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.
AMD projects its MI300 lineup to generate ~$4B in revenue in 2024, up $500M from an earlier forecast, but short of expectations; AMD drops 6%+ after hours (Ian King/Bloomberg)
Ian King / Bloomberg:
AMD projects its MI300 lineup to generate ~$4B in revenue in 2024, up $500M from an earlier forecast, but short of expectations; AMD drops 6%+ after hours — – Sluggish gaming chip demand also has weighed on sales — Investors waiting for new AI processors to fuel more growth
Sam’s Club has deployed its exit tech, which uses computer vision to check members’ purchases against their receipts, at 120+ locations, or 20% of its stores (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Sam’s Club has deployed its exit tech, which uses computer vision to check members’ purchases against their receipts, at 120+ locations, or 20% of its stores — Amazon may be scaling back its AI-powered Just Walk Out checkout-free tech in its stores in favor of smart shopping carts …
