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Che Pan / South China Morning Post : Sources: Huawei plans to partner with Chinese foundry Wuhan Xinxin to develop high-bandwidth memory chips, marking its latest effort to defy US sanctions   —  - US-blacklisted Huawei's move into high-bandwidth memory chips would mark its latest effort to defy Washington's tech sanctions from Techmeme https://ift.tt/tls6Rez via IFTTT

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica : Interviews with the creator and maintainers of FreeDOS, the only MS-DOS-compatible OS still under active development, about its continued relevance and more   —  Project's creator talks to Ars about where FreeDOS has been, where it's going.  —  Two big things happened in the world of text-based disk operating systems in June 1994. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/OlVdaL9 via IFTTT

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters : EU tech regulators asked Temu and Shein to provide details on how they comply with the Digital Services Act by July 12, following complaints by consumer bodies   —  Chinese fast-fashion e-commerce retailer Temu and China-founded peer Shein were ordered by EU tech regulators to provide details … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/Uc7BbMR via IFTTT

Evgeny Morozov / Financial Times : How Avery Johnson and Warren Brodey, early members of the American Society for Cybernetics, created a lab in 1967 with a utopian vision to personalize computing   —  In the late 1960s, a secret US lab was dedicated to mapping the edges of computing  —  At around 3pm on October 24 1968 … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/CWBDm2l via IFTTT

CTech : Alphabet's Verily closes its R&D centers in Israel after launching them in August 2021, as part of Alphabet's decision to concentrate all R&D activity in the US   —  Verily was launched in Israel in August 2021, but its approximately 30 remaining employees, based in Tel Aviv and Haifa … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2KftQNU via IFTTT

Steven Levy / Wired : An interview with Illia Polosukhin, a co-author of Google's Attention Is All You Need paper, on open-source AI, his Web3 company Near, “user-owned AI”, and more   —  Illia Polosukhin doesn't want big companies to determine the future of artificial intelligence. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/LMeCF2O via IFTTT

Taylor Soper / GeekWire : Amazon hires the CEO and co-founders of Adept, which builds AI agents that automate enterprise workflows, to join its AGI team and will use some of Adept's tech   —  Amazon is amping up its AI efforts by hiring executives from Adept, a San Francisco-based startup building “agents” that automate enterprise workflows. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/4uv3LR2 via IFTTT

Dan Primack / Axios : ZeroEyes, a gun detection video analytics and alert service, raised a $53M Series B led by Sorenson Capital, and says it has ~400 clients in 42 US states   —  - Its purpose is to identify guns and then share those images with trained professionals who can alert first responders and local staff if appropriate. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/wKSrE8y via IFTTT

Sean Endicott / Windows Central : Microsoft's AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says content on the open web is “freeware” that anyone can copy or use to reproduce, due to the fair use “social contract”   —  Microsoft's CEO of AI said that content on the open web can be copied and used to create new content. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2sIOuxf via IFTTT

Chris Lisinski / State House News Service : Uber and Lyft agree to pay drivers in Massachusetts a minimum wage and give them some benefits, and pay a combined $175M to the state to settle a 2020 lawsuit   —  State prosecutors agreed to a settlement with Uber and Lyft that will require the companies to pay Massachusetts $175 million … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/JTfDE2t via IFTTT

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat : Meta releases LLM Compiler, a family of models built on Code Llama specifically designed for code optimization tasks, available with 7B and 13B parameters   —  Meta has unveiled the Meta Large Language Model (LLM) Compiler, a suite of robust, open-source models designed to optimize code and revolutionize compiler design. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/Q0RCH6k via IFTTT

Will Knight / Wired : OpenAI details CriticGPT, a model based on GPT-4 to catch errors in ChatGPT's code output, assisting human trainers in assessing and spotting errors   —  Having humans rate a language model's outputs produced clever chatbots.  OpenAI says adding AI to the loop could help make them even smarter and more reliable. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/58gEHiM via IFTTT

