Tech Meme

Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept: Netflix lists a $900K-a-year AI product manager job that points to the company’s plans to use AI to “create great content”, as actors strike for AI protections  —  Rob Delaney said, “My melodious voice?  My broad shoulders and dancer’s undulating buttocks?  I decide how those are used! Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based AutogenAI, which offers a generative AI tool for writing bids and pitches, raised $22.3M; source: the valuation was in the “hundreds of millions”  —  Business is regularly won and lost on the strength of a proposal.  Now, a startup out of London called AutogenAI … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Linda Yaccarino pitched her vision for Twitter/X to talent agencies in LA and met with Disney, in a bid to bring stars and influencers to the platform  —  Social media app’s new chief meets with agents at leading talent agencies amid controversy over rebranding to ‘X’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Collaborative Robotics, founded by former Amazon Robotics VP Brad Porter to build a new type of collaborative robot, raised a $30M Series A led by Sequoia  —  A year after unveiling Collaborative Robotics, Brad Porter is still playing it close to the vest.  He’s not ready show off … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sheila Chiang / CNBC: Samsung reports Q2 revenue of ~$47.21B, a 22% YoY drop and below analyst expectations of ~$47.7B, and operating profit of ~$525M, a 95% YoY drop  —  – Samsung is the world’s largest maker of dynamic random-access memory chips, which are found in consumer devices such as smartphones and computers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Esther Crawford / @esthercrawford: Former Director of Product Management Esther Crawford on Twitter’s culture of fear, Elon Musk’s strengths and weaknesses, the sleeping bag incident, and more  —  Like seemingly everyone on this app I have plenty of opinions about Twitter > X and figure now is a good time to open up a bit about my experience at the company. I tweeted for years into the void for the love of it like many of you, but after selling my startup to Twitter in… Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ian King / Bloomberg: US-based chipmaker MaxLinear scraps a $3.8B deal to acquire Taiwan’s Silicon Motion, saying Silicon Motion failed to complete some closing conditions and more  —  The Carlsbad, California-based company said in a statement Wednesday that Taiwan-based Silicon Motion failed to complete … Lees verder op Tech Meme

@esthercrawford: Former Director of Product Management Esther Crawford on Twitter’s culture of fear, Elon Musk’s strengths and weaknesses, the sleeping bag incident, and more  —  Like seemingly everyone on this app I have plenty of opinions about Twitter > X and figure now is a good time to open up a bit about my experience at the company. I tweeted for years into the void for the love of it like many of you, but after selling my startup to Twitter in… Lees verder op Tech Meme

Scott Nover / Quartz: Meta says Facebook surpassed 3B MAUs for the first time, increasing 3% YoY as of June 30, 2023, while family monthly active people grew 6% YoY to 3.88B  —  Meta’s primordial app reached a landmark amid a quarter of positive financial results  —  Facebook, the world’s largest social network … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Sources: the California AG is investigating Tesla, seeking information from customers and ex-employees about Autopilot safety issues and advertising complaints  —  – The California attorney general is investigating Tesla, CNBC has learned, seeking information from customers … Lees verder op Tech Meme