Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Germany’s Wingcopter, a drone delivery startup specializing in medical supplies, raised €40M from the European Investment Bank, taking its total raised to €100M  —  Wingcopter, a startup out of Germany that has made a name for itself in the world of delivery drones used primarily … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Germany’s Wingcopter, a drone delivery startup specializing in medical supplies, raised €40M from the European Investment Bank, taking its total raised to €100M  —  Wingcopter, a startup out of Germany that has made a name for itself in the world of delivery drones used primarily … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: NBCUniversal’s head of advertising Linda Yaccarino is in talks to become the new CEO of Twitter  —  Twitter owner Elon Musk said earlier he had picked a new chief executive, without naming the person  —  NBCUniversal’s head of advertising Linda Yaccarino is in talks to become … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Dinsdale / IGN: Riot Games names its global president A. Dylan Jadeja as the company’s new CEO starting later in 2023, succeeding Nicolo Laurent, who will stay on as an advisor  —  Succeeding Nicolo Laurent.  —  IGN can reveal that Riot Games global president A. Dylan Jadeja will succeed Nicolo Laurent as the company’s CEO later this year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Anthropic expands Claude’s context window from 9K to 100K tokens, or ~75K words it can digest and analyze; OpenAI’s GPT-4 has a context window of ~32K tokens  —  Historically and even today, poor memory has been an impediment to the usefulness of text-generating AI. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Meta announces AI Sandbox, with generative AI tools to help select advertisers create text variations, background images from text, and cropped images  —  Meta today announced an AI Sandbox for advertisers to help them create alternative copies, background generation through text prompts … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elon Musk / @elonmusk: Elon Musk says he hired a CEO for X/Twitter and “she will be starting in ~6 weeks”; Musk will become “exec chair & CTO” overseeing “product, software, & sysops”  —  Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in ~6 weeks! My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops. https://twitter.com/… Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: Lyft discontinues pooled rides as “they take people out of their way”, one of many product changes CEO David Risher has made since taking over in April 2023  —  Lyft Inc. is officially discontinuing shared rides, the latest change the ride-hailing company’s new chief executive officer … Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Cirrone / Blockworks: Coinbase apologizes for its newsletter calling Pepe the Frog a “hate symbol”, saying its overview “did not provide the whole picture of the history of the meme”  —  Coinbase has come out with an apology for its recent newsletter suggesting Pepe the Frog was a “hate symbol.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Akash Sriram / Reuters: Crosspoint Capital Partners plans to acquire Canadian cybersecurity company Absolute Software for $657M, or a 34% premium to the US-listed stock’s last close  —  Canada’s Absolute Software (ABST.TO) said on Thursday it had agreed to be taken private by Crosspoint Capital Partners for $657 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme