Financial Times: Sources: Character.AI, which uses LLMs to let users chat with famous people like Shakespeare, raised between $200M and $250M led by a16z at a ~$1B valuation — Pioneering tech venture capital firm makes first big foray into generative artificial intelligence sector Lees verder op Tech Meme
Mitchell Clark / The Verge: One month after Elon Musk said Twitter started sharing ad revenue from reply threads with users who pay for Twitter Blue, Twitter has yet to provide any details — “Starting today, Twitter will share ad revenue with creators for ads that appear in their reply threads,” he said … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon plans to close eight Go convenience stores in Seattle, NYC, and San Francisco, as the company reevaluates its brick-and-mortar strategy and cuts costs — – Amazon is closing eight Go convenience stores in Seattle, New York City and San Francisco. — The company had previously announced … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon plans to close eight Go convenience stores in Seattle, New York City, and San Francisco, as it reevaluates its brick-and-mortar strategy and cuts costs — – Amazon is closing eight Go convenience stores in Seattle, New York City and San Francisco. — The company had previously announced … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Martin Coulter / Reuters: TikTok told Ofcom the company blocked ~180K underage UK accounts a month from April 2021 to April 2022; Snap removed ~60 and stopped thousands of new accounts — Snapchat (SNAP.N) is kicking dozens of children in Britain off its platform each month compared with tens of thousands blocked by rival TikTok … Lees verder op Tech Meme
James Hale / Tubefilter: London-based Electrify Video Partners, which invests in, and acquires, established YouTube channels “with a solid income”, raised $50M led by MEP Capital — Electrify Video Partners has raised $50 million to invest in and acquire YouTube channels. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Wall Street Journal: Internal docs detail efforts by Tether Holdings and Bitfinex to maintain access to the global banking system by using shadowy intermediaries and shell companies — Tether Holdings and related crypto broker obscured identities, documents show — In late 2018, the companies behind … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Axios: Sources: Founders Fund cut Fund VIII, which is expected to start deploying capital in Q2 2023, from ~$1.8B to ~$900M; the money will be pushed to its ninth fund — Founders Fund has quietly cut the size of its eighth venture capital fund in half, from around $1.8 billion to around $900 million, Axios has learned from multiple sources. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Meta cuts the price of Quest Pro, its mixed and virtual reality headset meant for business users, from $1,500 to $1,000, and its 256GB Quest 2 from $500 to $430 — Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the Meta Quest Pro, the company’s mixed and virtual reality headset focused on business users … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: Sources: Foxconn plans to invest ~$700M to build a plant for iPhone parts on a 300-acre site in Bengaluru, India; the plant is expected to create ~100K jobs — Apple Inc. partner Foxconn Technology Group plans to invest about $700 million on a new plant in India to ramp up local production … Lees verder op Tech Meme