Tech Meme

Ryan Browne / CNBC: AI video generation startup Synthesia raised a $90M Series C at a $1B valuation, led by Accel with Nvidia participating, and works with 35% of the Fortune 100  —  – Artificial intelligence-based video generation platform Synthesia has raised $90 million from investors, the company told CNBC exclusively. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steve Dent / Engadget: Meta adds “world chat” to Horizon Worlds, offering a text-based way of communicating with anyone in the same world session, and promises strict moderation  —  Meta will automatically scan and remove messages that go against its code of conduct.  —  After introducing mini-games … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tiyashi Datta / Reuters: Accenture plans to invest $3B over three years into its data and AI practice, aiming to have 80,000 staff working on AI, after laying off ~19,000 in March 2023  —  Accenture said on Tuesday it will invest $3 billion over three years into its data and AI practice, doubling the number of employees … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Austin-based Striveworks, which builds MLOps tools for training AI models and cleaning data, raised $33M from Centana Growth Partners, its first outside funding  —  MLOps, or DevOps for those working with machine learning models, has seen a boom of interest in the last year … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: PitchBook: the UK and Ireland accounted for <28% of VC deals in Europe and Israel in Q1 2023, down from 34%+ in 2018, as deals in France and the Nordics rose  —  This year did not begin well for technology in the UK.  Venture financing evaporated.  Companies cut staff and tightened belts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI’s unusual deal created internal conflict, including over transparency, sales pitches, and Microsoft’s spending on in-house AI  —  As the companies lead the AI boom, their unconventional arrangement sometimes causes conflict  —  Microsoft and OpenAI’s partnership … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tiyashi Datta / Reuters: Accenture plans to invest $1B over three years in its data and AI practice, aiming for 80,000 staff working on AI, after laying off 19,000 in March  —  Accenture said on Tuesday it will invest $3 billion over three years into its data and AI practice, doubling the number of employees … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: AMD announces the Ryzen Pro 7000 for desktop and Ryzen Pro 7040 HS and 7040 U for mobile, adding an integrated Ryzen AI block on select models and Zen 4 cores  —  As is a constant whenever AMD launches their latest desktop and mobile processors, they typically deploy and release a professional … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: YouTube lowers requirements to monetize under the Partner Program, including creators only needing 500 subscribers, down from 1,000, and fewer watch hours  —  YouTube is lowering the requirements for creators to get access to monetization tools under the YouTube Partner Program (YPP). Lees verder op Tech Meme

Casey Newton / Platformer: Reddit’s API changes stem from LLMs driving up the value of its data, a long-planned IPO, and profitable third-party clients generating no revenue for Reddit  —  As it moves to shut down third-party apps, the site’s self-governing ethos comes back to haunt it  —  I. Lees verder op Tech Meme