Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The EU blocks Booking Holdings’ €1.63B Etraveli acquisition, saying Booking failed to allay concerns that the deal expands its dominance in the hotel OTA market  —  Booking Holdings’ (BKNG.O) proposed 1.63-billion-euro ($1.7 billion) purchase of Swedish peer ETraveli Group was blocked … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Reddit launches a Contributor Program that pays verified users monthly based on the karma earned and the gold received for “eligible contributions” on the site  —  Reddit is going to let users spin Reddit gold into real money as part of its new “Contributor Program,” the company announced on Monday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Amazon plans to invest $1.25B in Anthropic for a minority stake, with an option to increase the total to $4B; Anthropic plans to use AWS and Amazon’s AI chips  —  Amazon Web Services lures Claude chatbot maker, which was valued at nearly $5bn earlier this year Lees verder op Tech Meme

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The EU blocks Booking Holdings’ €1.63B Etraveli acquisition, saying Booking failed to allay concerns that the deal expands its dominance in the hotel OTA market  —  Booking Holdings’ (BKNG.O) proposed 1.63-billion-euro ($1.7 billion) purchase of Swedish peer ETraveli Group was blocked … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: OpenAI updates ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Enterprise to let users prompt the tool using voice commands or by uploading an image, coming to all users “soon after”  —  Most of OpenAI’s changes to ChatGPT involve what the AI-powered bot can do: questions it can answer, information it can access, improved underlying models. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amrita Khalid / The Verge: Spotify partners with OpenAI to debut an AI translation feature that reproduces podcasts in other languages using a synthesized version of the podcaster’s voice  —  What if podcasters could flip a switch and instantly speak another language?  That’s the premise behind Spotify’s … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI updates ChatGPT for iOS and Android to let the chatbot speak in five different voices in a conversational tone, rolling out to Plus and Enterprise users  —  Plus, you can now upload photos, and the chatbot can interpret them  —  You’ll have two reactions to hearing my conversation with the now-vocal ChatGPT: Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Tinder rolls out Tinder Select, a $500/month tier with perks like a SELECT profile badge and the ability to DM others up to twice a week without matching first  —  Tinder has rolled out its promised high-end membership, a pricey $499 per month subscription dubbed “Tinder Select,” … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Reddit announces a Contributor Program for verified users to get monthly payments based on the gold and karma earned for “eligible contributions” on the site  —  Reddit is going to let users spin Reddit gold into real money as part of its new “Contributor Program,” the company announced on Monday. Lees verder op Tech Meme