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

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Intel is the leading candidate to potentially receive billions under the US Chips Act to build secure facilities producing chips for the US military  —  Company has emerged as a potential top winner of Chips Act funding  —  Intel is the leading candidate to potentially receive billions … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sheila Dang / Reuters: A survey of 167 researchers shows 104 studies about X have been canceled, suspended, or changed after X ended free academic access to its API and sued the CCDH  —  Social media researchers have canceled, suspended or changed more than 100 studies about X, formerly Twitter … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Daniele Lepido / Bloomberg: Italy seizes ~€779M from Airbnb over allegedly unpaid taxes, after reportedly investigating Meta earlier this year 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 allegedly unpaid taxes, after reportedly investigating Meta earlier this year 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

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Meta says there are now 1M active subscriptions to Instagram creators, just over a year after launching the subscriptions feature, and unveils new creator tools  —  There are now 1 million paid subscriptions to creators on Instagram, slowly transforming the platform into a space where creators can get paid directly by their fans. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube plans to test generative AI features for Premium users, like a comments summarizer and a conversational recommendations tool, first on Android in the US  —  YouTube will begin to experiment with new generative AI features, the company announced today. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI debuts Copyright Shield, promising to defend ChatGPT Enterprise users and OpenAI customers facing copyright infringement claims related to its services  —  OpenAI — bowing to peer pressure — today announced it’ll step in and defend businesses using OpenAI products … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Meta says there are now 1M active subscriptions to Instagram creators, just over a year after launching the feature, and unveils new creator tools  —  There are now 1 million paid subscriptions to creators on Instagram, slowly transforming the platform into a space where creators can get paid directly by their fans. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches the DALL-E 3 API, with moderation to help protect against misuse, and a text-to-speech API that offers six preset voices and two model variants  —  OpenAI launched a slew of new APIs during its first-ever developer day.  —  DALL-E 3, OpenAI’s text-to-image model … Lees verder op Tech Meme