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

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

Sources say Amazon is in talks with Verizon, T-Mobile, Dish Network, and AT&T to offer low-cost or possibly free mobile phone service to US Prime subscribers (Bloomberg) 02-06-2023

Bloomberg: Sources say Amazon is in talks with Verizon, T-Mobile, Dish Network, and AT&T to offer low-cost or possibly free mobile phone service to US Prime subscribers  —  Amazon.com Inc. has been talking with wireless carriers about offering low-cost or possibly free nationwide mobile phone service … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Report: Valencia-based Jeff, which provides a frontend app and other tools to manage businesses, filed for bankruptcy after failing to close a €90M Series C (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 after failing to close a €90M Series C  —  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

At Computex, Lenovo, Samsung, Acer, and more bet on OLED displays to revive PC sales, despite higher component costs; Samsung has 99%+ of the OLED laptop market (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg) 02-06-2023

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: At Computex, Lenovo, Samsung, Acer, and more bet on OLED displays to revive PC sales, despite higher component costs; Samsung has 99%+ of the OLED laptop market  —  PC makers from Lenovo Group Ltd. to Samsung Electronics Co. are pinning their hopes for reviving laptop sales on upgraded displays. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Report: Valencia-based Jeff, which provides a frontend app and other tools to manage businesses, filed for bankruptcy after failing to close a €90M Series C (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 after failing to close a €90M Series C  —  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 ex-employees: Meta staff generally aren't using the Quest 3, especially for meetings, and even those in the VR unit don't use it regularly for work (Aisha Counts/Bloomberg) 02-06-2023

Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: Current and ex-employees: Meta staff generally aren’t using the Quest 3, especially for meetings, and even those in the VR unit don’t use it regularly 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 proposed class action lawsuit accuses Elon Musk of insider trading by manipulating Dogecoin; Musk allegedly sold ~$124M in DOGE after Twitter's logo change (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) 02-06-2023

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: A proposed class action lawsuit accuses Elon Musk of insider trading by manipulating Dogecoin; Musk allegedly sold ~$124M in DOGE after Twitter’s logo change  —  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 in 2023 so far, more than in any full year since 2001, when job cuts reached 168,395 (Alexandre Tanzi/Bloomberg) 02-06-2023

Alexandre Tanzi / Bloomberg: Challenger report: US tech companies have announced 136,831 layoffs in 2023 so far, more than in any full year since 2001, when job cuts reached 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

AT Protocol's account portability tool gives the users of Bluesky, a public benefit LLC independent from Twitter, a way out should a billionaire take over (Micah Lee/The Intercept) 02-06-2023

Micah Lee / The Intercept: AT Protocol’s account portability tool gives the users of Bluesky, a public benefit LLC independent from Twitter, a way out should a billionaire take over  —  Here are some answers about the new social media network Bluesky that you don’t need an invite to see. … The vibes are great. Lees verder op Tech Meme

A look at Voyager, a Minecraft bot created by an Nvidia team 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 created by an Nvidia team 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