CNBC: Tencent is launching its Hunyuan AI model for business use on August 7 and integrating the model with its existing video conferencing and social media products  —  – Chinese tech giant Tencent is launching its artificial intelligence model “Hunyuan” for business use at an annual summit on Thursday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Caitlin Harrington / Wired: The CWA files charges with the US NLRB against Grindr, alleging the company laid off 82 workers, or 46% of its staff, for rejecting a return-to-office mandate  —  Two weeks after staff at queer dating app Grindr unionized, bosses ordered employees back to the office. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meir Orbach / CTech: Tel Aviv-based Ibex Medical Analytics, which uses AI for cancer diagnostics, raised a $55M Series C led by 83North, bringing its total funding to $100M+  —  The Israeli startup’s platform provides health systems and diagnostic laboratories with an integrated solution for cancer diagnosis … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: YouTube is dropping some YouTube Studio ad controls, limiting creators’ control over pre-roll, post-roll, skippable, and non-skippable ads starting in November  —  YouTube is making some notable changes to the ad controls available to creators.  Beginning in November, YouTube … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Slack announces Slack AI, which can generate channel highlights, thread summaries, and search answers based on messages, with a pilot starting “this winter”  —  Salesforce will pilot the generative AI capabilities it developed for Slack later this year. Lees verder op Tech Meme