Tech Meme

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Sources: EU regulators rebuffed an offer from Meta to curb its use of rivals’ ad data for Facebook Marketplace as a way to settle an antitrust investigation  —  Meta Platforms (META.O) offered to curb the use of competitors’ advertising data for its Facebook Marketplace online classified service … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: The EU enacts the €43B Chips Act, part of ambitious plans to produce 20% of the world’s chips by 2030, after final approval from ministers  —  The European Union’s plan to bolster domestic semiconductor production will become law after ministers completed the final approval on Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Perry / HTTP Toolkit: As open web advocates raise concerns over the Web Environment Integrity proposal, a look at a similar Apple system shipped in 2022 to make Captchas unnecessary  —  There’s been a lot of concern recently about the Web Environment Integrity proposal, developed by a selection of authors from Google … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jason Nelson / Decrypt: OpenAI shuts down its AI classifier for indicating AI-written text, citing “its low rate of accuracy”, and will research “more effective provenance techniques”  —  In January, artificial intelligence powerhouse OpenAI announced a tool that could save the world … Lees verder op Tech Meme

TechCrunch: Threads adds an option for a chronological feed of posts from people the user follows  —  Meta’s text-based social network Threads is rolling out one of the most requested features after its launch — a following feed.  The company is also rolling out the ability to see posts you’ve liked in your settings. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: The EU enacts the €43B Chips Act, part of ambitious plans to produce 20% of the world’s chips by 2030, after final approval from ministers  —  The European Union’s plan to bolster domestic semiconductor production will become law after ministers completed the final approval on Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Spotify reports Q2 revenue rose 11% YoY to €3.2B, Premium subscribers grew 17% YoY to 220M, MAUs rose 27% YoY to 551M, and a €112M adjusted operating loss  —  Spotify Technology SA fell as much as 13% in New York trading after the audio streaming giant reported sales that came … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard Lawler / The Verge: OpenAI releases ChatGPT for Android in the US, Bangladesh, and Brazil, and plans to launch in more countries next week  —  According to a company tweet, it’s available first in the US, India, Bangladesh, and Brazil, with other countries set to follow later, mimicking the staged rollout we saw for the iOS version. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Threads adds an option for a chronological feed of posts from people the user follows  —  Meta’s text-based social network Threads is rolling out one of the most requested features after its launch — a following feed.  —  In a post on his Instagram Channel, Mark Zuckerberg said that the company … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Sources: TikTok plans to launch an e-commerce business in the US in early August to sell made-in-China goods to consumers and rival Shein and Temu  —  TikTok wants to replicate the success of other popular China-founded shopping platforms Shein and Temu  —  TikTok is launching … Lees verder op Tech Meme