Tech Meme

Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: Sources: Cameo tells staff it is laying off 80+ workers because of financial pressures, leaving fewer than 50, down nearly 90% from its peak headcount last year  —  Cameo, the video shoutout app that gained in popularity during the pandemic shutdowns, told employees on Tuesday that it was laying off … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Krystal Hu / Reuters: McKinsey partners with Cohere to help clients adopt generative AI, after Deloitte partnered with Nvidia and Bain and Company teamed up with OpenAI  —  Consultancy giant McKinsey said it had struck a partnership with artificial intelligence startup Cohere in an effort to provide AI solutions to its enterprise clients. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: After about two and a half years as OnlyFans’ CEO, Ami Gan departs to launch a new venture; Chief Strategy & Operations Officer Keily Blair takes over as CEO  —  After about two and a half years as CEO, Ami Gan is leaving OnlyFans.  Chief strategy and operations officer Keily Blair will take over as CEO. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: An Ada Lovelace Institute report warns that the UK’s approach to AI safety lacks credibility and makes 18 recommendations for improving the government’s plans  —  The UK government has been trying to cultivate an image of itself as an international mover-and-shaker in the nascent field … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Qualcomm and Meta announce that Llama 2 will run on Qualcomm chips on phones and PCs in 2024; Qualcomm says Llama 2 will enable intelligent virtual assistants  —  – Qualcomm and Meta will enable the social networking company’s so-called new large language model, Llama 2, to run on Qualcomm chips on phones and PCs starting in 2024 Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta: Meta releases Llama 2, its open-source LLM with double the context length, for free for research and commercial use, and expands its Microsoft partnership  —  Recent breakthroughs in AI, and generative AI in particular, have captured the public’s imagination and demonstrated what those developing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Will Shanklin / Engadget: Microsoft announces Copilot for Microsoft 365 will cost $30 per user per month for business accounts, and debuts Bing Chat Enterprise, offering improved privacy  —  A version of Bing Chat with corporate-level privacy is also rolling out in preview.  —  At the Microsoft Inspire partner event today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Peter Kafka / Vox: Executives at G/O Media, which owns Gizmodo, Jezebel, and others, say the company plans to publish more AI-generated stories despite its botched first attempts  —  Why G/O Media thinks we should have more stories written by bots.  —  In early July, managers at G/O media … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Inti Landauro / Reuters: Spain’s antitrust watchdog fines Amazon and Apple a combined €194.1M for colluding to limit the sale of Apple devices from competitors on Amazon’s Spanish sites  —  Spain’s antitrust watchdog CNMC on Tuesday said it had imposed fines worth 194 million euros ($218.2 million) in total on Amazon … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Microsoft announces Vector Search, which uses ML to capture the context of unstructured data like images and text, to speed up search, in preview through Azure  —  At its annual Inspire conference, Microsoft announced a number of new AI features headed to Azure, perhaps the most notable of which is Vector Search. Lees verder op Tech Meme