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Inflection AI, founded by Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman, and Karén Simonyan, debuts Pi, a chatbot that's more sounding board than “repackaged Wikipedia answer” (Alex Konrad/Forbes) 02-05-2023

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

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 (Alex Heath/The Verge) 02-05-2023

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

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 (George Hammond/Financial Times) 02-05-2023

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

AMD reports Q1 revenue down 9% YoY to $5.35B, vs. $5.3B est., a $139M net loss, Client revenue down 65% YoY to $739M, and Q2 revenue guidance below expectations (Kif Leswing/CNBC) 02-05-2023

Kif Leswing / CNBC: AMD reports Q1 revenue down 9% YoY to $5.35B, vs. $5.3B est., a $139M net loss, Client revenue down 65% YoY to $739M, and Q2 revenue guidance below expectations  —  – AMD’s report comes as the PC industry is in a deep slump, with shipments dropping 30% in the first quarter, according to IDC. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Simpplr, an internal social network for companies, raised a $70M Series D led by Sapphire Ventures and says it has 700+ customers, including Moderna and AAA (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) 02-05-2023

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Simpplr, an internal social network for companies, raised a $70M Series D led by Sapphire Ventures and says it has 700+ customers, including Moderna and AAA  —  Several years ago, entrepreneur Dhiraj Sharma’s first company, a software consultancy, was hired by an HR tech firm to develop … Lees verder op Tech Meme

US lawmakers reintroduce the Kids Online Safety Act with updates to address potential harms, but fail to appease some activists and industry groups (Lauren Feiner/CNBC) 02-05-2023

Lauren Feiner / CNBC: US lawmakers reintroduce the Kids Online Safety Act with updates to address potential harms, but fail to appease some activists and industry groups  —  – A bipartisan pair of senators reintroduced the Kids Online Safety Act on Tuesday with updates that aimed to address concerns that the bill … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Twitter says verified government or publicly owned services that tweet weather alerts, transport updates, and emergency notifications may use its API for free (Jon Fingas/Engadget) 02-05-2023

Jon Fingas / Engadget: Twitter says verified government or publicly owned services that tweet weather alerts, transport updates, and emergency notifications may use its API for free  —  Twitter’s decision to shut off its free API caused more than a few problems for public institutions that depend on the functionality … Lees verder op Tech Meme