Bloomberg: The People’s Bank of China fines Ant Group ~$984M for violating laws in consumer protection, anti-money laundering, and more, ending over two years of probes — Chinese regulators imposed more than $1 billion in fines on tech giants Ant Group Co. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Apple removes several predatory lending apps from its App Store in India; some of the apps made the finance list’s top 20, despite hundreds of negative reviews — Apple removed several predatory lending apps from the App Store in India this week, days after users and media questioned the legitimacy of those services. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Nikkei Asia: Huawei releases Pangu Model 3.0, its new cloud computing AI model for operations, product R&D, and software engineering, based on its own hardware and platforms — China tech titan says its cloud computing is based on own hardware, chips — A Huawei display at the 2023 World Artificial … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Josh Ye / Reuters: Alibaba unveils Tongyi Wanxiang, an AI-based image generator initially available to enterprise customers in beta, meant to rival Midjourney and OpenAI’s DALL-E — Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd (9988.HK) announced on Friday an artificial intelligence (AI) image generator, initially available … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: data.ai: Bluesky hits a million downloads globally across iOS and Android, roughly four months after launch; Bluesky has been installed ~300k since June 30 — As Instagram’s new Twitter rival Threads soars into the double-digit millions after launching on Wednesday, another Twitter alternative, Bluesky, has hit a milestone of its own. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: People’s Bank of China fines Ant Group ~$984M for violations in payment, settlement, anti-money laundering, and fund sales businesses, ending a years-long probe — Chinese regulators imposed a 7.12 billion yuan ($984 million) fine on Ant Group Co., according to a statement from the central bank … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Apple removed several predatory lending apps from India’s App Store; some of the apps reached the finance list’s top 20 despite hundreds of negative reviews — Apple removed several predatory lending apps from the App Store in India this week, days after users and media questioned the legitimacy of those services. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: Crypto bridging protocol Multichain confirms a $130M exploit affecting user-supplied tokens and recommends “all users suspend the use of Multichain services” — “It is recommended that all users suspend the use of Multichain services and revoke all contract approvals related to Multichain, developers said early Friday. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Nikkei Asia: Huawei unveils Pangu Model 3.0, its new AI model for cloud computing in operations, product R&D, and software engineering, based on its own hardware and chips — China tech titan says its cloud computing is based on own hardware, chips — A Huawei display at the 2023 World Artificial … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: Some EU-based Instagram users, including football clubs and media companies, are accessing Threads despite Meta not having launched the platform in the region — European football teams, media like Le Monde and Agence France-Presse and other organizations on the continent have found … Lees verder op Tech Meme