Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Roku introduces new ad products, including use of contextual AI for automatically running ads next to relevant moments in shows and movies on The Roku Channel  —  In Roku’s recent quarter, the company posted better-than-expected revenue of $741 million, but worried investors with its warning … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Europol, the FBI, and others take down the dark web Monopoly Market, arrest 288 vendors and customers, and seize €50.8M in cash and crypto and 850kg of drugs  —  An international law enforcement operation codenamed ‘SpecTor’ has arrested 288 dark web vendors and customers worldwide … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Konrad / Forbes: Inflection AI, founded by Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman, and Karén Simonyan, debuts Pi, a chatbot that’s more sounding board than “repackaged Wikipedia answer”  —  Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of the year-old startup that’s already raised $225 million and claims to run … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Sources: Eric Han, TikTok’s head of trust and safety for the US, is leaving the company on May 12; Han played a key role in TikTok’s proposal to avoid a US ban  —  TikTok’s head of trust and safety for the US, Eric Han, is leaving the company on May 12th, according to two people familiar … Lees verder op Tech Meme

George Hammond / Financial Times: Sources: Toronto-based AI startup Cohere is close to securing $250M in funding from backers including Nvidia and Salesforce, at a ~$2B post-money valuation  —  Round with potential backers including Nvidia and Salesforce will give it a valuation of about $2bn Lees verder op Tech Meme