Tech Meme

Bethan Staton / Financial Times: Chegg, Duolingo, and other edtech companies insist generative AI has the potential to enhance their products, despite the threat of being undercut by cheap AI  —  Groups including Chegg and Duolingo say new tech presents opportunities as they fight to compete Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin Roose / New York Times: OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and over 350 others release a statement saying mitigating AI extinction risks “should be a global priority”  —  Leaders from OpenAI, Google Deepmind, Anthropic and other A.I. labs warn that future systems could be as deadly as pandemics and nuclear weapons. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: CCData: trading on Gemini dropped ~50% YoY to ~$747M in April; Kaiko says trading fell 46% in January to April from September to December, ~6x Coinbase’s drop  —  Since going all-in on Bitcoin over a decade ago, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have had their share of ups and downs. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Politico: France and Germany dominate the EU’s tech regulation, rarely taking input from the bloc’s smaller tech-oriented members, which worry about hampering innovation  —  When it comes to technology, the countries making the rules aren’t those leading the field. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: How the US is increasingly reshaping the spyware market to favor companies selling cyberweapons to the US and its allies, like Israeli startup Paragon Solutions  —  Contrasting fates of Israeli spyware-makers Paragon and NSO reveal how American support is crucial in $12bn industry Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: JioCinema breaks the global record for the most concurrent views to a live-streamed event with 33M+ viewers for the May 29 IPL final, surpassing Hotstar’s 25.3M  —  India’s JioCinema broke the global record for the most concurrent views to a live streamed event on Monday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dave Lawler / Axios: A look at Ukraine’s Diia app, used by 19M citizens to access digital IDs and other government services, along with an “e-Enemy” feature to report Russian troops  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was elected in 2019 on a pledge to put “the state in a smartphone.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: MCNA Dental, one of the largest US government-sponsored dental insurers, says hackers stole data of ~8.9M people; LockBit claimed responsibility for the attack  —  Managed Care of North America (MCNA) Dental has published a data breach notification on its website, informing almost 9 million patients … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: Glassnode: 14.85% of all ether was held in exchange-controlled wallets on May 25, the lowest level since summer 2016, as staking soaks up the available supply  —  The drop comes as the number of staked ether has surged.  —  The number of ether (ETH) on exchanges has hit a low … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: Tokyo-based Gitai, which develops a robotic arm and a robotic rover for in-space applications, raised a ~$30M Series B extension led by Global Brain Corporation  —  There is a groundswell of commercial space initiatives focused on the moon, with established companies and newer upstarts … Lees verder op Tech Meme