Tech Meme

Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: Sources: Meta is preparing to release “Code Llama”, a free code-generating AI model based on Llama 2, as soon as next week  —  Meta Platforms is preparing to launch software to help developers automatically generate programming code, a challenge to proprietary software from OpenAI … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Internal doc: Spotify weighed removing white noise podcasts and redirecting users to “talk” content, which would boost the company’s annual gross profit by €35M  —  An internal document shows that white noise podcasts account for 3 million daily consumption hours on the platform Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Internal doc: Spotify weighed removing white noise podcasts and redirecting users to “talk” content, which would boost the company’s annual gross profit by €35M  —  An internal document shows that white noise podcasts account for 3 million daily consumption hours on the platform Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hayden Field / CNBC: Filing: NYC-based AI startup Elemental Cognition raised nearly $60M; AI researcher David Ferrucci, who led the team behind IBM Watson, founded Elemental in 2015  —  – David Ferrucci, who led the team that created IBM Watson, has raised nearly $60 million for his artificial intelligence startup … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: A group of crypto investors and developers loses its Coinbase-funded lawsuit arguing that the US Treasury overstepped its authority in sanctioning Tornado Cash  —  The group of developers and investors sued the Treasury Department last year.  —  A group of crypto investors and developers lost … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Internal doc: Spotify weighed removing white noise podcasts and redirecting users to “talk” content, which would boost the company’s annual gross profit by €35M  —  An internal document shows that white noise podcasts account for 3 million daily consumption hours on the platform Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Arthur launches Arthur Bench, an open-source tool for comparing the performance of LLMs, like OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo and Meta’s Llama 2, for specific use cases  —  New York City-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Arthur has announced the launch of Arthur Bench, an open-source tool … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Internal doc: Spotify weighed removing white noise podcasts and redirecting users to “talk” content, which would boost the company’s annual gross profit by €35M  —  An internal document shows that white noise podcasts account for 3 million daily consumption hours on the platform Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Internal doc: Spotify weighed removing white noise podcasts and redirecting users to “talk” content, which would boost the company’s annual gross profit by €35M  —  An internal document shows that white noise podcasts account for 3 million daily consumption hours on the platform Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sara Ashley O’Brien / Wall Street Journal: Nonprofit Garbo plans to drop its background checking tool used by Match Group’s apps on August 31, saying most tech companies “see trust and safety as good PR”  —  After a news report that sex offenders were using its dating apps, the company funded a nonprofit tool meant to protect users. Lees verder op Tech Meme