Reuters: EU lawmakers agree to ban facial recognition in public, limit predictive policing, and impose transparency on generative AI; EU Commission will finalize details — European lawmakers came a step closer to passing new rules regulating artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Ireland-based Everseen, which uses computer vision to spot potential retail theft, raised a €65M Series A led by Crosspoint, taking its total funding to ~€82M — In 2007, Alan O’Herlihy, who previously worked with large SAP installations as well as retail, set out to find … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Australian edtech startup Go1 acquires Berlin-based Blinkist, which offers 15-minute non-fiction book summaries, and raised $30M from Insight Partners — After raising $100 million at a valuation of over $2 billion last year, the Australian ed-tech startup Go1 is making an acquisition … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: Tech firms are increasingly hiring in South and Central America because remote hires there often accept lower pay than in the US but have similar time zones — Pandemic-era labor shortages made it hard for Austin-based Fetch Package Inc. to fill positions in the US. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Ireland-based Everseen, which uses computer vision to spot potential retail theft, raised a €65M Series A led by Crosspoint, taking its total funding to ~€82M — In 2007, Alan O’Herlihy, who previously worked with large SAP installations as well as retail, set out to find … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ted Chiang / New Yorker: Similar to McKinsey and other consultancy firms, AI advancements may help concentrate wealth, disempower workers, and “sharpen the knife blade of capitalism” — As it’s currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible? Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Ireland-based Everseen, which uses computer vision to spot potential retail theft, raised a €65M Series A led by Crosspoint, taking its total funding to ~€82M — In 2007, Alan O’Herlihy, who previously worked with large SAP installations as well as retail, set out to find … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Dylan Tokar / Wall Street Journal: A look at Microsoft’s Trust Code training video series, heading into its seventh season, which has hooked employees with popular characters and cliffhangers — Instead of a finger-wagging snoozer about corporate misbehavior, ‘Trust Code’ has flawed characters, dramatic cliffhangers and fans worldwide Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: SoftBank reports Vision Fund lost ~$2B in Q4, down from ~$16B in Q4 2022, leading to a ~$32B full-year loss; investments for the year to March fell to ~$3B — SoftBank Group Corp. lost money in its Vision Fund investment unit again despite a rebound in tech stocks, as the Japanese conglomerate … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Haaretz: A profile of Andreas Fink, a telecom expert whose services are used for attacking phone networks globally, including by Israeli disinformation unit Team Jorge — The international mobile system is exposed and a loophole allows hackers, cybercriminals and states to geolocate targets and even hijack email and web accounts. Lees verder op Tech Meme