Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: Microsoft signs a 10-year deal with cloud gaming startup Boosteroid to distribute Call of Duty games if the Activision bid is approved; Boosteroid has ~4M users  —  Agreement is part of push to convince regulators that the planned $75 billion acquisition won’t harm the videogame industry Lees verder op Tech Meme

William Shaw / Bloomberg: UK bank NatWest restricts transfers to crypto exchanges to £1,000 per day and £5,000 per month, citing a rise in scams, after similar moves by Lloyds and HSBC  —  NatWest Group Plc has restricted customers’ crypto activity, becoming the latest UK bank to put limits on the volatile asset class. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Q&A with Spotify co-president and CTO Gustav Söderström on the app’s redesign and improved discovery, layoffs, monetization, rivals, podcasting, HiFi, and more  —  Gustav Söderström has worked at Spotify for a long time; his first big project was leading the launch of its mobile app back in 2009. Lees verder op Tech Meme

OpenAI: OpenAI debuts GPT-4, claiming the model “surpasses ChatGPT in its advanced reasoning capabilities”, available in ChatGPT Plus and its API, which has a waitlist  —  Following the research path from GPT, GPT-2, and GPT-3, our deep learning approach leverages more data and more computation … Lees verder op Tech Meme