Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: YouTube is dropping some YouTube Studio ad controls, limiting creators’ control over pre-roll, post-roll, skippable, and non-skippable ads starting in November  —  YouTube is making some notable changes to the ad controls available to creators.  Beginning in November, YouTube … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Slack announces Slack AI, which can generate channel highlights, thread summaries, and search answers based on messages, with a pilot starting “this winter”  —  Salesforce will pilot the generative AI capabilities it developed for Slack later this year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Clubhouse updates its iOS and Android apps to include asynchronous voice-only group chats, in an attempt to be “more like a messaging app”  —  Clubhouse is back, kinda.  The app that popularized social audio rooms is reinventing itself “to be more like a messaging app” … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Flexport CEO Dave Clark resigns after one year at the company, which he joined from Amazon; sources: Clark is considering a potential run for governor of Texas  —  The former Amazon senior executive is considering a potential run for governor of Texas, according to people familiar with the matter Lees verder op Tech Meme

Davey Alba / Bloomberg: Google plans a November policy update requiring election advertisers to prominently disclose when their ads contain generative AI-based images, video, or audio  —  Audio, images and video on political advertising will need to be labeled … The policy update, which applies starting mid-November … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Milana Vinn / Reuters: Sources: data analytics software company Alteryx has been working with an investment bank to explore a sale after attracting takeover interest; AYX jumps 13%+  —  Alteryx Inc (AYX.N), a data analytics software company with a market value of $2.2 billion, has been working with an investment bank … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brad Stone / Bloomberg: California Gov. Newsom signs an EO on AI risks, instructing state agencies to examine AI threats and authorizing state employees to experiment with AI tools  —  Gavin Newsom touted Silicon Valley’s AI dominance, but warns of a “Pandora’s box.”  —  The state of California has entered … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Horace Dediu / Asymco: An analysis of the EU’s and other data on iOS and Android usage finds that Apple’s App Store generates $10.40 monthly revenue per user vs. $1.40 for Google Play  —  As I remember it, at least 10 years ago, I began to hear anecdotes from developers who built apps for both iOS and Android about their economics. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI announces its first developer conference, OpenAI DevDay, on November 6 in San Francisco, and plans to livestream a keynote presentation  —  OpenAI will host its first developer conference this fall, as the ChatGPT-maker looks to bolster interest in its products while facing growing competition … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft says Chinese hackers who in June breached US government email accounts stole an MSA key from a crash dump after hacking a Microsoft engineer’s account  —  Microsoft says Storm-0558 Chinese hackers stole a signing key used to breach government email accounts from a Windows crash dump … Lees verder op Tech Meme