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Alexander Marrow / Reuters: Yandex co-founder and former CEO Arkady Volozh denounces Russia’s Ukraine invasion as “barbaric”, as Yandex plans a spin off in Russia from its Dutch parent  —  The co-founder of Russian internet giant Yandex (YNDX.O), Arkady Volozh, on Thursday condemned what he described as Russia’s … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: Lyft begins serving in-app ads to riders as they wait for rides, when they match with a driver, and during their trips, and plans to add video ads by year-end  —  The ride-sharing company and its larger rival, Uber, are racing to build significant ad operations Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexander Marrow / Reuters: Yandex co-founder Arkady Volozh, who quit as CEO in June 2022, denounces Russia’s Ukraine war as “barbaric”, as Yandex plans to spin off from its Dutch parent  —  The co-founder of Russian internet giant Yandex (YNDX.O), Arkady Volozh, on Thursday condemned what he described as Russia’s … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Mark Zuckerberg says Threads plans to add several features this week: share posts to Instagram DMs, a mention button, and a way to add custom alt-text for media  —  Threads, Meta’s Twitter competitor, is getting some new features “this week,” according to a post from CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rosie Perper / CoinDesk: Y00ts, once among the top Solana-based NFT projects and that moved to Polygon in 2022, plans to migrate to Ethereum and will return its $3M grant from Polygon  —  The popular project, which started out on Solana and migrated to Polygon earlier this year, said it would return 100% of the grant money it received. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Private equity firm Symphony Technology Group agrees to acquire media editing software maker Avid for ~$1.4B and expects the transaction to close in Q4 2023  —  Private equity firm Symphony Technology Group (STG) on Wednesday agreed to buy media editing software maker Avid Technology Inc (AVID.O) for about $1.4 billion, including debt. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba made orders worth $5B to acquire Nvidia chips, as some worry over the US clamping down on their export soon  —  Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba rush to acquire GPUs amid concern US will soon clamp down on their export Lees verder op Tech Meme

Delphine Strauss / Financial Times: Q&A with MIT economics professor David Autor on how AI can be used to make people’s skills more valuable, the risks AI poses to emerging markets, and more  —  The MIT economist warns that artificial intelligence will not only affect the number of available jobs, but their quality too Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Hassan / Washington Post: Some TikTok content creators are using AI to recreate the likeness of deceased or missing children, giving them “voices” to narrate what happened to them  —  These are some of the world’s most high-profile criminal cases involving children.  These are stories of abuse, abduction … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nicola Agius / Search Engine Land: X unveils Sensitivity Settings and Enhanced Blocklist to boost brand safety and control for advertisers, rolling out over the next few weeks in the Ads Manager  —  The new tools give marketers more say over ad placement.  —  X, formerly known as Twitter, has launched two new features … Lees verder op Tech Meme