Tech Meme

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Google Cloud announces a new A3 GPU supercomputer powered by Nvidia’s H100 GPUs, purpose-built for training and inference of ML models  —  As we’ve seen LLMs and generative AI come screaming into our consciousness in recent months, it’s clear that these models take enormous amounts of compute power to train and run. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google launches MusicLM, its experimental AI tool that can turn text descriptions into music, in the AI Test Kitchen app on the web, Android, and iOS  —  Google today released MusicLM, a new experimental AI tool that can turn text descriptions into music.  Available in the AI Test Kitchen app … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bill Peters / MarketWatch: Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 47% YoY to $441M, vs. $425M est., net loss up 30% YoY to $511M, and MAUs up by 400K QoQ to 11.8M, vs. 15.9M in March 2022  —  Analysts expected weaker volume heading into the results  —  Shares of Robinhood Markets Inc. moved higher on Wednesday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Google unveils Universal Translator, an experimental service that redubs video in a new language and synchronizes the speaker’s lips to match the new audio  —  Google is testing a powerful new translation service that redubs video in a new language while also synchronizing the speaker’s lips with words they never spoke. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: Google makes generative AI tools in English available to Play Store developers, including to make a draft for the app listing and to summarize user reviews  —  Google is making generative AI tools available to Play Store developers in an attempt to make it easier for them to build out their app listings. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Scott Stein / CNET: Google says its Project Starline 3D video chat tech has been shrunk from the size of a booth to a large TV and is being tested at Salesforce, WeWork, and others  —  Exclusive: Google’s vision of 3D conversational chats is going from booth to flat screen.  —  While most people have chosen … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google announces new security features, including expanding “dark web report”, which scans the dark web for a Gmail address, to all Gmail accounts in the US  —  / Google is adding its dark web reporting tool to all Gmail accounts in the US, with plans to expand to ‘select international markets.’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google unveils features for helping to identify AI images, including “About this image” and a new file markup that allows labeling images as “AI-generated”  —  Google is taking its first steps toward combatting the potential for misinformation arising from AI-generated images. Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: Google plans to add a section called Perspectives to search results, featuring information from individuals posted on YouTube, Reddit, Stack Overflow, and more  —  You know the Reddit trick, right?  The one where, when you’re searching Google and you want an actual human perspective … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google announces a competitor to Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot, a chat tool for asking questions about coding, and AI-assisted coding in its no-code AppSheet tool  —  At its annual I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of a number of AI-centric coding tools … Lees verder op Tech Meme