Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Microsoft opens the Microsoft 365 Copilot Early Access Program to 600 global customers, up from the initial 20, and adds new features, like a Semantic Index  —  Microsoft is expanding preview access to its Microsoft 365 Copilot, a digital assistant based on OpenAI’s GPT-4 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Damilare Dosunmu / Rest of World: African B2B e-commerce startups are scaling back operations and laying off staff; 28 of them raised $470M+ since 2008, of which 90% came between 2021 and 2022  —  Amid the global funding crunch, B2B startups are scaling back operations and laying off employees.  —  • LAGOS, NIGERIA Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: IBM announces watsonx, a suite of AI services that includes watsonx.ai, an “enterprise studio for AI builders”, watsonx.data, and watsonx.governance  —  IBM, like pretty much every tech giant these days, is betting big on AI.  —  At its annual Think conference … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: Wendy’s partners with Google to automate its drive-through using an AI chatbot, rolling out in June to an Ohio restaurant; the bot has been programmed to upsell  —  The fast-food chain has customized a language model with terms like ‘JBC’ for junior bacon cheeseburger and ‘biggie bags’ for meal combos Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adi Robertson / The Verge: How Something Awful plans to archive the source images of millions of Imgur links by May 15, after Imgur announced it would delete nudity, porn, and old content  —  A long-running web community enlisted its goons to stop an Imgur extinction event.  —  It’s easy to forget how fragile … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Low De Wei / Bloomberg: Chinese authorities arrest a man for using ChatGPT to write and spread fake news articles, one of the first known instances, with one article having 15K+ views  —  Chinese authorities have detained a man for using ChatGPT to write fake news articles, in what appears to be one of the first instances … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Canalys: Global tablet shipments fell 18% YoY to 31.7M in Q1 2023, the lowest shipment volume since Q1 2020; Apple had 12.35M shipments, down 17% YoY, for a 38.9% share  —  According to the latest Canalys data, global tablet shipments fell 18% year on year in the first quarter of 2023 to 31.7 million units. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Diana Li / Bloomberg: After GPTZero gained 1.2M users since January, co-founder Edward Tian raised $3.5M to launch Origin, aimed at “saving journalism” by detecting AI disinformation  —  Journalists, screenwriters and college professors are among widening groups of people who are concerned … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment will run a global task force to tackle online sports piracy, working with Interpol, Europol, DAZN, beIN, and more  —  Group will work with Interpol and Europol to crack down on illegal streaming of sporting events Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Nintendo expects to sell 15M Nintendo Switch consoles this fiscal year, below analyst estimates of 15.7M; the company sold 18M units in the year to March 2023  —  Nintendo Co. expects to sell 15 million units of its Switch console this fiscal year, showing the extent of the slowdown for its six-year-old flagship product. Lees verder op Tech Meme