Abraham Augustine / TechCabal: Canada-based LemFi, which offers remittances and other payment services for immigrants worldwide, raised a $33M Series A, bringing its total funding to ~$34M  —  On the back of successfully serving African migrants in Canada and the UK, LemFi has raised $33 million in Series A funding … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emilia David / The Verge: Meta releases Code Llama, a tool built on top of Llama 2 to generate new code and debug human-written work, under the same community license as Llama 2  —  Meta has released a tool called Code Llama, built on top of its Llama 2 large language model, to generate new code and debug human-written work, the company said. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: Filing: T-Mobile plans to cut ~7% of its global staff, or ~5,000 jobs, mostly in corporate and tech; AT&T has cut 74,130 jobs, or 32% of its staff, since 2021  —  T-Mobile USA Inc. is cutting 7% of its staff, part of an effort to rein in costs as the company spends heavily to attract … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Study: in May 2023, ~150K nonconsensual porn deepfakes, with 3.8B total views, appeared on 30 sites, up 9x since 2019, aided by services from big tech companies  —  To stay up and running, deepfake creators rely on products and services from Google, Apple, Amazon, CloudFlare and Microsoft Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dade Hayes / Deadline: WBD plans to launch CNN Max, a 24/7 stream pulled from CNN’s US and international feeds alongside some original content, in “open beta” on September 27 on Max  —  – Netflix Added 2.6M U.S. Subscribers In July, Continuing Advertising Momentum Amid Password-Sharing Crackdown, Study Finds Lees verder op Tech Meme