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Policymakers should not let tech executives, who argue their companies are best placed to regulate AI, shape the narrative, and should use independent oversight (Marietje Schaake/Financial Times) 05-06-2023

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

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 (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia) 05-06-2023

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

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 (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg) 05-06-2023

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

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 (Jay Peters/The Verge) 05-06-2023

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

Tech layoffs, compounded by interest rate increases and inflation, lead to higher unemployment levels and falling wages in California, Oregon, and Washington (Wall Street Journal) 05-06-2023

Wall Street Journal: Tech layoffs, compounded by interest rate increases and inflation, lead to higher unemployment levels and falling wages in California, Oregon, and Washington  —  California, Oregon and Washington have some of the nation’s highest jobless rates  —  The West Coast tech downturn is sending … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carbon Health launches a GPT-4-based tool to create medical records, using Amazon Transcribe Medical for transcription, and says ~90% are accepted without edits (Ilena Peng/Bloomberg) 05-06-2023

Ilena Peng / Bloomberg: Carbon Health launches a GPT-4-based tool to create medical records, using Amazon Transcribe Medical for transcription, and says ~90% are accepted without edits  —  A new tool uses GPT artificial intelligence to create medical records, allowing doctors to focus on their patients instead of their notes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Google opens a beta for passkeys on Workspace accounts, letting staff at 9M+ organizations sign in without a password, rolling out in the coming weeks (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) 05-06-2023

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google opens a beta for passkeys on Workspace accounts, letting staff at 9M+ organizations sign in without a password, rolling out in the coming weeks  —  Google has taken a significant step toward a passwordless future with the start of an open beta for passkeys on Workspace accounts. Lees verder op Tech Meme