Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Arthur launches Arthur Bench, an open-source tool for comparing the performance of LLMs, like OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo and Meta’s Llama 2, for specific use cases  —  New York... Read more »

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Internal document: Spotify weighed removing white noise podcasts and redirecting users to “talk” content that could boost Spotify’s annual gross profit by €35M  —  An internal document shows... Read more »

Sara Ashley O’Brien / Wall Street Journal: Nonprofit Garbo plans to drop its background checking tool used by Match Group’s apps on August 31, saying most tech companies “see trust and safety... Read more »

John Callaham / Neowin: Microsoft plans to discontinue Azure Kinect Developer Kit, a depth-sensing camera it released in 2019, in October 2023  —  Microsoft thought it had the next generation of technology... Read more »

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft plans to hold a “special event” in NYC on September 21, 2023, likely to announce Surface hardware including the Go 4, Laptop Studio 2, and Laptop... Read more »

Cory Weinberg / The Information: Sources: Databricks had a total loss of ~$900M in its last two fiscal years, including $380M in the year ending in January 2023, and is close to... Read more »

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Llion Jones, who co-authored Google’s transformer paper, and David Ha, the former head of Google’s AI research arm in Japan, launch Sakana AI in Tokyo  —  Llion... Read more »

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google launches a new Transparency Center to let users report harmful content, make appeals across Google’s services, read its transparency reports, and more  —  Google is launching a... Read more »

Kate Clark / The Information: Sources: Ramp, which sells credit cards and expense management software, is raising funding at a $5.5B valuation, a 32% cut to its $8.1B valuation in March 2022 ... Read more »