Tech Meme

Brian Merchant / Los Angeles Times: Studio executives embraced Silicon Valley’s magical thinking of hypergrowth and disruption for the past 10 years, only to slash worker pay as the boom times end  —  In one respect, the actors and writers of Hollywood uniting on the picket lines in a historic, industry-shaking strike is a tale as old as time … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin Roose / New York Times: An analysis of eight AI commitments made by OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection to the White House, and their potential impact  —  Seven leading A.I. companies made eight promises about what they’ll do with their technology.  Our columnist sizes up their potential impact. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Elon Musk tweets “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand” and “if a good enough X logo is posted tonight… we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow”  —  Elon Musk said on Sunday he was looking to change Twitter’s logo, tweeting: “And soon we shall bid adieu … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Profiles of eight former Google research scientists who co-authored the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is All You Need” that paved the way for the rise of LLMs  —  Their paper paved the way for the rise of large language models.  But all have since left the Silicon Valley giant Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rishabh Jaiswal / Reuters: Elon Musk tweets “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand” and “if a good enough X logo is posted tonight… we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow”  —  Elon Musk said he was looking to change Twitter’s logo, tweeting: “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Caiwei Chen / Rest of World: Similarweb: by May-end, daily downloads for ByteDance’s social media app Lemon8 fell to 6.7% of its March peak; the app hit the US App Store’s top 10 in March  —  Users complain the ByteDance app feels inorganic and curated, prioritizing the needs of influencers over ordinary people. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Riho Nagao / Nikkei Asia: Japan adds advanced chipmaking equipment to its export control list, a move that aligns the country with US curbs meant to keep chip tech out of China’s hands  —  Tokyo aligns with Washington to keep most advanced technology out of China’s hands  —  Japan now requires export licenses for semiconductor-manufacturing equipment. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A look at solid-state speakers etched from silicon and their potential applications, like helping people with hearing loss and making AR/VR objects feel real  —  Speakers the size of an asterisk have the potential to change the way we reproduce sound, cope with hearing loss—and even make objects in virtual reality feel real Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tate Ryan-Mosley / MIT Technology Review: A look at a proposed Massachusetts bill that would let state police use face recognition for image matching, but not face surveillance or emotion recognition  —  A Massachusetts bill restricting police use could set the standard for how the technology is regulated in America. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yogita Khatri / The Block: Coinbase plans to shut down its bitcoin-backed loan program Borrow for retail customers and says loan holders must pay any outstanding dues by November 20, 2023  —  – Coinbase will fully sunset its Borrow program for retail customers, effective November 20. Lees verder op Tech Meme