Thursday, July 28, 2022

An interview with Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma on the company's $1B annual revenue goal, post-IPO stock price crash, giving investors more info, and more (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
An interview with Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma on the company's $1B annual revenue goal, post-IPO stock price crash, giving investors more info, and more  —  Paytm was the poster boy for India's tech startups, only to lose two-thirds of its value since its IPO and become a symbol of the industry's crash.



Greater London Authority warns housing developers about a potential ban on new housing until 2035, citing a growing number of data centers consuming electricity (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Greater London Authority warns housing developers about a potential ban on new housing until 2035, citing a growing number of data centers consuming electricity  —  Greater London Authority warns developers that upgrade might take more than a decade  —  Developers in west London face …



Experts say it is not clear whether generative art made by AI systems trained on copyrighted data, like OpenAI's DALL-E 2, can be considered as fair use (Daniel Cooper/Engadget)

Daniel Cooper / Engadget:
Experts say it is not clear whether generative art made by AI systems trained on copyrighted data, like OpenAI's DALL-E 2, can be considered as fair use  —  In 1917, Marcel Duchamp submitted a sculpture to the Society of Independent Artists under a false name.



Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech : Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; ...