Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple expands Self Service Repair to the iPhone 15 lineup and M2 Macs, brings the program to 24 more countries, and releases an Apple Diagnostics tool in the US  —  Apple today announced it has expanded its Self Service Repair program to cover the iPhone 15 lineup and Mac models powered by M2 chips … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Juro Osawa / The Information: Sources: ByteDance cancels the Pico 5, an upcoming VR headset from its Pico subsidiary, after Pico 4 sales fell far short of expectations and the VR market sags  —  Chinese tech giant ByteDance might have set Facebook owner Meta Platforms on its heels with its hugely popular TikTok app. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: Axel Springer signs a multiyear deal with OpenAI, which plans to offer ChatGPT news summaries and use Politico, Business Insider, and others to train AI models  —  Generative-AI company reaches multiyear pact with owner of Politico, Business Insider and major European properties Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Corrigan / Wall Street Journal: The Drucker Institute’s Management Top 250 ranking shows tech still leads; Microsoft was first for the fourth year, followed by Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, and IBM  —  Technology giants led the way, with Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet and IBM rounding out the top 5  —  Technology giants strengthened … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Davey Alba / Bloomberg: Google announces Gemini Pro for enterprises, letting Cloud clients build apps for free, with some limits, and plans to add Gemini Pro to AI Studio and Vertex AI  —  Gemini Pro is aimed at businesses and app developers  —  Alphabet Inc.’s Google announced a slate of upgraded artificial intelligence features … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google releases Imagen 2, launched in preview in May 2023 and built using Google DeepMind tech, offering “significantly” improved image quality and new features  —  Google’s making the second generation of Imagen, its AI model that can create and edit images given a text prompt … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Google announces MedLM, a suite of AI models fine-tuned for the health care industry and based on Med-PaLM 2, available to eligible Google Cloud US customers  —  – Google on Wednesday announced a suite of new health-care AI models called MedLM.  — The move marks Google’s latest attempt … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: Sources: the EU plans to hit Apple with a ban on anti-steering App Store rules for music streaming rivals and a possible fine in 2024, after Spotify’s complaint  —  – EU to ban allegedly abusive App Store rules for music rivals  — Antitrust decision due early 2024 and could come with fines Lees verder op Tech Meme

Theo Wayt / The Information: Etsy plans to lay off 11% of its workforce, or ~225 employees, as the e-commerce marketplace grapples with slow consumer spending and increased competition  —  Etsy is laying off roughly 11% of its workforce, a spokesperson confirmed, as the e-commerce site that helps small businesses sell … Lees verder op Tech Meme