Tech Meme

Sam Sabin / Axios: Google releases a conceptual framework for companies to quickly secure AI systems against hackers trying to manipulate AI models  —  – One example is social media, where users were so eager to connect with one another on new platforms that they paid little scrutiny to how user data was collected, shared or protected. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: The European Commission approves €8B in state subsidies for chip research, adding to €13.7B in private funding for ~€22B in total, as part of the EU’s Chips Act  —  Semiconductor research projects with €8 billion ($8.6 billion) in public funds were approved … Lees verder op Tech Meme

William Turvill / Press Gazette: Google plans to launch the US version of its News Showcase aggregation service this summer, after announcing it in October 2020  —  Partner publications include the Wall Street Journal, AP, Reuters and Bloomberg.  —  Google will launch the US edition of its News Showcase aggregation platform this summer … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: The European Court of Justice strikes down Barcelona’s 2018 restrictions on ride-hailing licenses, which could help services like Uber and Cabify across Europe  —  ECJ’s verdict will allow likes of Uber and Cabify to increase presence in Catalan city  —  A top EU court has struck … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vulture: Hollywood insiders discuss the end of Peak TV, an era started by Netflix dropping House of Cards’ first season in one go in 2013, as streaming services cut back  —  If you call a slew of Hollywood’s most powerful showrunners, studio chiefs, agents, and operators and ask them to describe … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: The European Commission approves €8B in state subsidies for chip research, adding to €13.7B in private funding for ~€22B in total, as part of the EU’s Chips Act  —  Semiconductor research projects with €8 billion ($8.6 billion) in public funds were approved … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: A look at what the SEC and the crypto industry learned from the SEC’s ICO enforcement actions in 2017, why the SEC is suing only over select tokens, and more  —  SEC v. crypto exchanges  —  The US Securities and Exchange Commission began cracking down on crypto in 2017. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company: Adobe rolls out Firefly to businesses and offers “full indemnification” for copyright infringement lawsuits over any content created in the generative AI tool  —  Adobe is so confident in Firefly’s ability to respect creators’ copyrighted images that it’ll legally compensate businesses … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Paris-based Pigment, a business planning and forecasting service that integrates with Salesforce and other tools, raised an $88M Series C led by Iconiq Growth  —  Paris-based startup Pigment has raised a Series C round of $88 million — the investment was led by Iconiq Growth. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: The Cyberspace Administration of China plans tighter controls on file-sharing tools like AirDrop that protestors in China and Hong Kong used in recent years  —  Services enabling instant mass communication without internet access face scrutiny after they were used by protesters Lees verder op Tech Meme