Tech Meme

Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: [Thread] The New York Times and Los Angeles Times don’t plan to buy Twitter Blue for their accounts; NYT, LAT, and BuzzFeed won’t reimburse reporters for Blue  —  New: The New York Times says it is not planning to pay for Twitter verification: “We aren’t planning to pay the monthly fee for verification of our institutional Twitter accounts,” a spokesperson tells me. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Guardian: Leaked documents from Moscow-based NTC Vulkan reveal the company helps the GRU, FSB, and SVR with hacking operations, national infrastructure attacks, and more  —  Documents leaked by whistleblower angry over Ukraine war  —  Private Moscow consultancy bolstering Russian cyberwarfare Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adi Robertson / The Verge: An AI tech ethics group asks the FTC to investigate OpenAI, saying its AI text generation tool rollout has been “biased, deceptive, and a risk to public safety”  —  An artificial intelligence-focused tech ethics group has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate OpenAI … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: NYC-based DataDome, whose service protects apps, websites, and APIs from bots, raised a $42M Series C led by InfraVia Growth, taking its total funding to $82M  —  Online businesses are at risk of bad bot activity, certainly more now than they used to be.  According to a survey from Imperva … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: Q&A with Vinod Khosla on how AI could “free humanity from the need to work”, seeing the AI future early, his OpenAI investment, AI and geopolitics, and more  —  At nearly 70, Vinod Khosla is an elder statesman in Silicon Valley but he’s been on top of the most cutting-edge trends, including artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Pathmatics: the top 10 advertisers on Twitter spent just $7.6M on ads in the past two months, down 89% from the $71M spent from September to October 2022  —  In the weeks after Elon Musk acquired Twitter Inc., hundreds of advertisers paused spending on the platform, wary of the changes … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Seattle-based Fixie, a cloud service for helping developers integrate any LLM into their applications, raised a $17M seed led by Redpoint Ventures  —  The news: Fixie, a new Seattle-based startup aiming to help companies fuse large language models into their software stack, raised a $17 million seed round. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anton Shilov / AnandTech: Synopsys says it is launching the first full-stack AI-powered EDA suite covering all stages of chip design, including architecture, design, and manufacturing  —  Synopsys has introduced the industry’s first full-stack AI-powered suite of electronic design automation tools that covers all stages … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alyssa Meyers / Marketing Brew: Audible is “conducting limited testing” of ads in audiobooks with non-members getting “ad-supported access to a limited set of Audible titles”  —  Audible confirmed it’s currently testing audiobook ads, and Spotify seems to be eyeing the possibility. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Futurism: BuzzFeed quietly started publishing fully AI-generated SEO-driven travel posts by non-editorial staff on March 14; a spokesperson calls the posts an experiment  —  Earlier this year, when BuzzFeed announced plans to start publishing AI-assisted content, its CEO Jonah Peretti promised the tech would be held to a high standard. Lees verder op Tech Meme