Tech Meme

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: A study monitoring product review queries on Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo for a year suggests that search engines are losing the cat-and-mouse game of SEO spam  —  “The majority of high-ranking product reviews in the result pages of commercial search engines use affiliate marketing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple revises its US App Store rules to let devs link to outside payment methods, but will charge a commission of 27%, or 12% for small business program devs  —  In light of the US Supreme Court denying to hear Apple’s appeal in its legal battle with Epic Games, Apple has announced a handful … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: FCC filings seem to indicate Apple Vision Pro will not support Ultra Wideband, Wi-Fi 6E, or Wi-Fi 7  —  If you were hoping for Ultra Wideband and Wi-Fi 6E or 7 chips in Apple Vision Pro, well, those are very specific expectations.  Also, Apple Vision Pro appears to lack those chips, based on the official FCC filing from today. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Victor / The Information: Source: Google has increasingly awarded large grants of restricted stock worth up to millions of dollars to select DeepMind researchers to rival OpenAI’s offers  —  Even as Google makes a major round of staff cuts, it is tapping a special pool of stock compensation to retain … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Thomas Black / Bloomberg: Quantinuum raised $300M, led by JPMorgan, at a ~$5B valuation; Honeywell, which spun out the quantum computing startup in 2021, remains the majority owner  —  – Mitsui, Amgen also part of Quantinuum’s $300 million round  — Honeywell remains majority owner of quantum computer maker Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Tokyo-based Sakana AI, which is building smaller AI models, raised a $30M seed led by Lux Capital, a source says at a ~$200M valuation  —  Lux Capital, Jeff Dean and others are backing the young startup.  —  Sakana AI, an artificial intelligence startup taking inspiration from the ways animals … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe adds AI audio editing tools in beta to Premiere Pro, including labeling clips as dialogue, music, and more, and plans to roll out a dialogue clean-up tool  —  Adobe is introducing new AI-powered audio editing features to Premiere Pro that aim to remove some of the tedious legwork required … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jake Evans / ABC: Australia unveils a plan to mandate safeguards around the use of higher-risk AI, such as self-driving technology, potentially requiring auditing and labeling  —  abc.net.au/news/government-response- to-ai-safety-sets-up-risk-based- approach/103324906  —  The federal government has introduced … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: Sources: African neobank Kuda raised $20M in 2023 at a $500M valuation, same as its 2021 valuation; it has 7M retail and business users, short of projections  —  Earlier this month, Kuda co-founder and CEO Babs Ogundeyi told users that the Nigerian online challenger bank had reached almost &#8358 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Researchers studying Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo search results for a year: search is losing the cat and mouse game of SEO spam, likely helped by generative AI  —  “The majority of high-ranking product reviews in the result pages of commercial search engines use affiliate marketing … Lees verder op Tech Meme