Emily Mason / Bloomberg: Sardine, which offers fraud-fighting AI agents for enterprises, raised a $70M Series C led by Activant Capital, valuing the company at $660M — – Investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Nyca Partners — Funding brings Sardine’s total capital raised to $145 million Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Neal Mohan says AI auto dubbing will expand to all YouTube Partner Program creators, and YouTube will use ML to estimate users’ ages for age-appropriate content — In his annual letter, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan dubbed AI one of the company’s four “big bets” for 2025. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Patrick Smith / NBC News: Shopify says Ye’s store, which began selling swastika shirts before a Super Bowl ad boosted traffic to the site, was shuttered because it violated Shopify’s ToS — Shopify said in a statement: “This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms so we removed them from Shopify.” Lees verder op Tech Meme
Liv McMahon / BBC: The US and the UK refuse to join France, China, India, and 57 other countries in signing the international agreement in Paris promoting “transparent”, “safe” AI — The UK and US have not signed an international agreement on artificial intelligence (AI) at a global summit in Paris. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jay Peters / The Verge: Google says it removed Calendar’s Pride Month, Black History Month, Indigenous People Month, and more events in mid-2024 for not being “scalable or sustainable” — Google says it switched to only showing default entries for public holidays and national observances last year. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Eric Slivka / MacRumors: Powerbeats Pro 2 debut for $250 with heart rate monitoring, H2 chip, ANC, better water resistance, a more comfortable and 20% lighter design than previous gen — Apple’s Beats brand is officially introducing the Powerbeats Pro 2 today, bringing significant updates to the wireless earphones aimed at active users. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Wall Street Journal: After the UK ordered Apple to build an encryption backdoor, Congress must enact a law prohibiting US tech companies from providing such backdoors to any country — Beijing would quickly exploit the British order to allow access to encrypted data. — The U.K. has ordered Apple to build … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: The US, the UK, and Australia sanction Russia-based bulletproof hosting provider Zservers and two Russian nationals for supplying the LockBit ransomware gang — The United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom have sanctioned Zservers, a Russia-based bulletproof hosting (BPH) … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based Voyantis, which uses AI to predict a customer’s future propensity and lifetime value for marketers, raised $41M, taking its total funding to $60M — How much is a customer worth to a company? That’s the eternal question. To arrive at an answer, customer and sales teams … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Annual letter: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says TV has overtaken mobile as the “primary device for YouTube viewing in the US”, indicating YouTube is “the new TV” — YouTube CEO Neal Mohan released his annual letter Tuesday morning, outlining his priorities for the video platform. Lees verder op Tech Meme