Wed. 02/01 – The Memory Chip Rout (Again)

You think things are bad in your corner of the tech sector? Wait until I tell you about the memory chip industry. OpenAI releases a tool to let you check if something was created by OpenAI. Netflix might be going a tad overboard on this password sharing crackdown. Meta wins round one against the FTC. And the interesting new app from the founders of Instagram. Sponsors: Portant.co code techmeme (Listener!) Podcast Guru App (Listener!) Links: Hynix Posts Record Loss on Slump in Memory-Chip Prices (Bloomberg) Historic Crash for Memory Chips Threatens to Wipe Out Earnings (Bloomberg) OpenAI releases tool to detect machine-written text (Axios) Google is asking employees to test potential ChatGPT competitors, including a chatbot called ‘Apprentice Bard’ (CNBC) Confirmed: Netflix Unveils First Details of New Anti-Password Sharing Measures (The Streamable) Meta Wins Court Nod to Buy Virtual Reality Startup in Loss for Khan’s FTC (Bloomberg) Meta Plans to Shut Down One of Its Most Popular and Long-standing Multiplayer VR Games (Road To VR) Instagram's co-founders are mounting a comeback (Platformer)