Tech News French startup Not So Dark, which offers tools for restaurants to run a delivery-only business alongside their usual operations, raised an $80M Series B (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)
Tech News Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, Vodafone, and 12 other European telecoms argue that Meta, Google, Netflix, and other US giants should share network costs (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
Tech News In a new paper, Meta researchers demonstrated a system that can reconstruct a user’s plausible pose from only the Quest 2’s sensors using reinforcement learning (David Heaney/UploadVR)
Tech News the average selling price of iPhones could rise to $892 in Q3 and $944 in Q4, as buyers choose Pro models; the current record is $873 from Q4 2021 (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)
Tech News An interview with Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun on his critics and why today's most popular approaches to AI won't lead to human-level intelligence (Tiernan Ray/ZDNet)
Tech News Using translation apps, dubbing software, and VPNs, some Chinese creators are getting millions of views for TikTok videos summarizing Hollywood movies and shows (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
Tech News A look at The Follower, an art project using open-source facial recognition software to match Instagram photos with EarthCam video footage of people taking them (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
Tech News A look at Kyiv-based Respeecher, which uses performers' archival voice recordings and AI to create new dialogue, including for Darth Vader in Obi-Wan Kenobi (Anthony Breznican/Vanity Fair)
Tech News The US Treasury updates its guidance to let US tech companies expand their internet services in Iran, after the country took most of its ~83M citizens offline (Voice of America)
Tech News Analysis finds 16 smartphone apps, used as alternatives to ankle monitors in the US, allow access to wide swaths of information and are frequently unreliable (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
