Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok rolls out its redesigned Subscription feature, which lets creators offer three tiers, to eligible creators in select regions, including the UK and the US — TikTok announced on Monday that its redesigned “Subscription” monetization offering is rolling out to eligible creators in select regions …
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress” and says it profits off confusion between the WordPress project and commercial services (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress” and says it profits off confusion between the WordPress project and commercial services — Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg unleashed a scathing attack on a rival firm this week, calling WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress.”
Cloudflare rolls out Bot Management, a suite of free AI auditing tools, to all of its customers to help monitor and selectively block AI data-scraping bots (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
Cloudflare rolls out Bot Management, a suite of free AI auditing tools, to all of its customers to help monitor and selectively block AI data-scraping bots — “The path we’re on isn’t sustainable,” Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince tells WIRED, in reference to rampant AI scraping. Here’s his plan to course-correct.
Google TV Streamer review: excellent UI, Google Assistant, fast controls, smart home hub, and handy Find My feature, but not a huge speed bump and only Wi-Fi 5 (The Verge)
The Verge:
Google TV Streamer review: excellent UI, Google Assistant, fast controls, smart home hub, and handy Find My feature, but not a huge speed bump and only Wi-Fi 5 — With more storage, a (slightly) faster processor, and some proper smart home chops, Google’s new take on the Chromecast is its best attempt at a streaming device yet.
The US Commerce Department proposes banning Chinese software and hardware for internet connected vehicles, effectively banning Chinese vehicles in the US (Felicia Schwartz/Financial Times)
Felicia Schwartz / Financial Times:
The US Commerce Department proposes banning Chinese software and hardware for internet connected vehicles, effectively banning Chinese vehicles in the US — The Biden administration fears Beijing could collect data on American drivers or hack into cars — The US Commerce Department …
A profile of Amazon executive Rohit Prasad, who now oversees a new team of thousands to develop AI products for an Alexa upgrade and other businesses (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)
Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Amazon executive Rohit Prasad, who now oversees a new team of thousands to develop AI products for an Alexa upgrade and other businesses — Rohit Prasad is tasked with making the company a stronger rival to the likes of OpenAI, Microsoft and Google
Mumbai-based Qure.AI, which uses AI to help identify and manage critical diseases at 3K+ imaging sites, raised a $65M Series D led by Lightspeed and 360 ONE (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
Mumbai-based Qure.AI, which uses AI to help identify and manage critical diseases at 3K+ imaging sites, raised a $65M Series D led by Lightspeed and 360 ONE — It plans to use the proceeds to expand in the US and other markets, improve its generative AI foundation models and fund acquisitions.
Sources: Xiaomi asked India to recall its report that found the company and Walmart’s Flipkart breached competition laws, saying it contains commercial secrets (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)
Aditya Kalra / Reuters:
Sources: Xiaomi asked India to recall its report that found the company and Walmart’s Flipkart breached competition laws, saying it contains commercial secrets — China’s Xiaomi (1810.HK) has asked India’s antitrust body to recall its report that found the company and Walmart’s Flipkart …
The US and India announce plans for a new chip plant in India, producing infrared, gallium nitride, and silicon carbide chips, as Narendra Modi visits the US (Swati Gupta/Bloomberg)
Swati Gupta / Bloomberg:
The US and India announce plans for a new chip plant in India, producing infrared, gallium nitride, and silicon carbide chips, as Narendra Modi visits the US — – Plant to manufacture chips including infrared, gallium nitride — Narendra Modi is visiting the US for the annual Quad summit
Samsung plans to invest $1.8B to build a factory in northern Vietnam to make OLED displays for cars and tech equipment; Samsung has invested $22.4B in Vietnam (Phuong Nguyen/Reuters)
Phuong Nguyen / Reuters:
Samsung plans to invest $1.8B to build a factory in northern Vietnam to make OLED displays for cars and tech equipment; Samsung has invested $22.4B in Vietnam — South Korean electronic manufacturer Samsung Display Co plans to invest $1.8 billion for a factory this year in northern Vietnam …
