Tech has seen nonstop layoffs that hit 166,044 workers in Q1 2023 alone. That’s more than all of 2022’s then-record 161,411 tech layoffs.
SignalFire’s State of Talent report 2023 by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch
Ironically, the social app IRL‘s users do not exist in real life. An internal investigation by IRL’s board of directors found that 95% of the app’s reported 20 million users were “automated or from bots,” The Information first reported. So, after raising more than $200 million in venture capital, IRL is shutting down. IRL was […]
Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced today that the messaging app is adding Stories in early July. Durov says users have been asking for the feature for years, noting that more than half of all feature requests that Telegram receives are related to Stories. The company was initially against adding Stories because they “are already everywhere,” […]
Telegram is adding Stories next month by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch
ChatGPT might’ve captured the world’s attention. But DeepMind claims that its next large language model will rival — or even best — OpenAI’s. According to a piece in Wired, DeepMind, the Google-owned research lab, is using techniques from AlphaGo, DeepMind’s AI system that was the first to defeat a professional human player at the board […]
DeepMind claims its next chatbot will rival ChatGPT by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch