Tech Meme

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: Antenna: MLS Season Pass had 110K+ US signups on July 21, the day of Messi’s first MLS match, up from 6,143 on July 20; July was TV+’s best signup month in 2023  —  Soccer superstar attracts over 110,000 sign-ups to MLS Season Pass on day of first game  —  Soccer superstar Lionel Messi helped drive a surge in U.S. subscriptions to Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Meta plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in the UK, France, and Germany in early December 2023 and won’t sign new deals for news content in those countries  —  The company will “deprecate” the news tab — a Facebook feature to prominently display news material — for users in the UK, Germany and France. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steven Levy / Wired: An in-depth profile of OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman, CTO Mira Murati, and others, who all see ChatGPT and GPT-4 as stepping stones to an AGI that is safe for humanity  —  The young company sent shock waves around the world when it released ChatGPT.  But that was just the start.  The ultimate goal: Change everything. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meg Kinnard / Associated Press: AGs in all 50 US states urge Congress to study how AI can be used to exploit kids, including via AI-made pornography, and pass legislation to guard against it  —  The top prosecutors in all 50 states are urging Congress to study how artificial intelligence can be used to exploit children through pornography … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Information: Sources: over half of the 14 authors of Meta’s original Llama research paper from February quit over battles for compute resources, a hot job market, and more  —  Meta Platforms’ releases of its large-language models, Llama and Llama 2, in the past six months have won the company praise for offering free … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: TikTok opens its first European data center, in Ireland, after announcing the project in August 2020, and plans to finish the migration of user data by Q4 2024  —  It has been a long time coming, but TikTok says that its first European data center is finally operational — partially … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Margrethe Vestager is stepping down as EU competition chief to run for a job at the EIB; sources: justice commissioner Didier Reynders will assume the role  —  Belgian politician set to be appointed as incumbent Margrethe Vestager targets top job at European Investment Bank Lees verder op Tech Meme

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: Israel-based Upwind, which sells tools to detect and respond to cloud infrastructure threats, raised $50M at a $300M valuation, taking its total funding to $80M  —  – Year-old cloud security firm Upwind valued at $300 million  — New round was led by Greylock, Cyberstarts and Leaders Fund Lees verder op Tech Meme

Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: TikTok hires UK cybersecurity company NCC to audit its data controls and protections, and provide independent verification, as part of Project Clover in Europe  —  TikTok has hired British cybersecurity firm NCC (NCCG.L) to audit its data controls and protections, and provide independent verification … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Globes Online: Israel-based payments startup ThetaRay, which uses AI to monitor financial transactions, raised $57M led by Portage Ventures, taking its total funding to $148M  —  The investment will allow ThetaRay to capitalize on significant market demand as banks and fintech companies look to replace legacy tools … Lees verder op Tech Meme