Tech Meme

Reuters: Honda plans to set up a joint venture with GM and Cruise in H1 2024 to begin a driverless ride service in Japan in early 2026, starting with central Tokyo  —  Honda Motor said on Thursday that it aims to set up a joint venture with General Motors (GM.N) and Cruise to begin a driverless ride service in Japan in early 2026. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: The US House’s China committee asks about Sequoia’s investments since 2010 in AI, quantum, and chip companies based, or with “significant operations”, in China  —  Scrutiny of California VC firm comes amid mounting tension between Washington and Beijing Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources: YouTube is building an AI tool that lets creators record audio using famous musicians’ voices and seeking major record labels’ rights to train the tool  —  – YouTube is seeking rights from major music companies  — Video site had hoped to unveil the music tool last month Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kris Holt / Engadget: Amazon plans to expand its Prime Air drone delivery system to the UK, Italy, and a third US city in late 2024 and integrate Prime Air into its delivery network  —  The company will also bring the Prime Air program to a third US city by the end of 2024.  —  Amazon has some big plans … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Clearview AI wins an appeal against the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, which imposed a ~£7.5M fine in May 2022 for alleged breaches of local privacy laws  —  Controversial US facial recognition company, Clearview AI, has won an appeal against a privacy sanction issued by the U.K. last year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin Roose / New York Times: Stanford unveils the Foundation Model Transparency Index, featuring 100 indicators; Llama 2 led at 54%, GPT-4 placed third at 48%, and PaLM 2 took fifth at 40%  —  Stanford researchers have ranked 10 major A.I. models on how openly they operate.  —  How much do we know about A.I.? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Meta plans to roll out its Telegram-like broadcast channels on Facebook and Messenger in the coming weeks, after launching the feature on Instagram and WhatsApp  —  Meta is bringing its Telegram-like “broadcast channels” feature to Facebook and Messenger after rolling it out to Instagram and WhatsApp earlier this year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources: YouTube is building an AI tool to let creators record audio using famous musicians’ voices and is seeking rights from companies for training the tool  —  – YouTube is seeking rights from major music companies  — Video site had hoped to unveil the music tool last month Lees verder op Tech Meme

WABetaInfo: WhatsApp is rolling out a view once mode for voice notes to some beta users on iOS and Android, after launching the feature for photos and videos in August 2021  —  WhatsApp is introducing a new feature to allow users to share voice notes with view once mode enabled for added privacy. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord Music Group, and ABKCO sue Anthropic for allegedly violating their copyrights by using song lyrics to train AI models  —  The lawsuit claims that ‘Anthropic profits richly from its infringement of Publishers’ repertoires and other copyright owners’ works’ Lees verder op Tech Meme