Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: OpenAI, which may have trained its models on people’s data without consent, faces legal stakes in the EU, which has strict privacy laws and is conducting probes  —  The company’s AI services may be breaking data protection laws, and there is no resolution in sight. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: TransUnion, one of the three major credit agencies in the US, will provide credit scores for individuals when they apply for loans on blockchain-based protocols  —  TransUnion, one of the largest credit agencies in the U.S., will provide off-chain credit scores for blockchain-based loan applications … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yogita Khatri / The Block: Berachain, a bear-themed crypto project building a Layer 1 blockchain on the Cosmos SDK, raised $42M in a private token round led by Polychain Capital  —  – Berachain raised $42 million in a private token round led by Polychain Capital.  — The new Layer 1 blockchain is being built on the Cosmos SDK and will be EVM compatible. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Imgur says it will delete “old, unused, and inactive content” that’s not tied to a user account, starting on May 15  —  For years, Imgur has made sharing photos and GIFs on the internet as easy as uploading a file — you don’t even need an account to use it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonah Elkowitz / Decrypt: P2P.org, which provides staking infrastructure for Ethereum and 49 other blockchain programs, including Cardano and Cosmos, raised a $23M Series A  —  Founder Konstantin Lomashuk credits the recent Shanghai upgrade, which it says has increased institutional interest in Ethereum staking. Lees verder op Tech Meme