Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches ChatGPT API for businesses, with dedicated capacity plans and priced at $0.002/~750 words, and says Snap and Shopify are among early adopters  —  To call ChatGPT, the free text-generating AI developed by San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, a hit is a massive understatement. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: How Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo became a key player in the US’ stricter China policy, including helping steer the CHIPS Act, exports, and TikTok  —  Gina Raimondo is the first to admit that she often can’t see the line between work and play—or even work and pray. Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Shepardson / Reuters: The House Foreign Affairs Committee votes 24 to 16 to advance a bill that would enable President Biden to ban TikTok and other apps considered security risks  —  The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on Wednesday to give President Joe Biden the power to ban Chinese-owned social media app TikTok and other apps. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Microsoft’s Windows 11 announcement of adding the new Bing “directly into the taskbar” is wildly misleading since using Bing Chat still requires opening Edge  —  What the hell, Microsoft?  —  Yesterday, Microsoft made a big hubbub about a new Windows 11 update that allegedly puts AI … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon’s Ring names former Meta and Microsoft executive Elizabeth Hamren as its CEO, replacing Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, who will remain as chief inventor  —  Five years after its acquisition by Amazon, smart doorbell and home security technology company Ring named a new CEO: Elizabeth … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nektaria Stamouli / Politico: A profile of Christos Rammos, the key investigator of the Greek government’s spyware scandal engulfing PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ administration since summer 2022  —  ATHENS — Christos Rammos is turning the screws on Greece’s government.  —  Rammos has been the key investigator … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Patrick George / The Verge: Volkswagen Group plans to roll out an app store for its car brands soon, featuring TikTok, Spotify, Yelp, and other third-party apps optimized for in-car use  —  If you’ve long felt like the one thing missing from your Audi was in-car TikTok, fret no more.  Volkswagen Group is the latest … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Scott Chipolina / Financial Times: Nansen: investors sold $6B+ of the BUSD stablecoin in the past month after US regulatory pressure; BUSD was ~40% of Binance’s trading volume in December 2022  —  New York regulatory move accelerates withdrawal from BUSD stablecoin  —  Investors have pulled more than $6bn … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches ChatGPT API for businesses, with dedicated capacity plans and priced at $0.0002/~750 words, and says Snap and Shopify are among early adopters  —  To call ChatGPT, the free text-generating AI developed by San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, a hit is a massive understatement. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: How Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo became a key part of the US’ stricter China policy, including helping with the CHIPS Act, exports, and TikTok  —  Gina Raimondo is the first to admit that she often can’t see the line between work and play—or even work and pray. Lees verder op Tech Meme