Edward White / Financial Times: Huawei says its full-year sales for 2023 would be more than $99B, up 9% YoY but down 20% from 2020 peak; Chairman Ken Hu says “we’re pretty much back on track”  —  Sanctions-hit telecoms group records highest revenues in three years but still below 2020 levels Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Q&A with Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod on selling the startup to Match Group, AI’s potential, making the app less addictive, expanding to Europe, and more  —  The founder of Hinge says that capturing as much ‘signal’ as possible from users is the key to successful matches Lees verder op Tech Meme

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Margrethe Vestager says AI Act will “not harm innovation and research, but actually enhance it” as it “creates predictability and legal certainty in the market”  —  Margrethe Vestager argues landmark legislation will give ‘legal certainty’ to tech groups building AI models Lees verder op Tech Meme

Martin Young / Cointelegraph: Vitalik Buterin proposes requiring only 8,192 validator signatures per slot, down from 28K per slot, to make Ethereum’s proof-of-stake “simpler and lighter”  —  The Ethereum co-founder suggested reducing validator signatures to lighten the load and make predicting future loads more accurate. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: Microsoft’s AI Image Creator, part of Bing and Paint, can generate realistic, violent images; Microsoft says some use the tech “in ways that were not intended”  —  The AI Image Creator, part of Microsoft’s Bing and Windows Paint, makes extremely violent images of Joe Biden, the pope and others. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amrita Khalid / The Verge: LG debuts new Gram and Gram Pro laptops ahead of CES 2024; the processors in the Pro lineup include Intel’s AI Boost NPU hardware for on-device AI tasks  —  If you’re in the market for OLED displays and better graphics, take a look at the 2024 LG Gram Pro lineup. Lees verder op Tech Meme