Tech Meme

Alexander Saeedy / Wall Street Journal: Sources: a group of Wall Street banks has sold the final $1.2B of X debt at 98 cents on the dollar, after lending $13B for Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover in 2022  —  The loans sat on banks’ books for 2½ years until Donald Trump’s election rapidly changed company’s fortunes Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Lipka / Pew Research Center: Survey: ~50% of US adults say AI will have a negative impact on news over the next 20 years, while 10% say positive; 59% say AI will lead to fewer journalists  —  Artificial intelligence is already affecting the way news is produced and received in the United States. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: OpenAI says users made 1B+ web searches in ChatGPT last week and that WhatsApp users can now message 1-800-ChatGPT to get up-to-date search results  —  OpenAI is updating ChatGPT search, its web search tool in ChatGPT, to give users an improved online shopping experience, the company announced Monday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Josh Richman / Electronic Frontier Foundation: Open letter: the EFF and top security experts urge the Trump administration to end its probe of ex-CISA chief Chris Krebs, calling it political and harmful  —  Political Retribution for Telling the Truth Weakens the Entire Infosec Community and Threatens Our Democracy; Letter Remains Open for Further Sign-Ons Lees verder op Tech Meme

Josh Richman / Electronic Frontier Foundation: In an open letter, EFF and top security experts urge the Trump admin to end its probe of ex-CISA chief Chris Krebs, calling it political and harmful to security  —  Political Retribution for Telling the Truth Weakens the Entire Infosec Community and Threatens Our Democracy; Letter Remains Open for Further Sign-Ons Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources detail a growing rift between Sam Altman and Satya Nadella, whose partnership began after a 2018 meeting; Microsoft can block OpenAI’s for-profit move  —  The OpenAI and Microsoft CEOs helped each other become power players in generative AI but are now preparing for independent futures Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn says the company will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle”, as part of a shift to become “AI-first”  —  The company is going to be ‘AI-first,’ says its CEO. … Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Critics fear the Take It Down Act, one of the few online safety laws to pass in years, could be weaponized against content the Trump admin or its allies dislike  —  Critics warn it could have grave consequences for online speech and encryption. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Will Oremus / Washington Post: The US House passes the Take It Down Act to criminalize posting nonconsensual sexual images of others, including deepfakes, and require platforms to remove them  —  Trump is expected to sign into law a bill that would force online platforms to quickly take down nonconsensual intimate images. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joey Roulette / Reuters: Amazon launches 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper broadband internet program, the first batch of 3,236 satellites it plans to send into low-Earth orbit  —  The first 27 satellites for Amazon’s Kuiper broadband internet constellation were launched into space from Florida on Monday … Lees verder op Tech Meme