Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The BEUC and its members follow noyb in filing a complaint against Meta’s €9.99+/month subscriptions in the EU, saying the tier amounts to charging for privacy  —  Meta Platforms’ (META.O) advertising-free subscription service, a fee-based offering rolled out in Europe this month … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: Google rolls out updates to Android, Wear OS, and Google TV devices, including adding AI-created image descriptions and an Assistant Routines feature  —  Wear OS and Google TV are also getting new tools.  —  Google is rolling out a trio of system updates to Android, Wear OS and Google TV devices. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: TikTok plans to spend €12B over 10 years in Europe, including on three data centers and a security audit, as the company begins work on its Norway data center  —  TikTok says it will spend €12 billion as part of an ongoing push to ingratiate itself with European regulators … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: How OpenAI’s low-key ChatGPT launch a year ago kickstarted a generational shift in the tech industry and what it means for the future of AI and the world  —  OpenAI didn’t mean to kickstart a generational shift in the technology industry.  But it did.  Now all we have to decide is where to go from here. Lees verder op Tech Meme