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After looking at Twitter’s struggle with impersonation problems when Elon Musk relaunched Twitter Blue, Mark Zuckerberg is putting guardrails before launching Meta Verified. Earlier this week, the company announced its subscription plan, which is set to be available for users in New Zealand and Australia in the next few days. If you pay for Meta […]

Meta Verified won’t let you change name, username or profile photo for now by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

U.K.-based Amadeus Capital Partners and Austria’s Apex Ventures are pooling their collective venture capital (VC) resources for a new fund specifically targeted at early-stage deep tech startups.  The duo have raised an initial €28 million ($30 million) for the Amadeus Apex Technology Fund, with plans to close it out at €80 million ($85 million). The […]

European VC firms Amadeus and Apex partner for €80m early-stage ‘deep tech’ fund by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Blindingly amplifying views or posts on social media is one of the key reasons for the rapid spread of misinformation. Over the years, prominent figures have posted or retweeted false information on Twitter. The social network is now giving a chance to withdraw a retweet for such instances through a new Community Notes — its […]

Twitter will send a notification when a tweet you replied to or retweeted gets a Community Note by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

OpenAI is quietly launching a new developer platform that lets customers run the company’s newer machine learning models, like GPT-3.5, on dedicated capacity. In screenshots of documentation published to Twitter by users with early access, OpenAI describes the forthcoming offering, called Foundry, as “designed for cutting-edge customers running larger workloads.” “[Foundry allows] inference at scale […]

OpenAI’s Foundry will let customers buy dedicated compute to run its AI models by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch