Alex York / Forbes: London-based Shop Circle, which provides e-commerce software to merchants, raised a $120M Series A in equity and debt led by 645 Ventures and 3VC — London-based e-commerce software startup Shop Circle has raised $120 million in Series A funding, the company announced Wednesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme
CNBC: Tencent is launching its Hunyuan AI model for business use on Sept. 7 and integrating the model with its existing video conferencing and social media products — – Chinese tech giant Tencent is launching its artificial intelligence model “Hunyuan” for business use at an annual summit on Thursday. Lees verder op Tech Meme
CNBC: Tencent is launching its Hunyuan AI model for business use on August 7 and integrating the model with its existing video conferencing and social media products — – Chinese tech giant Tencent is launching its artificial intelligence model “Hunyuan” for business use at an annual summit on Thursday. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Meir Orbach / CTech: Tel Aviv-based Ibex Medical Analytics, which uses AI for cancer diagnostics, raised a $55M Series C led by 83North, bringing its total funding to $100M+ — The Israeli startup’s platform provides health systems and diagnostic laboratories with an integrated solution for cancer diagnosis … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Caitlin Harrington / Wired: The CWA files charges with the US NLRB against Grindr, alleging the company laid off 82 workers, or 46% of its staff, for rejecting a return-to-office mandate — Two weeks after staff at queer dating app Grindr unionized, bosses ordered employees back to the office. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jay Peters / The Verge: YouTube is dropping some YouTube Studio ad controls, limiting creators’ control over pre-roll, post-roll, skippable, and non-skippable ads starting in November — YouTube is making some notable changes to the ad controls available to creators. Beginning in November, YouTube … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Mariella Moon / Engadget: Slack announces Slack AI, which can generate channel highlights, thread summaries, and search answers based on messages, with a pilot starting “this winter” — Salesforce will pilot the generative AI capabilities it developed for Slack later this year. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jay Peters / The Verge: Clubhouse updates its iOS and Android apps to include asynchronous voice-only group chats, in an attempt to be “more like a messaging app” — Clubhouse is back, kinda. The app that popularized social audio rooms is reinventing itself “to be more like a messaging app” … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Davey Alba / Bloomberg: Google plans a November policy update requiring election advertisers to prominently disclose when their ads contain generative AI-based images, video, or audio — Audio, images and video on political advertising will need to be labeled … The policy update, which applies starting mid-November … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Milana Vinn / Reuters: Sources: data analytics software company Alteryx has been working with an investment bank to explore a sale after attracting takeover interest; AYX jumps 13%+ — Alteryx Inc (AYX.N), a data analytics software company with a market value of $2.2 billion, has been working with an investment bank … Lees verder op Tech Meme