Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Q&A with Spotify Co-President and CTO Gustav Söderström on the app’s redesign and improved discovery, layoffs, monetization, rivals, podcasting, HiFi, and more  —  Gustav Söderström has worked at Spotify for a long time; his first big project was leading the launch of its mobile app back in 2009. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok adds a STEM content feed alongside its Following and For You feeds, rolling out to US users in the coming weeks, as part of an ongoing topic feeds test  —  TikTok is introducing a new feed dedicated to STEM content in honor of Pi Day, the company announced on Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

William Shaw / Bloomberg: UK bank NatWest restricts transfers to crypto exchanges to £1,000 per day and £5,000 per month, citing a rise in scams, after similar moves by Lloyds and HSBC  —  NatWest Group Plc has restricted customers’ crypto activity, becoming the latest UK bank to put limits on the volatile asset class. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google announces Open Health Stack, open-source components, centered on the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Standards, for developers making health apps  —  Google announced a new open-source program called Open Health Stack for developers to build health-related apps. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: GPT-4 has learned to be more precise and accurate than its predecessor, gained the ability to respond to images as well as text, but is still hallucinating  —  OpenAI has upgraded the technology that powers its online chatbot in notable ways.  It’s more accurate, but it still makes things up. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Anthropic, co-founded by ex-OpenAI employees, debuts Claude, a ChatGPT rival it says is less likely to produce harmful outputs; organizations can request access  —  Anthropic, an artificial-intelligence startup, is making its rival chatbot to OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT available to businesses that want to add it to their products. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Q&A with Spotify co-president and CTO Gustav Söderström on the app’s redesign and improved discovery, layoffs, monetization, rivals, podcasting, HiFi, and more  —  Gustav Söderström has worked at Spotify for a long time; his first big project was leading the launch of its mobile app back in 2009. Lees verder op Tech Meme

William Shaw / Bloomberg: UK bank NatWest restricts transfers to crypto exchanges to £1,000 per day and £5,000 per month, citing a rise in scams, after similar moves by Lloyds and HSBC  —  NatWest Group Plc has restricted customers’ crypto activity, becoming the latest UK bank to put limits on the volatile asset class. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Vincent / The Verge: Google launches an API for its PaLM language model and a MakerSuite app to help developers train PaLM, expands support for generative AI in Vertex AI, and more  —  Google is offering developers access to one of its most advanced AI language models: PaLM.  The search giant is launching an API … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: The Be My Eyes app for the visually impaired will integrate with GPT-4, which can inspect and describe images, through a new Virtual Volunteer feature  —  OpenAI has introduced the world to its latest powerful AI model, GPT-4, and refreshingly the first thing they partnered up on with its new capabilities … Lees verder op Tech Meme