Tech Meme

Alex Reisner / The Atlantic: Analysis: Books3, a dataset used to train Meta’s Llama, BloombergGPT, and EleutherAI’s GPT-J, contains 170K+ books from authors like Stephen King and Junot Díaz  —  One of the most troubling issues around generative AI is simple: It’s being made in secret. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Titcomb / Telegraph: Sources: the UK is in talks with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel to buy up to £100M in GPUs for a national “AI Research Resource”; some officials want to spend far more  —  Effort fuels prime minister’s ambitions to make Britain a global leader in the field Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dayana Mustak / Bloomberg: John Warnock, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Charles Geschke and was the company’s CEO until 2000 and CTO until retiring in 2001, died on August 19 at age 82  —  Technology entrepreneur John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe Inc., died on Saturday at age 82, the company said in a statement. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Novak / Forbes: Many images uploaded directly to X between 2011 and 2014 are not loading and links from those years that used Twitter’s native shortening service are broken too  —  Twitter, the social media platform officially known as X, appears to have deleted all images from the website that were posted between 2011 and 2014. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Meta plans to launch a web version of Threads early this week  —  A web version of the new text-first app is one of the features users have asked for and could help it compete with X after decline in usage. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jessica Lucas / The Verge: Some clinicians think unrealistic depictions of dissociative identity disorder on TikTok are influencing young people to self-diagnose or imitate the disorder  —  TikTok’s dissociative identity disorder community thinks doctors don’t know what’s going on.  Some doctors feel the same about them. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A look at the potential impact of the EU’s DSA and DMA on Big Tech, as some say the effect may be as severe as Great Depression-era laws that reined in US banks  —  Google, Meta Platforms and others are set to face regulations that resemble the detail and sweep of those imposed on banks Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: A look at online trading scams that have cost European consumers billions, perpetrated by fraudsters in highly professional call centers dubbed “boiler rooms”  —  – ‘Boiler room’ operations scam consumers out of huge sums  — Europe’s largest economy has become a key target in Europe Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Titcomb / Telegraph: Sources: the UK is in talks with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel to buy up to £100M in GPUs for a national “AI Research Resource”; some officials want to spend far more  —  Effort fuels prime minister’s ambitions to make Britain a global leader in the field Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A look at the potential impact of EU’s DSA and DMA on Big Tech, as some say the impact may be as profound as Great Depression-era laws that reined in US banks  —  Google, Meta Platforms and others are set to face regulations that resemble the detail and sweep of those imposed on banks Lees verder op Tech Meme