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Sources: A.J. Brown, Twitter's head of brand safety and ad quality, is leaving the company, the second departure of a top safety executive this week (Wall Street Journal) 02-06-2023

Wall Street Journal: Sources: A.J. Brown, Twitter’s head of brand safety and ad quality, is leaving the company, the second departure of a top safety executive this week  —  A.J. Brown’s departure comes after Ella Irwin, company’s head of trust and safety, left Thursday  —  Twitter lost its head of brand safety … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Artifact, the news sharing app founded by Instagram's co-founders, plans to use a GPT-4 model to rewrite article headlines that Artifact's team marked clickbait (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) 02-06-2023

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Artifact, the news sharing app founded by Instagram’s co-founders, plans to use a GPT-4 model to rewrite article headlines that Artifact’s team marked clickbait  —  Last month, the Artifact news app introduced an option for users to flag an article as clickbait. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Report: Valencia-based Jeff, which provides a frontend app and other tools to manage businesses, filed for bankruptcy in May after failing to close a €90M round (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu) 02-06-2023

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: Report: Valencia-based Jeff, which provides a frontend app and other tools to manage businesses, filed for bankruptcy in May after failing to close a €90M round  —  After numerous lawsuits in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Spain, losses close to €65 million, and a €90 million funding round … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Current and former staff: Meta employees generally aren't using the Quest 3, especially not for meetings; source: the VR unit doesn't use the headset for work (Aisha Counts/Bloomberg) 02-06-2023

Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: Current and former staff: Meta employees generally aren’t using the Quest 3, especially not for meetings; source: the VR unit doesn’t use the headset for work  —  Meta employees don’t seem interested in working in the metaverse.  But first…  Three things you need to know today: Lees verder op Tech Meme

A look at Voyager, a Minecraft bot that an Nvidia team created using GPT-4, which obtains over 3x as many items and builds tools 15x quicker than other AI bots (Will Knight/Wired) 02-06-2023

Will Knight / Wired: A look at Voyager, a Minecraft bot that an Nvidia team created using GPT-4, which obtains over 3x as many items and builds tools 15x quicker than other AI bots  —  The bot plays the video game by tapping the text generator to pick up new skills, suggesting that the tech behind ChatGPT could automate many workplace tasks. Lees verder op Tech Meme

YouTube says it will stop removing content that claims “widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections” (Sara Fischer/Axios) 02-06-2023

Sara Fischer / Axios: YouTube says it will stop removing content that claims “widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections”  —  In a reversal of its election integrity policy, YouTube will leave up content that says fraud, errors or glitches occurred … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Report: Valencia-based Jeff, which provides a frontend app and other tools to manage businesses, filed for bankruptcy in May after failing to close a €90M round (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu) 02-06-2023

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: Report: Valencia-based Jeff, which provides a frontend app and other tools to manage businesses, filed for bankruptcy in May after failing to close a €90M round  —  After numerous lawsuits in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Spain, losses close to €65 million, and a €90 million funding round … Lees verder op Tech Meme

A proposed class action lawsuit accuses Elon Musk of insider trading by manipulating Dogecoin, alleging he sold ~$124M in DOGE after changing Twitter's logo (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) 02-06-2023

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: A proposed class action lawsuit accuses Elon Musk of insider trading by manipulating Dogecoin, alleging he sold ~$124M in DOGE after changing Twitter’s logo  —  Elon Musk is being accused of insider trading in a proposed class action by investors accusing the Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Challenger report: US tech companies have announced 136,831 layoffs from January to May 2023, more than in any full year since 2001, when job cuts hit 168,395 (Alexandre Tanzi/Bloomberg) 02-06-2023

Alexandre Tanzi / Bloomberg: Challenger report: US tech companies have announced 136,831 layoffs from January to May 2023, more than in any full year since 2001, when job cuts hit 168,395  —  US companies have announced more job cuts this year than during all of 2022, according to executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Microsoft expects to take a charge of ~$425M in Q2 2023 for a potential fine from the Irish DPC over LinkedIn's targeted ads allegedly violating users' privacy (Yuvraj Malik/Reuters) 02-06-2023

Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: Microsoft expects to take a charge of ~$425M in Q2 2023 for a potential fine from the Irish DPC over LinkedIn’s targeted ads allegedly violating users’ privacy  —  Software major Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Thursday it expected to take a charge of about $425 million in the current quarter … Lees verder op Tech Meme