Dan Milmo / The Guardian: Over 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, “co-write” a “silent” album to protest a UK proposal letting AI train on their copyrighted work if they don’t opt out  —  Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK’s plans to let AI train on their work without permission Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Trump’s team plans tougher US chip curbs and have met with Dutch and Japanese counterparts, urging them to tighten restrictions on China’s chip sector  —  – US, Dutch, Japanese officials met about chip gear maintenance  — Trump team eyeing more Nvidia curbs, Chinese company sanctions Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Epic v. Apple: Phil Schiller says he initially feared Apple’s 27% App Store fee posed a compliance risk and could create “antagonistic” developer relations  —  Apple Fellow Phil Schiller, the executive in charge of leading the App Store, testified in court on Monday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX seeks to deploy Starlink terminals for the FAA, raising questions about Musk’s conflicts of interest and a $2B FAA contract Verizon won in 2023  —  Elon Musk’s SpaceX is seeking to deploy Starlink satellite internet terminals to help accelerate an upgrade … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: Claude 3.7 and Grok 3 are the first Gen3 AI models with big gains in handling complex tasks, using 10x more compute than GPT-4-class models and better reasoning  —  Yes, AI suddenly got better… again  —  I have been experimenting with the first two Gen3 AI models, Claude 3.7 and Grok 3, for the last few days. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brendan Pierson / Reuters: DoorDash agrees to pay $16.75M to settle a lawsuit by NY’s AG accusing it of pocketing customers’ tips for delivery drivers between May 2017 and September 2019  —  DoorDash (DASH.O) has agreed to pay $16.75 million to settle a lawsuit by New York’s attorney general accusing it of pocketing customers’ tips … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: Analysis: Apple’s announcement of spending over $500B in the US over four years is in line with what one might expect it to spend anyway, given its financials  —  One big benefit to being the size of Apple AAPL 0.95%increase; green up pointing triangle is the ability to throw around huge numbers while in the normal course of business. Lees verder op Tech Meme