Tech Meme

William Shaw / Bloomberg: UK bank NatWest restricts transfers to crypto exchanges to £1,000 per day and £5,000 per month, citing a rise in scams, after similar moves by Lloyds and HSBC  —  NatWest Group Plc has restricted customers’ crypto activity, becoming the latest UK bank to put limits on the volatile asset class. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Vincent / The Verge: Google launches an API for its PaLM language model and a MakerSuite app to help developers train PaLM, expands support for generative AI in Vertex AI, and more  —  Google is offering developers access to one of its most advanced AI language models: PaLM.  The search giant is launching an API … Lees verder op Tech Meme

OpenAI: OpenAI debuts GPT-4, claiming the model “surpasses ChatGPT in its advanced reasoning capabilities”, available in ChatGPT Plus and its API, which has a waitlist  —  Following the research path from GPT, GPT-2, and GPT-3, our deep learning approach leverages more data and more computation … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Q&A with Spotify co-president and CTO Gustav Söderström on the app’s redesign and improved discovery, layoffs, monetization, rivals, podcasting, HiFi, and more  —  Gustav Söderström has worked at Spotify for a long time; his first big project was leading the launch of its mobile app back in 2009. Lees verder op Tech Meme

William Shaw / Bloomberg: UK bank NatWest restricts transfers to crypto exchanges to £1,000 per day and £5,000 per month, citing a rise in scams, after similar moves by Lloyds and HSBC  —  NatWest Group Plc has restricted customers’ crypto activity, becoming the latest UK bank to put limits on the volatile asset class. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: Microsoft signs a 10-year deal with cloud gaming startup Boosteroid to distribute Call of Duty games if the Activision bid is approved; Boosteroid has ~4M users  —  Agreement is part of push to convince regulators that the planned $75 billion acquisition won’t harm the videogame industry Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Binance suspends UK deposit and withdrawal services via bank transfers and card payments after its local banking partner Paysafe stopped supporting UK pounds  —  Binance Holdings Ltd., the world’s largest crypto exchange, is suspending deposit and withdrawal services via bank transfers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Source: US prosecutors are scrutinizing Telegram group chats between Jump, Jane Street, and Alameda employees in May 2022 over the TerraUSD stablecoin collapse  —  US prosecutors are scrutinizing chat-group conversations among prominent trading firms including Jump Trading Group and Jane Street Group … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok adds a STEM content feed alongside the Following and For You feeds, rolling out to US users in the coming weeks, as part of an ongoing topic feeds test  —  TikTok is introducing a new feed dedicated to STEM content in honor of Pi Day, the company announced on Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Amazon reveals a range of consumer terminals that connect to Project Kuiper, starting at under $400, and now plans to launch the first satellites in H1 2024  —  Amazon has revealed a range of customer terminals that connect to its broadband satellite network, Project Kuiper. Lees verder op Tech Meme