Alex Sherman / CNBC : A look at YouTube's growing dominance as Nielsen says it had ~10% of all viewership on connected and traditional TVs in the US in May, ahead of Netflix's 7.6%   —  WATCH NOW  —  It's been almost 20 years since the founding of Alphabet's YouTube, and Hollywood still doesn't really know what to do with it. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/xiBRNaq via IFTTT

The Information : Slides shown to Chinese sellers: Amazon plans to launch a Temu-like section featuring cheap items that ship directly from China to overseas consumers   —  Amazon plans to launch a section on its shopping site featuring cheap items that ship directly to overseas consumers from warehouses in China … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/gjMq2Wf via IFTTT

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat : Anthropic debuts Projects, letting Claude.ai Pro and Team users work with chats, docs, code, and more in one place; each project includes a 200K context window   —  Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company backed by Amazon, Google, and Salesforce, has launched a suite … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/hmSvgNH via IFTTT

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch : The RIAA's lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs and an object lesson in hubris for similarly unethical AI companies   —  Like many AI companies, Udio and Suno relied on large-scale theft to create their generative AI models. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/r7hiWEx via IFTTT

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : Emergence, which is building “agent-based” systems that orchestrate tasks by routing them to first- and third-party AI systems, emerges from stealth with $97.2M   —  Yet another generative AI venture has raised a bundle of money.  And, like the others before it, it's promising the moon. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/caW0Owi via IFTTT

Evan Gorelick / Bloomberg : Uber has begun locking NYC drivers out of its app during low demand periods to fight a local rule that requires drivers be paid for idle time between rides   —  - Company locks drivers out of its app at unpredictable times  — Uber blames Lyft, which is now threatening its own lockouts from Techmeme https://ift.tt/jdAchp0 via IFTTT

Andrew Mills / Reuters : Qatari telecom group Ooredoo: Nvidia agreed to deploy AI tech in Ooredoo datacenters in five Middle Eastern countries, Nvidia's first major launch in the region   —  Nvidia has signed a deal to deploy its artificial intelligence technology at data centres owned by Qatari telecoms group Ooredoo … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/F6HT7Gy via IFTTT

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Meta launches its Meta AI chatbot in India with support for English only, a week after Google's Gemini app on Android debuted with support for 9 local languages   —  After a few months of testing during the general elections, Meta is making its Llama-3-powered AI chatbot available to all users in India. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/ztujQke via IFTTT

Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal : Food delivery apps are contending with plunging orders and frustrated drivers, after raising fees in NYC and Seattle due to wage-increase laws for gig workers   —  Apps raised fees to offset pay increases in New York and Seattle, frustrating customers and workers from Techmeme https://ift.tt/6pjWhf3 via IFTTT

New York Times : Interviews with ~12 media executives, including Brian Roberts, John Malone, Barry Diller, and Ted Sarandos, about the future of streaming, bundling, ads, more   —  When the media titans Brian Roberts, John Malone and Barry Diller cast off in early February on Mr. Diller's 156-foot … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/BJP4sGw via IFTTT

Amelia Tait / Wired : A look at pre-smartphone services like GOOG-411 and AQA, which used to employ humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge   —  Not too long ago, services like GOOG-411, 118 118 and AQA used actual humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/ZFK5cTu via IFTTT

Kevin Nguyen / The Verge : Interviews with several journalists who helped saturate the web with Game of Thrones coverage, leveraging fans' obsessions for traffic via SEO and social media   —  For a crucial decade in print media's transition to the internet, HBO's fantasy series Game of Thrones was a boon in traffic... for everyone. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/KCJjSLZ via IFTTT

Bloomberg : How Sweden's push to go cashless has left consumers and the country vulnerable to online fraud; value of fraudulent transactions has doubled since 2021   —  Sweden has led the way in Europe in going cashless, but fast and easy digital commerce have left consumers and the state vulnerable to fraud. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/oCQzjVZ via IFTTT