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

Reuters: Honda, GM, and Cruise plan to set up a joint venture in H1 2024 to launch a driverless ride service in Japan in early 2026, using their Cruise Origin vehicles  —  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 offers a recruitment and HR platform, raised a AU$263M Series F at a AU$2.13B valuation, taking its total funding to AU$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

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: SecureW2, whose zero-trust platform helps companies use certificate-based authentication from identity software providers, raised $80M from Insight Partners  —  Passwordless security startup SecureW2 Inc. said today it has closed on a hefty $80 million funding round from the software-focused venture capital firm Insight Partners LLC. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natalie Alms / Nextgov/FCW: The US GSA plans to add facial recognition tech to Login.gov in 2024 and another digital identity verification option for those who don’t want to use the tech  —  The General Services Administration is changing its digital identity service to allow users to authenticate themselves by matching … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google updates Play Protect with real-time scanning at the code level, which prompts users to scan unknown Android apps before sideloading, starting with India  —  To avoid detection, Google has found that malicious parties are looking beyond the Play Store to infect Android devices with malware. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: the UK plans to announce an international advisory group on AI, loosely modeled on the UN’s IPCC, at the November 2023 AI summit in Bletchley Park  —  The British government wants to draw on expert knowledge about the fast-developing technology  —  The UK is planning to announce … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Susan D’Agostino / Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Q&A with Yoshua Bengio on nuance in headlines about AI, taboos among AI researchers, and why top researchers may disagree about AI’s potential risks to humanity  —  Editor’s note: This article was commissioned by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is also published in WIRED. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Mustafa Suleyman, Eric Schmidt, and others propose an IPCC-like International Panel on AI Safety, an objective advisory body to help shape protocols and norms  —  An International Panel on AI Safety could offer an objective body to help shape protocols and norms Lees verder op Tech Meme