Tech Meme

Daniele Lepido / Bloomberg: Italy seizes ~€779M from Airbnb over some allegedly unpaid taxes, after reportedly investigating Meta earlier in 2023 regarding an alleged ~€870M in unpaid VAT  —  Italy’s Finance Police is seizing about €779 million ($835 million) from the home-sharing company Airbnb Inc. after it allegedly failed to pay some taxes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Biddle / The Intercept: Internal documents: Cruise knew its cars struggled to detect large holes and sometimes had problems recognizing kids, prior to its California permitting crisis  —  According to internal materials reviewed by The Intercept, Cruise cars were also in danger of driving into holes in the road. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rohan Goswami / CNBC: WeWork, valued at $47B in 2019, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for its locations in the US and Canada, and reports liabilities between $10B and $50B  —  – Office-sharing company WeWork filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in federal court Monday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Daniele Lepido / Bloomberg: Italy seizes ~€779M from Airbnb over some allegedly unpaid taxes, after reportedly investigating Meta earlier in 2023 regarding an alleged ~€870M in unpaid VAT  —  Italy’s Finance Police is seizing about €779 million ($835 million) from the home-sharing company Airbnb Inc. after it allegedly failed to pay some taxes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Daniele Lepido / Bloomberg: Italy seizes ~€779M from Airbnb over some allegedly unpaid taxes, after reportedly investigating Meta earlier in 2023 regarding an alleged ~€870M in unpaid VAT  —  Italy’s Finance Police is seizing about €779 million ($835 million) from the home-sharing company Airbnb Inc. after it allegedly failed to pay some taxes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cade Metz / New York Times: AI startup Vectara’s Hallucination Evaluation Model: OpenAI’s LLMs had the lowest hallucination rates, followed by Meta’s; Google’s PaLM-Chat had the highest  —  When summarizing facts, ChatGPT technology makes things up about 3 percent of the time, according to research from a new start-up. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Daniele Lepido / Bloomberg: Italy seizes ~€779M from Airbnb over some allegedly unpaid taxes, after reportedly investigating Meta earlier in 2023 regarding an alleged ~€870M in unpaid VAT  —  Italy’s Finance Police is seizing about €779 million ($835 million) from the home-sharing company Airbnb Inc. after it allegedly failed to pay some taxes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Sony says it’s terminating X integration for PS5 and PS4 starting November 13, 2023, meaning users won’t be able to post and view content on X from the consoles  —  Sony is terminating its X (formerly Twitter) integrations for PS5 and PS4, meaning you soon won’t be able to post screenshots and clips to X from those consoles. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katie Paul / Reuters: Meta says it is barring political advertisers from using its new generative AI advertising products  —  Facebook owner Meta (META.O) is barring political advertisers from using its new generative AI advertising products, a company spokesperson said on Monday, cutting off campaigns’ access … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Daniele Lepido / Bloomberg: Italy seizes ~€779M from Airbnb over some allegedly unpaid taxes, after reportedly investigating Meta earlier in 2023 regarding an alleged ~€870M in unpaid VAT  —  Italy’s Finance Police is seizing about €779 million ($835 million) from the home-sharing company Airbnb Inc. after it allegedly failed to pay some taxes. Lees verder op Tech Meme