Tech Meme

Mike Masnick / Techdirt: AI rules proposed by Chuck Schumer for the US and by the EU may shut more creative and innovative startups out of the market and harm AI tool development  —  It appears the race is on to see whether it will be the EU or the US in promulgating worse regulations around generative AI tools. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Snap’s new revenue-sharing incentive, the Snap Star creator program, shows early signs of traction as part of a broader effort to reverse its declining revenue  —  Social-media app Snapchat is trying to counter declining sales  —  Snap’s efforts to lure creators and their followers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Masnick / Techdirt: AI rules proposed by the EU and Chuck Schumer for the US could shut the more creative and innovative startups out of the market and harm AI tool development  —  It appears the race is on to see whether it will be the EU or the US in promulgating worse regulations around generative AI tools. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joshua Bote / SFGATE: Evernote lays off most of its remaining US and Chile staff, and plans to relocate nearly all its operations to Europe; Bending Spoons acquired Evernote in 2023  —  Evernote, the note-taking app once heralded by Engadget as the “king of note-taking apps,” has laid off most of its staff … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wes Davis / The Verge: Following similar lawsuits, Sarah Silverman and two other authors sue OpenAI and Meta, claiming LLaMA and ChatGPT were trained on copyright-infringing material  —  Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: The Snap Star creator program, Snap’s new revenue-sharing incentive, is showing early signs of traction as part of a broader effort to reverse declining revenue  —  Social-media app Snapchat is trying to counter declining sales  —  Snap’s efforts to lure creators and their followers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Sequoia’s China unit HongShan set up an office in Singapore and may compete with Sequoia’s India-based Peak XV Partners for Southeast Asia investments  —  Plans to expand into south-east Asia dealmaking from city-state puts it in direct competition with India-based Peak XV Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A look at Google’s Med-PaLM 2, an AI chatbot for answering medical questions and more; sources: testing began in April 2023 with customers like the Mayo Clinic  —  Search company is fine-tuning chatbot technology via medical licensing exams  —  Google is testing an artificial-intelligence program trained … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: banking lobby group UK Finance claims 61% of all reported authorized push payment fraud by volume passes through Meta’s apps; ~£485M was stolen in 2022  —  UK Finance presses ministers to force tech companies into taking more responsibility for authorised push payment fraud Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wes Davis / The Verge: Twitter reinstates the older, and much better, version of TweetDeck, and appears to have restored legacy API access, letting some third-party apps work again  —  Overnight, users across Twitter began reporting that the older, and much better, version of TweetDeck has returned along … Lees verder op Tech Meme