C.C. Weiss / New Atlas: Natron Energy starts production of sodium-ion batteries that it says charge and discharge 10x faster than lithium-ion, initially for use at data centers  —  Two years ago, sodium-ion battery pioneer Natron Energy was busy preparing its specially formulated sodium batteries for mass production. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times: How the AI-generated music video for Washed Out’s The Hardest Part was created entirely using OpenAI’s Sora, a first from a major record label  —  “The Hardest Part,” a new song from indie pop artist Washed Out, is all about love lost, among the most human of themes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nico Grant / New York Times: Google employees have mostly ignored the DOJ’s antitrust case, and some expect only small business tweaks and some fines; closing arguments concluded on May 3  —  They shrugged off concerns about the company’s fate ahead of closing arguments in the Justice Department’s lawsuit this week. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable: Google updates its ad policy to ban the promotion of services that generate, distribute, or store synthetic sexually explicit content, starting May 30, 2024  —  Google Ads, Shopping Ads, Admob, and other Google Ads products will soon disallow deepfake sexual content, synthetic sexually explicit content … Lees verder op Tech Meme