Reuters: Honda plans to set up a joint venture with GM and Cruise in H1 2024 to begin a driverless ride service in Japan in early 2026, starting with central Tokyo  —  Honda Motor said on Thursday that it aims to set up a joint venture with General Motors (GM.N) and Cruise to begin a driverless ride service in Japan in early 2026. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Sydney-based Employment Hero, which provides a recruitment and HR platform, raised a A$263M Series F at a A$2.13B valuation, taking its total funding to A$650M  —  Sydney company surpasses billion-dollar (USD) valuation  —  In a startup world where down rounds prevail and much beyond low-million Series … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Meta plans to roll out its Telegram-like broadcast channels on Facebook and Messenger in the coming weeks, after launching the feature on Instagram and WhatsApp  —  Meta is bringing its Telegram-like “broadcast channels” feature to Facebook and Messenger after rolling it out to Instagram and WhatsApp earlier this year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin Roose / New York Times: Stanford unveils the Foundation Model Transparency Index, featuring 100 indicators; Llama 2 led at 54%, GPT-4 placed third at 48%, and PaLM 2 took fifth at 40%  —  Stanford researchers have ranked 10 major A.I. models on how openly they operate.  —  How much do we know about A.I.? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Clearview AI wins an appeal against the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, which imposed a ~£7.5M fine in May 2022 for alleged breaches of local privacy laws  —  Controversial US facial recognition company, Clearview AI, has won an appeal against a privacy sanction issued by the U.K. last year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Matousek / The Information: Internal message: Discord shuts down Gas nine months after acquiring the app, which let users anonymously compliment friends and had ~1M DAUs in October 2022  —  Nikita Bier has done it again.  Nine months after he sold anonymous-compliments app Gas to Discord, the app is being shut down, Discord CEO Jason Citron has told employees. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord Music Group, and ABKCO sue Anthropic for allegedly violating their copyrights by using song lyrics to train AI models  —  The lawsuit claims that ‘Anthropic profits richly from its infringement of Publishers’ repertoires and other copyright owners’ works’ Lees verder op Tech Meme