Tech Meme

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Sources: Apple and Microsoft have argued that iMessage and Bing are insufficiently popular to be designated “gatekeepers” to be regulated under EU’s DMA  —  Battle comes ahead of publication of first list of services to be regulated under Digital Markets Act Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Email: Spotify raises the listener threshold for creators in Ambassador Ads from 100 to 1,000 over 60 days, and plans to cut ad support for white noise podcasts  —  – Ambient sound shows will no longer be eligible for certain ads  — Company raises listener threshold for ambassador ads program Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Blake / Digital Trends: An interview with Apple executives Susan Prescott and Steve Sinclair on building Vision Pro apps and how Apple is trying to convince developers to create apps  —  Apple’s Vision Pro headset hasn’t launched yet, but already it’s become one of the most hotly debated devices on the planet. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: The London Stock Exchange plans to add a blockchain-based digital assets business after a year of assessment, but is “not building anything around cryptoassets”  —  Exchange operator in talks with UK government and regulators over new trading venue Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Binder / Mashable: After ADL’s CEO noted talking to X’s CEO on August 30, anti-Semitic X posts surged and #BanTheADL trended as Elon Musk replied to and liked far-right posts  —  Anti-Semitic rhetoric has been especially rampant on the platform over the past 24 hours.  —  Over the past 24 hours … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Noah Smith / Noahpinion: How LLMs like GPT-4 can have an equalizing effect in some cases, boosting the less-skilled workers and potentially leveling the human-capital playing field  —  An optimistic take on technology and inequality.  —  On the app formerly known as Twitter, I’m known for occasionally going on rants … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Culpan / Bloomberg: The Huawei Mate 60 Pro’s SMIC-made 7nm Kirin 9000s chip is an evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, development and shows US curbs are porous, not useless  —  Chinese chipmakers have done well to bypass restrictions, but that won’t be repeated often.  —  A new smartphone from Huawei Technologies Co … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: TechInsights teardown: Huawei’s Mate 60 Pro uses a new Kirin 9000s chip that was fabricated in China by SMIC using a 7nm process, marking a blow to US sanctions  —  The company’s Mate 60 Pro is powered by SMIC’s 7nm chips, according to analysis that TechInsights conducted for Bloomberg News Lees verder op Tech Meme

Josh Ye / Reuters: Docs: Tencent, Xiaomi, and others begin enforcing China’s app store rules set in August, which require regulatory disclosures; Apple has not begun checking apps  —  Mobile app stores in China run by Tencent Holdings (0700.HK), Xiaomi (1810.HK) and others have started to bar app publishers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Noah Smith / Noahpinion: How LLMs like GPT-4 can be an equalizing technology in some cases, boosting less-skilled workers and potentially leveling the human-capital playing field  —  An optimistic take on technology and inequality.  —  On the app formerly known as Twitter, I’m known for occasionally going on rants … Lees verder op Tech Meme