Tech Meme

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Sources: to avoid a formal antitrust investigation by EU regulators, Microsoft agrees to stop bundling Teams with Office, after a complaint from Slack to the EU  —  Tech giant makes concession in an attempt to avoid formal EU antitrust investigation and follows complaint by rival Slack Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Snapchat sees a spike in 1-star reviews in the US App Store as users pan My AI, its GPT-powered chatbot feature that launched to all users globally on April 19  —  The user reviews for Snapchat’s “My AI” feature are in — and they’re not good.  Launched last week to global users after initially … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Martine Paris / Forbes: Pop star Grimes tells fans to create AI-generated music using her voice, saying she will split 50% royalties, the same deal as “with any artist I collab with”  —  In the wake of the AI-generated hit Heart on My Sleeve going viral with deepfakes of multi-platinum artists Drake and The Weeknd … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: The trial of Nathaniel Chastain, a former OpenSea PM accused of NFT insider trading, begins this week, one of the first such cases involving digital assets  —  U.S. prosecutors will square off this week against a former employee of OpenSea, the world’s largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: Analysts, investors, and founders expect a hard year for tech, including more down rounds; PitchBook says 400+ unicorns, or one-third, haven’t raised since 2021  —  The startup world has had a tough year — plagued by mass layoffs, plummeting venture capital investment and the chaotic collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Blake Brittain / Reuters: SCOTUS declines to hear a case regarding AI-generated inventions, after a lower court ruled patents can be issued only to human inventors, not AI systems  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to the U.S. Patent … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: A US appeals court affirms a lower court’s 2021 ruling largely rejecting claims by Epic that Apple’s App Store policy banning third-party app stores was illegal  —  Apple Inc. won an appeals court ruling upholding its App Store’s policies in an antitrust challenge brought by Epic Games Inc. Lees verder op Tech Meme

John Kruzel / Reuters: SCOTUS agrees to hear two First Amendment cases about government officials blocking critics on social media, after a similar Donald Trump Twitter case in 2021  —  The U.S. Supreme Court, exploring free speech rights in the social media era, on Monday agreed to consider whether the Constitution’s … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Sources: to avoid an official antitrust probe by EU regulators, Microsoft agrees to stop bundling Teams with Office, following a complaint from Slack to the EU  —  Tech giant makes concession in an attempt to avoid formal EU antitrust investigation and follows complaint by rival Slack Lees verder op Tech Meme

Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: A look at Alethea, Graphika, and other startups that raised $300M+ from 2018 to 2022 to fight disinformation, charging companies and governments $100K+ per year  —  Shawn Eib was on the case as soon as customers started pulling billions of dollars from Silicon Valley Bank. Lees verder op Tech Meme