Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: The EU’s Court of Justice says Google’s refusal to let Italian energy company Enel host an EV charging app on Android Auto might break EU competition rules  —  The ruling comes after a years-long dispute between the Italian energy company and the tech giant over how it manages access to Android Auto Lees verder op Tech Meme

CNBC: Chegg sues Google, saying AI Overviews hurt its traffic and revenue, as it mulls strategic options, including an acquisition; CHGG drops 20%+ pre-market  —  Chegg on Monday filed suit in federal district court against Google, claiming that artificial intelligence summaries of search results … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX seeks to deploy Starlink terminals for the FAA, raising questions about Elon Musk’s conflicts of interest and Verizon’s $2B FAA contract 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” models with big gains in handling complex tasks, using 10x more compute than GPT-4-class models, and better reasoning  —  Note: After publishing this piece, I was contacted by Anthropic who told me that Sonnet 3.7 would not be considered … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Milmo / The Guardian: Kate Bush and 1,000+ other musicians “co-write” a “silent” album to protest the UK’s proposal to let 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

Faris Mokhtar / Bloomberg: Sources: Indonesia and Apple agree a deal to lift the iPhone 16 ban, with Apple set to invest $1B; a memorandum of agreement may be signed this week  —  – Tech giant has promised to invest $1 billion in Indonesia  — Deal would be win for Prabowo after series of policy setbacks Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Vimeo CEO Philip Moyer on going back to its roots as a YouTube rival, TikTok, algorithmic video platform incentives, AI video not taking off, and more  —  AI tools are here to stay, Moyer says, but Vimeo wants to build on ‘authenticity.’  —  AI tools are here to stay, Moyer says … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jaspreet Kalra / Reuters: CoinGecko: crypto trading volume on India’s four largest exchanges more than doubled QoQ to $1.9B in Q4 2024, as many young Indians trade to supplement income  —  Like thousands of his countrymen in far-flung places, flower-shop owner Ashish Nagose has been learning about trading cryptocurrencies … Lees verder op Tech Meme