Tech Meme

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: A US court rules bZx protocol meets the definition of a general partnership and finds token holders of the DAO liable for losses from a $55M hack in 2021  —  Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are beginning to look like general partnerships in the eyes of U.S. courts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: The UK CMA launches an in-depth probe, which can take up to six months, of Broadcom’s $69B VMware acquisition, after Broadcom failed to address concerns  —  Britain said it would investigate Broadcom’s (AVGO.O) acquisition of VMware (VMW.N) in depth after the U.S. chipmaker offered … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Santiago Pérez / Wall Street Journal: How two former hosts on Russian state TV became key advisers to the Salvadoran government’s adoption of bitcoin while having crypto investments in the country  —  Former Russia state TV hosts advise government and have crypto investments in the country  —  SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Santiago Pérez / Wall Street Journal: How two former hosts on Russian state TV became key advisers to the Salvadoran government’s adoption of bitcoin while having crypto investments in the country  —  Former Russia state TV hosts advise government and have crypto investments in the country  —  SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Delphine Strauss / Financial Times: Goldman Sachs research: generative AI could increase annual global GDP by 7% over a 10-year period and expose 300M full-time jobs to automation globally  —  Technology could boost global GDP by 7% but also risks creating ‘significant disruption’  —  The latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Berlin-based Hygraph, which offers a federated digital content management service, raised a $30M Series B led by One Peak, bringing its total funding to $43.7M  —  Digital content and how we consume it continue to endlessly evolve, and with that, so too does the tech that helps manage all of it behind the scenes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Indu Bhan / The Economic Times: An Indian appellate tribunal upholds the ~$160M fine imposed on Google by the Competition Commission of India in the Android antitrust case  —  The NCLAT, an appellate authority for orders passed by the CCI, had started its hearing in the Android matter on February 15 following a directive by the Supreme Court. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tracy Wen Liu / Wired: TikTok, Amazon, and others struggle to adopt China’s livestream ecommerce model in the US, as experts blame differences between US and Chinese consumer behavior  —  Selling over livestreams is a $40 billion business in China.  But Americans just aren’t responding. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Future of Life Institute: Over 1,000 people, including CEOs and researchers, sign an open letter urging AI labs to pause training systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months  —  We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.  —  Signatures Lees verder op Tech Meme

Santiago Pérez / Wall Street Journal: How two former hosts on Russian state TV became key advisers to the Salvadoran government’s adoption of bitcoin while having crypto investments in the country  —  Former Russia state TV hosts advise government and have crypto investments in the country  —  SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador … Lees verder op Tech Meme