Bloomberg: After damage to four major African subsea internet cables, telecoms are rerouting traffic via Brazil or overland cables; repairs could take three to five weeks  —  – Subsea cable repairs expected to take at least three weeks  — Cables off western coast may have been damaged in landslide Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: A review of OpenAI’s GPT Store finds many GPTs offer bizarre services, potentially infringe on copyright laws, impersonate people, jailbreak ChatGPT, and more  —  When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs, custom chatbots powered by OpenAI’s generative AI models, onstage at the company’s … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Sources: EU Commission rules, set to be adopted as soon as next week, will fine X, TikTok, and other big platforms over lax moderation of AI election content  —  Social media platforms including X and TikTok will face fines for failing to tackle disinformation Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yogita Khatri / The Block: Robinhood rolls out its Robinhood Wallet app on Android, after launching the iOS app and a beta Android app in March 2023  —  – The Android app of Robinhood’s crypto wallet has officially launched.  — Last month, Robinhood said its crypto revenue jumped 10% year over year to $43 million in Q4 of 2023. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: Marc Lore’s food delivery startup Wonder raised $700M from NEA, GV, and others, taking its total funding to $1.5B, and aims to open nearly 100 NYC locations  —  Company plans to open nearly 100 restaurant locations around New York City area over next two years Lees verder op Tech Meme

Forbes: Sources: Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque told staff last week that Robin Rombach and other researchers, the key creators of Stable Diffusion, have resigned  —  Robin Rombach and a group of key researchers that helped develop the Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation model have left the troubled generative AI startup. Lees verder op Tech Meme