Tech Meme

Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: Snap says it will use Google’s Gemini to help add new features to Snapchat’s chatbot, including translating menus, after starting to use Gemini earlier in 2024  —  – Snapchat first launched its AI-powered chatbot last year  — Snap uses artificial intelligence models from OpenAI, Google Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google plans to include the standalone Gemini app as standard in its Workspace Business, Enterprise, and Frontline plans from Q4, replacing the Gemini add-on  —  Google is making Gemini AI a core part of its Workspace productivity suite, which could see the chatbot adopted by millions more users. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Portland-based Torq, which helps IT teams automate security workflows, raised a $70M Series C led by Evolution Equity Partners, for $192M in total funding  —  As the volume of cyberattacks grows, there’s increasing interest from the corporate sector in tech to help automate responses to breaches. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google updates Google Photos’ mobile video editor for Android and iOS, adding editing tools and AI presets that should make trimming and tweaking clips easier  —  Features coming to Android devices include a new “Speed” tool for creating slo-mo or sped-up videos, a new “Auto enhance” … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Browne / CNBC: Warner Bros. Discovery partners with Google to add its “caption AI” tool built on Vertex AI to Max to automatically generate captions for unscripted programming  —  Warner Bros. Discovery is partnering with Google to integrate the internet giant’s AI technology … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aaron Holmes / The Information: Sources: some key staff working on Microsoft’s distilled AI models like Phi, trained on synthetic data, have left the Microsoft AI unit led by Mustafa Suleyman  —  In case you missed it, my colleagues broke news yesterday about Anthropic’s attempt to draft off OpenAI’s pending fundraising, by looking to do its own funding round. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steve Dent / Engadget: Logitech MX Creative Console review: the $200 control surface for apps like Lightroom is an affordable entry point, but pros may find the controls limiting  —  The quality and design are solid, but pros may find the controls limiting.  —  Last year, Logitech leaped into the content creator market … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Spotify rolls out its AI Playlist feature in beta to Premium subscribers in the US, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand, after launching in the UK and Australia  —  Spotify is expanding an AI feature that creates customized playlists from your text descriptions to additional English-speaking regions. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Welch / The Verge: Roku unveils the $100 Roku Ultra, which is 30% faster than its other streaming players and has Wi-Fi 6, HDMI 2.1, Dolby Atmos, the Voice Remote Pro, and more  —  One day after the Google TV Streamer hit stores, Roku is announcing its latest streaming player. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cory Weinberg / The Information: Sources: Scale AI nearly quadrupled sales YoY to ~$400M in H1 2024 and had ~$980M in cash; the data labeling startup raised $1B at a $13.8B valuation in May  —  Helping artificial intelligence companies improve the accuracy of their large language models is turning into a giant business for Scale AI … Lees verder op Tech Meme