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It’s the middle of the summer but there are still lots of tech news coming! This week Samsung and Oura launched new AI health services, and Apple announced they are enabling third-party NFC payments within the EU. This means you can change what a double-click on the power button should do on your iPhone. Also, the European Commission does not agree with X’s design of premium accounts using the blue badge, citing that they “deceive users and infringe the Digital Services Act”. As a result, X now risk fines up to several hundred million dollars. I expect cases like this…
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Tech Insights 2024w28
We are approaching vacation times here in Sweden, but the tech news keep on coming! Top news from last week include a new AI model by researchers at Radboud University to reconstruct visual stimuli from brain activity, accurately reconstructing what someone is looking at based on recordings of their brain activity. Also French startup Kyutai has introduced the world’s first “real-time voice AI”, which was developed in less than 6 months by 8 people. And to wrap it up Meta has launched Meta 3D Gen, a new state-of-the-art text-to-3D asset generation model that looks very promising for anyone working with…
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Tech Insights 2024w27
Last week Apple announced that they are delaying Apple Intelligence in the EU due to the Digital Markets Act. This week, the European Commission are threatening to fine Microsoft up to 10 percent of its annual global revenue for bundling Teams into Microsoft Office. The new European Digital Markets Act (DMA) came into effect in March 2024, and it will have significant effects going forward in terms of new platform features being introduced in Europe by the seven “gatekeeper” companies. It will probably take a few years before we can see if the DMA was a good or terrible decision…