Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The European Commission opens a full-scale investigation into Amazon’s $1.7B iRobot acquisition, setting a November 15, 2023 deadline to clear or block the deal  —  Amazon’s (AMZN.O) $1.7 billion acquisition of robot vacuum cleaner maker iRobot (IRBT.O) may reduce competition … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI releases its GPT-4 API in general availability, giving all paying developers access and planning to give new developers access by the end of July 2023  —  OpenAI today announced the general availability of GPT-4, its latest text-generating model, through its paid API. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Instagram’s Threads feels like Twitter’s early days while offering an insta-network on infrastructure that should avoid bugs and outages plaguing smaller rivals  —  Launch of Mark Zuckerberg’s social network as a rival to Elon Musk’s platform sparks excited online chatter  —  It feels like 2006 all over again. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Max Tani / Semafor: Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads, saying Meta “engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets” and other IP  —  Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The European Commission opens a full-scale investigation into Amazon’s $1.7B iRobot acquisition and will decide by November 15, 2023, whether to clear the deal  —  Amazon’s (AMZN.O) $1.7 billion acquisition of robot vacuum cleaner maker iRobot (IRBT.O) may reduce competition … Lees verder op Tech Meme