Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: Apple is in early-stage talks with Tencent and ByteDance about integrating their AI models into iPhones sold in China; ChatGPT is unavailable in China  —  Apple (AAPL.O) is in talks with Tencent (0700.HK) and TikTok owner ByteDance about integrating their artificial intelligence models … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: An analysis of nearly 4,000 public datasets finds that over 90% of AI training datasets came from Europe and North America, and fewer than 4% came from Africa  —  AI is all about data.  Reams and reams of data are needed to train algorithms to do what we want, and what goes into the AI models determines what comes out. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Anthropic demonstrates “alignment faking” in Claude 3 Opus to show how developers could be misled into thinking an LLM is more aligned than it may actually be  —  AI models can deceive, new research from Anthropic shows.  They can pretend to have different views during training … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikkei Asia: Q&A with Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing President Yoshihiro Yamaguchi on shipping 20B+ image sensors, a new manufacturing plant in Kumamoto, Japan, and more  —  KUMAMOTO, Japan/TOKYO — With more than 20 billion image sensors shipped to date and a new plant being constructed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Alejandro Mayorkas, the US DHS’ outgoing secretary, says Europe’s “adversarial” relationship with tech companies is hampering a global approach to AI regulation  —  Alejandro Mayorkas warns tensions between US and Europe have grown over differences in regulating top AI companies Lees verder op Tech Meme

IDC: Global shipments of wrist-worn wearables hit 139M units in the first nine months of 2024, down 1% YoY; China was the largest market with 45.8M units, up 20% YoY  —  , the global wrist-worn device market shipped 139.0 million units in the first three quarters of 2024, a year-over-year decline of 1.0% … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: Analysis: Alphabet’s shares have jumped about 30% from a September low, with a chunk of those gains coming after Google unveiled its Willow quantum chip  —  – Breakthrough isn’t a revenue driver but showed tech prowess  — The shares are up 40% this year and are trading near a record Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Appfigures: global consumer spending in mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play rose 15.7% YoY to $127.3B in 2024, but app downloads dropped 2.3% to 109.7B  —  The global app economy continued to recover in 2024, after an earlier slowdown in 2022 — at least in terms of consumer spending. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Lens, a high-performance layer-2 blockchain developed by Avara for consumer apps, raised $31M led by Lightspeed Faction, and plans to launch Lens v3 in Q1 2025  —  Avara, the company behind Aave, Lens and Family, is announcing a $31 million funding round led by Lightspeed Faction. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vince Dioquino / Decrypt: El Salvador to scale back its bitcoin efforts under an agreement for a $1.4B IMF loan; bitcoin acceptance will no longer be mandatory for the private sector  —  Under the agreement, El Salvador will make Bitcoin acceptance voluntary for the private sector while restricting public sector involvement. Lees verder op Tech Meme