Tech Meme

The Economic Times: Sundar Pichai says Google plans to invest $10B in India’s digitization fund and announces the opening of Google’s fintech operation center in GIFT City, Gujarat  —  Notably, Gujarat International Finance Tec-City is a central business district under construction in Gandhinagar district in Gujarat, India. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to invest another $15B in India by 2030, mostly for AWS expansion; in May, AWS announced plans to invest $12.7B in the country  —  Amazon plans to more than double its investment in India in the next seven years, the e-commerce group said, joining a roster … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: EU Commissioner Thierry Breton says he and Mark Zuckerberg are “aligned” on the EU’s regulation of AI; Sam Altman says he also agrees with the EU’s approach  —  Technology company executives Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman expressed support for government oversight of artificial intelligence … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: Internal email: Google invited employees to test a product called Playables, which lets users play games like Stack Bounce instantly via the YouTube site or app  —  The new service, called ‘Playables,’ is part of CEO’s push into new areas amid advertising slowdown Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: YouTube is testing Aloud, an AI-powered dubbing tool developed at Google’s Area 120, with “hundreds” of creators, starting with English, Spanish, and Portuguese  —  YouTube wants to make it easier to dub your videos in other languages by giving you some help with AI. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Sources: Meta is planning to release its Twitter competitor in mid-July and is pitching big-name celebrities to join a platform that will be “sanely” run  —  Mark Zuckerberg is the overwhelming favorite to beat Elon Musk in a cage match.  Will it actually happen? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Matousek / The Information: Social media startup IRL is shutting down after an investigation by its board concluded that 95% of its claimed 20M MAUs were “automated or from bots”  —  Last year, the CEO of messaging app IRL repeatedly said it had 20 million monthly active users, who chatted about shared interests and planned real-world events together. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: A US federal court sentences UK citizen Joseph James O’Connor to five years in prison for his role in the July 2020 Twitter hack affecting high-profile accounts  —  Prosecutors called for the British hacker to serve at least seven years  —  Three years after one of the most visible hacks … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Google adds a Perspectives tab to search results, with information that people have posted on YouTube, Reddit, and more, after announcing the feature in May  —  Google’s new search feature that shows you different perspectives (ideally, human ones) in search results will be available on Friday, the company said on Twitter. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Midjourney adds a “zoom out” feature that builds out a larger scene around images generated within Midjourney, simulating zooming out with a camera lens  —  Midjourney v5.2 features camera-like zoom control over framing, more realism.  —  On Thursday, Midjourney unveiled version 5.2 … Lees verder op Tech Meme