Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: US v. Google: Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker says Firefox’s switch to Yahoo in 2014 degraded UX and Firefox had difficulty competing on mobile because of defaults  —  – Mozilla’s Firefox switched to Yahoo from Google in 2014  — Difficulty of switching search engines is key to DOJ case Lees verder op Tech Meme

Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: On the UK’s AI Safety Summit first day, there were closed-door discussions about whether to pause the development of next-generation “frontier” AI models  —  – Tech leaders and academics in attendance disagreed on AI risks  — ‘I hope that it doesn’t get dominated by the doomer,’ CEO says Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: YMTC has had to raise billions of dollars in capital, after burning through $7B over the past year, as the Chinese chipmaker tries to adapt to US curbs  —  Memory chipmaker was running out of cash after a year of combating Washington’s tighter controls Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joe Duball / IAPP: The EDPB instructs the Irish DPC to ban Meta’s use of personal data for behavioral ads across the EU member states and European Economic Area countries  —  An unprecedented shakeup in the advertising technology space has arrived in Europe.  Changes are coming to adtech’s approach to privacy … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Intuit plans to shut down personal finance app Mint, which had 3.6M MAUs in 2021, on January 1, 2024, and is pushing users to Credit Karma, acquired in 2020  —  – Credit Karma hopes to attract more high-score customers  — Mint service had 3.6 million monthly active users in 2021 Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Browne / CNBC: The UK plans to invest £225M into Isambard-AI, an AI supercomputer 10x faster than the UK’s current quickest machine, to be built by the University of Bristol  —  – The U.K. government said Wednesday that it will invest £225 million, or $273 million, into an AI supercomputer … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Khari Johnson / Wired: The OMB releases draft rules that require federal agencies to monitor AI use in health care, law enforcement, and housing for potential harms against citizens  —  Draft rules from the White House would require federal agencies to assess AI systems currently in use in law enforcement … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple quietly discontinued Apple Music’s $4.99/month Voice Plan, which was introduced in 2021 and let users access the Apple Music catalog exclusively via Siri  —  Apple this week held a special event to announce new Macs, but what the company didn’t tell is that it has just quietly discontinued the … Lees verder op Tech Meme