Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe rolls out support for images and PDF in Frame.io and plans to add text-based editing in Premiere Pro in May 2023 — Adobe has announced several product updates ahead of the 2023 NAB Show, including the addition of text-based video editing features to Premier Pro and the expansion … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Filing: Amazon paid Andy Jassy $1.3M in 2022, after awarding him a $200M+ stock grant in 2021; Jassy talks efficiency, ads, LLMs, and more in his annual letter — Jassy had earned $212 million in 2021. — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy saw his 2022 compensation crater in 2022 … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: Twitch CEO Dan Clancy defends cutting 400 employees, saying the move was vital to keep the service viable, and plans to meet with creators to allay their fears — Dan Clancy, Twitch’s new chief executive officer, has led projects at NASA and Google, and once wanted to look for life on Mars. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: AWS begins offering customers access to LLMs 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
Bloomberg: Ethereum successfully completes its Shanghai, or Shapella, update, letting users withdraw staked ether; around 1.2M ETH are expected to be withdrawn in a week — The Ethereum blockchain, the most important commercial highway in the digital-asset sector, successfully implemented a widely anticipated software upgrade. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Raphael Satter / Reuters: Discord says it is cooperating with US law enforcement’s investigation into the classified material breach — Instant messaging platform Discord said on Wednesday it was cooperating with U.S. law enforcement’s investigation into a leak of secret U.S. documents that has grabbed attention around the world. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Facundo Iglesia / Rest of World: A look at Argentinian crypto company Generación Zoe and its pastor founder Leonardo Cositorto, who is accused of a $120M+ Zoe Cash investment scam — Generación Zoe promised investors massive returns thanks to market-predicting “robots” and a cryptocurrency backed by gold. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: How the US is making arrests and seizing crypto funds, like James Zhong’s 50K+ bitcoin, using Chainalysis and other tools to identify criminals via transactions — Federal authorities are making arrests and seizing funds with the help of new tools to identify criminals through cryptocurrency transactions Lees verder op Tech Meme
Facundo Iglesia / Rest of World: A look at Argentinian crypto company Generación Zoe and its pastor founder Leonardo Cositorto, who is accused of a $120M+ Zoe Cash investment scam — Generación Zoe promised investors massive returns thanks to market-predicting “robots” and a cryptocurrency backed by gold. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ian Hogarth / Financial Times: An investor in 50+ AI startups warns against building a “God-like AI” and says companies are “running towards a finish line” without knowing the ramifications — The writer of this essay is an investor and co-author of the annual “State of AI” report Lees verder op Tech Meme