Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Filings: BlackRock cut the valuation of India’s most valuable startup Byju’s from $22B to $11.5B and Invesco cut Swiggy’s valuation from $10.7B to ~$8B  —  Some of the biggest Indian startups are taking a haircut in their valuations, at least in the eyes of their investors … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A profile of Sam Altman, whose social-minded capitalism may make him the ideal CEO for OpenAI as some say he’s too commercially minded to lead a tech revolution  —  The CEO behind ChatGPT navigates the line between developing artificial intelligence on the cutting edge and pushing technology to dystopia Lees verder op Tech Meme

Clothilde Goujard / Politico: Italy’s privacy regulator temporarily bans ChatGPT and probes OpenAI, claiming the company has no legal basis for “mass collection and storage of personal data”  —  The Italian privacy regulator Friday ordered a ban on ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Q&A with Sundar Pichai on being careful with Bard, AI “whiplash”, competing with ChatGPT, upgrading Bard with more capable PaLM models, regulation, and more  —  “Am I concerned?  Yes.  Am I optimistic and excited about all the potential of this technology?  Incredibly. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mimi Billing / Sifted: Copenhagen-based Agreena, whose AI monitors satellite images to let farmers earn carbon credits, raised a €46M Series B led by HV, after a €20M Series A in 2022  —  The startup helps European farmers reduce carbon emissions and trade in carbon credits Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google updates Bard by incorporating some of its PaLM models to better answer math and logic questions and promises that coding capabilities are “coming soon”  —  To date, Bard has used LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), which is focused on conversational dialogue … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jeffrey Rousseau / GamesIndustry.biz: Roblox plans to hide advertisements from users 13 and younger, after nonprofit Truth in Advertising filed an FTC complaint in April 2022 against the company  —  Changes come nearly a year after advertising watchdog filed an FTC complaint over company’s ad policies Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sara Fischer / Axios: Email: The White House will not pay for Twitter Blue for its staff; the White House and top officials’ accounts like POTUS will likely maintain gray checkmarks  —  The White House will not pay to have its staff’s official Twitter profiles continue to be verified, according to guidance issued to staffers via an email obtained by Axios. Lees verder op Tech Meme