Chris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company: Adobe rolls out Firefly to businesses and offers “full indemnification” for copyright infringement lawsuits over any content created in the generative AI tool  —  Adobe is so confident in Firefly’s ability to respect creators’ copyrighted images that it’ll legally compensate businesses … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: A look at what the SEC and the crypto industry learned from the SEC’s ICO enforcement actions in 2017, why the SEC is suing only over select tokens, and more  —  SEC v. crypto exchanges  —  The US Securities and Exchange Commission began cracking down on crypto in 2017. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: The European Commission approves €8B in state subsidies for chip research, adding to €13.7B in private funding for ~€22B in total, as part of the EU’s Chips Act  —  Semiconductor research projects with €8 billion ($8.6 billion) in public funds were approved … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vulture: Hollywood insiders discuss the end of Peak TV, an era started by Netflix dropping House of Cards’ first season in one go in 2013, as streaming services cut back  —  If you call a slew of Hollywood’s most powerful showrunners, studio chiefs, agents, and operators and ask them to describe … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: The European Court of Justice strikes down Barcelona’s 2018 restrictions on ride-hailing licenses, which could help services like Uber and Cabify across Europe  —  ECJ’s verdict will allow likes of Uber and Cabify to increase presence in Catalan city  —  A top EU court has struck … Lees verder op Tech Meme

William Turvill / Press Gazette: Google plans to launch the US version of its News Showcase aggregation service this summer, after announcing it in October 2020  —  Partner publications include the Wall Street Journal, AP, Reuters and Bloomberg.  —  Google will launch the US edition of its News Showcase aggregation platform this summer … Lees verder op Tech Meme