Glenn Peoples / Billboard: London-based ticketing company Dice raised $65M from MUSIC and others to expand in Europe and the US; the app will serve 55K+ artists and 10K+ venues in 2023  —  Kobalt Music founder Willard Ahdritz’s Ahdritz Holding LLC, Exor Ventures and Mirabaud Lifestyle Fund also participated in the funding round. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elad Gil / Elad Blog: LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models represent an entirely new era for AI and discontinuity from the past capabilities of the CNN/RNN/GAN world  —  Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past “AI”, it is worth thinking of this as an entirely new era and discontinuity from the past Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI adds fine-tuning to GPT-3.5 Turbo, letting developers customize models with their own data to make them perform better for their use cases for a fee  —  OpenAI customers can now bring custom data to the lightweight version of GPT-3.5, GPT-3.5 Turbo — making it easier to improve … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elizabeth Napolitano / CoinDesk: A US judge sentences ex-OpenSea product head Nate Chastain to three months in prison for making ~$50K via insider trades, in the first NFT insider trading case  —  Chastain was found guilty on charges of buying and selling NFTs from collections he knew would later be featured on his former company’s home page. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: Binance.US partners with MoonPay to let users use debit or credit cards and Apple Pay or Google Pay to buy Tether, which can then be used to buy other tokens  —  – Payment partnership allows users to convert dollars to Tether  — Exchange has been unable to process users’ dollars directly Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Snap names former Google Pay exec Pulkit Trivedi as its new India head and grants greater autonomy to local leadership in a market where the app has 200M+ MAUs  —  Snap has restructured its reporting system in India and named Pulkit Trivedi as the new country head, underscoring … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: AirPods Max can malfunction or suddenly stop working because of users’ sweat or condensation inside of earcups, an issue Apple has not publicly acknowledged  —  Apple’s lawyers argued that an angry customer “omits details” about a so-called “walk” where condensation built up in his AirPods Max … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Snap names former Google Pay executive Pulkit Trivedi as the new India head and grants greater autonomy to local leadership in a market where it has 200M+ MAUs  —  Snap has restructured its reporting system in India and named Pulkit Trivedi as the new country head, underscoring … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: LinkedIn is benefiting from recent social media upheavals with a jump in sharing, leveraging its position as a place where old-school self-promotion still works  —  The professional network is benefiting from upheavals elsewhere in the social media landscape.  —  The biggest social media platforms all have their niches. Lees verder op Tech Meme