Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Stability AI releases Stable Doodle, a sketch-to-image tool on ClipDrop that uses the Stable Diffusion model to generate “visually pleasing” artistic renditions  —  Stability AI, the startup behind the image-generating model Stable Diffusion, is launching a new service that turns sketches into images. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Document: the FTC sends OpenAI a 20-page demand for records on the risks of its AI models and a March 2023 security incident over payment-related information  —  The agency’s demand for OpenAI’s documents about AI risks mark the company’s greatest U.S. regulatory threat to date Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maxwell Strachan / VICE: Some VCs reflect on the industry slowdown; QED Investors co-founder Frank Rotman estimates that up to 80% of VC firms are in strategically challenged positions  —  The venture industry needs to shrink to adjust to the new normal, and even the VCs themselves know it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Telegram merchants can now accept crypto payments via TON-based Wallet in tether, bitcoin, and toncoin, expanding on support for transfers between users  —  Wallet, which is built on the TON blockchain, is allowing merchants to integrate cryptocurrency into the bots they use to accept payments in the messaging app. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Huawei reports $560M in revenue from patent licensing deals in 2023, its first disclosure of such income, and spent 25% of its 2022 sales on R&D, or ~$22.5B  —  Huawei Technologies Co. made $560 million in revenue from its patent licensing deals last year, disclosing for the first time its annual income … Lees verder op Tech Meme