|
May 15, 2023, 6:55 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
EU regulators approve Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition after Microsoft made concessions to keep rivals' access to Call of Duty and other games — The green light follows objections to the blockbuster deal by American and British regulators on the grounds that it would undercut competition.
More:
European Commission, The Verge, CNBC, USA Today, CNN, Reuters, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Register, Gizmodo, Livemint, Axios, IGN, TechSpot, Neowin, Quartz, Game Developer, New York Post, TechCrunch, The Information, PC Gamer, Thurrott, Dot Esports, AppleInsider, Kotaku Australia, GeekWire, TheGamer, Appuals.com, TrueAchievements, Press Start, Washington Post, TechPowerUp, Eurogamer.net, Telegraph, HotHardware, Wccftech, Gameranx, Financial Times, Tech Startups, The Times, City A.M., MobileSyrup, KitGuru, Windows Central, Business Post, GameSpot, Pure Xbox, Gamereactor UK, WebProNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Digital Music News
LinkedIn:
Bill Young, Benedikt Becker, and Joost Rietveld
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Docs: in an informal Azure investigation, EU regulators ask rivals and clients if Microsoft leveraged its market power and business info to squeeze competitors — Microsoft Corp.'s Azure cloud business has been targeted by the European Union's antitrust arm, amid concerns the US software firm …
More:
Vox, Neowin, SiliconANGLE, Thurrott, Gameranx, Reuters, and Slashdot
Tweets:
@tomwarren and @samuelstolton
| Jacob Bogage / Washington Post: |
Sources: the IRS quietly built a prototype system to let Americans file tax returns digitally and free of charge, with a pilot slated to launch in January 2024 — The prototype program developed by the federal government could be available for a small group of taxpayers by January
More:
Wall Street Journal, Engadget, PCMag, Fortune, The Hill, and Livemint
Mastodon:
@maddad@mastodon.world. Tweets:
@keds_economist, @richardrubindc, @pamela_herd, @pewilliams_, @matthewstoller, @donmoyn, @geoffreyfowler, @3vansutton, @ryanlcooper, @flglmn, @moreperfectus, @metaltxt, and @martinsfp
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Google's I/O 2023 suggests that AI is a sustaining innovation for Big Tech; the true fight will be between the major players' centralized models and open source — Some things in tech are shocking, but not surprising — think of a CEO of a struggling company losing their job.
More:
Technomancers.ai and John Battelle's Search Blog
LinkedIn:
Sandhya Hegde. Tweets:
@mascobot, @zoobab, @stratechery, @jrichlive, @matthewlesh, @prestonjbyrne, @kevinafischer, @techbubble, @s8mb, @jeffnolan, and @gfodor
| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
Pluto TV co-founder Ilya Pozin's Telly opens a waitlist to give away 500K 55-inch 4K HDR TVs, which have a second screen for constantly showing ads, in 2023 — Would you take a free TV if it constantly ran banner ads beneath everything you watched? — That's the proposition for Telly …
More:
The Verge, Variety, Telly, Deadline, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Engadget, Insider, 9to5Google, ZDNet, Axios, The Hill, Techaeris, The Hollywood Reporter, iPhone in Canada Blog, AFTVnews, ExtremeTech, PCMag, BGR, AppleInsider, CNBC, Gizmodo, TechHive, TechCrunch, The Streamable, SlashGear, CNET, AdExchanger, GameSpot, TechSpot, Neowin, Beet.TV, and Digital Trends
Mastodon:
@rodhilton@mastodon.social. Tweets:
@pt, @parismarx, @tomwarren, @tra_royal, @nicholasadeleon, @karlbode, @datnofact, and @thetomzone
| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon job listings mention an “AI-first initiative to re-architect” search and “reimagining Amazon Search with an interactive conversational experience” — Amazon.com Inc. plans to bring ChatGPT-style product search to its web store, rivaling efforts by Microsoft Corp …
More:
VentureBeat, The Verge, Livemint, Neowin, Cointelegraph, PYMNTS.com, and MacSecurity.net
LinkedIn:
Matt Day. Tweets:
@mattmcgee, @business, @seanlinehan, @mattlynley, @rustybrick, and @ldrogen
| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI is preparing to publicly release its first open-source LLM amid the proliferation of open-source alternatives, including variants of Meta's LLaMA — In February, Meta Platforms set off an explosion of artificial intelligence development when it gave academics access … | Victor Dey / VentureBeat: |
Together, which aims to build open-source LLMs and was part of RedPajama, a project where six companies replicated Meta's LLaMA dataset, raised a $20M seed — Together, an open-source AI startup, announced today that it has raised $20 million in seed funding to support its mission …
More:
TOGETHER, TechCrunch, and Metaverse Post
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
WhatsApp introduces Chat Lock, which lets users put chats in a password- or biometrics-protected folder and hide chats' contents and senders in notifications — WhatsApp is getting a new “Chat Lock” feature intended to make it easier to keep conversations more private.
