Tech Meme

Todd Spangler / Variety: YouTube’s advertising revenue dropped for the third consecutive quarter, by 2.6% YoY to $6.69B in Q1, above analyst estimates of $6.6B  —  Ad sales at YouTube declined 2.6% year over year in the first quarter of 2023, to $6.69 billion.  Analysts expected it to come in at $6.6 billion, per FactSet. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Alphabet’s board authorized a $70B buyback of its Class A and Class C shares, the same amount it approved in April 2022  —  – Google parent company Alphabet said on Tuesday that its board of directors authorized $70 billion in share repurchases.  —  Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Officials from US agencies including the FTC’s Lina Kahn and the EEOC’s Charlotte Burrows commit to using civil rights laws to fight discrimination in AI  —  Officials from multiple federal agencies committed to enforce existing civil rights laws against AI systems that perpetuate bias Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: Voyager Digital says Binance.US terminated an agreement to acquire the bankrupt crypto broker for $1B  —  Voyager Digital Ltd said Binance.US had terminated an agreement to purchase the bankrupt crypto broker.  —  “While this development is disappointing, our chapter 11 plan allows … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is working on emotion tracking tools, coming to the Health app this year, and an AI-powered health coaching subscription service codenamed Quartz  —  Apple Inc. is working on an artificial intelligence-powered health coaching service and new technology for tracking emotions … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Thompson / Axios: After President Biden’s reelection campaign announcement, the Republican National Committee posts an attack ad featuring AI-generated images, including of Biden  —  – The video features AI-created images appearing to show Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris celebrating at an Election Day party … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: GM’s Cruise expands its “small” fleet of driverless robotaxis in San Francisco to daylight hours, now operating 24/7; the unit lost $561M in Q1 2023, up 73% YoY  —  Cruise, the autonomous vehicle division of General Motors, is now operating a “small” fleet of driverless robotaxis … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: WhatsApp expands its multi-device feature to let the same account be used across multiple smartphones, not just tablets and computers, a long-requested feature  —  WhatsApp users are no longer restricted to using their account on just a single phone.  Today, the Meta-owned messaging service … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: AMD announces the Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme, 4nm CPUs for handheld gaming PCs; the Z1 Extreme has eight Zen 4 cores and 16 threads with 12 RDNA 3 GPU cores  —  But the company’s now saying the quiet part out loud: today, it’s officially announcing the AMD Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Nvidia open sources NeMo Guardrails, a developer toolkit designed to help make text-based generative AI apps more “accurate, appropriate, on topic, and secure”  —  For all the fanfare, text-generating AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 make a lot of mistakes — some of them harmful. Lees verder op Tech Meme