Alyssa Meyers / Marketing Brew: Audible is “conducting limited testing” of ads in audiobooks with non-members getting “ad-supported access to a limited set of Audible titles” — Audible confirmed it’s currently testing audiobook ads, and Spotify seems to be eyeing the possibility. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Futurism: BuzzFeed quietly started publishing fully AI-generated SEO-driven travel posts by non-editorial staff on March 14; a spokesperson calls the posts an experiment — Earlier this year, when BuzzFeed announced plans to start publishing AI-assisted content, its CEO Jonah Peretti promised the tech would be held to a high standard. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Karissa Bell / Engadget: Invite-only Twitter alternative T2 plans to let Twitter users who are about to lose their checkmark on April 1 to carry over the verification to its service — With Elon Musk set to pull verification from thousands of users who were verified under the company’s previous leadership … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Houston-based P97, which works with fuel brands, car OS makers, and others to let drivers pay for gas or charging via apps or their car, raised a $40M Series C — The rising prices for gas continue to be a headache and stress for a lot of people around the world, but it underscores something … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Emma Roth / The Verge: Helped by his acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk surpasses President Obama to become the most followed person on the service with 133,068,709 followers — Elon Musk has dethroned former President Barack Obama as the most followed person on Twitter. As of right now, the billionaire … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Karissa Bell / Engadget: T2, the invite-only Twitter alternative, will allow users who are about to lose their Twitter checkmark on April 1 to carry over the verification to its site — With Elon Musk set to pull verification from thousands of users who were verified under the company’s previous leadership … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: The New York Times says it isn’t planning to pay for Twitter verification and, as a rule, won’t reimburse reporters for verification of personal accounts — New: The New York Times says it is not planning to pay for Twitter verification: “We aren’t planning to pay the monthly fee for verification of our institutional Twitter accounts,” a spokesperson tells me. Lees verder op Tech Meme
The Guardian: Leaked documents from Moscow-based company NTC Vulkan show how it helps GRU, FSB, and SVR with hacking operations, attacks on national infrastructure, and more — Documents leaked by whistleblower angry over Ukraine war — Private Moscow consultancy bolstering Russian cyberwarfare Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: Pathmatics: the top 10 advertisers on Twitter spent just $7.6M on ads in the last two months, down from $71M from September to October 2022 — In the weeks after Elon Musk acquired Twitter Inc., hundreds of advertisers paused spending on the platform, wary of the changes … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Seattle-based Fixie, which aims to help developers integrate LLMs into their own applications, raised a $17M seed led by Redpoint Ventures — The news: Fixie, a new Seattle-based startup aiming to help companies fuse large language models into their software stack, raised a $17 million seed round. Lees verder op Tech Meme