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Kate Knibbs / Wired: A profile of Andy Hunter and his ecommerce platform Bookshop.org, which helps indie booksellers set up a digital storefront instead of selling through Amazon  —  Andy Hunter’s ecommerce platform was a pandemic hit.  Now he’s on a mission to prove that small businesses can scale up without selling out. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: a16z, Tiger Global, IVP, and other VCs are touring Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar to build ties with sovereign wealth funds during the funding crunch  —  Liquidity crunch leads investors such as Andreessen Horowitz to sovereign wealth funds in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE Lees verder op Tech Meme

Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: In a Twitter Space, Elon Musk said Twitter is roughly breaking even, the company will tweak the state-affiliated media tag, most advertisers are back, and more  —  The Twitter CEO provided a six month update on his takeover in a live interview with BBC.  —  SAN FRANCISCO … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A US jury finds the former CEO, CFO, and president of digital pharma ad firm Outcome Health guilty of running a ~$1B scheme that defrauded clients and investors  —  Verdict caps fall of startup’s executive team led by Rishi Shah, who could face years in prison Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sunil Jagtiani / Bloomberg: Binance.US plans to delist the TRX token linked to Justin Sun’s Tron from April 18 for failing to meet the expected standard of excellence; TRX drops ~4%  —  The Binance US exchange said the TRX token linked to Justin Sun’s Tron crypto platform will be delisted from April 18, a move that spurred a decline in the digital asset. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ezra Klein / New York Times: Q&A with Alondra Nelson, former deputy director of Biden’s OSTP who spearheaded the White House’s AI Bill of Rights effort, on AI policy challenge and more  —  I’m Ezra Klein.  This is “The Ezra Klein Show.”  —  [MUSIC PLAYING]  —  It would be easy, listening to the discourse about A.I. … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Viola Zhou / Rest of World: Video game illustrators in China say AI image generators are causing them to lose their jobs, as some employers encourage use of AI tools to boost productivity  —  “AI is developing at a speed way beyond our imagination.  Two people could potentially do the work that used to be done by 10. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rachel Swan / San Francisco Chronicle: Recent autonomous vehicle snafus in San Francisco include five Waymo cars jamming an intersection and Cruise recalling software last week after an AV hit a bus  —  Five self-driving vehicles blocked traffic early Tuesday morning in the middle of a residential street in San Francisco’s Balboa … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Kaspersky: malware developers are selling malicious Google Play loaders for $2K-$20K on hacker forums; the average price for a loader is $6,975  —  Malware developers have created a thriving market promising to add malicious Android apps to Google Play for $2,000 to $20,000 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joseph Brookes / InnovationAus.com: Australia-based Fivecast, whose AI-powered software can help companies and governments monitor potential threats, raised a ~$20M Series A led by Ten Eleven  —  Australian software startup Fivecast on Tuesday announced it had closed its AU$30 million Series A. The round … Lees verder op Tech Meme