Tech Meme

Iain Martin / Forbes: Filing: TikTok’s European revenue grew to $4.57B in 2023, up from $2.6B in 2022; losses almost tripled from $512M to $1.3B; ByteDance set aside $1B for EU fines  —  Bytedance has set aside the ten-figure sum to pay regulatory fines in Europe while facing a barrage of investigations … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: The US NLRB accuses Apple of interfering with workers’ rights to organize by restricting their social media and Slack use, its second Apple complaint in a month  —  Apple (AAPL.O) has been accused by a U.S. labor board of interfering with workers’ rights to collectively advocate … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: in negotiations with California lawmakers, Google insisted that the state use taxpayer funds, as a precondition to spending $110M to support journalism  —  – Tech giant, state to spend $180 million to aid news industry  — Company pushed for taxpayer funds; beat back tougher bills Lees verder op Tech Meme

Business Insider: Experts question the feasibility of Tesla’s robotaxi plan, getting scale without rideshare partners, and cite Musk’s history of missed FSD dates; TSLA drops 8%+  —  – Tesla’s driverless taxi plan has been met with skepticism over its feasibility and competition with rivals. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Filing: in OpenAI’s $6.6B round, Khosla Ventures invested $405M, the majority of which was pooled from other investors through a special purpose vehicle  —  Khosla Ventures has raised $405 million for OpenAI, according to a regulatory filing.  —  Based on the filing alone … Lees verder op Tech Meme

NPR: Faulty court filing redactions: TikTok executives were unconcerned with the harms the app poses for US teenagers, despite internal research validating concerns  —  For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Adam Mosseri attributes Instagram and Threads’ moderation issues, causing users to lose access to their accounts, to human moderator “mistakes”, not AI systems  —  Instagram head Adam Mosseri on Friday addressed the moderation issues that saw Instagram and Threads users losing access … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: A look at Elon Musk’s unparalleled involvement in the US election; sources: Trump’s campaign contacted X to stop the circulation of the hacked JD Vance dossier  —  Elon Musk is planting himself in Pennsylvania, has brought his brain trust to help and may even knock on doors himself. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Sources: Microsoft plans to test the streaming of games that users own and are not part of the Xbox Game Pass library, starting with Xbox Insiders in November  —  Microsoft is planning to support the streaming of Xbox game libraries next month.  Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Business Insider: Experts question the feasibility of Tesla’s robotaxi plan, getting scale without rideshare partners, and cite Musk’s history of missed FSD dates; TSLA down 8%+  —  – Tesla’s driverless taxi plan has been met with skepticism over its feasibility and competition with rivals. Lees verder op Tech Meme