Tech Meme

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Twitter asks a US federal court to terminate an FTC order that puts restrictions on its data security practices and to stay an FTC deposition of Elon Musk  —  The company asked the federal court to terminate an order with the agency hours before Chair Lina Khan testified on Capitol Hill Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sara Fischer / Axios: The AP and OpenAI sign a two-year deal; the AP gets access to OpenAI’s tech in return for licensing some of its text archive dating back to 1985 for AI training  —  The Associated Press on Thursday said it reached a two-year deal with OpenAI, the parent company to ChatGPT, to share access to select news content and technology. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adam Crafton / The Athletic: How Apple expanded into sports, starting with MLB in March 2022, leading to an unusual deal to bring Messi to the MLS and share new subscriber revenue with him  —  In 2019, during an interview with Sports Illustrated, the Apple senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, was asked the extent to which he … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: The US arrests and charges former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky with six counts, including wire fraud; the SEC, CFTC, and FTC sue Mashinsky and the crypto company  —  Alex Mashinsky, the former chief executive officer of Celsius Network Ltd., was accused by prosecutors of orchestrating … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Chayka / New Yorker: A writer details using AI startup Writer’s LLM to generate text in his writing style and says that most of the tool’s “insights” felt hollow or approximated  —  A new wave of artificial-intelligence startups is trying to “scale language” by automating the work of writing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Telegram merchants can now accept payments via the TON blockchain-based Wallet in tether, bitcoin, and toncoin, expanding on support for transfers between users  —  Wallet, which is built on the TON blockchain, is allowing merchants to integrate cryptocurrency into the bots they use to accept payments in the messaging app. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Hals / Reuters: A US judge says Ripple’s institutional XRP sales constituted the unregistered sale of investment contracts and sends the case to trial to decide SEC claims  —  U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres said Ripple Labs Inc’s institutional sales of its XRP digital token violated federal law … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Allison Johnson / The Verge: Nothing Phone (2) review: neat light strips, useful always-on display, and four-year software support, but only splash resistant and not certified on Verizon  —  Form, function, and a good midrange phone. … The Nothing Phone 2 is better than the Phone 1 in a lot of small ways. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Twitter asks a US federal court to terminate an FTC order that puts restrictions on its data security practices and to stay a deposition of Elon Musk  —  The company asked the federal court to terminate an order with the agency hours before Chair Lina Khan testified on Capitol Hill Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yu Nakamura / Nikkei Asia: Analysis: the total sales of Foxconn, TSMC, and 17 more major IT companies in Taiwan fell 19.8% YoY to ~$35B in June 2023, the largest drop since at least 2013  —  Industry’s sales fall 20% in June on weak global demand for electronic devices  —  Demand for Apple and other electronic devices … Lees verder op Tech Meme