Financial Times:
In tests run by executives in advertising, animation, and real estate, OpenAI’s Sora generated people with more realistic facial features than Runway or Pika — The FT asked workers in animation, advertising and real estate to test rival AI systems that create short clips
Taiwan’s KYEC, one of the largest chip testing and packaging services firms, divests its entire stake in a Suzhou, China-based subsidiary citing US restrictions (Kelly Le/South China Morning Post)
Kelly Le / South China Morning Post:
Taiwan’s KYEC, one of the largest chip testing and packaging services firms, divests its entire stake in a Suzhou, China-based subsidiary citing US restrictions — – King Yuan Electronics Co, one of the world’s largest chip testing and packaging services firms, has divested its entire stake in a Suzhou subsidiary
Google Phone app beta rolls out “Audio Emoji”, letting callers select an emoji to play animated sound effects: clapping, laughing, party, crying, poop, sting (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Google Phone app beta rolls out “Audio Emoji”, letting callers select an emoji to play animated sound effects: clapping, laughing, party, crying, poop, sting — The Google Phone app is picking up a new trick, with the app now rolling out “Audio Emoji” to some users.
Filing: API Holdings, the parent firm of Indian online pharmacy PharmEasy, raises $216M at a $710M valuation, down ~90% from its peak valuation of $5.6B in 2021 (Entrackr)
Entrackr:
Filing: API Holdings, the parent firm of Indian online pharmacy PharmEasy, raises $216M at a $710M valuation, down ~90% from its peak valuation of $5.6B in 2021 — API Holdings, the parent company of online drug dispenser PharmEasy, has raised Rs 1,804 crore ($216 million) …
A look at gpt2-chatbot, a mysterious AI chatbot which became available on LLM benchmarking site LMSYS Org and is believed to have similar capabilities as GPT-4 (Maxwell Zeff/Gizmodo)
Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo:
A look at gpt2-chatbot, a mysterious AI chatbot which became available on LLM benchmarking site LMSYS Org and is believed to have similar capabilities as GPT-4 — An advanced AI model with unknown origins turned heads this week as online communities unpacked a cryptic tweet from Sam Altman.
Esther Crawford joins Meta’s Messenger team as director of product; Crawford was Twitter’s director of product management before being laid off in February 2023 (Kwan Wei Kevin Tan/Business Insider)
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan / Business Insider:
Esther Crawford joins Meta’s Messenger team as director of product; Crawford was Twitter’s director of product management before being laid off in February 2023 — – The former Twitter director Esther Crawford says she has joined Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta. — Crawford was one of Elon …
Elisity, which is developing AI tools for companies to anticipate and pre-empt cyber threats, raised a $37M Series B from Insight Partners and others (FinSMEs)
FinSMEs:
Elisity, which is developing AI tools for companies to anticipate and pre-empt cyber threats, raised a $37M Series B from Insight Partners and others — Elisity, a San Jose, CA-based company which specializes in identity-based microsegmentation, raised $37M in Series B funding.
The House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry accuses Gary Gensler of misleading Congress on the SEC’s position on whether ETH is a security (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk:
The House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry accuses Gary Gensler of misleading Congress on the SEC’s position on whether ETH is a security — The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee says Gensler refused to discuss his view on ETH in testimony even after the SEC was investigating it as a security.
Over 50 ex-Google employees, fired in connection with a sit-in protest against Google’s business ties to Israel, file an NLRB complaint for unlawful retaliation (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)
Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
Over 50 ex-Google employees, fired in connection with a sit-in protest against Google’s business ties to Israel, file an NLRB complaint for unlawful retaliation — A software engineer who was fired from Google in connection to internal protests at the company’s offices says the company retaliated …
Twitch rolls out its TikTok-like discovery feed, launching as a tab within the Twitch iOS and Android apps showing live streams and clips (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Twitch rolls out its TikTok-like discovery feed, launching as a tab within the Twitch iOS and Android apps showing live streams and clips — Twitch is officially rolling out its new TikTok-like discovery feed to all users this week, the company announced on Tuesday.
