Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Telegram raised $210M through bond sales, more than two years after raising $1B+ in debt financing; CEO Pavel Durov “personally bought” ~25% of new bonds  —  Telegram has raised $210 million through bond sales this week from a number of investors, including its founder … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Gertner / New York Times: A look at the Wikipedia community’s debates about AI, including AI’s threats and potential benefits, knowledge creation, truthfulness, and legal concerns  —  Can the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Axios: Sources: Vox Media plans to stop using Chorus, its CMS that the company licensed to external publishers from 2018 to 2022, and move its websites to WordPress  —  Vox Media, the parent company to websites such as New York Magazine, Eater and SB Nation, will no longer use Chorus … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Smith / AnandTech: Samsung says it has completed the development of its first generation GDDR7 DRAM, slated for 2024, with a 32Gbps data transfer rate, up ~33% from GDDR6’s 24Gbps  —  Samsung has announced this evening that they have completed development on their first generation of GDDR7 memory. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Hands-on with Framework Laptop 16, a modular gaming laptop that lets you replace and upgrade the whole GPU, for pre-order starting at $1,399 for the DIY edition  —  Four layers of modular components — including a swappable discrete GPU — right at your fingertips. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Todd Haselton / CNBC: Microsoft’s stock closed up 4% at $359.49 on July 18, an all-time high after announcing pricing for Microsoft 365 Copilot service; MSFT is up ~50% in 2023  —  – Microsoft shares rallied to an all-time high after the company announced pricing for its new Microsoft 365 artificial intelligence subscription service. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michelle Nichols / Reuters: The UN Security Council held its first meeting on AI, as UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres endorsed creating a new IAEA-like UN agency to deal with AI risks  —  The United Nations Security Council held its first meeting on artificial intelligence on Tuesday where China said the technology … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Threads gets big update with Follows tab, translations, and more  —  It’s been two weeks since Meta launched Threads, its new microblogging social network.  And while version 1.0 was a pretty solid release, it lacked a lot of features that users had been asking for. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Roblox announces tools that will let developers offer subscriptions and to sell real-world goods within their experiences, but doesn’t offer a release timeline  —  Roblox is developing tools that will let developers offer subscriptions within their experiences, according to a blog post published Tuesday … Lees verder op Tech Meme