Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: Toto Haba, the SVP of LVMH brand Benefit Cosmetics, says the luxury conglomerate is discussing a plan with TikTok for limiting counterfeit products on the app  —  – Agreements can help improve quality of TikTok’s Shop effort  — TikTok aims for $17.5 billion US e-commerce business in 2024 Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: PitchBook: VC investment in the crypto industry totaled $9.5B in 2023, less than a third of 2022; CryptoSlam says NFT sales fell 63% to $8.7B in 2023  —  A disastrous 2023 for crypto startups hasn’t dissuaded true believers.  —  Cryptocurrency startups had a brutal 2023 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI, Inflection, and Cohere held back-channel talks on AI policy and safety with Chinese state-backed groups in Geneva in July 2023 and October 2023  —  OpenAI, Inflection and Cohere held back-channel talks with Chinese state-backed groups in Geneva Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: SVP of LVMH brand Benefit Cosmetics says the luxury conglomerate is in discussions with TikTok on a plan for limiting counterfeit products sold on the app  —  – Agreements can help improve quality of TikTok’s Shop effort  — TikTok aims for $17.5 billion US e-commerce business in 2024 Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Velazco / Washington Post: A look at some of the most interesting tech from CES 2024: Roxi’s interactive music video channels for linear TV, Samsung’s Ballie AI robot projector, and more  —  Seeing everything the show has to offer is nearly impossible, but we’re trying anyway  —  LAS VEGAS — CES … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nico Grant / New York Times: Sources: several hundred employees from Google’s core engineering division received notices that their roles were eliminated and lost corporate access  —  The company, which has been working to trim expenses, laid off employees who worked on core engineering, the Google Assistant product and hardware such as the Pixel phone. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI, Inflection, and Cohere held back-channel talks on AI safety with Chinese state-backed groups in Geneva in July 2023 and October 2023  —  OpenAI, Inflection and Cohere held back-channel talks with Chinese state-backed groups in Geneva  —  US artificial intelligence companies OpenAI … Lees verder op Tech Meme