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Meta quietly unveils Llama 2 Long, which has been trained with longer sequences, outperforming GPT-3.5 Turbo and Claude 2 when responding to long user prompts (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) 29-09-2023

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Meta quietly unveils Llama 2 Long, which has been trained with longer sequences, outperforming GPT-3.5 Turbo and Claude 2 when responding to long user prompts  —  Meta Platforms showed off a bevy of new AI features for its consumer-facing services Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Letter: the US SEC told Bolt the startup likely won't face enforcement action after a 15-month probe into whether Bolt violated securities laws when fundraising (Forbes) 29-09-2023

Forbes: Letter: the US SEC told Bolt the startup likely won’t face enforcement action after a 15-month probe into whether Bolt violated securities laws when fundraising  —  In a letter viewed by Forbes, the SEC said that it does not intend to recommend any action against the startup following … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Letterboxd's founders sell a majority stake to Canadian company Tiny; a source says the deal values the film-focused social network with ~10M users at $50M+ (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times) 29-09-2023

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: Letterboxd’s founders sell a majority stake to Canadian company Tiny; a source says the deal values the film-focused social network with ~10M users at $50M+  —  Two designers from New Zealand built a wildly popular social network for movie buffs.  Now, they’re cashing in (and sticking around for the sequel). Lees verder op Tech Meme

Letter: SEC told Bolt that it will likely not face any enforcement action after a ~15 month probe into whether Bolt violated securities laws during fundraising (Forbes) 29-09-2023

Forbes: Letter: SEC told Bolt that it will likely not face any enforcement action after a ~15 month probe into whether Bolt violated securities laws during fundraising  —  In a letter viewed by Forbes, the SEC said that it does not intend to recommend any action against the startup following … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Jasper, which offers an AI writing tool for marketers, cut its $140M ARR projections for 2023 by 30%+ and its internal valuation by 20% from $1.5B (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information) 29-09-2023

Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: Sources: Jasper, which offers an AI writing tool for marketers, cut its $140M ARR projections for 2023 by 30%+ and its internal valuation by 20% from $1.5B  —  Jasper AI, an early darling of the generative artificial intelligence boom, has cut the internal value of its common shares 20% … Lees verder op Tech Meme

MakerDAO passed a proposal letting the DeFi lender invest up to $6B in short-term US Treasuries, double the current limit; the MKR token is up almost 3x in 2023 (Bloomberg) 29-09-2023

Bloomberg: MakerDAO passed a proposal letting the DeFi lender invest up to $6B in short-term US Treasuries, double the current limit; the MKR token is up almost 3x in 2023  —  – MakerDAO can now invest up to $6 billion in Treasuary Bills  — The project’s MKR is 2023’s best-performing major token Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Jasper, which offers AI writing tools for marketers, slashed its internal valuation by 20% from $1.5B and cut its $140M 2023 ARR projections by 30%+ (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information) 29-09-2023

Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: Sources: Jasper, which offers AI writing tools for marketers, slashed its internal valuation by 20% from $1.5B and cut its $140M 2023 ARR projections by 30%+  —  Jasper AI, an early darling of the generative artificial intelligence boom, has cut the internal value of its common shares 20% … Lees verder op Tech Meme

MakerDAO has passed a proposal that will allow it to invest up to $6B in short-term US Treasuries, double the current limit; MKR token is up almost 3x in 2023 (Bloomberg) 29-09-2023

Bloomberg: MakerDAO has passed a proposal that will allow it to invest up to $6B in short-term US Treasuries, double the current limit; MKR token is up almost 3x in 2023  —  – MakerDAO can now invest up to $6 billion in Treasuary Bills  — The project’s MKR is 2023’s best-performing major token Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Apple executives met Chinese officials in recent months to discuss new rules forcing Apple to ban apps whose operators are not registered with China (Wall Street Journal) 29-09-2023

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Apple executives met Chinese officials in recent months to discuss new rules forcing Apple to ban apps whose operators are not registered with China  —  Country’s push to register foreign apps threatens to remove Facebook, Instagram and X from iPhone App Store in China Lees verder op Tech Meme

Progress Software, the company behind the widely exploited MOVEit file transfer tool, patches critical vulnerabilities in its WS_FTP Server data transfer tool (Jonathan Greig/The Record) 29-09-2023

Jonathan Greig / The Record: Progress Software, the company behind the widely exploited MOVEit file transfer tool, patches critical vulnerabilities in its WS_FTP Server data transfer tool  —  The company behind a popular file transfer service that was exploited by ransomware hackers has announced a new set of vulnerabilities affecting another file transfer tool. Lees verder op Tech Meme