Jonathan Greig / The Record: The US sends $25M to Costa Rica for Conti ransomware recovery and gave $25M last month to help Albania recover from a ransomware attack allegedly caused by Iran  —  The U.S. government is sending $25 million to the government of Costa Rica to help the country recover from a devastating ransomware attack … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Microsoft says it is exploring placing ads in Bing Chat and share the ad revenue with partners whose content contributed to the chat response  —  It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for: ads are coming to Bing’s AI-powered chatbot.  Microsoft corporate vice president Yusuf Mehdi … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: Paris-based Glopal, which helps e-commerce merchants sell globally through localization, marketing, logistics, and payments services, raised a €20M Series A  —  The Series A funding round is aimed at helping the Parisian startup expand operations in both Europe and the US. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Karissa Bell / Engadget: Twitter details new API access tiers: Free with 1.5K tweets/month at app level, Basic for $100/month, and Enterprise; old APIs will stop working in 30 days  —  Twitter has finally confirmed some of the details and pricing for the new version of its API.  The company had previously delayed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Reddick / The Record: The FDA says approval for medical devices now requires meeting certain cybersecurity standards issued in the omnibus spending bill signed in December 2022  —  The Food and Drug Administration affirmed Wednesday that medical device manufacturers must now prove their products meet certain … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Olsen / MobiHealthNews: Paris-based Inato, which offers a marketplace to connect pharmaceutical companies with clinical trial sites, raised a $20M Series A2 led by Cathay Innovation  —  The startup previously raised $14 million in 2020.  —  Clinical trial startup Inato scooped up $20 million in a Series A2 funding round led by Cathay Innovation. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: Paris-based Glopal, which helps e-commerce merchants sell globally through localization, marketing, logistics, and payments services, raised a €20M Series A  —  The Series A funding round is aimed at helping the Parisian startup expand operations in both Europe and the US. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: The Metaverse Is Quickly Turning Into the Meh-taverse  —  Disney and Microsoft both closed projects tied to the digital realm this month  —  Watch: What’s the Future of the Metaverse?  Tech Leaders Weigh In … The metaverse that was the hot thing in tech less than two years ago has cooled. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: Paris-based Glopal, which helps e-commerce merchants sell globally through localization, marketing, logistics, and payments services, raised a €20M Series A  —  The Series A funding round is aimed at helping the Parisian startup expand operations in both Europe and the US. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Victor / The Information: Sources: Google Brain and DeepMind have been forced to work together on a project known as Gemini to compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4, after Bard’s stumble  —  OpenAI’s success in overtaking Google with an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot has achieved what seemed impossible in the past … Lees verder op Tech Meme