Marietje Schaake / Financial Times: Policymakers should not let tech executives, who argue their companies are best placed to regulate AI, shape the narrative, and should use independent oversight  —  Policymakers must not let complexity stop them from doing their job  —  The writer is international policy director … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tsubasa Suruga / Nikkei Asia: Preqin: in the first five months of 2023, VC funding for Southeast Asian startups hit $4B, down 65% compared to H1 2022, as Grab and GoTo continue to slow down  —  Wary venture capital investors slash valuations of startups as interest rates rise  —  SINGAPORE — Funding for Southeast Asian startups … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: Bitcoin developers feud over whether to stamp out memecoins that have swarmed the network, led to an 11x spike in May 2023 processing fees, and created a logjam  —  The coders who maintain Bitcoin’s blockchain are clashing over whether to stamp out the meme tokens swarming the network. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Hands-on with Google’s Search Generative Experience: answers are slow to load, the user interface is cluttered, simple queries yield error messages, and more  —  Why wait for an AI-generated summary when I can just scroll down the page? … The worst thing about Google’s new AI-powered search experience is how long you have to wait. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Tech layoffs, compounded by interest rate increases and inflation, lead to higher unemployment levels and falling wages in California, Oregon, and Washington  —  California, Oregon and Washington have some of the nation’s highest jobless rates  —  The West Coast tech downturn is sending … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ilena Peng / Bloomberg: Carbon Health launches a GPT-4-based tool to create medical records, using Amazon Transcribe Medical for transcription, and says ~90% are accepted without edits  —  A new tool uses GPT artificial intelligence to create medical records, allowing doctors to focus on their patients instead of their notes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google opens a beta for passkeys on Workspace accounts, letting staff at 9M+ organizations sign in without a password, rolling out in the coming weeks  —  Google has taken a significant step toward a passwordless future with the start of an open beta for passkeys on Workspace accounts. Lees verder op Tech Meme