Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Calgary-based ZayZoon, which provides SMB employees access to their earned wages whenever they need them, raised a $34.5M Series B co-led by Framework and EDC  —  ZayZoon, a fintech firm that got its start charging employees $5 to get paid sooner, has raised $34.5 million in a Series B round co-led … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: E-commerce marketing company Klaviyo prices its 19.2M shares at $30 a piece, raising $576M in its IPO at a fully diluted valuation of $9.2B  —  – Data automation firm prices shares above marketed range  — IPO follows trading debut gains by Instacart, SoftBank’s Arm Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hayden Field / CNBC: How Airbnb Head of Trust and Safety Naba Banerjee cut parties reported on the service by 55% from 2020 to 2022 and launched an anti-party AI system in May 2023  —  – As the person in charge of Airbnb’s worldwide ban on parties, Naba Banerjee has spent more than three years figuring out how to battle party … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mariam Sunny / Reuters: Neuralink opens enrollment for the first human trial of its brain implant for paralysis patients, which is expected to take about six years to complete  —  Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink said on Tuesday it has received approval from an independent review board … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: The Linux Foundation launches the Unified Acceleration Foundation to create an open standard for accelerator programming, an evolution of the oneAPI initiative  —  At the Open Source Summit Europe in Bilbao, Spain, the Linux Foundation today announced the launch of the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Casey Newton / Platformer: Bard’s “Google it” feature adds the ability to “double check” answers by highlighting phrases with supporting or contradicting information found by Search  —  Can you stop chatbots from making stuff up using search?  —  Today let’s talk about an advance in Bard … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Intel unveils Core Ultra, code-named Meteor Lake, its first chips using a new chiplet architecture built on its 7nm Intel 4 process node, launching December 14  —  For many months, Intel has spared no opportunity to remind us that its Meteor Lake chips would be the ones to watch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches the Red Teaming Network, a contracted group of experts to help inform the company’s AI model risk assessment and mitigation strategies  —  In its ongoing effort to make its AI systems more robust, OpenAI today launched the OpenAI Red Teaming Network, a contracted group … Lees verder op Tech Meme