Bloomberg: DCG is shutting down its institutional crypto trading platform TradeBlock, citing the crypto winter and regulatory uncertainties, effective May 31, 2023 — Digital Currency Group, the digital-asset conglomerate that is negotiating with creditors of its bankrupt lending business … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Akriti Sharma / Reuters: Neuralink says it received US FDA approval to launch its first-in-human clinical study of brain implants — Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink on Thursday said it had received U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval to launch first-in-human clinical study. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Hugh Son / CNBC: Filing: JPMorgan Chase is working on a ChatGPT-like software service dubbed IndexGPT that uses AI to analyze and select investments tailored to customer needs — – JPMorgan Chase is developing a ChatGPT-like software service that leans on a disruptive form of artificial intelligence … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Applied Intuition, a provider of autonomous vehicle software, plans to acquire autonomous trucking software company Embark in a ~$71M all-cash deal — Embark Trucks, the autonomous trucking company that recently cut 70% of its workforce, is being acquired by Applied Intuition … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Josh Scott / BetaKit: Toronto-based BenchSci, which uses AI to help pharmaceutical firms accelerate drug discovery, raised a CA$95M Series D led by Generation Investment Management — Toronto-based BenchSci, which helps pharmaceutical firms accelerate research and development (R&D) using artificial intelligence … Lees verder op Tech Meme
WABetaInfo: A beta version of WhatsApp suggests the company is working on adding usernames, which may allow users to chat without sharing their phone numbers — WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.23.11.15. — What’s new in this update? Lees verder op Tech Meme
The Block: Paradigm appears to have removed crypto and web3 mentions from its website’s home page, as sources say the VC is expanding its focus to “frontier” tech like AI — – VC firm Paradigm is taking its crypto-only focus to include “frontier” technologies such as AI, two sources with knowledge of the situation told The Block. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches a program to award 10 grants of $100K to develop proof-of-concepts for a “democratic process” to set rules for AI “within the bounds” of the law — OpenAI says it’s launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jay Peters / The Verge: Twitch raises the price of Turbo, its ad-free subscription that offers extra emoticons, chat badges, and more; the US price jumps from $8.99 to $11.99 per month — Twitch is raising the monthly price of Twitch Turbo, its monthly subscription that lets you pay to remove most ads … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Twitter launches API Pro, a $5,000/month tier offering access to full archive search endpoints and the ability to fetch 1M tweets and post 300K tweets monthly — Twitter announced a new API tier today called Twitter API Pro for startups that costs $5,000 per month. Lees verder op Tech Meme