Tech Meme

Erin Woo / The Information: Docs: Tiger Global told investors that its $12.7B fund had a paper loss of 20% as of December 2022, down from an 8% loss as of June and 11% loss as of September  —  Tiger Global Management’s $12.7 billion venture fund, launched near the peak of the tech stock boom in October 2021 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Meta’s Oversight Board supports Meta’s content moderation actions during the pandemic but asks Meta to assess its impact on public health and human rights  —  Meta’s Oversight Board — an independent panel the social media giant selected to deliberate its content decisions … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: NYC-based CoreWeave, which provides access to SKUs of Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, raised a $221M Series B at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $371M  —  CoreWeave, an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: Executives, inventors, investors, and lawyers accuse Apple of copying their ideas after talks about partnerships or integrating their tech into Apple products  —  Aspiring partners accuse tech giant of copying their ideas; Apple says it plays by the rules  —  It sounded like a dream partnership … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: OpenAI, which may have trained its models on people’s data without consent, faces legal stakes in the EU, which has strict privacy laws and is conducting probes  —  The company’s AI services may be breaking data protection laws, and there is no resolution in sight. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Imgur plans to ban explicit images from May 15; it will allow artistic nudity but expects problems as it switches to a mix of automatic and human moderation  —  Image hosting platform Imgur is set to ban explicit images on its platform from May 15.  The company updated its terms of service … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: The EU Parliament approves the Markets in Cryptoassets, or MiCA, regulation for the crypto industry, with rules for stablecoins set to apply from July 2024  —  European lawmakers on Thursday gave their final blessing to an ambitious law that will give the European Union its first rules to govern the crypto industry. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: OpenAI, which may have trained its models on people’s data without consent, faces legal stakes in the EU, which has strict privacy laws and is conducting probes  —  The company’s AI services may be breaking data protection laws, and there is no resolution in sight. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Novak / Forbes: Twitter suspends Wired’s Dell Cameron for reporting on anti-trans activist Matt Walsh’s hacked account; Wired denies violating Twitter’s hacked materials policy  —  A reporter at Wired magazine has been banned from Twitter after he wrote about the fact that anti-trans activist Matt Walsh had his Twitter account hacked. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: A look at the India Stack, a set of government-backed APIs on which third parties can build apps integrated with state services for payments, loans, and more  —  New Delhi has pioneered a new approach to online infrastructure in its drive to connect 1.4bn.  But there are privacy and data protection concerns Lees verder op Tech Meme