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

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube updates Shorts with the ability for creators to upload up to three-minute videos, a streamlined Shorts player, templates, and a new trends mobile page  —  YouTube on Thursday announced a series of updates for its short-form video product, YouTube Shorts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Black Forest Labs, whose Flux.1 model powers Grok’s image generator, launches an API in beta and its latest image generation model, Flux1.1 Pro, for 2K images  —  Black Forest Labs, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup behind the image generation model in xAI’s Grok assistant, has launched an API in beta — and released a new model. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: OpenAI introduces canvas, a beta interface for Plus and Teams users that opens a separate window, beside the normal chat window, for writing and coding projects  —  OpenAI introduced a new way to interact with ChatGPT on Thursday: an interface it calls “canvas.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: How Sam Altman concentrated his power as OpenAI’s CEO since he was fired and rehired 11 months ago; source: Altman is not looking to hire a CTO for now  —  Five years ago, OpenAI was a scrappy startup run by a handful of executives, with a heavy emphasis on research. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Google updates Lens to let users take a video and use their voice to search, showing an AI Overview and search results, rolling out to Search Labs on mobile  —  If you can’t capture what you want to search for with just a picture, Google Lens will now let you take a video — and even use your voice to ask about what you’re seeing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google rolls out AI-organized Search results in the US on mobile, showing users AI-aggregated pages of content from forums, articles, YouTube videos, and more  —  Google will begin to show ads in AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries it supplies for certain Google Search queries … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches a new canvas ChatGPT interface in beta that opens a separate window beside the normal chat window for writing and coding projects  —  OpenAI introduced a new way to interact with ChatGPT on Thursday: an interface it calls “canvas.”  The product opens a separate window … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: How Sam Altman concentrated his power as OpenAI’s CEO since he was fired and rehired 11 months ago; sources: burnout has become a key issue for some employees  —  Five years ago, OpenAI was a scrappy startup run by a handful of executives, with a heavy emphasis on research. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Google rolls out ads in AI Overviews 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