Tech Meme

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: 8fig, which plans to offer an AI-powered “C-suite” for e-commerce companies, starting with an AI CFO, raised a $40M Series B and $100M in a credit facility  —  E-commerce businesses don’t often build big companies: they might be big in revenue, but remain lean in headcount. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: Finnish wearable maker Oura acquires Proxy, which makes digital identification tools, in an all-equity deal; PitchBook says Proxy was valued at $292M in 2020  —  Finnish wearable-technology maker Oura Health Oy is acquiring a little-known tech startup, Proxy Inc., which makes digital identification tools … 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

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple announces Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad, available as subscriptions on May 23; Final Cut requires an M1 chip or newer and Logic needs A12 or newer  —  Mic drop moment for pro apps team at Apple this morning.  Apple just announced that Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro are officially and finally coming to iPad. Lees verder op 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

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