Tech Meme

New York Times: How WhatsApp Channels, launched in late 2023, are driving traffic to digital news outlets, especially readers from outside the US, as social media traffic falls  —  An illustration of a man sitting on a green chair reading a newspaper called “World News” as he looks at his phone behind it.Jackson Gibbs Lees verder op Tech Meme

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: Access Now and 24+ others wrote to Pavel Durov in late 2021 asking Telegram to add transparent content rules, an appeals process, and more; Durov didn’t respond  —  Users complained about the site to Pavel Durov three years before he was charged with spreading criminal activity Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tripp Mickle / New York Times: A profile of Goldman Sachs’ head of stock research Jim Covello, who has become Wall Street’s leading AI skeptic after joining the bank in 2000 as a tech analyst  —  Jim Covello, Goldman Sachs’s head of stock research, warned that building too much of what the world doesn’t need “typically ends badly.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

US Department of State: The US, Meta, Anthropic, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI launch the Partnership for Global Inclusivity on AI to advance “sustainable” AI development  —  Today in New York City, on the margins of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Revolut plans to spin out its €8.5B wealth management offering into a standalone Invest app, launching in European Economic Area countries by the end of 2024  —  – Firm spinning out $9.5 billion wealth assets with new platform  — Fintech seeking to tap customers beyond its main banking app Lees verder op Tech Meme

Daniel Kuhn / The Block: Celestia Foundation, which is behind the Celestia modular blockchain network, raised $100M led by Bain Capital Crypto, taking its total raised to $155M  —  – The organization behind the modular blockchain network has raised $100 million in a round led by Bain Capital Crypto, bringing its total financing to $155 million. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Revolut plans to spin out its €8.5B wealth management offering into a standalone Invest app, launching in European Economic Area countries by the end of 2024  —  – Firm spinning out $9.5 billion wealth assets with new platform  — Fintech seeking to tap customers beyond its main banking app Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Memo: a US arbitrator awards a full severance package to an ex-Twitter staffer who was laid off when Musk took over, the first such resolution of 2K+ complaints  —  Elon Musk lost a legal fight over unpaid severance to a former Twitter employee who was laid off when he took over the social media platform … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: A profile of Li-Chen Miller, Meta VP of product for wearables and a former Microsoft CVP; IDC says Meta has shipped 700K+ Ray-Ban units after the 2023 launch  —  Li-Chen Miller is helping lead the social network’s push toward Zuckerberg’s augmented reality ambitions Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nilay Patel / The Verge: An interview with The Browser Company CEO Josh Miller on Arc Search being an operating system, competing with Chrome and Safari, monetization, AI, and more  —  The Browser Company cofounder thinks it’s time to modernize the browser and reinvent the web. Lees verder op Tech Meme