Kris Holt / Engadget: Meta open sources Animated Drawings, an AI project that turns doodles into animations, with a dataset of nearly 180K drawings — Meta has open-sourced an artificial intelligence project that lets anyone bring their doodles to life. The company hopes that by offering Animated Drawings … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: Toronto-based Kepler, which plans to launch a network of optical satellites to deliver data at 2.5Gbps to satellites in low Earth orbit, raised a $92M Series C — Toronto-based startup Kepler Communications closed another tranche of capital to continue building out its on-orbit data network. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best about Notes, asking for investment without sharing financial details, and more, as he evades some content moderation questions — Can Substack handle the wrath of Elon Musk and the pain of content moderation? — It is fair to say that Substack … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Julie Muhn / Finovate: Virginia-based digital ID service ID.me, used by US agencies like the IRS, raised a $132M Series D led by Viking Global, bringing its total funding to $240M+ — – ID.me announced a $132 million funding round, bringing its total raised to $240 million. — The company has brought on Samantha Greenberg as CFO. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: One of the Western Digital hackers claims they stole ~10TB of data, including customer information, and says they are asking for a ransom of “minimum 8 figures” — One of the hackers claimed to have stolen customer data and said they are asking for a “minim 8 figures” as a ramsom. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Filing: Amazon paid Andy Jassy $1.3M in 2022 after he got a $200M+ stock grant in 2021; in his first annual letter, Jassy talks efficiency, ads, LLMs, and more — Jassy had earned $212 million in 2021. — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy saw his 2022 compensation crater in 2022 … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ian Hogarth / Financial Times: An investor in 50+ AI startups warns against building “God-like AI” and says companies are “running towards a finish line” without understanding what lies ahead — The writer of this essay is an investor and co-author of the annual “State of AI” report Lees verder op Tech Meme
Julie Muhn / Finovate: ID.me, the digital ID service used by the IRS and other US agencies, raised a $132M Series D led by Viking Global, bringing its total funding to $240M+ — – ID.me announced a $132 million funding round, bringing its total raised to $240 million. — The company has brought on Samantha Greenberg as CFO. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters: Nansen: after Shapella, ether worth ~$1.4B is stuck in a withdrawal queue; due to transaction limits, Ethereum can process ~$115M in ether withdrawals per day — Cryptocurrency investors are facing delays to withdraw funds deposited on the Ethereum blockchain after its major software upgrade … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: AWS begins offering customers access to LLMs made by Anthropic, Stability AI, AI21 Labs, and AWS, aiming to become a neutral platform for generative AI features — The world’s largest cloud provider wants to become the Switzerland of generative AI and let companies pick their own software and models Lees verder op Tech Meme