Emma Agyemang / Financial Times:
Around 58 countries now offer a digital nomad visa, as governments compete with each other to attract talent; the number of US digital nomads hit 17.3M in 2023 — Nearly 60 countries are offering remote visas, many with an eye to making visitors permanent residents
Microsoft, Meta, Google and others pitch smaller language models that are cheaper to build and train, to lower costs and hardware requirements for generative AI (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Microsoft, Meta, Google and others pitch smaller language models that are cheaper to build and train, to lower costs and hardware requirements for generative AI — Microsoft, Meta and Google have released new versions with fewer ‘parameters’ that are cheaper to build and train
At the 2024 Upfronts, streaming services dominated with Amazon Prime Video and Netflix making their debut, and live sports and ad tech were given more attention (Stephen Battaglio/Los Angeles Times)
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
At the 2024 Upfronts, streaming services dominated with Amazon Prime Video and Netflix making their debut, and live sports and ad tech were given more attention — Advertising executives who entered Radio City Music Hall on Monday for NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation were greeted …
Sources: US officials have told Google, Meta, and others about concerns that undersea cables could be vulnerable to tampering by China-owned repair ships (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: US officials have told Google, Meta, and others about concerns that undersea cables could be vulnerable to tampering by China-owned repair ships — Google, Meta Platforms and others partially own many cables, but they rely on maintenance specialists, including some with foreign ownership
Memo: Didi co-founder Jean Liu steps down as president and board director, positions she has held since December 2014, and will become a “permanent partner” (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Memo: Didi co-founder Jean Liu steps down as president and board director, positions she has held since December 2014, and will become a “permanent partner” — – Liu will become permanent partner, internal letter says — Company’s management will no longer have position of president
A look at Meta’s AI strategy, which is a bet that open sourcing the tech will drive down competitors’ prices and spread Meta’s version of AI more broadly (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
A look at Meta’s AI strategy, which is a bet that open sourcing the tech will drive down competitors’ prices and spread Meta’s version of AI more broadly — Mark Zuckerberg has trained his ‘Eye of Sauron’ on Meta’s AI strategy, which comes with risks as rivals unveil free products
SpaceX launches Starlink in Indonesia to improve internet access in remote parts of the country, starting with three local health centers (Stefanno Sulaiman/Reuters)
Stefanno Sulaiman / Reuters:
SpaceX launches Starlink in Indonesia to improve internet access in remote parts of the country, starting with three local health centers — Elon Musk and Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin launched SpaceX’s satellite internet service for the nation’s health sector on Sunday …
Sources: Apple and OpenAI are preparing a major announcement of their partnership at WWDC; the new AirTag with a better chip is scheduled to arrive by mid-2025 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple and OpenAI are preparing a major announcement of their partnership at WWDC; the new AirTag with a better chip is scheduled to arrive by mid-2025 — Apple was caught flat-footed in the generative AI race, and the company will need to change its strategy if it wants to catch up.
How Vermont lawmakers passed a strict online data privacy law despite significant pushback from the tech industry; GOP Gov. Phil Scott is yet to sign the bill (Alfred Ng/Politico)
Alfred Ng / Politico:
How Vermont lawmakers passed a strict online data privacy law despite significant pushback from the tech industry; GOP Gov. Phil Scott is yet to sign the bill — State lawmakers from Maine to Oklahoma say the lessons they learned from battling industry over privacy bills can provide a new playbook to fight back.
About 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are unavailable now and 8% of pages from 2023 are unavailable; 23% of news pages have at least one broken link (Pew Research Center)
Pew Research Center:
About 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are unavailable now and 8% of pages from 2023 are unavailable; 23% of news pages have at least one broken link — 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later — Table of Contents Table of Contents
