Aggi Cantrill / Bloomberg: Alibaba pushes back on reports of layoffs, saying the company plans to hire 15K workers in 2023, including 3,000 new graduates, across its six major divisions  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. said it plans to hire 15,000 people this year, pushing back on reports that the Chinese tech firm is laying off employees. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube plans to shut down Stories on June 26, 2023, as the company focuses on other key areas, like Shorts, Community posts, live videos, and its usual content  —  Stories are over — at least on YouTube, that is.  The Google-owned video site announced today that YouTube Stories will be shutting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google starts rolling out its LLM-powered Search Generative Experience, with features like a conversational mode and shopping aspects, to Search Labs members  —  Announced at I/O 2023, Google is now rolling out the AI/LLM-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) to users that signed up for the Search Labs program. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Twitter launches API Pro, a $5,000/month tier offering access to full archive search endpoints and the ability to fetch 1M tweets and post 300K tweets monthly  —  Twitter announced a new API tier today called Twitter API Pro for startups that costs $5,000 per month. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Twitch raises the price of Turbo, its ad-free subscription that offers extra emoticons, chat badges, and more; the US price jumps from $8.99 to $11.99 per month  —  Twitch is raising the monthly price of Twitch Turbo, its monthly subscription that lets you pay to remove most ads … Lees verder op Tech Meme