Ian Tucker / The Guardian: Q&A with Signal president Meredith Whittaker on how existential warnings about AI might help Big Tech entrench its power, the UK’s Online Safety Bill, and more  —  The president of the not-for-profit messaging app on how she believes existential warnings about AI allow big tech to entrench their power … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amber Ferguson / Washington Post: A look at LUUM, a California eyelash studio using robots with computer vision to apply eyelash extensions, which plans to sell its $60K robots to other studios  —  Is this technology a safe alternative for busy people who dream of semi-permanent wispy lashes? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft plans to bring select games on PC Game Pass to Nvidia GeForce Now in the coming months, letting users stream games with RTX 4080 levels of performance  —  Microsoft is planning to bring PC Game Pass titles to Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming service. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Primack / Axios: a16z plans to open a crypto-focused office in London and leads a $43M round in UK-based Gensyn, which offers a decentralized compute network for training AI  —  America’s largest investor in crypto startups believes that the industry’s future may be across the pond, and is opening … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Meta launches MusicGen, an open-source AI model to generate short pieces of music using text prompts that can optionally be aligned to an existing melody  —  Meta’s MusicGen can generate short new pieces of music based on text prompts, which can optionally be aligned to an existing melody. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft haven’t rolled out their AI chatbots in Hong Kong, adding to a slow creep of tech companies treating the city like mainland China  —  Google and OpenAI haven’t rolled out AI chatbots to city, putting it alongside mainland China and North Korea Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer says he does not “feel an imperative” from users to release a major Xbox upgrade, preferring instead the “hardware we have”  —  Microsoft Corp.’s video gaming chief Phil Spencer said he doesn’t “feel an imperative” to come out with a major upgrade of its Xbox game console. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: A tech reporter on why he bought a 2023 World Book Encyclopedia printed set: nostalgia, permanence, and no AI or human tampering, link rot, or stealth edits  —  The still-updated World Book Encyclopedia is my antidote to the information apocalypse.  —  These days, many of us live online … Lees verder op Tech Meme