Tech Meme

Steve Dent / Engadget: Meta adds “world chat” to Horizon Worlds, offering a text-based way of communicating with anyone in the same world session, and promises strict moderation  —  Meta will automatically scan and remove messages that go against its code of conduct.  —  After introducing mini-games … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tiyashi Datta / Reuters: Accenture plans to invest $3B over three years into its data and AI practice, aiming to have 80,000 staff working on AI, after laying off ~19,000 in March 2023  —  Accenture said on Tuesday it will invest $3 billion over three years into its data and AI practice, doubling the number of employees … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Austin-based Striveworks, which builds MLOps tools for training AI models and cleaning data, raised $33M from Centana Growth Partners, its first outside funding  —  MLOps, or DevOps for those working with machine learning models, has seen a boom of interest in the last year … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: PitchBook: the UK and Ireland accounted for <28% of VC deals in Europe and Israel in Q1 2023, down from 34%+ in 2018, as deals in France and the Nordics rose  —  This year did not begin well for technology in the UK.  Venture financing evaporated.  Companies cut staff and tightened belts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tiyashi Datta / Reuters: Accenture plans to invest $1B over three years in its data and AI practice, aiming for 80,000 staff working on AI, after laying off 19,000 in March  —  Accenture said on Tuesday it will invest $3 billion over three years into its data and AI practice, doubling the number of employees … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: AMD announces the Ryzen Pro 7000 for desktop and Ryzen Pro 7040 HS and 7040 U for mobile, adding an integrated Ryzen AI block on select models and Zen 4 cores  —  As is a constant whenever AMD launches their latest desktop and mobile processors, they typically deploy and release a professional … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI’s unusual deal created internal conflict, including over transparency, sales pitches, and Microsoft’s spending on in-house AI  —  As the companies lead the AI boom, their unconventional arrangement sometimes causes conflict  —  Microsoft and OpenAI’s partnership … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: Uniswap Labs details Uniswap v4, the next version of the decentralized exchange, and invites feedback; Uniswap v3 launched in 2021 and has processed over $1T  —  The biggest decentralized crypto exchange is opening its development process to the public for the first time as the SEC cracks down on its centralized competitors. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: YouTube lowers requirements to monetize under the Partner Program, including creators only needing 500 subscribers, down from 1,000, and fewer watch hours  —  YouTube is lowering the requirements for creators to get access to monetization tools under the YouTube Partner Program (YPP). Lees verder op Tech Meme

Casey Newton / Platformer: Reddit’s API changes stem from LLMs driving up the value of its data, a long-planned IPO, and profitable third-party clients generating no revenue for Reddit  —  As it moves to shut down third-party apps, the site’s self-governing ethos comes back to haunt it  —  I. Lees verder op Tech Meme