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Sources: KKR is in advanced talks to buy payroll and HR tools maker Iris Software for ~£3B, in what could be 2023's biggest buyout of a European tech company (Bloomberg) 12-12-2023

Bloomberg: Sources: KKR is in advanced talks to buy payroll and HR tools maker Iris Software for ~£3B, in what could be 2023’s biggest buyout of a European tech company  —  The investment firm has pulled ahead of other bidders and is negotiating final terms of an agreement with Iris’ private equity owner Hg, the people said. Lees verder op Tech Meme

A US GAO review of nearly two-dozen agencies' AI usage details 200+ current applications and 500+ planned uses of AI, despite little guidance or planning (CNN) 12-12-2023

CNN: A US GAO review of nearly two-dozen agencies’ AI usage details 200+ current applications and 500+ planned uses of AI, despite little guidance or planning  —  The US government plans to vastly expand its reliance on artificial intelligence, but it is years behind on policies to responsibly acquire … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Memo: The New York Times has hired Quartz co-founder Zach Seward to work with the newsroom leadership in establishing principles around the use of generative AI (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal) 12-12-2023

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: Memo: The New York Times has hired Quartz co-founder Zach Seward to work with the newsroom leadership in establishing principles around the use of generative AI  —  Quartz co-founder Zach Seward tasked with establishing principles for how the Times will and won’t use generative AI Lees verder op Tech Meme

The ESA shuts down the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, after new competitors, partner withdrawals, changing audience habits, and more; E3 began in 1995 (Gene Park/Washington Post) 12-12-2023

Gene Park / Washington Post: The ESA shuts down the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, after new competitors, partner withdrawals, changing audience habits, and more; E3 began in 1995  —  The collapse ends years of attempts to revive the event that once dominated the industry  —  The Electronic Entertainment Expo … Lees verder op Tech Meme

BeReal plans to add Behind the Scenes, an iOS Live Photo-style tool, and RealGroups, for smaller groups; Pew estimates 13% of US teens ages 13 to 17 use BeReal (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch) 12-12-2023

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: BeReal plans to add Behind the Scenes, an iOS Live Photo-style tool, and RealGroups, for smaller groups; Pew estimates 13% of US teens ages 13 to 17 use BeReal  —  The up-and-coming social app BeReal continues to vie for users’ attention with more and more bells and whistles. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Essential AI, co-founded by two co-authors of Google's Attention Is All You Need paper, raised $56.5M led by March Capital and calls its tech Enterprise Brain (Sarah McBride/Bloomberg) 12-12-2023

Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: Essential AI, co-founded by two co-authors of Google’s Attention Is All You Need paper, raised $56.5M led by March Capital and calls its tech Enterprise Brain  —  The startup was founded by two co-authors of a famous Google AI paper  —  Essential AI, an artificial intelligence startup founded … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filing: Berkshire Hathaway cut its HP stake by 47%, from 97.85M in October to 51.5M shares, or 5.2% of the company, as Dell's stock outperforms HP's in 2023 (Abhishek Vishnoi/Bloomberg) 12-12-2023

Abhishek Vishnoi / Bloomberg: Filing: Berkshire Hathaway cut its HP stake by 47%, from 97.85M in October to 51.5M shares, or 5.2% of the company, as Dell’s stock outperforms HP’s in 2023  —  – Berkshire Hathaway cuts stake to 51.5 million shares: filing  — Reduction coincides with weak corporate demand for PCs Lees verder op Tech Meme

Snapchat+ subscribers can now make and send AI generated images based on a text prompt and add pictures of friends into Dream, its generative AI selfie feature (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) 12-12-2023

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Snapchat+ subscribers can now make and send AI generated images based on a text prompt and add pictures of friends into Dream, its generative AI selfie feature  —  Snapchat is releasing a few new AI powered features for Snapchat+ subscribers, the company announced on Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jitjatjo, a gig marketplace with 40K+ workers who businesses can book with as little as an hour's notice, raised a $30 Series B, bringing total funding to ~$65M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) 12-12-2023

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Jitjatjo, a gig marketplace with 40K+ workers who businesses can book with as little as an hour’s notice, raised a $30 Series B, bringing total funding to ~$65M  —  Jitjatjo, a gig marketplace through which businesses can book workers with as little as an hour’s notice … Lees verder op Tech Meme