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

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google starts rolling out its LLM-powered Search Generative Experience, with features like a conversational mode and shopping aspects, to Search Labs members  —  Announced at I/O 2023, Google is now rolling out the AI/LLM-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) to users that signed up for the Search Labs program. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stan Schroeder / Mashable: OpenAI expands its free ChatGPT iOS app, which launched in the US last week, to 11 more countries, including the UK, Germany, France, Nigeria, and South Korea  —  The smart chat assistant is at your service in 11 new markets.  —  OpenAI’s ChatGPT app for iOS is available in 11 new markets. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Fahrenheit, bidders led by Arrington Capital, wins an auction for Celsius Network’s assets, including loans, investments, and $500M in “liquid cryptocurrency”  —  Failed crypto lender Celsius Network LLC is poised to restart as a new company after Fahrenheit LLC … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: A profile of Microsoft President Brad Smith, a DC veteran testing his well-worn playbook to shape AI regulation, such as by endorsing the creation of an agency  —  In 2017, Microsoft president Brad Smith made a bold prediction.  Speaking on a panel at the Davos World Economic Forum … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google starts rolling out its AI-powered Search Generative Experience, with features like a conversational mode, to users that signed up for Search Labs  —  Announced at I/O 2023, Google is now rolling out the AI/LLM-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) to users that signed up for the Search Labs program. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube plans to shut down Stories on June 26, 2023, as the company focuses on other key areas, like Shorts, Community posts, and live videos  —  Stories are over — at least on YouTube, that is.  The Google-owned video site announced today that YouTube Stories will be shutting down on June 26 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aggi Cantrill / Bloomberg: Alibaba pushes back on reports of layoffs, saying it plans to hire 15,000 workers in 2023 across its six major divisions, including 3,000 university graduates  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. said it plans to hire 15,000 people this year, pushing back on reports that the Chinese tech firm is laying off employees. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Florida-based Nymbus, which offers tools for banks to migrate their legacy stacks and help launch neobanks, raised a $70M Series D led by Insight Partners  —  Nymbus, a startup that partners with banks to migrate their legacy stack and launch neobanks to attract new customers … Lees verder op Tech Meme