Bloomberg: Chinese memory chip startup Changxin Xinqiao raised ~$5.4B, including ~$2B from Big Fund; founded in 2021, the firm shares a GM with China’s leading DRAM maker  —  – State-backed Big Fund restarts major investments after probe  — Beijing aims to achieve breakthroughs in chip technologies Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: A look at BlizzCon 2023, the first in-person BlizzCon since 2019, which revealed WoW expansions and more, but didn’t sell out beforehand, unlike past iterations  —  Tens of thousands of fans, a handful dressed up as their favorite characters from the video games Warcraft and Overwatch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Q&A with Google DeepMind Head of Robotics Vincent Vanhoucke on the robotics team’s history, general purpose robots, generative AI’s role in robotics, and more  —  [A version of this piece first appeared in TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter, Actuator.  Subscribe here.] Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nancy Scola / Politico: A profile of, and interview with, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Bruce Reed, who is in charge of developing the Biden administration’s AI strategy  —  Bruce Reed had seen the pitfalls of letting Big Tech run roughshod over government.  He is determined not to make the same mistakes on AI. Lees verder op Tech Meme