Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: ByteDance co-founder and CEO Liang Rubo urges staff to resist mediocrity after the company missed the initial wave of generative AI, in a company-wide meeting  —  – Co-founder said the company showed signs of complacency  — Chinese peer Baidu claims its model can rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic: Silicon Valley’s powerful companies claim to embrace Enlightenment values, but instead are leading an antidemocratic, illiberal, and authoritarian technocracy  —  Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology.  It’s past time we call it what it is. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eileen Sullivan / New York Times: US and UK law enforcement are bracing for an explosion of AI-generated CSAM, and criticize Meta, the authorities’ best partner for flagging CSAM, over E2EE  —  Law enforcement officials are bracing for an explosion of material generated by artificial intelligence that realistically depicts children … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Ahead of the Senate hearing, Mark Zuckerberg calls for requiring Apple and Google to verify ages via app stores; Linda Yaccarino and Evan Spiegel support KOSA  —  Heads of Meta and X are among five social media chief executives to face Congress grilling  —  The chief executives of five … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Ahead of the Senate hearing, US lawmakers release 90 pages of internal Meta emails from 2021, showing how Mark Zuckerberg rejected calls to bulk up child safety  —  Lawmakers released internal emails detailing the company’s failed efforts to add staff to focus on the online safety of minors, hours before a hearing on the topic. Lees verder op Tech Meme