Tech Meme

Emilia David / The Verge: Meta releases AudioCraft, an open-source AI tool that lets users create music and sounds via text prompts, consisting of MusicGen, AudioGen, and EnCodec models  —  It consists of three AI models, all tackling different areas of sound generation.  MusicGen takes text inputs to generate music. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Ross / New Yorker: Apple failed to save classical music with iTunes and fails again with Apple Music Classical, an oddly clumsy point of entry that falls short of its competitors  —  As classical listeners shift to streaming, Apple’s bespoke app falls short of its smaller-scale competitors. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amy Lewin / Sifted: Hopin, the struggling virtual events startup valued at $7.75B in August 2021, sells its Events and Session units to RingCentral; CEO Johnny Boufarhat steps down  —  UPDATED: The startup, which was once the fastest-growing in Europe, has also sold its flagship product Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Senegal blocks TikTok amid protests over arrest of its opposition leader, after restricting access to internet services on July 31  —  Senegalese authorities on Wednesday blocked access to social media app TikTok, widening a clampdown on dissent days after they dissolved the country’s main opposition party … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Hopin, the struggling virtual conference unicorn, sells events and engagement units to RingCentral  —  Hopin, the virtual events startup that saw its star (and valuation) rise quickly during the Covid-19 pandemic, is most definitely coming down to earth.  Today the company announced … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jen Christensen / CNN: An early-stage study of 80K+ women in Sweden who underwent a mammogram between April 2021 and July 2022 finds AI-supported screening detected 20% more cancers  —  Artificial intelligence found more breast cancers than doctors with years of training and experience and cut doctors’ mammogram … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Slack launches Slack Sales Elevate, offering deeper integration with Salesforce’s Sales Cloud for $60 per user per month on top of Slack’s and Salesforce’s fees  —  – More Slack editions coming for customer service, marketing  — New Slack CEO Lidiane Jones focuses on product updates Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: Google delists its AI Test Kitchen app, which let users try out its AI-powered tools, on Android and iOS, moving the service to the web to push updates faster  —  Once a miniature playground for the public to test Google’s blossoming AI-powered tools, the AI Test Kitchen app has been delisted … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Fortune: A look at Katie Haun’s $1.5B crypto fund, launched in spring 2022 just before the latest crypto crash, which as of June 2023 had deployed ~30% to ~24 startups  —  On a sunny morning in April, Katie Haun trudged up a winding path around the Stanford Dish in the hills over Palo Alto. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: Sources: US DOJ officials are considering fraud charges against Binance, but worry that an indictment could cause a run on Binance like the one that befell FTX  —  U.S. Department of Justice officials are considering fraud charges against crypto exchange Binance, but are concerned about the cost … Lees verder op Tech Meme