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