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Simon Willison / Simon Willison’s Weblog: Notes on Google NotebookLM’s Audio Overview feature, which generates a podcast with two AI hosts discussing user-provided content and is surprisingly effective  —  Audio Overview is a fun new feature of Google’s NotebookLM which is getting a lot of attention right now. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Filing: UAE-based G42 accounted for 87% of Cerebras’ H1 2024 revenue and has committed to buy $335M worth of its stock by April 2025, giving G42 a 5%+ stake  —  Cerebras makes a chip that is 56 times the size of a chip commonly used for artificial intelligence, with the potential to crunch data … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: The UK FCA says a man pleaded guilty to illegally operating a crypto ATM network, which processed £2.6M across various locations, as it cracks down on such ATMs  —  This marks the first U.K. conviction for running a crypto ATM operation.  — Olumide Osunkoya pleaded guilty to illegally operating a crypto ATM network. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: A US judge dismisses a DOJ lawsuit accusing eBay of violating environmental laws by allowing the sale of harmful products, citing Section 230 protections  —  A federal judge dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit accusing eBay (EBAY.O) of violating environmental laws by allowing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: The UK FCA says a man pleaded guilty to illegally operating a crypto ATM network, which processed £2.6M across various locations, as it cracks down on such ATMs  —  This marks the first U.K. conviction for running a crypto ATM operation.  — Olumide Osunkoya pleaded guilty to illegally operating a crypto ATM network. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: The UK FCA says a man pleaded guilty to illegally operating a crypto ATM network, which processed £2.6M across various locations, as it cracks down on such ATMs  —  This marks the first U.K. conviction for running a crypto ATM operation.  — Olumide Osunkoya pleaded guilty to illegally operating a crypto ATM network. Lees verder op Tech Meme

CNBC: AI chip startup Cerebras Systems files for an IPO, with plans to trade on the Nasdaq as CBRS, and reports a net loss of $66.6M on $136.4M in sales in H1 2024  —  Artificial intelligence chip startup Cerebras Systems on Monday filed its prospectus for an initial public offering … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Udemy uses opt-out windows, the first of which lasted three weeks and just ended, that its creators must use to prevent their videos from being used to train AI  —  Teachers are surprised they have been opted into having their classes scraped for AI training. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Umar Shakir / The Verge: YouTube reaches a deal with SESAC that will bring back songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Nirvana, and others that were removed over the weekend in the US  —  YouTube has reached a deal with the music licensing organization SESAC that will bring back songs that were removed over the weekend. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jeffrey D. Neuburger / National Law Review: CA Gov. Newsom signed AB 2013 into law, requiring those behind publicly available generative AI models to post a summary of the datasets used to train them  —  by: Jeffrey D. Neuburger of Proskauer Rose LLP – New Media and Technology Law Blog  —  RELATED PRACTICES & JURISDICTIONS Lees verder op Tech Meme