Dana Hull / Bloomberg: Maine’s attorney general says Tesla’s May 2023 data breach impacted 75,735 people, included employee-related records, and was a result of “insider wrongdoing”  —  – Data breach included employee-related records, Maine AG says  — Tesla says two former employees shared info with Handelsblatt Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: Interviews with 30+ of Elon Musk’s colleagues and dozens of others detail his growing power, childhood, career, politics, role in Russia’s Ukraine war, and more  —  How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: YouTube and Universal Music Group partner to explore new products, using music in AI tools, and paying artists whose work is used to make AI-generated content  —  YouTube has recruited Frank Sinatra’s estate and other Universal Music Group UMG .39%increase; green up pointing triangle acts … Lees verder op Tech Meme

AI Snake Oil: An August 17 paper on ChatGPT’s political biases seems to have many flaws, like poor prompts and testing an older model, but the broader topic merits research  —  A new paper making this claim has many flaws.  But the question merits research.  —  Previous research has shown … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Iain Martin / Forbes: Blockchain Capital co-founder Bart Stephens sues hacker who stole $6.3M via a SIM-swap attack; FBI: ~$72M was stolen via SIM swaps in 2022, up from $68M in 2021  —  Bart Stephens, cofounder and managing partner of crypto fund Blockchain Capital who was an early and prominent evangelist for cryptocurrencies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple Podcasts adds Subscription Analytics, integrates its analytics into the marketing platform Linkfire, and adds more hosting providers to Delegated Delivery  —  Apple announced today several new updates to its podcast creator tools, including, most notably, the addition … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Instacart, Databricks, and Socure are among the candidates expected to launch IPOs by 2024, as Arm’s upcoming IPO is set to gauge investors’ sentiment  —  Instacart, Databricks and Socure are among the private tech companies reconsidering a stock market flotation Lees verder op Tech Meme

Harry McCracken / Fast Company: Interviews with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, CTO Kevin Scott, and other Microsoft executives on AI, a decade of AI investments, Office Copilots, Bing, and more  —  “In general, I get excited by new things,” says the CEO.  The story of a transformative moment that’s been a decade in the making. Lees verder op Tech Meme