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Meta launches a WhatsApp app for Wear OS 3 smartwatches, letting users start chats, reply to messages, and take calls without having their connected phone (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) 19-07-2023

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Meta launches a WhatsApp app for Wear OS 3 smartwatches, letting users start chats, reply to messages, and take calls without having their connected phone  —  WhatsApp has finally launched its standalone app for smartwatches running Google’s Wear OS, after much anticipation and months-long beta testing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The UK CMA provisionally clears Broadcom's $61B VMware acquisition, after finding that the deal “would not harm competition”; the deal still needs US approval (Katharine Gemmell/Bloomberg) 19-07-2023

Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: The UK CMA provisionally clears Broadcom’s $61B VMware acquisition, after finding that the deal “would not harm competition”; the deal still needs US approval  —  – CMA looks to clear technology deal after an in-depth review  — The decision follows a green light from its EU counterpart Lees verder op Tech Meme

The DOJ and the FTC release draft updates to US merger guidelines, introducing potentially comprehensive changes to reviews for the first time in over a decade (Brian Fung/CNN) 19-07-2023

Brian Fung / CNN: The DOJ and the FTC release draft updates to US merger guidelines, introducing potentially comprehensive changes to reviews for the first time in over a decade  —  The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday released a set of long-anticipated draft updates … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Massachusetts-based Preply, a language learning marketplace with an AI assistant for tutors, raised $70M led by Horizon Capital, bringing its Series C to $120M (TechCrunch) 19-07-2023

TechCrunch: Massachusetts-based Preply, a language learning marketplace with an AI assistant for tutors, raised $70M led by Horizon Capital, bringing its Series C to $120M  —  Language learning platform Preply made a name for itself for connecting students with a selection of some 35,000 tutors and group classes across some 50 languages. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Seattle-based RISC Zero, which is developing Bonsai, a platform to help developers build zero-proof software, raised a $40M Series A led by Blockchain Capital (Brandy Betz/CoinDesk) 19-07-2023

Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: Seattle-based RISC Zero, which is developing Bonsai, a platform to help developers build zero-proof software, raised a $40M Series A led by Blockchain Capital  —  The startup creates developer tooling that helps build zero-proof software for improved security and computational power. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Unstructured.io, which offers a service to extract and stage enterprise data in a way that LLMs can understand, raised $25M across a Series A and seed (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) 19-07-2023

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Unstructured.io, which offers a service to extract and stage enterprise data in a way that LLMs can understand, raised $25M across a Series A and seed  —  Large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 are the building blocks for an increasing number of AI applications. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Apple built a framework called Ajax to build LLMs, created a chatbot app that some engineers call “Apple GPT”, and aims for a consumer product in 2024 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) 19-07-2023

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple built a framework called Ajax to build LLMs, created a chatbot app that some engineers call “Apple GPT”, and aims for a consumer product in 2024  —  – Company builds large language models and internal chatbot  — Executives haven’t decided how to release tools to consumers Lees verder op Tech Meme