Tech Meme

Erin Griffith / New York Times: Tech entrepreneurs who left the Bay Area during the pandemic are returning, saying they can’t miss out on the funding, hackathons, and networking of the AI boom  —  Tech entrepreneurs who left the Bay Area during the pandemic say they can’t afford to miss out on the funding … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: The European Commission approves €8B in state subsidies for chip research, added 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

Bloomberg: Toronto-based Cohere, which builds LLMs for users, raised $270M led by Inovia Capital, a source says at a $2.1B to $2.2B valuation, taking its funding to ~$445M  —  Artificial intelligence startup Cohere has raised $270 million from a mix of venture capital and strategic investors including Oracle Corp … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vulture: Hollywood insiders reflect on the end of “Peak TV”, an era kickstarted by Netflix releasing House of Cards 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, added 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 Burgess / Wired: South Korean NGO Pscore details the limited online life of North Koreans, based on interviews and surveys, including a days-long approval process to get online  —  New testimony from defectors reveals pervasive surveillance and monitoring of limited internet connections. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Paris-based Pigment, which plans to build a business planning tool, raised an $88M Series C led by Iconiq Growth, after a $65M Series B+ in September 2022  —  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

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: A look at what the SEC and crypto industry learned from the SEC’s ICO enforcement actions in 2017, why the SEC is targeting only 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

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

Ewen MacAskill / The Guardian: On the 10th anniversary of his revelations, Edward Snowden says he has “no regrets” and “2013 seems like child’s play” versus current surveillance capabilities  —  But whistleblower says 2013 surveillance ‘child’s play’ compared to technology today Lees verder op Tech Meme