Tech Meme

Josh Scott / BetaKit: Toronto-based BenchSci, which uses AI to help pharmaceutical firms accelerate drug discovery, raised a CA$95M Series D led by Generation Investment Management  —  Toronto-based BenchSci, which helps pharmaceutical firms accelerate research and development (R&D) using artificial intelligence … Lees verder op Tech Meme

WABetaInfo: A beta version of WhatsApp suggests the company is working on adding usernames, which may allow users to chat without sharing their phone numbers  —  WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.23.11.15.  —  What’s new in this update? Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Block: Paradigm appears to have removed crypto and web3 mentions from its website’s home page, as sources say the VC is expanding its focus to “frontier” tech like AI  —  – VC firm Paradigm is taking its crypto-only focus to include “frontier” technologies such as AI, two sources with knowledge of the situation told The Block. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches a program to award 10 grants of $100K to develop proof-of-concepts for a “democratic process” to set rules for AI “within the bounds” of the law  —  OpenAI says it’s launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Twitter launches API Pro, a $5,000/month tier offering access to full archive search endpoints and the ability to fetch 1M tweets and post 300K tweets monthly  —  Twitter announced a new API tier today called Twitter API Pro for startups that costs $5,000 per month. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google starts rolling out its LLM-powered Search Generative Experience, with features like a conversational mode and shopping aspects, to Search Labs members  —  Announced at I/O 2023, Google is now rolling out the AI/LLM-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) to users that signed up for the Search Labs program. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube plans to shut down Stories on June 26, 2023, as the company focuses on other key areas, like Shorts, Community posts, live videos, and its usual content  —  Stories are over — at least on YouTube, that is.  The Google-owned video site announced today that YouTube Stories will be shutting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aggi Cantrill / Bloomberg: Alibaba pushes back on reports of layoffs, saying the company plans to hire 15K workers in 2023, including 3,000 new graduates, across its six major divisions  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. said it plans to hire 15,000 people this year, pushing back on reports that the Chinese tech firm is laying off employees. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Twitch raises the price of Turbo, its ad-free subscription that offers extra emoticons, chat badges, and more; the US price jumps from $8.99 to $11.99 per month  —  Twitch is raising the monthly price of Twitch Turbo, its monthly subscription that lets you pay to remove most ads … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stan Schroeder / Mashable: OpenAI expands its free ChatGPT iOS app, which launched in the US last week, to 11 more countries, including the UK, Germany, France, Nigeria, and South Korea  —  The smart chat assistant is at your service in 11 new markets.  —  OpenAI’s ChatGPT app for iOS is available in 11 new markets. Lees verder op Tech Meme