Tech Meme

Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: HSBC partners with Ripple to offer institutional clients a custody service for digital assets, set to launch in 2024, complementing its digital assets issuance  —  – Latest blockchain offering is expected to go live in 2024  —  HSBC Holdings Plc plans to offer institutional clients … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says Copilot has “growing positive margins”  —  GitHub’s AI coding assistant, called Copilot, has gone from an experiment to a moneymaker, the company’s CEO Thomas Dohmke said in an exclusive interview with Semafor.  —  “We are happy about the growing positive margins the product has,” he said. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Anthropic will use Google’s Cloud TPU v5e chips to help power its LLM Claude; sources: Anthropic agreed to spend $3B+ on Google’s cloud services over four years  —  Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic will be one of the first companies to use new chips from Alphabet Inc.’s Google … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rob Golum / Bloomberg: Roblox reports Q3 bookings up 20% YoY to $839.5M, beating $822M est., revenue up 38% YoY to $713.2M, and average DAUs up 20% YoY to 70.2M; RBLX jumps 15%+  —  Roblox Corp., the video-game platform popular among teenagers, surged after posting third-quarter bookings and revenue that far exceeded Wall Street’s projections. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Caitlin Huston / Hollywood Reporter: Spotify now offers US paid subscribers 15 hours of free access to 200K+ audiobooks per month, after launching the service in the UK and Australia on October 3  —  The podcast and music platform will offer U.S. paid subscribers 15 hours of free listening to audiobooks as it continues its rollout of the new offering. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lauren Smiley / Wired: How San Francisco’s citizen surveillance culture, with incidents often posted to X, turned the story of a bloody street attack inside out, causing viral outrage  —  When a homeless man attacked a former city official, footage of the onslaught became a rallying cry. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: GitHub plans to release a Copilot Enterprise plan that lets companies customize for their codebase, available from February 2024 for $39/month per user  —  GitHub today announced plans for an enterprise subscription tier that will allow companies to fine-tune its Copilot pair-programmer based on their internal codebase. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Krisher / Associated Press: Cruise recalls all 950 of its autonomous cars to update their software after one dragged a pedestrian to the side of a San Francisco street on October 2  —  General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit is recalling all 950 of its cars to update software after one of them dragged a pedestrian … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Airbnb plans to overhaul guest reviews, adding a new top-rated badge and tools to communicate more information about properties, as part of its Winter Release  —  Airbnb has given hotels a run for their money with offerings that are often more flexible, sometimes cheaper … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Wynn / The Block: The CFTC says 47 of its 96 enforcement cases brought in 2023 were related to digital assets, including against SBF, Binance, CZ, Celsius, and Alex Mashinsky  —  – The CFTC brought 47 digital asset-related actions out of 96 total its 2023 fiscal year  — Notable cases included … Lees verder op Tech Meme