Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Reddit begins testing Discord-like chat channels in 25 volunteer subreddits with fewer than 100K members and plans to let moderators manage chat functionality  —  Reddit announced Thursday that it is testing Discord-like chat channels with select subreddits. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Blake Brittain / Reuters: Filing: Triller agrees to pay Sony Music $4.5M+ to settle claims that Triller breached a 2016 contract covering its use of musicians’ songs on the platform  —  TikTok rival Triller Inc has agreed to pay Sony Music Entertainment (6758.T) more than $4.5 million to resolve claims that Triller breached … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kelvin Chan / Associated Press: ChatGPT is again available in Italy, after OpenAI met data watchdog’s demands, including a form for EU users to object to having their data used for training  —  ChatGPT’s maker said Friday that the artificial intelligence chatbot is available again in Italy after the company met the demands … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: Solana’s SOL token is up ~125% since December 31, outperforming bitcoin’s 78% rally, as the blockchain tries to move past its association with Sam Bankman-Fried  —  The SOL token of the Solana blockchain has more than doubled this year, outperforming Bitcoin, as the project tries to move past … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: A profile of Sarah Cardell, the UK CMA’s CEO who played a key role in shaping the mergers policy that led to the agency blocking Microsoft’s Activision takeover  —  Former corporate lawyer has attracted the ire of the US group by blocking its $75bn acquisition of Activision Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: EU lawmakers push forward an AI Act draft, which includes requiring companies deploying generative AI tools to disclose copyrighted material used for training  —  Companies deploying generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, will have to disclose any copyrighted material used to develop their systems … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Sources: Elon Musk shut off OpenAI’s access to Twitter’s data in December, believing that $2M a year licensing fee that OpenAI was paying wasn’t enough  —  The billionaire plans to compete with OpenAI, the ChatGPT developer he helped found, while calling out the potential harms of artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steve Dent / Engadget: Sony reports Q4 revenue up 30% YoY to ~$22.7B, and 6.3M PS5 sales, up from 2M YoY; Sony has sold 19.1M PS5s in FY 2022 and 38.4M PS5s in total since launch  —  Now that it’s solved its supply shortages, Sony is seeing a lot of pent-up demand for PlayStation 5 consoles. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joyce E. Cutler / Bloomberg Law: Ex-HeadSpin CEO Manish Lachwani pleads guilty to securities and wire fraud charges for disseminating false and overstated revenue metrics to potential investors  —  Manish Lachwani, who co-founded and led Silicon Valley startup HeadSpin Inc., pleaded guilty Thursday to securities and wire fraud charges, federal prosecutors said. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Viola Zhou / Rest of World: A profile of Liu Xiaoping, a dog food seller who coaches fellow Pinduoduo merchants on how to use legal action to fight the app’s refund-without-return policy  —  A dog food seller known as “Lawsuit Bro” is leading the fight.  — A dog food seller on Pinduoduo has emerged as an unlikely hero … Lees verder op Tech Meme