Tech Meme

Ryan Dinsdale / IGN: Riot Games names its global president A. Dylan Jadeja as the company’s new CEO starting later in 2023, succeeding Nicolo Laurent, who will stay on as an advisor  —  Succeeding Nicolo Laurent.  —  IGN can reveal that Riot Games global president A. Dylan Jadeja will succeed Nicolo Laurent as the company’s CEO later this year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Anthropic expands Claude’s context window from 9K to 100K tokens, or ~75K words it can digest and analyze; OpenAI’s GPT-4 has a context window of ~32K tokens  —  Historically and even today, poor memory has been an impediment to the usefulness of text-generating AI. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Meta announces AI Sandbox, with generative AI tools to help select advertisers create text variations, background images from text, and cropped images  —  Meta today announced an AI Sandbox for advertisers to help them create alternative copies, background generation through text prompts … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elon Musk / @elonmusk: Elon Musk says he hired a CEO for X/Twitter and “she will be starting in ~6 weeks”; Musk will become “exec chair & CTO” overseeing “product, software, & sysops”  —  Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in ~6 weeks! My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops. https://twitter.com/… Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: Lyft discontinues pooled rides as “they take people out of their way”, one of many product changes CEO David Risher has made since taking over in April 2023  —  Lyft Inc. is officially discontinuing shared rides, the latest change the ride-hailing company’s new chief executive officer … Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Cirrone / Blockworks: Coinbase apologizes for its newsletter calling Pepe the Frog a “hate symbol”, saying its overview “did not provide the whole picture of the history of the meme”  —  Coinbase has come out with an apology for its recent newsletter suggesting Pepe the Frog was a “hate symbol.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Akash Sriram / Reuters: Crosspoint Capital Partners plans to acquire Canadian cybersecurity company Absolute Software for $657M, or a 34% premium to the US-listed stock’s last close  —  Canada’s Absolute Software (ABST.TO) said on Thursday it had agreed to be taken private by Crosspoint Capital Partners for $657 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

CNBC: Sensor Tower: Bluesky had 628K mobile downloads in April 2023, up 606% from March, when its Android app launched, in addition to iOS; Mastodon had 90K downloads  —  – Bluesky has exploded in popularity over the past few months as measured by the number of mobile app downloads on both iOS and Android platforms. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: A US judge rules that nearly $300M in BlockFi’s wallets belong to clients, not the bankrupt lender’s estate; $375M in interest-bearing accounts is the estate’s  —  A further $375 million that users tried to transfer out of interest-bearing accounts after Nov. 10 still belongs to the estate, Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan said Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: Lyft discontinues pooled rides, one of a slate of product changes CEO David Risher has made since taking over in April  —  Lyft Inc. is officially discontinuing shared rides, the latest change the ride-hailing company’s new chief executive officer is making in a bid to revamp the platform to compete with Uber Technologies Inc. Lees verder op Tech Meme