IT総合 Yolk is a social app where users swap custom live stickers — no text allowed
With so much fresh competition in social apps right now — plus the usual set of social media platforms and messagi...
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IT総合 IT総合 SynFlora is working on bioengineering a skincare revolution
Biotech startup SynFlora brought an enticing pitch for a new type of skin treatment technology to 4YFN at the MWC trades...
IT総合 Lizcore’s sport tracking system is minimalist enough for indoor climbers to actually use
Lizcore, a sport tracking startup out of Barcelona, caught our eye on the 4YFN show floor at MWC this week. It’s d...
IT総合 Mobile OS maker Jolla is back and building an AI device
On the fringes of MWC, the world’s biggest mobile phone show, TechCrunch is getting a demo of a new kind of AI device. T...
IT総合 Google hopeful of fix for Gemini’s historical image diversity issue within weeks
Google is hopeful it will soon be able to ‘unpause’ the ability of its multimodal generative AI tool, Gemini...
IT総合 Google pauses AI tool Gemini’s ability to generate images of people after historical inaccuracies
Google says it’s temporarily suspended the ability of Gemini, its flagship generative AI suite of models, to gener...
IT総合 Big Tech AI infrastructure tie-ups set for deeper scrutiny, says EU antitrust chief
The impact of AI must be front of mind for enforcers of merger control policy, the European Union’s antitrust chie...
IT総合 EU opens formal probe of TikTok under Digital Services Act, citing child safety, risk management and other concerns
The European Union is formally investigating TikTok’s compliance with the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA),...
IT総合 Europe’s Digital Services Act applies in full from tomorrow — here’s what you need to know
The European Union’s rebooted e-commerce rules start to apply in full from tomorrow — setting new legal obli...
IT総合 European digital rights group say the future of online privacy is on a knife edge
A coalition of more than two dozen digital and democratic rights groups, NGOs and not-for-profits, including noyb and Wi...
IT総合 TikTok to open in-app Election Centers for EU users to tackle disinformation risks
TikTok will launch localized election resources in its app to reach users in each of the European Union’s 27 Membe...
IT総合 Apple won’t be forced to open iMessage to rivals, EU decides, as it also lets three Microsoft services off DMA hook
Apple won’t be forced to make iMessage interoperate with WhatsApp and other messaging rivals after all, nor will M...
IT総合 EU AI Act secures committees’ backing ahead of full parliament vote
The European Parliament’s civil liberties (LIBE) and internal market (IMCO) committees have overwhelmingly endorse...
IT総合 EU’s draft election security guidelines for tech giants take aim at political deepfakes
The European Union has launched a consultation on draft election security mitigations aimed at larger online platforms, ...
IT総合 Meta challenges EU’s Digital Services Act supervisory fee as unfair
Meta is challenging a fee levied by the European Union on larger online platforms under its rebooted ecommerce rules. Wh...
IT総合 UK AI startup Greyparrot bags strategic tie-up with recycling giant Bollegraaf
In another sign of the scramble to accelerate the uptake and transformative potential of artificial intelligence, Dutch ...
IT総合 EU proposes criminalizing AI-generated child sexual abuse and deepfakes
AI generated imagery and other forms of deepfakes depicting child sexual abuse (CSA) could be criminialized in the Europ...
IT総合 Meta to expand labelling of AI generated imagery in election-packed year
Meta is expanding the labelling of AI-generated imagery on its social media platforms, Facebook, Instagram and Threads, ...
IT総合 UK gov’t touts $100M+ plan to fire up ‘responsible’ AI R&D
The U.K. government is finally publishing its response to an AI regulation consultation it kicked off last March, when i...
IT総合 EU’s AI Act passes last big hurdle on the way to adoption
The European Union’s AI Act, a risk-based plan for regulating applications of artificial intelligence, has passed ...
IT総合 Apple says it’ll show its GenAI efforts ‘later this year’
Apple has tossed another crumb to investors wondering when the world will get to see some ‘Made in Cupertino’...
IT総合 Antitrust enforcers admit they’re in a race to understand how to tackle AI
Antitrust enforcers on both sides of the Atlantic are grappling to get a handle on AI, a conference in Brussels heard ye...
IT総合 Heart failure monitoring startup, Acorai, turns heads with oversubscribed seed
Swedish medical device startup Acorai is pairing proprietary sensing hardware and machine learning software with the goa...
IT総合 ChatGPT is violating Europe’s privacy laws, Italian DPA tells OpenAI
OpenAI has been told it’s suspected of violating European Union privacy, following a multi-month investigation of ...
IT総合 A closer look at Apple’s browser-related changes to iOS in EU
The raft of iOS changes Apple dropped in the European Union yesterday, as it prepares for enforcement of the bloc’...
IT総合 Apple reveals big App Store and iOS changes incoming in EU on DMA day
Apple has announced a raft of changes incoming to iOS in the European Union as the iPhone maker prepares to roll out its...
IT総合 EU wants to upgrade its supercomputers to support generative AI startups
European Union lawmakers scrambling for the bloc to be a contender in the generative AI race are presenting a package of...
IT総合 Google’s search tweaks draw fire as EU self-preferencing ban looms
Changes to how Google displays search results in the European Union, which the tech giant is testing ahead of a ban on s...
IT総合 Meta to let EU users deny cross-site tracking as Digital Markets Act bites
Meta has provided new details of how it plans to respond to incoming competition rules in the European Union that aim to...
IT総合 Meta’s content moderator subcontractor model faces legal squeeze in Spain
A Barcelona-based company that works as a subcontractor for Meta, providing content moderation services for Facebook and...