Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Slack launches Slack Sales Elevate, offering deeper integration with Salesforce’s Sales Cloud for $60 per month on top of existing Slack and Salesforce fees  —  – More Slack editions coming for customer service, marketing  — New Slack CEO Lidiane Jones focuses on product updates Lees verder op Tech Meme

Charlie Fink / Forbes: Inworld, which uses AI to help developers create game characters, raised $30M led by Lightspeed at a $500M+ valuation, following a $50M Series A in August 2022  —  Inworld, which makes AI-driven non-player characters (NPCs) for games and other applications has raised approximately $30 in new funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: X now lets X Blue subscribers hide their verified checkmarks, although “the checkmark may still appear in some places” and some features “may not be available”  —  Social media company X, formerly Twitter, now lets paid users hide their verification checkmarks. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Fortune: A look at Katie Haun’s $1.5B crypto fund, launched in spring 2022 just before the crypto crash, which has now deployed ~30% of its cash to ~24 startups  —  On a sunny morning in April, Katie Haun trudged up a winding path around the Stanford Dish in the hills over Palo Alto. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: Google delists its AI Test Kitchen app, which let users test AI-powered tools, on Android and iOS, moving the service to the web to receive faster updates  —  Once a miniature playground for the public to test Google’s blossoming AI-powered tools, the AI Test Kitchen app has been delisted … Lees verder op Tech Meme