Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Chinese Premier Li Qiang met executives from Alibaba, JD, Meituan, and others and pledged more support as China’s tech crackdown eases and its economy weakens  —  Chinese Premier Li Qiang met with executives from the country’s leading technology firms including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Colin Lecher / The Markup: A Democratic report finds popular tax filing tools inappropriately and “recklessly” transmitted data to Meta and Google for years; tax data is tightly regulated  —  The investigation was opened in response to work published last year by The Markup Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: The UK CMA says it will not accept new remedies from Microsoft over Activision but would consider a restructured deal, which may require a fresh investigation  —  Britain’s competition regulator said on Wednesday that a new restructured Microsoft-Activision deal could require a fresh merger investigation. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: The European Securities and Markets Authority issues detailed proposals on crypto companies under the EU’s MiCA law; more are expected in October and early 2024  —  Consultations cover authorization and conflict-of-interest rules for crypto companies under the landmark digital assets regulation Lees verder op Tech Meme

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The EU approves Broadcom’s $61B VMware deal, provided Broadcom adheres to its access and interoperability commitments; UK and US approval is still pending  —  U.S. chipmaker Broadcom (AVGO.O) secured EU antitrust approval on Wednesday for its $61 billion proposed acquisition of cloud computing firm VMware … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Deck / Rest of World: A look at the global freelancer labor force on sites like 99designs, some of whom are early generative AI adopters and are most at risk of being replaced by AI  —  The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.  —  R Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: India’s IT minister says the Foxconn-Vedanta venture ended due to “internalissues” and “doesn’t affect” the chip program; Foxconn plans to seek new partners  —  Minister says both companies will still pursue chip projects in India  —  India’s minister for technology … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Prolific, which stress tests AI models through its network of 120K human participants, raised £25M co-led by Partech and Oxford Science Enterprises  —  AI, when it works well, can feel like magic, but all too often AI-based systems don’t work as they should … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Emails: Urs Holzle, Google employee no. 8, plans to step back from management after 24 years, becoming an “individual contributor” as Google shakes up Cloud  —  – Employee No. 8 Urs Holzle will step back from management after 24 years, CNBC has learned. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Prolific, which stress tests AI models through its network of 120K human participants, raised £25M co-led by Partech and Oxford Science Enterprises  —  AI, when it works well, can feel like magic, but all too often AI-based systems don’t work as they should … Lees verder op Tech Meme