Alex Ross / New Yorker: Apple failed to save classical music with iTunes and fails again with Apple Music Classical, an oddly clumsy point of entry that falls short of its competitors  —  As classical listeners shift to streaming, Apple’s bespoke app falls short of its smaller-scale competitors. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emilia David / The Verge: Meta releases AudioCraft, an open-source AI tool that lets users create music and sounds via text prompts, consisting of MusicGen, AudioGen, and EnCodec models  —  It consists of three AI models, all tackling different areas of sound generation.  MusicGen takes text inputs to generate music. Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: Google updates its generative AI-powered Search experience with supplementary multimedia, faster responses, and more context for links in its summary box  —  Google’s AI-powered Search Generative Experience is getting a big new feature: images and video.  If you’ve enabled the AI-based SGE feature … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Charlotte Hughes-Morgan / Bloomberg: Uber paid £386M, or $490M, to UK tax authorities as part of a dispute over how its ride hailing app applies VAT to UK trips, but plans to appeal the decision  —  – HMRC is challenging Uber’s use of Tour Operators Margin Scheme  — Uber said it will appeal the VAT assessment in UK Court Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jen Christensen / CNN: An early-stage study of 80K+ women in Sweden who underwent a mammogram between April 2021 and July 2022 finds AI-supported screening detected 20% more cancers  —  Artificial intelligence found more breast cancers than doctors with years of training and experience and cut doctors’ mammogram … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Hopin, the struggling virtual conference unicorn, sells events and engagement units to RingCentral  —  Hopin, the virtual events startup that saw its star (and valuation) rise quickly during the Covid-19 pandemic, is most definitely coming down to earth.  Today the company announced … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Senegal blocks TikTok amid protests over arrest of its opposition leader, after restricting access to internet services on July 31  —  Senegalese authorities on Wednesday blocked access to social media app TikTok, widening a clampdown on dissent days after they dissolved the country’s main opposition party … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amy Lewin / Sifted: Hopin, the struggling virtual events startup valued at $7.75B in August 2021, sells its Events and Session units to RingCentral; CEO Johnny Boufarhat steps down  —  UPDATED: The startup, which was once the fastest-growing in Europe, has also sold its flagship product Lees verder op Tech Meme