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Sources: Musk plans a new startup to rival OpenAI, is talking to Tesla and SpaceX investors, may use Twitter for training data and Tesla for computing resources (Financial Times)

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Financial Times: Sources: Musk plans a new startup to rival OpenAI, is talking to Tesla and SpaceX investors, may use Twitter for training data and Tesla for computing resources  —  Billionaire seeks to hire engineers, attract investors and acquire chips needed to build large language model from Techmeme https://ift.tt/x7M1AqB

Twitter Blue vs Meta Verified and other TC news

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Blue checkmarks on Twitter and Instagram are used by public figures and media outlets to say, “you can trust I am who I say I am and you can trust me.” But now both Twitter and Meta have changed the rules around how to get verified, and in the process have stripped some of the […]

VC funding for cybersecurity startups fell to $2.7B in Q1 2023, down 58% from $6.5B in Q1 2022; the number of announced deals dropped 45% YoY to 149 (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News)

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Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: VC funding for cybersecurity startups fell to $2.7B in Q1 2023, down 58% from $6.5B in Q1 2022; the number of announced deals dropped 45% YoY to 149  —  Although venture funding struggled mightily in the first quarter, funding to cybersecurity startups specifically remained relatively … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/QpVEuAi

CEO of Orbex, a UK small launch developer, is stepping down

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U.K.-based small launch developer Orbex is undergoing a change in leadership. The company’s co-founder and (now former) CEO Chris Larmour said on LinkedIn that he will no longer be leading the startup as it races to its first launch sometime this year. His LinkedIn post suggests that the departure was mutual: “I feel I have […]

Tanzania: Tcra in New Drive to Promote Courier Services

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[Daily News] THE Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) has launched a campaign to raise public awareness on the effectiveness and safety of licenced postal and courier services and their contribution to the country’s social and economic development in the country. from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom https://ift.tt/5UuXwAO

Instagram adds creator-focused updates to Reels, including a dedicated trends section, expansion of gifts to more countries, and enhanced editing tools (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Instagram adds creator-focused updates to Reels, including a dedicated trends section, expansion of gifts to more countries, and enhanced editing tools  —  As governments around the world express growing concerns about TikTok, its rival Instagram Reels is getting a series of new updates aimed at creators. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/zVZ0Tjt

TechCrunch+ roundup: VC robotics survey, Visa Bulletin update, SaaS engagement metrics

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A robotic taxi drove me home a few nights ago, and it was just fine. As it carried me through Golden Gate Park at a steady 23 miles per hour (slowing down to 6 mph for every speed bump), I felt like a packet of information being delivered across a network. Since our last robotics […]

Instagram Reels adds a series of creator-focused updates, including a dedicated ‘trends’ section

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As governments around the world express growing concerns about TikTok, its rival Instagram Reels is getting a series of new updates aimed at creators. Meta announced today that it’s adding a dedicated destination for trending audio and hashtags on Reels, expanding gifts on Reels to more countries, enhancing Reels editing tools, adding new metrics and […]

Tesla price cuts come for Europe

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It’s EV price reduction deja vu — at least for Tesla vehicles. The automaker, which lowered prices last week in the United States, has made another reduction, this time in markets throughout Europe and Israel. The reductions, which were as high at 9.8%, were made across the company’s vehicle portfolio, including the Model 3, Model […]

Creative platform EVEN raises $2.3M seed round to help artists sell directly to fans

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Creative platform EVEN, which allows artists to sell music directly to fans, said it has closed a $2.2 million seed round led by CSA partners. The platform positions itself as the first stop before artists release music on streaming platforms. Fans, in return, receive access to exclusive content and experiences. The company’s CEO and founder […]

Sam Altman: Size of LLMs won’t matter as much moving forward

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When OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman speaks these days, it makes sense to listen. His latest venture has been on everyone’s lips since the release of GPT-4 and ChatGPT, one of the most sophisticated large language model-based interface created to date. But Altman takes a deliberate and humble approach, and doesn’t necessarily believe that when […]

Ghana: DVLA Takes Delivery of U.S.$1.5 Million IT Equipment Accessories

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[Ghanaian Times] The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), has taken delivery of Information Technology (IT) equipment and accessories worth more than US$1.5 million to further enhance service delivery. from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom https://ift.tt/ZTEF5oe

Ghana: ‘Infinix Ghana Poised to Make Significant Impact in Mobile Phone Industry’

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[Ghanaian Times] Infinix Ghana, a smartphone company, says it remains poised to making a significant impact in the lives of young people in communities and the mobile phone industry. from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom https://ift.tt/ODbMtwe

Ghana: 2 Companies Sign Pact to Provide 100 Percent Mobile Coverage in Ghana

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[Ghanaian Times] Lynk Global, Inc. (Lynk), the world’s leading satellite-direct-to-stan from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom https://ift.tt/FSRvaKo

Spotify plans to shut down Heardle on May 5, after acquiring the Wordle-inspired music guessing game in July 2022, to focus on other music discovery objectives (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Spotify plans to shut down Heardle on May 5, after acquiring the Wordle-inspired music guessing game in July 2022, to focus on other music discovery objectives  —  Spotify is closing down Heardle, the Wordle-inspired music guessing game it acquired last July for an undisclosed sum. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/7OKinkl

4 SaaS engagement metrics that attract investors

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Oleksandr Yaroshenko Contributor Oleksandr Yaroshenko is head of investor relations at Headway, an edtech startup with operations in Ukraine, the UK, Poland, and Cyprus. Investors wish they could forecast the future and decrease the uncertainty regarding how a business will grow. Subscribers’ retention on the annual plan is directly related to the product value. However, […]

Hardware gets its turn in the spotlight at Disrupt 2023

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Let’s start with an obvious truth: hardware is hard. We’ve all heard the cliché – and implicitly understand it to be truth. The good news is such difficulties give us a lot to talk about – and as it happens, for the first time ever, hardware is getting its own stage at Disrupt 2023. The […]

Parler to be acquired by digital media company Starboard, shut down temporarily

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Parler, a platform that emerged out of the social media backlash of the Trump era, has been acquired by a new company that plans to temporarily shut it down. Digital media conglomerate Starboard, which recently changed its name from Olympic Media, announced on Friday that it has acquired Parler and plans to temporarily shut it […]

Elon Musk’s Twitter: Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

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Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech. “This is just my strong, intuitive sense that having a […]

Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t train GPT-5 for “some time” and the open letter to pause AI training missed “most technical nuance about where we need the pause” (James Vincent/The Verge)

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James Vincent / The Verge: Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t train GPT-5 for “some time” and the open letter to pause AI training missed “most technical nuance about where we need the pause”  —  In a discussion about threats posed by AI systems, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/Hhx7wvW