Tech Meme

Reuters: Similarweb and Data.ai: Meta blocking news in Canada has had almost no impact on Canadians’ Facebook usage, supporting Meta’s claim that news holds little value  —  Meta’s (META.O) decision to block news links in Canada this month has had almost no impact on Canadians’ usage of Facebook … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google Cloud announces its 5th generation Tensor Processing Units, promising 2x training performance improvement per dollar compared to 2021’s 4th gen TPUs  —  At Cloud Next, its annual user conference, Google Cloud today announced the launch of the fifth generation of its tensor processing units (TPUs) for AI training and inferencing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: Google unveils SynthID, which embeds an invisible digital “watermark” directly into AI-generated images, available now to Cloud customers for Imagen-made images  —  The tech giant is among companies pushing out AI tools while promising to build more tools to protect against their misuse Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: Google plans to update Chat with a new design, Duet AI tools, “huddles” for audio and video calls, capacity for 500K people in group channels, and more  —  Google is making some big changes to Google Chat, its answer to Slack and Microsoft Teams. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Google adds AI tools from others, like Meta’s Llama 2 and Anthropic’s Claude 2, to Cloud, expands Duet AI in Workspace, partners with Fox Sports, and more  —  Alphabet Inc.’s Google is adding artificial intelligence tools from companies including Meta Platforms Inc. and Anthropic to its cloud platform … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: Meta takes down a Chinese influence campaign, started in 2019 and spanning thousands of accounts on Facebook, TikTok, X, and more, the largest such campaign yet  —  The campaign began at least four years ago and spanned thousands of accounts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Substack and Chinese websites, Meta said. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Google announces AI features coming soon to Meet, including expanding Duet AI to take notes, mid-meeting summaries, and “attending” meetings on a user’s behalf  —  If Google Meet’s new AI tools are as good as advertised, you might never need to pay attention to another meeting again — or even show up at all. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: A look at friend.tech, crypto’s latest craze that briefly became the second highest earning platform after Ethereum before bots and “speculative games” exploded  —  The new platform that allows users to buy and sell crypto tokens linked to influencers like Grayson Allen is starting to fizzle after a meteoric rise. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Swedish payments company Trustly acquires French recurring payments service SlimPay, sources say for €70M; Trustly shelved IPO plans in 2021  —  Swedish payments firm Trustly has acquired the French recurring payments platform SlimPay as it continues its Europe-wide expansion. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon confirms testing increasing the free shipping minimum to $35 from $25 for non-Prime members; Walmart also has a $35 minimum for non-Walmart+ members  —  – Amazon is testing a $35 free shipping minimum for people who aren’t members of the company’s Prime loyalty program. Lees verder op Tech Meme