KPMG, Coatue, VC firm Headline, and other investors are using AI to help pick acquisition targets and startups for investment, hoping for an edge over rivals (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
KPMG, Coatue, VC firm Headline, and other investors are using AI to help pick acquisition targets and startups for investment, hoping for an edge over rivals  —  Accountancy firm KPMG, hedge fund Coatue and VC firm Headline among those incorporating the technology

Xiaomi announces Summer Service Camp 2023: Here’s what the users will get

Xiaomi has announced a new service for its customers. The Chinese smartphone maker has announced the Summer Service Camp for 2023. The service camp will start on June 1 and it will be held at over 1000 authorised Xiaomi service centres in the country. https://ift.tt/wqN5DOG

How the Shoggoth, a character from a 1936 H.P. Lovecraft novella, became a meme among AI workers as a metaphor for not fully understanding LLMs' inner workings (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

Kevin Roose / New York Times:
How the Shoggoth, a character from a 1936 H.P. Lovecraft novella, became a meme among AI workers as a metaphor for not fully understanding LLMs' inner workings  —  The Shoggoth, a character from a science fiction story, captures the essential weirdness of the A.I. moment.

Google officially ends support for 1st-generation Chromecast

Google launched its 1st generation Chromecast in 2013. The tech giant has now quietly announced that the company has ended support for the device. This means that Google will no longer offer updates to the 1st generation Chromecast. https://ift.tt/xhK0C9J

An investigation into Papa, a TaskRabbit-like service for seniors that has raised $240M, finds dozens of allegations of harassment, assault, theft, and more (Priya Anand/Bloomberg)

Priya Anand / Bloomberg:
An investigation into Papa, a TaskRabbit-like service for seniors that has raised $240M, finds dozens of allegations of harassment, assault, theft, and more  —  If you've been to an annual open enrollment fair in the past few years, you may have noticed a new eldercare benefit with the unusual name of Papa.

Foxconn predicts "triple-digit growth in AI servers" in H2 2023 as demand skyrockets; in 2022, Foxconn made ~$36B in server revenue out of its $215B total (Kathrin Hille/Financial Times)

Kathrin Hille / Financial Times:
Foxconn predicts “triple-digit growth in AI servers” in H2 2023 as demand skyrockets; in 2022, Foxconn made ~$36B in server revenue out of its $215B total  —  Apple's largest manufacturer says demand for servers needed to run ChatGPT-like services will double this year