Tom Warren / The Verge: A 2019 email from Xbox Game Studios’ Matt Booty encouraged acquiring content to “spend Sony out of business”; Microsoft argues it didn’t pursue the strategy  —  Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios chief, Matt Booty, was encouraging Xbox CFO Tim Stuart to spend big money on acquiring game content … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Thomson Reuters agrees to acquire YC-backed Casetext, which builds AI-powered workflows and tools for lawyers, for $650M in cash, expected to close in H2 2023  —  Thomson Reuters has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Casetext, a Y Combinator-backed legal tech startup. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jane Lee / Reuters: Snowflake partners with Nvidia to allow customers to build AI models using their own data, with Nvidia embedding its NeMo framework into Snowflake Data Cloud  —  Snowflake (SNOW.N) a cloud data analytics company, is partnering with computing company Nvidia (NVDA.O) to allow customers ranging … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Baidu claims Ernie 3.5, the latest version of its LLM, has surpassed ChatGPT in general abilities and outperformed GPT-4 on many Chinese-language capabilities  —  Baidu Inc.’s ChatGPT-style service has outperformed OpenAI’s seminal product on several measures, China’s search leader said on Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: In a complaint before the EU’s general court, German online retailer Zalando argues it had been unfairly labelled as “very large”, the DSA’s first legal test  —  German online retailer Zalando alleges it is being unfairly targeted by the Digital Services Act Lees verder op Tech Meme

Khadijah Khogeer / NBC News: After Elon Musk highlighted Twitter’s TikTok-like “swipe up for more videos” feature, some users said they were shown gun violence, police brutality, and more  —  Users said they saw violent content when they swiped up on videos after the feature was highlighted by Elon Musk on Sunday. Lees verder op Tech Meme