Wall Street Journal: A look at Google’s Med-PaLM 2, an AI chatbot for answering medical questions and more; sources say testing began in April 2023 with the Mayo Clinic and others  —  Search company is fine-tuning chatbot technology via medical licensing exams  —  Google is testing an artificial-intelligence program trained … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Snap’s new revenue-sharing incentive, the Snap Star creator program, shows early signs of traction as part of a broader effort to reverse its declining revenue  —  Social-media app Snapchat is trying to counter declining sales  —  Snap’s efforts to lure creators and their followers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Masnick / Techdirt: AI rules proposed by Chuck Schumer for the US and by the EU may shut more creative and innovative startups out of the market and harm AI tool development  —  It appears the race is on to see whether it will be the EU or the US in promulgating worse regulations around generative AI tools. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Quiver Quantitative: Instagram Threads passes 100M signups in just five days, up from 30M in the first 24 hours and 10M in the first seven hours  —  Instagram’s text-based app Threads has achieved the mark of 100 million sign-ups in just five days.  The Twitter rival was launched on June 6 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Masnick / Techdirt: AI rules proposed by the EU and Chuck Schumer for the US could shut the more creative and innovative startups out of the market and harm AI tool development  —  It appears the race is on to see whether it will be the EU or the US in promulgating worse regulations around generative AI tools. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joshua Bote / SFGATE: Evernote lays off most of its remaining US and Chile staff, and plans to relocate nearly all its operations to Europe; Bending Spoons acquired Evernote in 2023  —  Evernote, the note-taking app once heralded by Engadget as the “king of note-taking apps,” has laid off most of its staff … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reece Rogers / Wired: A comparison of what personal data Threads, Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social collect from users, based on their listings in Apple’s App Store  —  Here’s what personal data is collected by Meta’s Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social. Lees verder op Tech Meme