Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University files a lawsuit challenging Texas’ TikTok ban on state devices, for limiting research and teaching  —  A lawsuit filed on Thursday says that Gov. Greg Abbott’s ban is compromising research and teaching at public universities. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: A Stability AI co-founder sues the startup over being duped into selling his 15% stake for $100 to CEO Emad Mostaque months before Stability hit a $1B valuation  —  A Stability AI Ltd. co-founder has sued the company, claiming he was tricked into selling his stake for $100 months … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Adobe: US shoppers spent $12.7B during Amazon’s Prime Day, up 6.1% YoY but below estimates of 9.5% growth; an increasing share of customers used BNPL services  —  US shoppers spent $12.7 billion online during Amazon.com Inc.’s 48-hour Prime Day, up 6.1% from a year ago but short of estimates for 9.5% growth, according to Adobe Inc. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Chayka / New Yorker: A writer details using AI startup Writer’s LLM to generate text in his writing style and says that most of the tool’s “insights” felt hollow or approximated  —  A new wave of artificial-intelligence startups is trying to “scale language” by automating the work of writing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: The US arrests and charges former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky with six counts, including wire fraud; the SEC, CFTC, and FTC sue Mashinsky and the crypto company  —  Alex Mashinsky, the former chief executive officer of Celsius Network Ltd., was accused by prosecutors of orchestrating … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adam Crafton / The Athletic: How Apple expanded into sports, starting with MLB in March 2022, leading to an unusual deal to bring Messi to the MLS and share new subscriber revenue with him  —  In 2019, during an interview with Sports Illustrated, the Apple senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, was asked the extent to which he … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sara Fischer / Axios: The AP and OpenAI sign a two-year deal; the AP gets access to OpenAI’s tech in return for licensing some of its text archive dating back to 1985 for AI training  —  The Associated Press on Thursday said it reached a two-year deal with OpenAI, the parent company to ChatGPT, to share access to select news content and technology. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Twitter asks a US federal court to terminate an FTC order that puts restrictions on its data security practices and to stay an FTC deposition of Elon Musk  —  The company asked the federal court to terminate an order with the agency hours before Chair Lina Khan testified on Capitol Hill Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kris Holt / Engadget: Sony plans to release its PS5 accessibility controller on December 6, with preorders starting July 21, for $90 in the US, £80 in the UK, and €90 in Europe  —  The highly customizable Access controller comes with several button and stick caps.  —  Sony has revealed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University challenges a ban on TikTok on state devices in Texas, saying the law hurts research and teaching  —  A lawsuit filed on Thursday says that Gov. Greg Abbott’s ban is compromising research and teaching at public universities. Lees verder op Tech Meme