced a new platform designed to let users create … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: Stability AI launches StableCode, a code generation LLM based on data from the open-source BigCode project, supporting Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, C, and C++  —  Stability AI is well known for its Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation model, but that’s not all the generative AI startup is interested in developing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: WhatsApp introduces screen sharing during video calls, rolling out on iOS, Android, and Windows, and support for landscape mode on video calls  —  WhatsApp today introduced screen sharing as its latest feature to enhance the video calling experience on its platform — taking … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: NYC-based Simon Data, which uses ML to help with analytics and marketing automation, raised a $54M Series D led by Macquarie Capital  —  Simon Data Inc., a startup with a platform that combines the features of an analytics tool and marketing automation software, has secured $54 million in new funding. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Israel- and Delaware-based Chargeflow, which uses ML to help businesses deal with chargeback disputes, raised an $11M seed led by OpenView and a $3M pre-seed  —  Chargeflow, a startup using AI to fight chargeback fraud, today announced that it raised $11 million in a seed round led by the VC firm OpenView Venture Partners. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: TSMC agrees to build a €10B plant in Germany’s Dresden, owning 70% of the facility with Infineon, NXP, and Bosch each holding 10% stake, set to open in 2027  —  – Taiwanese giant will own 70% of fab in eastern city of Dresden  — Facility to supply auto, industrial sectors starting in 2027 Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: The Philippines races to defend its share of the nearly $300B global business process outsourcing market, battling a talent shortage, rising competition, and AI  —  – Only one out of 10 outsourcing job applicants gets hired  — Growth in jobs added during pandemic fell below global trend Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Simon Data, which uses ML to help leverage customer data for marketing, raised a $54M Series D led by Macquarie Capital, taking its total funding to $113M  —  Simon Data Inc., a startup with a platform that combines the features of an analytics tool and marketing automation software, has secured $54 million in new funding. Lees verder op Tech Meme