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

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI now lets ChatGPT users turn off their chat histories, excluding them from the company’s models, and plans to launch ChatGPT Business in the coming months  —  OpenAI is letting people opt to withhold their ChatGPT conversations from use in training the artificial intelligence company’s models. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Binance.US has ~100 contractors in Shanghai, or 20% of its workforce, mostly in engineering and product roles, highlighting Binance’s ties to China  —  Binance.US, the digital-asset platform owned by crypto billionaire Changpeng “CZ” Zhao that was created to serve American clients, has a significant tech workforce in China. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: Replit, which offers AI-powered collaborative coding tools, raised $97.4M at a $1.2B valuation and says its IDE has 22.5M users, up from 10M+ in December 2021  —  Replit, the fast-growing service that combines artificial intelligence with software development, closed a $97.4 million fundraising round … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: Data.ai: Jack Dorsey-backed social network Bluesky has had 245K downloads on iOS, of which more than half came in April 2023, after starting its waitlist  —  Twitter users, weary from another tumultuous weekend, are exploring Jack Dorsey-backed app Bluesky as a possible alternative to the social media network. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Thierry Breton says EU Digital Services Act content rules will apply to Apple, Meta, Google, TikTok, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube, and 12 others from August 2023  —  Five Alphabet (GOOGL.O) subsidiaries, two Meta Platforms (META.O) units, two Microsoft (MSFT.O) businesses, Twitter and Alibaba’s … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Thompson / Axios: Following Biden’s reelection campaign announcement, the Republican National Committee publishes an attack ad featuring AI-generated images, some including 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 says it is now operating its “small” fleet of driverless robotaxis in San Francisco 24/7, expanding to daylight hours; the unit lost $561M in the Q1  —  Cruise, the autonomous vehicle division of General Motors, is now operating a “small” fleet of driverless robotaxis … Lees verder op Tech Meme