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Image Prompts: Microsoft enables Bing users to reveal their most creative selves, through AI, of course, using OpenAI’s DALL-E Image Builder. Frederick reports. Frederic also writes about two additional features, Visual Stories and Knowledge Cards. “As far as I know, Microsoft has been testing them extensively over the past few weeks, as they have often come up in my searches.”
See who’s engaged in generative AI: Firefly is Adobe’s approach to generative AI and “consists of multiple AI models that ‘work in different use cases'”. Kyle writes More Adobe News on Big Tech.
Go online: Speaking of generative AI (because that’s all we’ve been talking about for weeks), Google is opening early access to Bard, its AI chatbot. You can register for the waiting list. Roman have more. Startups and VCs

The world of technology and medicine is betting heavily that AI will play a central role in healthcare in the future. Today, a Durham, NC startup called Bionic Health, founded by two pioneers in the commercialization of AI, is stepping into the ring to develop its approach. Ingrid reports. He raised $3 million for his AI health clinic.

Last week, the FBI arrested a man alleged to be “Pompompurin,” the administrator of the infamous and popular BreachForum. Lawrence reports. Days after the arrest, the new administrator of the cybercrime website announced that the forum would be permanently closed.

Another handful of stories worth mentioning:

SaaS is still open for businesses, but it will take longer to buy and sell

More than 225,000 technicians were laid off last year, directly impacting SaaS purchase and renewal cycles.

SaaS customers with smaller headcounts are buying fewer seats and sales cycles are taking a little longer than they used to, said Ryan Neu, CEO and co-founder of SaaS purchasing platform Vendr.

“Over the past three years, our data shows a steady decline in multi-year deals,” he writes. “But we also recorded a significant increase [average contract value] from purchase to renewal in persistent and business-critical software categories such as CRM or email.”

Three more from the TC+ team:

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Well, here’s an interesting twist on the credit age: DoorDash adds cash support. Sara writes that it will only be introduced as a DoorDash Drive feature, but that in testing, about 20% of US customers who ordered pizza paid in cash. She notes that the cash option has helped attract customers reluctant to share their payment information.

Meanwhile, Devin wants to speak to Amazon, which reports that it is closing DPReview, “the best camera review site on the web.” He writes that the company’s staff was laid off as part of Amazon’s recent round of layoffs and that “DPReview is not the first media company to be laid off in these turbulent times, but it is certainly one of the oldest and most unique. We hope that the talented and experienced team will stand up and that Amazon will regret its decision.”

Control, I like to have a lot: And you will have a lot. A new WhatsApp feature gives admins an easier way to control who can join a group. aisha reports.
More on Adobe: There’s a lot to unpack. Ivan writes about the enterprise level of Adobe Express, while Frederick Check out the Experience Cloud. AND Kyle writes that there are some new generative AI tools aimed at marketers and Ron reports on artists being compensated for work used to train Adobe’s generative artificial intelligence product.
car talks: Ford unveiled its €45,000 Explorer EV for the European market, Friend Y Ferrari writes that a ransomware attack exposed customers’ personal information. carly have more.
Prepared for adversity: Ahead of his speech to Congress, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew shared that the streaming giant has 150 million active users in the US. Ivan reports. About that, aisha writes that TikTok is revising its community guidelines and adding some new guidelines about artificial intelligence and weather misinformation.
priorities: Some goods and services may become more expensive due to inflation, but a new study from Counterpoint shows that consumers are still avoiding premium smartphones. Ivan have more.