More:
WhatsApp on YouTube, XDA Developers, Neowin, Gizmodo, Android Police, BleepingComputer, PhoneArena, Engadget, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Android Central, London Evening Standard, Moneycontrol, Daily Mail, Sky News, Times of India, The US Sun, Meta, TDPel Media, Techlusive, WeRSM, iPhone in Canada Blog, India Today, The Indian Express, Zee News, Inshorts, Tech Nova, CNBC-TV18, Business Today, Latest Odisha News …, Blackpool Gazette, WABetaInfo, and BigTechWire
| Stefania Palma / Financial Times: |
US crypto enforcement tsar Eun Young Choi says the DOJ is targeting exchanges, mixers, and tumblers, aiming to “send a deterrent message” about illicit behavior — The justice department is stepping up scrutiny of an industry wracked by scandal and volatility
More:
Cointelegraph, Crypto Daily, SiliconANGLE, ZyCrypto, Blockworks, Neowin, Cryptopolitan, Cryptonews, PYMNTS.com, NewsBTC, CoinDesk, CoinGape, CryptoSlate, crypto.news, Watcher Guru, and Forkast
| Phoebe Liu / Forbes: |
Zip, which sells procurement management software, raised a $100M Series C led by Y Combinator at a $1.5B post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $181M — Zip, a San Francisco-based startup that helps businesses manage spending, announced a fresh round of capital today …
More:
Zip, SiliconANGLE, and Crunchbase News
LinkedIn:
Kendall Ashe, John Curtius, Nick Heinzmann, and Stephen DiSibio
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
MoffettNathanson: US pay TV users fell 7% YoY to 75.5M in Q1 2023, with household penetration at 58.5%, the lowest level since 1992; only YouTube TV grew in Q1 — As streaming video continues its ascendancy, cable, satellite and internet TV providers in the U.S. turned in their worst subscriber losses …
More:
9to5Google, Ars Technica, and The Streamable
Tweets:
@nickandmore, @mattnavarra, and @susanlitv
Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
The 90-day recognition cliff: Why praise programs fade, and what keeps them alive — Recognition programs often start with enthusiasm. Employees participate, managers share shoutouts, and teams have a new way to celebrate achievements.
The 90-day recognition cliff: Why praise programs fade, and what keeps them alive — Recognition programs often start with enthusiasm. Employees participate, managers share shoutouts, and teams have a new way to celebrate achievements.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Big Technology Podcast:
SAP CEO: AI Won't Kill Software, But It Will Change Your Job — With Christian Klein
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
David Ellison's Paramount-Warner Empire & The Fight That Comes Next
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Sources:
Factory CEO on why AGI is already here
Candid conversations with the leaders shaping what's next in AI and the broader tech industry. Hosted by Alex Heath, who has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade.
Subscribe to Sources.
Invest Like the Best:
Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Lenny's Podcast:
The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Great Chat:
Doomers at Dreamforce
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 6:55 PM ET, May 15, 2023.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Todd Spangler / Variety:Los Angeles Times:
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More:
MacRumors, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Windows Central, Engadget, Patently Apple, Digital Trends, 9to5Mac, CNBC, Neowin, BigTechWire, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Earlier Picks
| Riya Sharma / Reuters: |
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
More:
CNBC, Quartz, Bloomberg, Legal Sports Report, and Sportico
LinkedIn:
Chris Grove and George Harborne
Tweets:
@darrenrovell, @opreport, @opreport, @opreport, @geoffzochodne, @pb_comms, @tlschwerz, @contessabrewer, @justinherzig, and @sherman4949