Tech Meme

David Shepardson / Reuters: TikTok announces its video app has 150M MAUs in the US, up from 100M MAUs in August 2020; in September 2021, TikTok reported 1B+ MAUs globally  —  TikTok said on Monday the short-video sharing app now has 150 million monthly active users in the United States, up from 100 million it said it had in 2020. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Microsoft speech recognition subsidiary Nuance debuts Dragon Ambient eXperience Express, which uses GPT-4 to generate clinical note drafts after patient visits  —  – Microsoft and its Nuance Communications subsidiary announced Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) Express, a clinical notes application … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Microsoft speech recognition subsidiary Nuance debuts DAX Express, which can generate drafts of clinical notes after patient visits and is partly built on GPT-4  —  – Microsoft and its Nuance Communications subsidiary announced Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) Express, a clinical notes application … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brad Stone / Bloomberg: Character.AI, recently valued at $1B, will likely face legal battles for brazenly letting users make and share chatbots of famous people or fictional characters  —  It’s only a matter of time until rights holders notice that new AI tools are playing a little loose with their intellectual property. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brad Stone / Bloomberg: Character.AI, recently valued at $1B, will likely face legal battles for brazenly letting users make and share chatbots of fictional characters or famous people  —  It’s only a matter of time until rights holders notice that new AI tools are playing a little loose with their intellectual property. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anton Shilov / AnandTech: TrendForce: NAND flash memory revenue fell 45% YoY and 25% QoQ in Q4 2022 and is set to drop 8.1% QoQ in Q1 2023; NAND’s per-bit costs may reach all-time lows  —  Softened demand for PCs and smartphones coupled with NAND memory bits oversupply has sent prices of 3D NAND memory into a dive in recent quarters. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: CASM Technology and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue report: the average weekly number of antisemitic tweets more than doubled after Elon Musk’s acquisition  —  Happy Monday!  If you thought it was a busy news cycle last week, buckle up.  Send tips to: cristiano.lima@washpost.com. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to lay off an additional 9,000 employees, mostly in AWS, PXT, Advertising, and Twitch, after cutting 18,000+ jobs in January 2023  —  – Amazon will lay off 9,000 more employees in the coming weeks, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to staff on Monday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Microsoft plans to launch an app store for Android and iOS games as soon as 2024 if regulators clear its $75B Activision bid and the EU’s DMA rules take effect  —  Xbox boss Phil Spencer says store could launch as soon as next year if regulators clear Activision Blizzard deal Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Runway, which helped make Stable Diffusion, unveils its Gen 2 system for creating three-second video snippets from text-based prompts, available via a waitlist  —  Artificial intelligence has made remarkable progress with still images.  For months, services like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion … Lees verder op Tech Meme