Tech Meme

Tiyashi Datta / Reuters: Zoom reports Q1 revenue of $1.11B, vs. $1.08B est., up 3% YoY, Enterprise revenue of $632M, up 13% YoY, and customers contributing $100K+ annually up ~23% YoY  —  Zoom Video Communications Inc (ZM.O) on Monday raised its annual revenue forecast, betting on hybrid work trends to sustain demand for its video-conferencing services. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shannon Liao / New York Times: In an April email, Blizzard’s chief design officer told staff to “prepare to be amazed” by its AI image generator trained on assets from its titles like Diablo  —  Generative A.I. is already changing how games are made, with Blizzard Entertainment training an image generator … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wired: Leaked responses from 20 countries to an EU proposal show most of them support some form of scanning encrypted messages, with Spain wanting an E2EE ban  —  In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country’s officials said it is “imperative that we have access to the data.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bobby Allyn / NPR: TikTok sues Montana over its new law banning the app, citing the First Amendment, the state’s lack of authority on national security issues, and more  —  TikTok has filed a federal lawsuit against Montana after the state passed a law last week intended to ban the app from being downloaded within its borders. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman, and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever say we’ll likely need an international regulatory body for superintelligence  —  AI is developing rapidly enough and the dangers it may pose are clear enough that OpenAI’s leadership believes that the world needs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review: Meta unveils open-source AI models it says can identify 4,000+ spoken languages and produce speech for 1,000+ languages, an increase of 40x and 10x respectively  —  They could help lead to speech apps for many more languages than exist now.  —  Meta has built AI models that can recognize … Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Vincent / The Verge: Some users say Twitter is restoring tweets and retweets that they had deleted, in what appears to be a new bug  —  Earlier this year on the 8th of May I deleted all my tweets, just under 5,000 of them. … This morning, though, I discovered that Twitter has restored a handful of my old re-tweets … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chloe Xiang / VICE: Some blue-check Twitter accounts, one pretending to be Bloomberg, spread an AI-generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon; the stock market briefly dipped  —  An AI-generated image of a fake explosion near the Pentagon went viral thanks to blue-check Twitter accounts.  —  Chloe Xiang Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Biden nominates veteran government lawyer Anna Gomez as FCC Commissioner, and nominates Democrat Geoffrey Starks and Republican Brendan Carr for new FCC terms  —  The White House also nominated Democrat Geoffrey Starks and Republican Brendan Carr for new terms on the Commission. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: The EU fines Meta €1.2B for sending European user data to the US, a record GDPR fine, and orders Meta to end the transfers and delete the data within six months  —  Decision places pressure on Washington to implement surveillance changes for Europe to allow Meta to keep the data spigot open Lees verder op Tech Meme