Tech Meme

Karl Bode / Techdirt: Instead of myopically fixating on TikTok, the US should pass a real privacy law to regulate data brokers, who offer anyone info on US citizens, including China  —  from the you’re-not-actually-fixing-the- problem dept  —  We’ve noted for a while now how the great TikTok moral panic of 2023 is largely a distraction. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: eToro secures $250M at a $3.5B valuation via an Advanced Investment Agreement signed in 2021, after scrapping its SPAC plans in 2022 amid slowing growth  —  After calling off its plans to go public via a SPAC at a $10.4 billion valuation in 2022, trading platform eToro has secured $250 million in funding at a $3.5 billion valuation. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Vincent / The Verge: Hands-on with Google’s Bard, available via waitlist in the US and UK: quick and fluid, more constrained than Bing, three responses/query, disclaimers, and more  —  Today, Google is opening up limited access to Bard, its ChatGPT rival, a major step in the company’s attempt to reclaim … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Krystal Hu / Reuters: Unlearn.AI, which creates “digital twin” profiles of patients in clinical trials, raised $15M at a $265M valuation and adds OpenAI CTO Mira Murati to its board  —  Unlearn.AI, which has built a machine learning platform that creates “digital twin” profiles of patients in clinical trials … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: OP3N, which develops the blockchain chat app Superapp and aims to be the “Web3 version of WhatsApp meets Amazon”, raised a $28M Series A at a $100M valuation  —  OP3N, a web3 AI-powered platform, raised a $28 million Series A round that values the company at $100 million, the startup shared exclusively with TechCrunch. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Adobe announces Firefly, a “family” of creative generative AI models, and releases a DALL-E-like image generator and a WordArt-like stylized text generator  —  Adobe is finally launching its own AI image generator.  The company is announcing a “family of creative generative AI models” … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Microsoft begins rolling out Bing Image Creator to Edge, powered by OpenAI’s DALL-E and accessible via Bing Chat, letting users create images from text prompts  —  Microsoft today announced that its new AI-enabled Bing will now allow users to generate images with Bing Chat. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: How Elon Musk acquiring and running Twitter, adding to SpaceX and Tesla, became a headache for the Biden administration, which worries over foreign influence  —  Argentina was headed toward its thrilling victory over France at the World Cup in Qatar, and Elon Musk, the Tesla Inc. CEO and Twitter owner … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Tech industry group NetChoice, founded by Google and Meta, launches a litigation center to combat state laws and local lawsuits, modeled on Chamber of Commerce  —  NetChoice’s new center is designed to respond to the threat of state laws and local lawsuits  —  NetChoice, a tech industry group funded … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Noam Scheiber / New York Times: A year after its Staten Island win, the Amazon Labor Union has endured setbacks and conflicts, including between president Chris Smalls and longtime organizers  —  Nearly a year after its victory on Staten Island, the Amazon Labor Union is grappling with election losses and internal conflict. Lees verder op Tech Meme