Tech Meme

Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: Bitcoin miners’ earnings power and stocks have diverged from the asset they help produce, as the hashrate languishes amid technical and macroeconomic headwinds  —  Bitcoin miners’ earnings power and stocks have diverged from the asset they help produce, a stark reminder of the deteriorating economics … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: Prompt engineering roles, one of the buzziest jobs in 2023, become obsolete as AI models better intuit user intent and companies train staff in writing prompts  —  Prompt engineering, a role aimed at crafting the perfect input to send to a large language model, was poised to become one of the hottest jobs in artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Simon Willison / Simon Willison’s Weblog: Watching OpenAI’s o3 guess a photo’s location, including the model running Python code to examine license plates, is surreal, dystopian, and entertaining  —  Watching OpenAI’s new o3 model guess where a photo was taken is one of those moments where decades of science fiction suddenly come to life. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: US v. Google: Chrome GM testified that other companies can not develop Chrome effectively, given the browser’s “interdependencies” on other parts of Google  —  Google is the only company that can offer the level of features and functionality that its popular Chrome web browser has today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: At a major Hong Kong electronics exhibition, some Chinese companies say they are exploring ways to lower or skirt tariffs while others plan to wait them out  —  Tech Across the Globe … Tan is cutting jobs, reducing management layers and trying to energize the once-mighty company’s culture. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: Stripe plans to test a stablecoin payments product aimed at companies outside the US, the UK, and the EU, using tech from Bridge, which Stripe acquired recently  —  Stripe CEO Patrick Collison said a stablecoin tool for companies outside US, UK and EU is ready for testing.  —  What to know: Lees verder op Tech Meme

Simon Willison / Simon Willison’s Weblog: Watching OpenAI’s o3 guess a photo’s location feels surreal, dystopian, and entertaining, including running Python code to examine details like license plates  —  Watching OpenAI’s new o3 model guess where a photo was taken is one of those moments where decades of science fiction suddenly come to life. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: ~300 London-based DeepMind staff sought to unionize with the CWU in recent weeks, to challenge AI sales to defense groups and Google’s ties to Israel  —  Move by employees at Google’s AI arm follows discontent after weapons and surveillance pledge is dropped Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Information: a16z, which owns ~20% of Deel, a stake worth $2.5B+, is advising Deel in fighting Rippling, whose CEO Parker Conrad said a16z pushed him out of Zenefits in 2016  —  Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has landed in the middle of a nasty Silicon Valley spy scandal between … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: US v. Google: Chrome General Manager Parisa Tabriz testified that only Google can run Chrome, given the browser’s “interdependencies” on other parts of Google  —  Google is the only company that can offer the level of features and functionality that its popular Chrome web browser has today … Lees verder op Tech Meme