Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Emails: Google employee no. 8 Urs Holzle will step back from management after 24 years, becoming an “individual contributor” amid a shakeup at Google Cloud  —  – Employee No. 8 Urs Holzle will step back from management after 24 years, CNBC has learned. Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Kirton / Reuters: Research firms say Huawei is plotting a return to the US 5G smartphone market by the end of 2023 using its own chip design tools and SMIC’s chipmaking process  —  – US-sanctioned giant likely to produce 5G chips domestically  — Chips expected to use Huawei EDA tools and SMIC production Lees verder op Tech Meme

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: As AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and other cloud providers face pressure to meet AI demand, Dell, Qualcomm, and other on-premises hardware providers see an opening  —  Traditional cloud infrastructure wasn’t designed to support large-scale artificial intelligence.  Hyperscalers are quickly working to rebuild it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Twitter’s best defense against Threads may be to refocus on news and reactions from people you follow, leaving growth via algorithmic feeds to Threads  —  If you’re only going to tweet once every 11 years, then you better make it count; the best way to do just that is to pull off a well-executed meme: Lees verder op Tech Meme

Catherine Thorbecke / CNN: A California law firm launches a class-action suit against Google, alleging user data scraping sans consent for AI training, after a similar suit against OpenAI  —  Google was hit with a wide-ranging lawsuit on Tuesday alleging the tech giant scraped data from millions of users without … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cecilia Kang / New York Times: Critics say FTC Chair Lina Khan’s take-it-to-the-courts strategy is flawed, ahead of a House Judiciary Committee hearing to “examine mismanagement of the FTC”  —  Lina Khan has said a fear of defeat should not deter the agency from suing big tech companies. Lees verder op Tech Meme