Clive Cookson / Financial Times: A look at the UK’s new DARPA-inspired Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), which has a four-year £800M budget to invest in breakthrough tech like AI  —  Head of Advanced Research and Invention Agency tells FT it has appointed directors charged with selecting projects Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Didi says it has agreed to sell its smart car development arm to Xpeng, one of China’s largest EV makers, for ~$744M  —  Didi Global Inc. has agreed to sell its smart car development arm to Xpeng Inc. for HK$5.84 billion ($744 million), exiting a promising business in the world’s largest electric vehicle market. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Clive Cookson / Financial Times: A look at the UK’s new DARPA-inspired Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), which has a four-year £800M budget to invest in breakthrough tech like AI  —  Head of Advanced Research and Invention Agency tells FT it has appointed directors charged with selecting projects Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Hackers breached WebDetetive, an Android spyware app used mainly in Brazil, and deleted victims’ stolen data; Poland-based LetMeSpy was similarly hacked in June  —  The Portuguese-language app WebDetetive was used to compromise over 76,000 phones to date  —  A Portuguese-language spyware … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wes Davis / The Verge: Linus Tech Tips founder Linus Sebastian addresses the theft allegations and ethical missteps, but not sexual harassment claims, that prompted a production pause  —  Linus Media Group (LMG) founder Linus Sebastian explained LMG’s HR policies and how it will improve accuracy and ethics in a video posted to YouTube last night. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Hunt / The Block: A Pepe memecoin team member says three former colleagues stole ~16T Pepe tokens worth $15M from the project’s multisig before selling them on crypto exchanges  —  – Approximately 16 trillion Pepe tokens ($15 million) were illicitly transferred to crypto exchanges OKX, Binance … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is planning a new iPad Pro for 2024, the device’s first major overhaul since 2018, featuring an M3, OLED display, and a revamped Magic Keyboard  —  Apple is working on a revamped iPad Pro for next year, aiming to shake up a tablet market that’s deep in the doldrums. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benedict Evans: A look at the ethical and legal issues around generative AI, which makes things that were previously only possible on a small scale practical at a massive scale  —  We’ve been talking about intellectual property in one way or another for at least the last five hundred years … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gillian Tett / Financial Times: How LLMs are impacting computational humor, an AI subfield that uses computers to create jokes, as some comedians begin using AI chatbots for improv and roasts  —  Machines are getting better at making us laugh — and challenging our notions of humanity in the process Lees verder op Tech Meme