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Saudi Arabia-backed Savvy Games Group has spent ~$8B of its $38B war chest acquiring and building stakes in gaming companies globally in the past 18 months (Financial Times) 13-06-2023

Financial Times: Saudi Arabia-backed Savvy Games Group has spent ~$8B of its $38B war chest acquiring and building stakes in gaming companies globally in the past 18 months  —  Savvy shells out $8bn on deals in 18 months in rapid push to diversify revenues and acquire soft power Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jack Dorsey says India threatened to shut Twitter down unless the company complied with orders during farmer protests, a claim India calls an “outright lie” (Reuters) 13-06-2023

Reuters: Jack Dorsey says India threatened to shut Twitter down unless the company complied with orders during farmer protests, a claim India calls an “outright lie”  —  Twitter was threatened with shut down in India, Nigeria and Turkey unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The EU reaches a long-awaited deal on rules that could let 28M gig workers get social security and more, and plans to discuss the proposals with its parliament (Financial Times) 13-06-2023

Financial Times: The EU reaches a long-awaited deal on rules that could let 28M gig workers get social security and more, and plans to discuss the proposals with its parliament  —  Member states agree to rules that could give employment benefits to Uber drivers and food delivery riders Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amazon tests generative AI product review summaries, giving an overview of what customers liked and disliked alongside with an “AI-generated” disclaimer (Annie Palmer/CNBC) 13-06-2023

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon tests generative AI product review summaries, giving an overview of what customers liked and disliked alongside with an “AI-generated” disclaimer  —  – Amazon is testing the use of artificial intelligence to generate summaries of reviews left on some products. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jack Dorsey says India threatened to shut Twitter down unless it complied with orders during farmer protests, a claim called an “outright lie” by the government (Reuters) 13-06-2023

Reuters: Jack Dorsey says India threatened to shut Twitter down unless it complied with orders during farmer protests, a claim called an “outright lie” by the government  —  Twitter was threatened with shut down in India, Nigeria and Turkey unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Google's Search Generative Experience seems like an “AI plagiarism engine” that cobbles together snippets of text from a variety of sites, often word-for-word (Avram Piltch/Tom's Hardware) 13-06-2023

Avram Piltch / Tom’s Hardware: Google’s Search Generative Experience seems like an “AI plagiarism engine” that cobbles together snippets of text from a variety of sites, often word-for-word  —  The Search Generative Experience seems more like a text-copying experience.  —  Search has always been the Internet’s most important utility. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jack Dorsey says India threatened to shut Twitter down unless it complied with orders during farmer protests, a claim called an “outright lie” by the government (Kanishka Singh/Reuters) 13-06-2023

Kanishka Singh / Reuters: Jack Dorsey says India threatened to shut Twitter down unless it complied with orders during farmer protests, a claim called an “outright lie” by the government  —  Twitter was threatened with shut down in India, Nigeria and Turkey unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filings: a nonbinding proposal on whether Marc Benioff should continue as Salesforce's board chairman got 23% of votes versus ~37% in 2022; CRM rose 61% in 2023 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) 13-06-2023

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Filings: a nonbinding proposal on whether Marc Benioff should continue as Salesforce’s board chairman got 23% of votes versus ~37% in 2022; CRM rose 61% in 2023  —  Salesforce Inc. shareholder support for Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff grew in the past year following a tussle … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The EU reaches a long-awaited deal on rules that could allow 28M gig workers to get social security and more, and will discuss the proposals with the parliament (Financial Times) 13-06-2023

Financial Times: The EU reaches a long-awaited deal on rules that could allow 28M gig workers to get social security and more, and will discuss the proposals with the parliament  —  Member states agree to rules that could give employment benefits to Uber drivers and food delivery riders Lees verder op Tech Meme

Insight Partners slashes the $20B target for its latest fund to $15B, after raising just $2B since June 2022, citing a “great reset in tech” (Financial Times) 13-06-2023

Financial Times: Insight Partners slashes the $20B target for its latest fund to $15B, after raising just $2B since June 2022, citing a “great reset in tech”  —  New York-based venture capital firm said it will scale back the pace of its dealmaking as valuations have slumped Lees verder op Tech Meme