Tech Meme

NBC News: Sources: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis plans to launch his presidential bid on Twitter Spaces on May 24, in a discussion with Elon Musk moderated by David Sacks  —  The Florida governor will announce he is running for president on Twitter Wednesday evening in a conversation with Musk. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Austin-based Episode Six, which offers payment processing and digital ledger infrastructure to banks and companies, raised a $48M Series C led by Avenir  —  Episode Six, a global payments and banking infrastructure provider, today announced that it raised $48 million in a Series C funding round led … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vjeran Pavic / The Verge: Review of Final Cut Pro for iPad: touch-friendly design and accessible pricing but limited Mac interoperability and lacks the blade tool, stabilization, more  —  The long-awaited iPad version of Final Cut Pro is here and, with it, a touch-friendly design and accessible pricing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google plans to use generative AI to boost the relevance of Search ads based on query context and debuts a conversational experience for creating ad campaigns  —  Google is going to start using generative AI to boost Search ads relevance based on the context of a query, the company announced at its Google Marketing Live event today. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google plans to experiment with running Search and Shopping ads, which are fully customized based on users’ queries, inside its conversational AI Search tool  —  AI chatbots have only just been put into consumers’ hands, but tech giants are rushing to monetize them. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Microsoft launches Fabric, an end-to-end data and analytics platform that centers on the company’s OneLake data lake, but also works with Amazon S3 and soon GCP  —  Microsoft today launched Microsoft Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform (not to be confused with Azure Service Fabric). Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Microsoft debuts Azure AI Content Safety, which moderates images and text in eight languages with explanations and assigns severity scores to flagged content  —  Microsoft is launching a new AI-powered moderation service that it says is designed to foster safer online environments and communities. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Flipboard rolls out support for integrating accounts from decentralized social networks Bluesky and Pixelfed, after adding support for Mastodon in February 2023  —  Social magazine app Flipboard is continuing its investment in the federated social web with today’s news that it’s integrating … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: BuzzFeed debuts Botatouille, a free chatbot that suggests recipes from its food brand Tasty, and plans to offer AI-personalized services to sell subscriptions  —  Jonah Peretti, the company’s chief executive, has embraced artificial intelligence more than most publishers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

NBC News: Sources: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to launch his presidential bid on Twitter Spaces on May 24, in a conversation with Elon Musk moderated by David Sacks  —  The Florida governor will announce he is running for president on Twitter Wednesday evening in a conversation with Musk. Lees verder op Tech Meme