Tech Meme

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Sources: ElevenLabs is raising a new round that could value it at up to $3B; source: its ARR has grown from $25M at the end of 2023 to ~$80M in recent months  —  ElevenLabs, a startup that makes AI tools for audio applications, is being approached by existing and new investors about a new round … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Pooja Salhotra / The Texas Tribune: Texas AG Ken Paxton sues TikTok for allegedly violating a new state law by sharing and selling minors’ personal information without parental consent  —  The attorney general argues that the popular short form video app has not complied with a new state law that seeks to protect children who are active online. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Sources: the iPhone SE 4, coming in spring, will have Apple’s first 5G modem, A18 and 8GB of RAM to enable Apple Intelligence, and same rear camera as iPhone 15  —  Apple has been working on a new generation of the iPhone SE, and a recent Bloomberg report revealed that it should be introduced … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Voyage AI, which helps companies build RAG systems, raised a $20M Series A from CRV, Snowflake, Databricks, and others, bringing its total funding to $28M  —  AI tends to make things up.  That’s unappealing to just about anyone who uses it on a regular basis, but especially to businesses … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Sources: the iPhone SE 4, coming in spring, will have Apple’s first 5G modem, A18 and 8GB of RAM to enable Apple Intelligence, and same rear camera as iPhone 15  —  Apple has been working on a new generation of the iPhone SE, and a recent Bloomberg report revealed that it should be introduced … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Sources: the iPhone SE 4, coming in spring, will have Apple’s first 5G modem, A18 and 8GB of RAM to enable Apple Intelligence, and same rear camera as iPhone 15  —  Apple has been working on a new generation of the iPhone SE, and a recent Bloomberg report revealed that it should be introduced … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Google Developers Blog: Google releases Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, a smaller and faster variant of 1.5 Flash, with 50% lower price, 2x higher rate limits, and lower latency on small prompts  —  Today, Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, our latest Flash variant, is production-ready and comes with:  —  Developers can access gemini-1.5-flash-8b … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: The US and Microsoft seize 107 websites used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies in the US operating under Star Blizzard, a group active since 2016  —  – Russian group Star Blizzard targeted civil society, US says  — Group has conducted election influence operations in UK Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hayden Field / CNBC: OpenAI gets a $4B revolving line of credit from JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Goldman Sachs, and others, on top of the $6.6B in funding, bringing its liquidity to $10B+  —  OpenAI has a $4 billion revolving line of credit, bringing its total liquidity to more than $10 billion, CNBC has learned. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Google rolls out ads in AI Overviews for when a user’s question has a “commercial angle”, and identifies the ads with a “sponsored” header, on mobile in the US  —  Google is rolling out ads in AI Overviews, which means you’ll now start seeing products in some of the search engine’s AI-generated summaries. Lees verder op Tech Meme