Wall Street Journal: Citizen Lab: Russia’s PROTEI is selling internet censorship software to Iranian telco Ariantel, for monitoring and intercepting all Iranians’ communications  —  Tehran is receiving advanced surveillance software after providing drones for Ukraine battlefield  —  How We Know Russia Is Using Iranian Drones in Ukraine Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft is near a deal with cloud providers OVHcloud, Aruba, and Danish Cloud Community to pull their antitrust complaints to the European Commission  —  Microsoft Corp. is close to a settlement with a trio of cloud providers to suspend their antitrust complaints to the European Commission … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stratechery: Plugins turn ChatGPT into an aggregator, signaling a major shift in ambition that puts OpenAI well on its way to becoming the next major consumer tech platform  —  Yesterday’s episode of Sharp Tech discussed AI risk and the incredibly uncertain environment we are entering. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: Discounting AI’s short-term risks, from phishing to fraud to propaganda, because artificial general intelligence is not here yet leaves society ill-prepared  —  Superintelligence may or may not be imminent.  But there’s a lot to be worried about, either way.  —  Is AI going to kill us all? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kari McMahon / The Block: EigenLabs, working on an ETH “restaking” protocol, raised a $50M Series A led by Blockchain Capital, with Coinbase Ventures, Polychain Capital among investors  —  – EigenLabs, the team behind restaking protocol EigenLayer, closed its $50 million Series A funding round. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: In a bid to compete with GitHub Copilot, Google partners with AI coding company Replit, which will use Google’s LLMs for its Ghostwriter product  —  Alphabet Inc.’s Google is striking a partnership to combine its artificial intelligence language models with software from startup Replit Inc … Lees verder op Tech Meme