Tech Meme

Mia Sato / The Verge: After a fake Pentagon “explosion” image went viral, Twitter adds Community Notes to images, including “recent and future matching images”  —  Twitter is expanding its crowdsourced fact-checking program to include images, shortly after a fake image went viral claiming to show an “explosion” near the Pentagon. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Priya Anand / Bloomberg: An investigation into Papa, a TaskRabbit-like service for seniors that has raised $240M, finds dozens of allegations of harassment, assault, theft, and more  —  If you’ve been to an annual open enrollment fair in the past few years, you may have noticed a new eldercare benefit with the unusual name of Papa. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: Foxconn predicts “triple-digit growth in AI servers” in H2 2023 as demand skyrockets; in 2022, Foxconn made ~$36B in server revenue out of its $215B total  —  Apple’s largest manufacturer says demand for servers needed to run ChatGPT-like services will double this year Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael del Castillo / Forbes: An interview with reclusive Bitcoin programmer @Fiatjaf on building the Nostr protocol to offer an alternative to Twitter and other centralized social media  —  Disenchanted with social media options like Twitter, the reclusive Bitcoin programmer tells Forbes how he designed his chat … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: A Chinese government report says Chinese organizations launched 79 LLMs in the country over the past three years, compared to US organizations’ 96 in the US  —  Chinese organisations launched 79 large-language models (LLMs) in the country over the past three years as they doubled down on efforts … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Oliver Whang / New York Times: A look at the BabyLM Challenge, which aims to create language models with datasets that are less than one-ten-thousandth the size of those used by advanced LLMs  —  Teaching fewer words to large language models might help them sound more human.  —  When it comes to artificial intelligence chatbots, bigger is typically better. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikkei Asia: How Taiwan became a key part of the electronics supply chain, creating interdependence between Taiwan, China, and the US that has deepened even as tensions rise  —  In the days after then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last year, Taiwanese suppliers to U.S. tech giants including Apple … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: By creating separate crypto companies, Standard Chartered and other finance groups are betting fund managers will prefer trusted brands to opaque crypto firms  —  Traditional finance groups create digital asset infrastructure untainted by year of crypto scandals Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Kirton / Reuters: Some mainland China tech entrepreneurs are trying to gain permanent residency or citizenship outside of China to avoid US curbs and biases against Chinese firms  —  For the ambitious Chinese tech entrepreneur, expanding into the U.S. just keeps getting harder. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Myungshin Cho / Bloomberg: Statistics Korea: South Korea’s semiconductor inventory rose 83% YoY in April 2023, the biggest increase since April 2016, while factory shipments fell 33% YoY  —  South Korea’s semiconductor inventory surged by the most in seven years, underscoring ongoing weak demand for chips despite the global boom in AI development. Lees verder op Tech Meme