The Verge: Sony has sold over 40M PS5s since its launch in November 2020, up from 10M in July 2021, despite the “unprecedented challenges of COVID” and supply chain issues  —  / Despite supply chain issues and the problems caused by the pandemic, Sony says the PS5 supply is now ‘well-stocked.’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Adobe adds Firefly-based Generative Expand, which “expands images beyond their original bounds”, to the Photoshop beta and support for prompts in 100 languages  —  Adobe is building on Firefly, its family of generative AI models, with a feature in Photoshop that … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cade Metz / New York Times: Researchers: the guardrails on ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude can be bypassed by adding a long suffix of characters to prompts, generating false and toxic responses  —  A new report indicates that the guardrails for widely used chatbots can be thwarted, leading to an increasingly unpredictable environment for the technology. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources in Hollywood and Silicon Valley discuss AI’s impact: creatives view AI as an existential threat, studios see a cost saver, and both sides need a deal  —  Adam Conover started to worry a few months ago that a computer could take his job.  A comedian in Los Angeles … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rita Liao / TechCrunch: Eco, an a16z-backed payments startup that has raised $95M, announces decentralized, non-custodial payments wallet Beam, aiming to function like a “global Venmo”  —  The crypto payments space is seeing a surge of activity these days as developers strive to make decentralized finance as user-friendly as web2 experiences. Lees verder op Tech Meme