Tech Meme

Bryce Elder / Financial Times: OpenAI’s GPT-4 failed the CFA Institute’s sample of the finance world’s toughest exam, scoring eight out of 24, even though the answers are on the CFA’s website  —  Artificial intelligence versus arbitrary irrelevance  —  It’s an algorithmic mystery box that inspires fear, awe and derision in equal measure. Lees verder op Tech Meme

ABC News: An interview with Sam Altman on how “people should be happy” OpenAI is a “little bit scared of” its tools, GPT-4’s rollout, large-scale disinformation, and more  —  “This will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed,” he said.  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks with ABC News, Mar. 15, 2023. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Research: ByteDance’s video editing app CapCut, launched in 2020, has 200M+ MAUs and had 400M+ downloads in 2022, up 43% YoY and above TikTok in recent weeks  —  CapCut, the video-editing tool from ByteDance, helps users go viral on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube  —  How TikTok Could Become a U.S. Company Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: Report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and CASM Technology: the average weekly number of antisemitic tweets more than doubled after Musk took over  —  Happy Monday!  If you thought it was a busy news cycle last week, buckle up.  Send tips to: cristiano.lima@washpost.com. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anton Shilov / AnandTech: TrendForce: NAND flash revenue dropped 45% YoY and 25% QoQ in Q4 2022 and is expected to drop 8.1% QoQ in Q1 2023; NAND’s per-bit costs may reach all-time lows  —  Softened demand for PCs and smartphones coupled with NAND memory bits oversupply has sent prices of 3D NAND memory into a dive in recent quarters. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Josh Sisco / Politico: Sources detail the FTC’s pursuit of Amazon: possibly suing to stop the $1.7B iRobot acquisition, a retail antitrust case, a dark pattern investigation, and more  —  The Biden administration is planning to take action soon on at least three of its half-dozen investigations of Amazon … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Netflix plans to launch 40 games in 2023 and has a further 70 in development with its partners, after releasing 55 titles since adding games in November 2021  —  Netflix has announced that it has 40 games slated for launch this year and has 70 in development with its partners. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Burgess / Wired: How open-source intelligence, or OSINT, researchers are using public data to untangle the mystery of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, helping to debunk claims  —  Open source intelligence researchers are verifying and debunking opaque claims about who ruptured the gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yoshihiro Sato / Bloomberg: Taiwan’s Ministry of Finance data: IC chip exports to China and Hong Kong fell 31.3% YoY in February 2023, the most since 2009 and above January’s 27.1% fall  —  Taiwan’s exports of integrated circuit chips to China and Hong Kong fell for a fourth month in February as Washington-Beijing tensions simmer … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: China’s anti-graft watchdog opens an investigation into ex-Tsinghua Unigroup Chairman Zhao Weiguo, the latest executive ensnared in its chip corruption dragnet  —  China’s top anti-graft watchdog has begun an investigation of former Tsinghua Unigroup Chairman Zhao Weiguo … Lees verder op Tech Meme