Tech Meme

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: Meta says it will let classified ad firms in Europe pay to place their listings on Facebook Marketplace, after a pilot with eBay, following the EU’s €798M fine  —  – Company was fined €798 million by EU for abusing dominance  — Move to open up Facebook Marketplace will come with costs Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: EnCharge AI, which claims its AI accelerators use 20x less energy to run workloads compared with other chips, raised a $100M+ Series B led by Tiger Global  —  EnCharge AI, a semiconductor startup developing analog memory chips for AI applications, has raised more than $100 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: YouTube updates Shorts to integrate Google DeepMind’s latest video model Veo 2, letting creators generate AI video clips to add to any of their Shorts  —  YouTube Shorts is integrating with Google DeepMind’s latest video model, Veo 2, allowing creators to generate AI video clips for their posts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: Apple continues to work with Baidu to develop AI search and Siri features for iPhone users in China even after onboarding new partner Alibaba  —  Apple continues to work with Baidu to develop artificial intelligence features for iPhone users in China even after onboarding new partner Alibaba Group … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: Meta says it will let classified ad firms in Europe pay to place their listings on Facebook Marketplace, after a pilot with eBay, following the EU’s €798M fine  —  – Company was fined €798 million by EU for abusing dominance  — Move to open up Facebook Marketplace will come with costs Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: The Atlantic, Politico, Vox and others sue Cohere, alleging it used copyrighted works to train its LLM and shared versions of entire articles without permission  —  Lawsuit accuses Canadian company of sharing versions of entire articles without permission  —  The Atlantic, Politico … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joseph Menn / Washington Post: Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Andy Biggs write to National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard asking her to demand the UK retract its back door request to Apple  —  Letter urges new intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard to take resolute action to stymie a top ally’s controversial and confidential order. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Germany’s Bundeskartellamt charges Apple with abusing its market power via App Tracking Transparency, giving itself preferential treatment, and requires changes  —  The German antitrust authority has charged Apple (AAPL.O) with abusing its market power through its app tracking tool … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: Alibaba Chair Joe Tsai says Apple will use the Chinese tech giant’s AI tech on iPhones sold in China, speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai  —  “Apple has been very selective, they talked to a number of companies in China, and in the end they choose to do business with us … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Markup: Investigation: Match Group, which runs 12+ dating apps, has known for years about abusive and violent users, but chooses to leave millions of people in the dark  —  The company behind more than a dozen dating apps, Match Group, has known for years about the abusive users on its platforms … Lees verder op Tech Meme