Tech Meme

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: EU lawmakers struggle to reach a compromise on the final shape of the AI Act, as France and Germany push for a regulatory carve-out for foundational models  —  Negotiations between European Union lawmakers tasked with reaching a compromise on a risk-based framework for regulating applications … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: A US judge rejects efforts by Alphabet, ByteDance, Meta, and Snap to dismiss hundreds of lawsuits accusing them of enticing and addicting children to their apps  —  A federal judge on Tuesday rejected efforts by major social media companies to dismiss nationwide litigation accusing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Sources: Anu Hariharan, the former head of YC Continuity, which Y Combinator scrapped in March 2023, started Avra, a “YC for growth” fund aiming to raise ~$350M  —  Anu Hariharan, who led YC Continuity before the storied accelerator scrapped the program, has partnered … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: A US judge rejects an effort by Alphabet, ByteDance, Meta, and Snap to dismiss a nationwide litigation accusing them of addicting children to their platforms  —  A federal judge on Tuesday rejected efforts by major social media companies to dismiss nationwide litigation accusing them of targeting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Sources: Anu Hariharan, the former head of YC Continuity that was scrapped in March, has started a “YC for growth” fund, called Avra, aiming to raise ~$350M  —  Anu Hariharan, who led YC Continuity before the storied accelerator scrapped the program, has partnered … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joseph Menn / Washington Post: Unciphered, which helps recover cryptocurrency, finds a LibbitcoinJS flaw in some wallets made before 2016 and says that up to $1B of crypto is at risk of theft  —  A company that helps recover cryptocurrency discovered a software flaw putting as much as $1 billion at risk from hackers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: WhatsApp for Android’s chat and media backups will count toward the Google Account storage limit for beta users as of December 2023, and for all users in 2024  —  Google and WhatsApp today announced a change wherein WhatsApp chat and media backups on Android will “start counting toward … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Khosla Ventures is raising a $500M seed fund, a $1.6B venture fund, and a $900M growth fund, larger than their $300M, $1B, and $550M predecessors, respectively  —  The fundraise is one of the largest completed by a VC firm this year, defying startup slump  —  Khosla Ventures is in the final stages … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Velazco / Washington Post: Nothing plans to roll out an early version of Nothing Chats, a Sunbird-based app that lets Phone (2) users send iMessages to iPhone contacts, on November 17  —  Nothing, Sunbird and other upstarts are taking iMessage where it’s never been before  —  Here’s a glimmer of hope for anyone … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Clive Cookson / Financial Times: Google DeepMind details weather forecasting AI model GraphCast AI, more accurate than the best conventional systems for three to 10 day predictions, an AI first  —  Google DeepMind’s model beat world’s leading system in 90% of metrics used and took only a fraction of the time Lees verder op Tech Meme