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
Jiahui Huang / Wall Street Journal: China’s Pony.ai says it can now build its most advanced autonomous driving system at 70% lower cost and plans to start mass production of robotaxis in mid-2025 — It can now build its most advanced autonomous driving system for 70% less than before, the company said Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Alibaba unveils the Qwen3 family of open-weight “hybrid” AI reasoning models, including Qwen3-235B-A22B, with 235B total parameters and 22B activated parameters — Chinese tech company Alibaba on Monday released Qwen 3, a family of AI models the company claims matches … Lees verder op 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 Musk’s takeover of Twitter 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: Around 50% of US adults say AI will have a negative impact on news over the next 20 years; 10% say a positive effect; 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
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: NXP says CEO Kurt Sievers will retire at 2025’s end, names Rafael Sotomayor as president, reports Q1 revenue down 9% YoY to $2.84B; NXPI drops 7%+ after hours — NXP Semiconductor Inc. fell about 8% on Monday after the chip company announced that CEO Kurt Sievers will step down as part of its latest earnings. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: OpenAI says users made over a billion 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
Zvi Mowshowitz / Don’t Worry About the Vase: A deep dive on GPT-4o’s tendency to give sycophantic responses, an issue Sam Altman promised to fix and that may be caused by OpenAI optimizing for engagement — GPT-4o tells you what it thinks you want to hear. — The results of this were rather ugly. You get extreme sycophancy. Absurd praise. Lees verder op Tech Meme